Devorguilla (unknown)

Not the same as Devorguilla of Galloway

Biography

The Scots Peerage, ABERNETHY, LORD SALTOUN

LAURENCE DE ABERNETHY, styled 'films Orm de Aber- nethy,' 2 was the last to hold the office of Lay Abbot …His name and that of his wife Devorguile are recorded as visitors to the shrine of St. Outhbert at Durham early in the thirteenth century, but it is not known who she was.4

Laurence lived as a secular Baron at Kerpal (Oarpow), the old mansion of the lords of Abernethy.2 He must have been an old man at the time of his death, which occurred shortly after the last-mentioned date. He left issue : —

• 1. Patrick, styled * son and heir ' in the charter to the Canons of St. Andrews above mentioned. Very little is known about him, and he perhaps died vita patris ; at all events he was dead before 1254.
• 2. HUGH, of whom presently.
• 3. WILLIAM, who acquired the lands of Saltoun in East Lothian.
• 4. Perhaps Henry, who witnessed a charter in 1260.3
• 5. Marjory, married to Hugh, eldest son of Sir William of Douglas, ' Longleg.' The marriage-contract, dated Palm Sunday 1259, is still in existence in the form • of an indenture between Sir Hugh de Abernethy, the brother of the bride, and Sir William de Douglas. Sir William Eraser, who gives a facsimile of the deed,4 says it is the oldest marriage-contract which has appeared in the history of any Scottish family. Marjory Abernethy is believed to have been buried in St. Bride's Church, Douglas, where a sculptured effigy in the extreme south-west angle of the church is still pointed out as hers.

Some sources show an additional child:

• Devorguilla de ABERNETHY was born 1225 and died after 3 Feb 1295.(not in TSP)

Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-98584

Other than this singular fact there is nothing recorded about her, including date of birth or marriage. However it is known that Hugh, the second son, was likely of age in 1233 when he receives a grant of the lands of Oxton and Lyleston, Lauderdale.[2] This would make his birth c. 1210. hence it might be presumed that Devorguile was born c. 1190.

References

• Balfour Paul. The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom; Volume 7. Vol. 7. Edinburgh: Douglas, 1904 Vol. 7, page 398-399. Archive.Org
  • 4. Liber Vitce, 94, 112
• http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mainegenie/genealogy/ABERNETH.htm
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1701.htm#29171 shows additional daughter Devorguilla de ABERNETHY was born 1225 and died after 3 Feb 1295. Not in TSP. Cites:
  • 1Ravilious, John, The Ancestry of Margaret Danielston, 20 November 2005., p. 2, soc.genealogy.medieval. GoogleBooks
  • 2Salzman, Louis Francis, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (London: Oxford University Press, 1938-), 9:195-9, Family History Library, 942 H2vc.