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 476 CAITHNESS between 6 Apr. 1320 (when he subscribed the Scottish Barons' letter to the Pope) and 1329, when "Caterina, Comitissa Orcadiae et Cathanesiae" granted a charter "in viduitate." XIII. 1328.? I. ^Malise, Earl OF Strathern [S.], 1^. about 1290, to who had, before 1320, sue. his father (another Malise) in 1332. that Earldom, was charged with the rents of the 4th part of Caithness in 133 1, and styles himself, in a charter of 1334, EARL OF THE EARLDOMS OF STRATHERN, CAITH- NESS and ORKNEY [S.]. It is not improbable that he inherited these last two dignities through his mother, Agnes, who was living 131 1. The other 4th part (the two making together the half which beloiiged to the Angus Earls) belonged to Margaret, wife of Simon Fraser, killed at Halidon Hill, 1333. The Earl m., istly, Mary, who was the Countess implicated in 1320 (with de Brechin and de SouHs) in a conspiracy. He /»., 2ndly, before 1334, Maud, da. of Hugh, Earl of Ross, by Maud, sister of Robert (Bruce), King of Scotland.^) He was attainted x 1332, when his honours became forfeited, and d. s.p.m., between 1344 and I350.('') See fuller account under "Stratherne," Earldom of [S.]. CO

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•^ c HH Z 3 m """ ■-t &- r^ XIV. 1375? I. David (Stewart), Earl of Stratherne [S.], yr. s. of Robert II, was, before Nov. 1375,0 c^- EARL OF CAITHNESS [S.]. He d. before 1389. XV. 1388. 2. 'EvPHEUE, suo jure. Countess of Strath- erne AND Countess of Caithness [S.], only da. and h. She resigned, about 1402 and before July 1402, the Earldom of Caithness to her uncle Walter Stewart, afterwards Earl of Atholl [S.]. If) Ex inform. G. Burnett, sometime Lyon. () Earl Malise appears to have had several daughters and coheirs, vix. (i) Maud, called "eldest da." (probably by the 1st wife), whose s. and h., Alexander de le Arde (J), before 1357), resigned in 1375, his right to the Earldom of Caithness to the King. (2) Eupheme of Strathern, who, in 1364, "appears as one of the heirs of the late Earl Malise." (3) Agnes, in whose right in 1353, "Erngils, a Norwegian, gets from the King of Norway the title of Earl of Orkney, which he forfeits in 1375," and (4) Isabel (undoubtedly a da. of the 2nd wife), who was declared heir to the Earldom of Caithness by Earl Malise, her father (when under forfeiture), failing heirs male of his body. She m. Sir William St. Clair, and was mother of Henry St. Clair, who, with one Malise Sperre, in 1379, claimed "the Earldom of Orkney. Henry becomes Earl and calls his mother [by the designation of], Isabella St. Clair, in a charter of lands, of which she was heiress." See Skene's Celtic Scotland (1880), vol. iii, p. 453- "See also Diploma Pedigree of Earls of Orkney, of date 1460, printed in Miscellany of Maitland Club, o.'n, p. 65; and, with notes, in Professor Munch's Symbola ad historiam antiquiorem Rerum Norvegicarum, pub. 1850." {Ex inform. G. Burnett, sometime Lyon). (<^) "In 1375 Alexander de le Arde resigned to King Robert II [S.] the Earldom of Caithness, the principal manor or mansion, with the title of Earl, and all other rights