Morggan Mac Gylocher 2nd Earl of Mar

• Preferred Name: Morggan Mac Gylocher 2nd Earl of Mar^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]}
  
• Alternate Name: Mac Gylocher
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: 1182 in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland at LATI: N6.3389 LONG: E2.7989
  
• Death: 30 MAR 1182 in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland at LATI: N7.148 LONG: E2.094
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Moray23 MAY 1171 in Scotland with note: Selden published a document which purports to record the regrant of his earldom (as well as the earldom of Moray) by King William to "Morgund son of Gillocher, formerly Earl of Mar", confirming him as the lawful son and heir of "Gillocher, Earl of Mar…[Earl] of Moray", dated 23 May 1171. Selden, J. (1672) Titles of Honor (London, republished Lawbook Exchange Ltd, 2006), p. 700
  
• Birth: 1115 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland at LATI: N6.0833 LONG: E3.4667
  
• FSID: KFXL-5VB
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 2nd Earl
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: 2nd Earl of Mar
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  http://thepeerage.com/p460.htm#i4594
  Morggán of Mar, is the first Mormaer or Earl of Mar to appear in history as "more than a characterless name in a witness-list.".[1] His father was Gille Chlerig. He is often known as Morgrund or Morgan.
  
  It is possible that Morggán participated in the so-called Revolt of the Earls, a protest by some of the native Scottish nobility at King Máel Coluim IV's trip to France as a vassal of King Henry II of England.
  
  It is also possible that he became estranged from the French-speaking king William I, as Morggán's name appears in no royal acts of the latter king's reign.
  
  He married Agnes, a patroness of churches. Agnes was probably related to the de Warenne family - the family who married Ada de Warenne to Henry of Scotland and mother of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion. Morggán and Agnes had at least one son, Donnchad, who eventually succeeded to become a Mormaer of Mar. Morggán had another two sons, Máel Coluim and James, but they may have been illegitimate - i.e. the product of an uncanonical marriage acceptable in the Celtic system, but not in the Franco-Roman system then gaining favour in Scotland.
  
  He went on to marry Orabilis FitzNess de Leuchars divorced wife of Sir Robert de Quincy Justiciar of Lothian she was the mother of Saher de Quincy
  
  His daughter Alesta of Mar was married to Alan Fitzwalter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland who was possibly mother to Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland.
  
  He appears in royal charters dated as early as 1147. He is attested in the documents for the last time in 1178, and was dead by 1183.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgg%C3%A1n,_Earl_of_Mar
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#DuncanMardied1242A as of 12/9/2018
  
  MORGUND [Morgrund] MacGylocher (-[1177/30 Mar 1183]). He succeeded as Earl of Mar, witnessing c
  
  === Nephew of the previous Earl (Mormaer), R ===
  Nephew of the previous Earl (Mormaer), Ruadri.
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  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Event: Fact 1152 Witness to charter of D ===
  Event: Fact 1152 Witness to charter of David I and son Henry to Dunfermline
  
  === Morggán, Earl of Mar
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  Morggán, Earl of Mar
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  Morggán of Mar, is the first Mormaer of Mar to appear in history as "more than a characterless name in a witness-list."1. His father was Gille Chlerig. He is often known as Morgrund or Morgan.
  
  It is possible that Morggán participated in the so-called Revolt of the Earls, a protest by some of the native Scottish nobility at King Máel Coluim IV's trip to France as a vassal of King Henry II of England.
  
  It is also possible that he became estranged from the French-speaking king William I, as Morggán's name appears in no royal acta of the latter king's reign.
  
  He married Ada, a patroness of churches. Agnes was probably related to the de Warrene family - the family who married Ada de Warrene to king Máel Coluim IV. Morggán and Ada had at least one son, Donnchad, who eventually succeeded to the Mormaerdom. Morggán had another two sons, Máel Coluim and James, but they may have been illegitimate - i.e. the product of an uncanonical marriage acceptable in the celtic system, but not in the Franco-Roman system then gaining favor in Scotland.
  
  His daughter Alesta of Mar was married to Alan Fitzwalter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland and was mother to Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland.
  
