Anna Durward

Anne Durward

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• F, #66914, d. after 1275
• Father Sir Alan Durward, Justiciar of Scotland, Earl of Athol d. 1275
• Mother Marjory of Scotland3,9,10

Anne Durward married Sir Colban, 8th Earl of Fife, son of Malcolm, 7th Earl of Fife and (Miss) of North Wales, before 1261. Anne Durward married Sir William de Ferrers, Constable of Scotland, son of Sir William de Ferrers, 5th Earl Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle and Margaret de Quincy, in 1270; They had 1 son (Sir William, 1st Lord Ferrers of Groby). Anne Durward died after 1275.9

Family 1 Sir Colban, 8th Earl of Fife b. c 1245, d. 1270

Children

• Isabel [SIC: Marjory] of Fife13,4 d. a 28 Apr 1313
• Duncan, 9th Earl of Fife+8,2,5,14,11 b. c 1262, d. 10 Sep 1289

Family 2 Sir William de Ferrers, Constable of Scotland b. c 1240, d. c 20 Dec 1287

Child

• Sir William Ferrers, 1st Lord Ferrers of Groby+3,12,14 b. 30 Jan 1272, d. 20 Mar 1325

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colban,_Earl_of_Fife

Colban, Earl of Fife (b. c. 1247–1253, d. 1270/2) was ruler of Fife in Scotland. The son of Earl Malcolm and his wife Elen ferch Llywelyn, he succeeded his father while still a teenager on Malcolm's death in 1266. He had been knighted by King Alexander III in 1264. His wife's name was Anna, and she was likely one of the three daughters and coheiresses of Sir Alan Durward.

Colban and Anna had a son,

• Duncan, who succeeded as Earl of Fife at the age of eight, and
• a daughter, Marjory, who married Alan, Earl of Menteith.[2]

Colban died while still a young man. His date of death is disputed, and depends on what evidence one interprets. G.W.S. Barrow gives 1272, but Bannerman gives 1270.

References

• MacDonald, William, Scottish Armorial Seals, (Edinburgh, 1904), p. 114
• J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Murdoch, Earl of Menteith and the Ferrers family of Groby, The Scottish Genealogist (March 2013), Vol. LX, No. 1, p. 14. PDF
• For a discussion of the evidence that Anna was the daughter of Alan Durward, see Matthew H. Hammond, "Hostiarii Regis Scotie: the Durward family in the thirteenth century," in Steve Boardman and Alasdair Ross, eds., The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c. 1200-1500 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), p. 133

References

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• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 469-470.
• [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 290-292.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 4-5.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 200.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 564.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 590.
• [S11566] The Scots Peerage, Vol. IV, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 11.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 149.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 589-590.
• [S11772] Unknown author, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Vol. II (4), p. 277-300. "Merleswain and the Comyn Earls of Buchan: Their Antecedents in Atholl and Fife". Written by MichaelAnne Guido.
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• https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getpe...
• J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Murdoch, Earl of Menteith and the Ferrers family of Groby, The Scottish Genealogist (March 2013), Vol. LX, No. 1, pp. 12-25 PDF

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Anne de Ferrers
BIRTH 1248
Loughborough, Charnwood Borough, Leicestershire, England
DEATH 1280 (aged 31–32)
Groby, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England
BURIAL
St. Philip and St. James Churchyard
Groby, Hinckley and Bosworth Borough, Leicestershire, England
MEMORIAL ID 71689352

There is a dispute regarding her premarital identity. She was possibly a daughter of Hugh le Despenser, Justiciar of England, by his wife Aline Basset, according to The Complete Peerage, or possibly a daughter of Alan Durward and Margery of Scotland, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Family Members
Spouse
William de Ferrers
1240–1288

Children
William de Ferrers
1272–1325