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 146 COMPLETE PEERAGE angus IV. 1 197 ? 4- Gilchrist, (') Earl of Angus [S.], br. and h. He was witness in i 198 to a document in the Chartulary of Arbroath Abbey (no. 148), to which Abbey he was a great benefactor. He d. between 1207 and 12 11. V. 1210.'' 5. Duncan, Earl of Angus [S.], s. and h. He d. between 1207 and 12 14. VI. 1214.'' 6. Malcolm, Earl OF Angus [S.], s. and h., witnessed a charter as Earl of Angus (simply) 22 Apr. 1231, and is called Earl of Angus and Caithness in 1232, (") most probably from having the last named Earldom in ward. He m. Mary, da. and h. of Sir Humphrey Berkeley. He was living 1237, when he took part in the Convention of York, C') but d. before 1242. VII. 1240.^ 7. Maud, i«o_;'ar^ Countess OF Angus [S.], da. and h., > m. John CoMYN^who, in her right, became EARL OF ANGUS [S.], and d. s.p.^ in France, 1242. She m., 2ndly, in 1243, Gilbert de Umfreville, C) Lord of Prudhoe and Redesdale in Northum- berland, who may, in her right, have become EARL OF ANGUS [S.]. (*) He was s. and h. of Richard de Umfreville, of the same, and did homage for his father's lands 8 Jan. 1226/7. (0 He d. shortly before 13 Mar. i244/5,(^) and was bur. in Hexham Priory. His widow »»., before 2 Dec. 1247, Richard of Chilham, or of Dover, s. and h. of Richard fitz Roy, an illeg. s. of King John. (") (') It has been said, but this is doubtful, that his wife was Maud, or Marjory, sister of King William the Lion. C) Chartulary of Moray ^ no. no. Q " The family of Ogilvie, who retained possession of a considerable portion of the Earldom [of Angus], appear to have been the male descendants of these old Celtic Earls, and they likewise gave a line to Caithness, who possessed with the title of Earl one half of the lands of the Earldom [of Caithness] . Of the land of the Earl- dom of Angus, the district of Glenisla was alone included within the Highland line, and preserved its Gaelic population. " Skene's Celtic Scotland, vol. iii, p. 290. C^) This family perhaps took its name from Amfr^ville-sur-Iton (Elect, de Pont- de-rArche) ; or, as M. B^mont states [Roles Gascons, vol. iii, p. 119), from Ofiranville, near Dieppe. Lower (Diet, of Family Names) supposes that the name is Humfredi villa, the vill of Humphrey. Hodgson [Northumberland, pt. ii, vol. i, p. 8), from finding it sometimes written Unfrancvilla, thinks it means bond-town. Its usual latin equivalent was, however, Umframvilla. V.G. C") The rewriting of the article on the Umfrevilles, Earls of Angus, has been most kindly undertaken by G.W.Watson. V.G. (') Fine Roll, 11 Hen. Ill, duplicate. On the other roll m. i, this date, by a slip, is written 8 Nov. (1226). V.G. (^ On which date the Sheriff of Northumberland was ordered to take his lands into the King's hand [Fine Roll, 29 Hen. Ill, m. 12). M. Paris, who says, errone- ously, that he </. in " septimana Passionis Dominicae " [2-8 Apr.] 1245, calls him " praeclarus baro, partium Angliae borealium custos et flos singularis, Gilebertus dc Humfranvilla. " (Chron. Majora, ed. Luard, vol. iv, p. 415.) V.G. C") See an article by G.J.Turner on Richard Fitzroy, in Genealogist, N.S., vol. xxii, p. 109. V.G.