  He appears in royal charters dated as early as 1147. He is attested in the documents for the last time in 1178, and was certainly dead by 1183.
  
  === shows his name ===
  URL: http://www.genealogieonline.nl...
  
  === MORGUND or MORGRUND MAC GYLOCHER,[e] EAR ===
  MORGUND or MORGRUND MAC GYLOCHER,[e] EARL OF MAR [SCT]. As Morgund Comes he witnessed a charter of David I and his son Henry to Dunferniline before 1152, and a confirmation charter to Dunfermline by Malcolm IV between 1154 and 1158. As Moregrundus comes de Mar he granted the church of Tarland to the priory of St. Andrews between 1165 and 1177. He and his wife Agnes made several grants to St. Andrews, and directed they should be buried there, wherever in Scotland they might die. She, as Agnes, comitissa de Mar, made a grant thereto of land in Inverinche. His legitimacy was questioned long after his death, but appears to have been upheld. He died before 30 March 1183. [Complete Peerage VIII:398-9]
  
  [e] His relationship to his predecessor is unknown, but the rule of descent in Celtic tribes was in the male line from the common founder. It was not till after the introduction of the feudal system into Scotland in the 12th century that the Celtic Earldoms, as Crawford observes (vol. i, p. 168), "originally descendible to male agnates only, became thenceforward descendible to heirs general."
  
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  Morgund, who first appears on record as a witness to a charter by King David I, to the monks of Dunfermline dated between 1147 and 1152, but if the dates assigned to charters by him and his wife are accepted, he may have been Earl before or from 1141. It is probable, however, that the later date is more correct. He is designed 'MacGyloclery,' or son of Gyloclery, in one writ of undoubted credit, and has been described as the son of Gillocher, Earl of Mar, but this last statement at present rests only on a doubtful document, the authenticity of which is much disputed, but according to which Morgund presented himself before King William the Lyon, at Hindhop Burnemuthe, in the King's new forest ('apud Hindhop Burnemuthe in mea nova foresta') on the tenth Kalend of June (23 May) 1171, claiming the earldom of Mar, in the presence of the council and army of Scotland then assembled. The king thereupon, it is said, summoned an inquest, who found that Morgund was son and lawful heir of Gillocher, Earl of Mar, upon which the King granted and restored the earldom to Morgund. The latter then further petitioned for the earldom of Moray on the same grounds, that his father Gillocher was last vested therein. Another inquest found that he was the true and lawful heir of Moray, but because the King was heavily engaged in war with England, and the men of Moray could not be subjected to his will, he was unable to do justice to Morgund. But he promised that when he could terminate the war and subdue the rebles, he would recognise the rights of Morgund to the earldom of Moray.
  
  This writ as it stands is certainly spurious in its form, but while its authenticity is rejected by all historians, they all more or less agree that it may contain some important items of fact. Mr Skene thinks it contains the record of a real transaction by which the earldom was converted into a feudal holding, but the fact must be dressed in a garb of fancy, as Mr Skene himself gives valid reasons for believing that the writ, as we have it , was forged, or at least compiled, about 1257, on behalf of the Earl of Mar, whose possession was challenged. The statement, however, that Morgund was the son of a Gillocher may be correct, though the latter may not have been the Earl of Mar. That Morgund bore that title cannot be doubted, and, so far as extant record goes, there is no evidence that his right to the earldom was questioned during his life or that it was restored as stated. Besides appearing in the reign of David I as stated, he was present at the granting of an important charter to the monks of Dunfermline by King Maldolm IV, in or after 1154, and is then styled Morgund Comes. He was a considerable benefactor to the Priory of St Andrews, and between 1165 and 1171 made a special grant to the canons there of the church of Tarland in Cromar, for the benefit of himself and his wife, that wherever in Scotland they might die, there were to be buried at St Andrews. Later, before 1178, he and his wife further granted the adjoining church of Migivie to St Andrews. A learned historian suggests that the separate deeds granted on this occasion by the Earl and his wife indicate that he held the earldom in her right. There are difficulties in accepting this view, the chief being that at a later date his legitimacy was challenged, an argument which would have been futile had had derived the dignity through his wife. Earl Morgund died probably in the year 1182, certainly before 30 March 1183, when he is referred to as dead in a bull by Pope Lucius III. [Scots Peerage V:567-569]
  
