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 92 ANGUS. (1245), 29 Hen. Ill, " Prteckrus Baro, partium AogUte Borealiam custos et fios siugularis ; parvulum siium rclinquens hsoredem." See Matth. Paris, as quoted in "Dugdale" (vol. i, p. 505). His widow, Maud, held the manor of Hamoldon until the King should assign her a competent dower. The date of her death is unknown. VII. 1260 1 7. Gilbert (de TJmfuavii.l), Earl op Angus [S.], s. and h.,( h ) 6. about 1244. In (1265) 49 Hen. Ill, he joined the rising of Qy. Earls [E.] ? the Barons against the King, from whom, however, in 1267 (51 Hen. T 1 OOP 1 HI)) he obtained a grant for a weekly market, at Overton, uo. Rutland, 1. 1L Jb-I . being therein " stiled Earl of Amjos and not before that I have seen." (See " Dugdale," vol i, p. 505). In 1281 he was one of the Nobles who swore to ratify the marriage of M a rgaret of .Scotland with Eric, King 'if Norway. In 1291, being then Governor of the whole territory of Angus, he refused to sur- render it to England unless under an indemnity from the King, and from all the Competitors to the Scottish Crown. He appears, however, to have principally adhered to the English side during these wan. Accordingly, on 23 June, 1 Oct, and 2 Nov. (1295), 23 Ed. I, and on 26 Aug. (1296), 24 Ed. I, he was, by the EwjHA King, Bum. to Pari., as BARON UMFRAVILL, (the writs being variously directed " Gilbcrto dc VmfraviU, Cinframrilc, or Umframvilt") and on 26 Jan. (1296-7), 25 Ed. I, to 26 Aug. (1307), 1 Ed. II, he was sum. to Pari. [E.] as EAHL OF ANGUS, the first writ being directed " Gilbcrto dc VmfraiiU, Comiti dc Anejos."^) He ft Matilda was da. of Malcolm and not of Gilchrist. By various charters during her widowhood (see Chartulary < if Arbroath, No. 49,114, 115, also p. 331), she confirms donations made by her " proavus " Earl Gilchrist, and by her father Malcolm. (2) The Melrose Chronicle gives 1212 as the date of " Johannes Cumin, Comes dc Angus," and, in 1243, follows " Dominus Gilbertus de Humfiainville aceepit Comitissam de Angus in uxorem.'' As we know that this Countess had issue by Gilbert within two years of such marriage, it would have been chronologically impossible for her to have been a da. of Matilda, who, besides, granted numerous charters "in sua viduitato," when, according to this hypothesis, she must have been dead (her da. being the Countess) within a year of Comyn's death. The common theory (its in the text above) makes Matilda de Umfravill, to whom dower was awarded in 1 245 (see Calendar of Documents [S.J, Scottish Record Publications, I, No. 1667), the same person as Matilda, Countess of Angus [S.J, and there seems no valid ground to upset it. (3) The garbs on the seal of Thomas de Umfravill, who appears to have been son of Gilbert, Earl of Angus (the son, not the husband, of the Countess Matilda) are merely a decorative feature, taken from the coat of Comyu, being that of his mother, who M a da. of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan [S.J (•') The reader should be cautioned against the tabular pedigree in " Dugdale " (vol. i, p. 506), in which (though not in the text) this Earl (perhaps the most important member of all the Umfravill family) is inadvertently omitted. So, also, is any mention his mother Matilda, sito jure Countess of Angus [S.J It may be noted that this Gilbert is said, in the text of " Dugdale," to have been of age (1259) 43 Hen. HI, when he was assessed for the Scutage of Wales, and when he could not have been more than 16 years old. He seems to be here confounded with another Gilbert de Umfravill, one of the heirs of Matthew of Torington. See 1168 and 1947 of Calendar of Documents [S.J in the Scottish Record Publications. (!) " Dugdale strtcs that he was sum. in virtue of his Barony of Prudhoe, co. Northumberland ; but by the late Francis Townsend, Esq., Windsor Herald, the writ of 25 Ed. I (1297), was considered to have cr. an Emjlisli Earldom, anil certainly he and his descendants are always sum. with other Earls ; but the editor [U Mr. Courthope, for the remarks are not in the edition of the " Synopsis," in 1825, by Sir N. H. Nicolas], is of opinion that no such English Earldom was intended to have been cr., but that the King having, in 1296, seized upon the Sovereignty of Scotland, did, in directing summons to his Baron, Gilbert de Umfrevillo, in the following yaw, allow to him, in- the way of courtesy, that title which had by marriage or otherwise been acquired in Scotland j he was therefore sum. as a Baron, though by the appellation of an Earl : and it may be added, in confirmation of the opinion that no English Earid- was intended to be cr., that Henry de Beaumont, having m. Alice, da. and h. of Alex-