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 FIFE. 347 24 Sep. following. He, however, finally joined King David TI. [S.], and was taken prisoner, 12 Oct. 1316, at Durham, but tho' condemned as a traitor, was pardoned. He m. (dispensation 1306) the lady Mary Monthermeu (then aged 9 years), da. of Ralph, LonD Montiiekmer, sometime (jure uxoris) Earl op Gloucester, by the lady Joan Plantagenet, Dow. Countess of Gloucester, da. of King Edward I. She ns " Countess of Fife," joined her husband in Scotland, 2S Jan. 1319/20, and was living 24 May 1345. The Earl himself d. s.p.m. in Scotland in 1353.(») Hia widow, Mary, was living 30 March 1371. XI. 1353 0. Isabel or Elizabeth, suo jure Countess op Fife to [S.J, only da. and h. She m. firstly William Ramsay, of Colluthie, 1371. who, in her right, was Earl op Fife [S.], and as such was witness to a charter 12 April 1357, being living March 1359/60, tho'he probably d. soon afterwards. ( b ) She m. secondly, Walter Stewart, 2d s. of Robert, afterwards [1371], King Robert II. [S]. He was living as "Domtnus dk Fvff," 14 Aug. 1362, but d. s.p. very soon afterwards. She m. thirdly, (settl. before marriage, 10 Jan. 1362/3), Sir Thomas Byset, of Upsetlington, who in her right was Earl op Fife [S.J having had a charter, April 1363, of that Earldom to himself and his issue by the said Countess. He d. s.p. before 17 April 1365. The Countess m. fourthly and lastly John de Dombau, in her right Earl op Fife [S.], having a charter to him and his said wife of that Earldom. He d. s.p. before 1371. Finally Bhe, on 30 March 1371, resigned the Earldom, of Fife to Robert (Stewart), Eabl of Menteith [S.], next br. to her second husband, retaining for her life the free tenement thereof save aa to the third part then held in Dower by Mary, Countess of Fife, her mother. She appears to have been living, 22 June 1389, but d. B.p apparently not long afterwards. ■> Q XII. 1371. 1. Robert (Stewart), Earl of Menteith [S.], .§ 3d s. of King Robert II. [S.], became, 30 March 1371, Earl OF Fife [S.], by the resignation of Isabel (relict of his brother Walter) suo jure Countess of Fife abovenamed. He was cr. 23 April 1398, DUKE OF ALBANY [S.], was Regent of Scotland, 1406-20, and d. 3 Sep. 1420, aged above 80. XIII. 1420 & Murdoch(Stewart), Duke of Albany, Earl to of Fife, &c. [8.], s. and h. He (who was styled "Le f 1425 Mordyk [Murdoch ?] de Fyff") was taken prisoner at I M SJ Homeldon Hill 14 Sep. 1402,(°) and detained till 1415. He f |S was Reoent of Scotland, 1420-24. Beheaded 24 May 1425,( d ) when, having been attainted, all his honours were forfeited, the Earldom of Fife being annexed to the crown by act of Pari., 4 Aug. 1455. [Robert Stewart, styled " of Fife " Master of Fife, 1st suit, b. and h. ap. was a witness to charters, 1407-10 ; living 1416. He d. v.p. and unm. before July 1421-1 [Sir Walter Stewart, styled, after 1421, "of Fyfe," Master OF Fyfk, 1st surv. b. and h. ap. BcJicadcd 24 May 1425, with his father.^) 1 3 S ( a ) His age would be but 68 at his death, bo that it is more probable that there was but one Earl Duncan from 1288 to 1353 (aa given in the text) rather than two, as is sometimes supposed. ( b ) David de Berclay obtained a Papal dispensation, 27 June 1358, 1o marry with Elizabeth, da. of " William, Earl of Fife," i.e., a da. (who must then have been very young) of this William. It is quite clear that the lady in question was not the suo jure Countess, whose father's name was Duncan, and whose husband, William was then alive. The marriage probably never took place, or at all events was a barren one. ( c ) See Lutlrcll MSS. in 10th Rep. of the Hist. MSS. Com,, Ap. VI., p. 97, where, however, no distinction is made between those slain and those taken prisoners. ( d ) In Napier's "Partition of the Lennox" (pp. 10-11) it is stated that Walter