Agnes of Strathearn

Agnes of Strathearn

Also known as Annot of Strathearn

• Daughter of Malise Strathearn, Earl of Orkney, Strathearn, and Caithness and Marjory de Ross

Married

• Married: Erengisle Suneson, Earl of Orkney.
• Erengisle died childless, "at a great age", many years later. He was buried in Vadstena monastery church. His last wife, Countess Ingeborg had several children from her first marriage with lord Bengt Turesson of the family of Kraakerum. Erengisle's own nephews and nieces (and sisters) were already dead, without further issue, the last of them, Christina Ulvsdotter of Rickeby, having died in c 1389. His paternal family had only first cousins to continue the line (the Trolle, the Pipa, the Hammersta and the Snakenborg of Flishult presumably were lineages descending from such cousins).

The Swedish Diplomatarium's National Archives of Medieval Letters

SDHK No:7865

• Dating: 1360 December 21

Earl Erengisle Suneson (of the Orkney Islands) announces that he has given all his estates on Öland to the Dominican sisters in Kalmar for the benefit of himself and his two wives, Märta and Annot, with the consent of his heirs and relatives: first everything he owns in Vi and Kvarnstad in Källa parish and a farm in Vannborga in Alböke parish (now in Köping parish), which estates give 20 marks of calfskin annually. Furthermore, the estate he owns in Karlevi in ​​Vickleby parish and a farm in Bröttorp, another in (Norra) Möckleby and a third in Strandtorp (all in Norra Möckleby parish), which give 20 marks of calfskin annually. He gives this on condition that the sisters celebrate specified masses and vigilios as long as the monastery stands and worship is celebrated there. If the monastery is moved or in any special way is put out of order, all the goods shall be given under Växjö Cathedral on the mentioned conditions. The issuer and the city of Kalmar, the uncle Mr. (Kettil) Glysing and the brother-in-law Nils Jonsson and the sister Mrs. Märta Sunedotter seal. - https://www.geni.com/photo/view?album_type=photos_of_me&id=6000000010420533056&photo_id=6000000143514219833&position=0

Project MedLands Scotland Nobility

MALISE ([1275/80]-before 1329). Andrew Wyntoun’s Cronykil records that "Jhon and Alysandyre" had five sisters, the second of which married "Off Stratherne the Erle Malys" by whom she had "a swne…Malys"[794]. He succeeded his father in 1313 as Earl of Strathearn. married firstly AGNES,daughter of --- (-after Aug 1320). John of Fordun’s Scotichronicon (Continuator) records that "dominus Willelmus de Sowlis et comitissa de Strathern" were convicted of high treason at a parliament in Scone in Aug 1320 and sentenced to life imprisonment[795]. married secondly ([1323]) as her first husband, JOAN Menteith, daughter of JOHN Menteith of Rusky & his wife --- (-after 20 Mar 1367). She married secondly John Campbell Earl of Atholl, thirdly Maurice Moray Earl of Strathearn, and fourthly (before 9 Nov 1347) as his second wife, William Sutherland Earl of Sutherland.

Earl Malise & his first wife AGNES had two children

• i) MALISE (-killed in battle Neville’s Cross 17 Oct 1346). He succeeded his father as Earl of Strathearn. He succeeded his cousin Magnus as Earl of Caithness and Orkney in [1323/29]. He resigned the earldom of Strathearn [24 Sep/16 Dec] 1332 into the hands of Edward Balliol, was tried for treason in 1344 for so doing, but found innocent[796]. John of Fordun’s Scotichronicon (Continuator) records that "Johannes Ranulphi comes Moraviæ ac etiam comes de Strathern constabularius Scotiæ…David filius et heres David de Lindsay…Willelmus Fraser…" were killed at Durham 17 Oct 1346[797]. [798] married firstly MARY, daughter of ---. married secondly ([1325/28]%29 MATILDA [Marjory] of Ross, daughter of HUGH Earl of Ross & his first wife Matilda Bruce (-after 1350).

Earl Malise & his first wife MARY had four children:

• (a) MATILDA married --- de la Arde, son of ---.
  
• (b) EUPHEME
  
• (c) AGNES (-before 1360). married ERNGILS, son of ---. He was granted the title Earl of Orkney by the king of Norway in right of his wife but forfeited it in 1375[799].
  
• (d) ISABEL married WILLIAM St Clair, son of ---. Lord St Clair.
  

• ii) MARY "Malisius comes Strathern" granted "terram de Abbercarny…que fuit Roberti filii Magni dicti de Strathern" to "Johanni de Moravia de Dromsygart…[et] heredibus suis de Maria filia nostra" by undated charter[800]. [801] married ([1319/22]) as his second wife, JOHN Moray of Drumsagard, co. Lanark, son of ---.

Sources

• No. 1 of uncoloured wax (boat beamed in shield, see J. Raneke, Swedish Medieval Weapons II, 1982, p. 560): + S 'Æringislonis: Sonason; Nos. 2 and 3 are missing as are the sealing strips; No. 4 dropped from the seal strip but preserved, of uncoloured wax (7-star in shield within five passes, see Raneke aa, p. 536): Sigillvm Nicolai Ionsson; No. 5 lost from the remaining sealing strip (cf., however, during the immediately preceding No. 6378 preserved ex.).
• RPB No. 488

Annot är ett skotskt namn som betyder ljus.

SDHK-nr: 7865 Svenskt Diplomatariums huvudkartotek över medeltidsbreven

Datering

1360 december 21

Innehåll

"Erengisle Suneson jarl (av Orkneyöarna) kungör att han till dominikansystrarna i Kalmar till själagagn för sig och sina båda hustrur, Märta och Annot".