Wednesday 4 November 2009

The KINGS of SCOTLAND (16)

3. Robert, Duke of Albany. (See that title.)
4. Alexander, Earl of Buchan. (See that title.)
5. Margaret, married (dispensation by Pope Clement vi.
dated at Avignon 18 Kal. July 1350, as they were
related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity)
John, Lord of the Isles.*
6. Marjorie, married (dispensation by Pope Urban v., 11
July 1371) to John, brother of George of Dunbar, Earl
of March. They were created Earl and Countess of
Moray, March 1371-2. (See that title.)
7. Elisabeth, married to Thomas Hay, Constable of
Scotland.
8. Isabella, was married first (by dispensation 24 September
1371), to James, Earl of Douglas; second, between
1388 and 1390, to Sir John Edmonstone, ancestor of
the family of Duntreath.**
9. Jean, was married first, to Sir John Keith, eldest son of
the Marischal ; second, to Sir John Lyon, by whom she
became ancestress of the Earls of Strathmore ;*** and
third, to Sir James Sandilands of Calder, and became
ancestress of the Lords Torphichen. (See these
titles.)

King Robert II. married secondly, Euphemia, daughter
of Hugh, Earl of Ross, and widow of John Randolph, third
Earl of Moray (dispensation by Pope Innocent vi., 2 May
1355). By her he had :
10. David, Earl of Strathearn. (See that title.)
11. Walter, Lord of Brechin and Earl of Atholl. (See
that title.)
12. Egidia,' a werey beautifull lady,' who in 1387 was
married to Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale with
issue.*****(See titles Douglas and Orkney.)
13. Jean (Katherine ****** or Elizabeth), married about 1380 to
Sir David Lindsay of Glenesk, first Earl of Crawford.


* Calendar of Papal Registers, Letters, iii. 381.
** Douglas Book, i. 273.
*** The Red Book of Menteith, 81 ; Hist. Com. Report,
xiv., Ap. iii. p. 180.
**** Balfour's MSS.
***** The Douglas Book, i.355.
****** Dr. Burnett
 mentions in his Preface to the Exchequer Rolls, iv. p. clxvi, a Lady
Catherine Logan, wife of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, whom he
presumes to have been a daughter of Robert III., on the authority of
 a charter quoted by Duncan Stewart, granted by Robert in.,
 'dilecto fratri suo Roberto Logane,militi,' 5 Nov. 1394.
(Reg. Mag. Sig., 19 Jan. 1478-9).

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