  === Ancestral File Number: B2L0-ZB ===
  Ancestral File Number: B2L0-ZB

• m. in Scotland

• m. 1145 in Dunfermline, Fife Council area, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

1. Alesta nic Morggán of Mar, b. 1150 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland     d. 22 SEP 1182 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
2. Earl of Mar Donnchadh, b. 1165 in Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom     d. 1244 in Lundie, Angus, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: 2st Earl of Mar Morggán - birth: about 1050; Aberdeenshire, Scotland
   Author: william, earl of mar.ged
   Note: birth: about 1050; Aberdeenshire, Scotland Call number: death: Call number: Call number:
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3244757759
   
2. Title: The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe
   Author: Lundy, Darryl, ed., (Wellington, New Zealand; Site updated on 18 Dec 2022. darryl@thepeerage.com), Morgund Mac Gylocher, 2nd Earl of Mar http://www.thepeerage.com/s1.htm.
   Publication: Name: http://www.thepeerage.com/p460.htm#i4594;
   
3. Title: Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland
   Author: Mackintosh, John, 1833-1907, (W. Jolly, Aberdeen. 1898) ,CHAPTER I. Earldom and Earls of Mar: Page 19
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/historicearlsear00mack/page/19/mode/1up?view=theater;
   Note: Available at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/peerageofscotlan02douguoft
   
4. Title: Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgg%C3%A1n,_Earl_of_Mar;
   
5. Title: Morgund MacGyloche Duncan Earl of Mar
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#MorgundMardied11771183;
   
