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 MORAY 35!) II. 1120? 1. Angus, EARL OF MORAY [SJ, was nephew (by tlio sister) of Maelsnectan, Mormaer of Moray, abovenamed, his mother being a da. of Lulach, who (for a few months) was King of Scotland, in 1 057. lie was slain hi rebellion against King David [. [S.] in 1130 at Strickathrow, co. Fife. [The family of Mae Heth, whose founder, YVviiuuid, asserted himself to be a son of tin's Angus, elaimeil tin; EARLDOM OK MORAY [S.], bo also did the family of Mar William, who in addition " claimed to be the nearer line of the Roval family to the throne of Scotland, and it was not till tbe year 1222 that the pretensions of these two families were finally extinguished by Alexauder [S.] MOKOUSD, EaRL (IF MAS [S.], claimed, according to a grant of 1171,( b ) to be also KARL OF MORAY [S.], asserting that his father, Gillocher, had died seized of both these Earldoms.] III. 131-11 1. Sir Thomas Randolph, only s. and h. «>f Thomas Randolph, of Strathdun, sometime Chamberlain of Scotland, by Isabel, sister of King Robert I. [8,1, <la. of Robert (Brock), Earl or Cahriok [S.]. sitr. his father soon after 1294, distinguished himself in behalf of Brace's claim to the Crown [S.], and was in command of the left wing at the battle of Rannockbiitn, 21 June 181 I. He was cr. by the said King, his uncle, probably in 1314, but perhaps as early as 1312, EARL OF MORAY [S.J, receiving the extensive district of that name, with rem. to the heirs male of his body.( c l He distinguished himself in Ireland, under Edward Bruce ; at Mittou, at the defeat of the English, in 1319, signed the letter to the Pope in 1320, as to theindepeney of Scotland and was Reuent of Scotland from 1329 till his death. He TO. (probably) Isabel, only da. of Sir John STEWART, of Bonkyl, with whom he is said to have acquired the Barony of Oarlies. He (I. 20 July 1332. at Musselburgh. IV. 1332. 2. Thomas (Randolph), Earl of Moray [8.], s. and h., who survived his father but 23 days, being slain 12 Aug. 1332, at the battle of Duppliu against the English. He d. num. V. 1332, ■ John (Randolph), Karl of Moray [S.], only br. and to li. He was in command at the defeat of Balliol, at Annan, in Dec. 13 1G. 1332, and at the battle of Hallidon hill, 19 .Inly 1333. In 1334, he was Joint Regent ok Scotland. He m. his cousin, Isabel, da. of Sir Alexander Stf.waRT, of Bonkyll. He d. s.p. being slain by the English at the battle of Durham, 17 Oct. 1346, when, the issue male of his father having failed, the Earldom, according to the charter [1314 ?] became extinct. VI. 1359, /. Heniiy (Plantaoenet), Duke ok Lancaster, was a; to (by King David II. [S.Jl, 5 April 13§9,{«) EARL OF MORAY [S.] He 1361. s.p.m. 13 March 1360/1, aged about (10, when that dignity is presumed to have rcrcrtcd to the Crown [S.] See fuller particulars under " Lancaster," Dukedom, cr. 13S1 ; ex. 1361. (a) See Skene's Celtic Scotland " (1880), vol. iii, p. 287. ('') See p. 219, note "b," st(6 '! Mar," as to this document, of the authenticity of which, however, there are great doubts. C) This was the first Earldom [Douglas, in 13, r i7, being the second and Crawford, in 1398, the third), cr. after the extinction (1290) of the Celtic dynasty." See vol. ii, p. 408, note " d," sub " Crawford.'' " From the tenor of this charter it appears that the lands [" omncs terras nostras in Moravia, sicut fueruut in manibus Domini Alexandri, Regis Scotho "] were not formerly an Earldom for in the beginning they are called the King's lands in Moray,'' tho' " immediately after the clause of erection, the lands are called Comilatus. and Thomas Randolph is called Comes." [Suth. Add. Case, iv. 43.] C 1 ) See as to "the unaccountable grant [by King David II.] of the Earldom of Moray in favour of Henry, Duke of Lancaster and the heirs male of his body," &C, in Bain's " Calendar of documents " [S.] (Vol. iv, p. x) a work which is simply invaluable with reference to Scottish dignities.