6. Title: Morggán, Earl of Mar
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgg%C3%A1n,_Earl_of_Mar;
   
7. Title: Foundation for Medieval genealogy
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#OrabilisMRobertQuincy;
   Note: MORGUND [Morgrund] MacGylocher (-[1177/30 Mar 1183]). He succeeded as Earl of Mar, witnessing charters before 1152 and [1154/58]. "Morgrundus comes de Mar" donated "ecclesiam sancti M’Huluoch de Tharuelund" to St Andrew’s priory, for the souls of "Agnetis comitisse sponse mee", by undated charter, witnessed by "…Dunecano comite de Fif, Marleswano, Nesio filio Willi, Galfredo de Maleuill…"[410]. "Morgrundus comes de Mar" donated "ecclesiam Miggehwith" to St Andrew’s priory, confirmed by "Agnetis comitisse sponse mee", by undated charter witnessed by "Ada comitissa, Hela comitissa, Alexandro de sco Martino, Hugone Giffard, Willo Giffard…Willo filio Hugonis Giffard…"[411]. Morgund’s right to the earldom of Mar was challenged, maybe by Gilchrist Earl of Mar (see below)[412]. However, Morgund was later restored as earl of Mar, as shown by a memorandum dated 1291 which records that, when William King of Scotland returned "comitatum suum de Mar" to "Morgundo M[ac] Gyloclery predecessori Domini Donenaldi comitis de Marre", certain portions of land were omitted[413]. Selden published a document which purports to record the regrant of his earldom (as well as the earldom of Moray) by King William to "Morgund son of Gillocher, formerly Earl of Mar", confirming him as the lawful son and heir of "Gillocher, Earl of Mar…[Earl] of Moray", dated 23 May 1171[414]. Skene recites the arguments which indicate the spurious nature of this document, concluding that it is "open to serious objections" while admitting that "it is difficult to devise a motive for inventing such a document"[415]. Nevertheless the 1291 memorandum quoted above suggests some historical basis for the factual background of the spurious 1171 document. The question was revived in 1257 when Alan Durward, most likely a descendant of Gilchrist Earl of Mar, challenged the possession of Duncan Earl of Mar (see below) on the basis of his father’s claimed illegitimacy. This was presumably the occasion when the alleged 1171 document was produced. The date of Morgund’s death is confirmed by a bull of Pope Lucius III dated 30 Mar 1183 which confirms donations to St Andrew’s and including donations by "Murgundi quondam comitis de Mar"[416]. m [firstly] AGNES, daughter of ---. "Morgrundus comes de Mar" donated "ecclesiam sancti M’Huluoch de Tharuelund" to St Andrew’s priory, for the souls of "Agnetis comitisse sponse mee", by undated charter, witnessed by "…Dunecano comite de Fif, Marleswano, Nesio filio Willi, Galfredo de Maleuill…"[417]. "Morgrundus comes de Mar" donated "ecclesiam Miggehwith" to St Andrew’s priory, confirmed by "Agnetis comitisse sponse mee", by undated charter witnessed by "Ada comitissa, Hela comitissa, Alexandro de sco Martino, Hugone Giffard, Willo Giffard…Willo filio Hugonis Giffard…"[418]. "Agnes comitissa de Mar" donated "dimidiam carucatam terre in ville de Inuerinche" to St Andrew’s priory, for the souls of "mee et Morgrundi comitis sponsi mei", by undated charter witnessed by "Ada comitissa, Hela comitissa, Alexandro de sco Martino, Hugone Giffard…"[419]. [m secondly as her second husband, ORABILIS, separated wife of ROBERT de Quincy, daughter of NES of Mar and his wife --- (-before 30 Jun 1203). Her marriage is indicated by the undated charter under which "Orabilis comitissa de Mar filia Nesii filii Willi" confirmed the donation of "ecclesiam de Lochres" made by "pater meus Nesius filius Willi" to St Andrew’s priory, witnessed by "Duncano comite de Fif…"[420]. The Complete Peerage says that "it has been asserted" that Orabilis’s second husband was Gilchrist Earl of Mar, but adds that "the chronology is difficult"[421]. The chronology in fact appears impossible: Earl Gilchrist is recorded after 1204, whereas Orabilis is named with her [third] husband in a charter of her father which, although undated, is probably not dated much later than 1177. It seems more likely that Orabilis’s second husband was Earl Morgund, who died soon after her marriage, after which she married her third husband. An alternative possibility is that Orabilis’s second and third husbands were in fact reversed, which is the assumption of Balfour Paul[422]. Orabilis married thirdly Adam of Fife. Her third marriage is indicated by the undated charter under which "Nesius filius Willelmi" donated "ecclesiam de Lochres" to St Andrew’s priory witnessed by "Dunecano comite de Fif…Adam filio Dunec et Horabili sponsa sua…"[423]. There seems little doubt that the witness was Orabilis, daughter of the donor, and her third husband, as the name is so unusual. "Orabilis filia et heres Dñi Nesii" donated property to St Andrew’s priory by undated charter witnessed by "…Patricio filio Nesii, Dunc filio Elin…"[424]. "Orabilis filia et heres Dñi Nesii" donated "Davach ictar Hathyn" to St Andrew’s priory by undated charter witnessed by "…G. com de Mar…Patricio filio Nesii, Duncan filio Emelin…"[425]. Pope Innocent III confirmed the possessions of Inchaffray Abbey, including the donation of land "in territorio de Gasgt" by "quondam Orable matris Seer de Quinci", by bull dated 30 Jun 1203[426]. Orabilis presumably died before her first husband, given the undated charter under which her son "Seerus de Quinci" confirmed the donation of "Davac Icthar Hathyn" made by "matris mea" to St Andrew’s priory which was witnessed by "…Roberto de Quincy patre meo…"
   
8. Title: The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland
   Author: Paul, Sir James Balfour, (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), Vol. 5; THE ANCIENT EARLS OF MAR; p. 567
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun05pauluoft/page/566/mode/1up?q=566&view=theater;
   Note: Available at Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun05pauluoft
   
9. Title: The Peerage of Scotland : containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom
   Author: Douglas, Robert, Sir, 1694-1770; (Printed by G. Ramsay, Edinburgh, 1813); Marr: Earl of Marr: Morgund: Page 199
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/peerageofscotlan02douguoft/page/199/mode/1up;
   Note: Available at Digital Archive: https://archive.org/details/peerageofscotlan02douguoft
   
10. Title: 2nd Earl Morggán Mac Gylocher of Mar 1115–1183
    Author: Wikitree
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mar-20;
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