Biography

The Scots Peerage, ABERNETHY, LORD SALTOUN

3I. LAURENCE (HUGH 1, ORM 2) m. DEVORGUILE ______

Laurence 'filius Orm de Abernethy' was the last to hold the office of Lay Abbot. Towards the end of the 12th century the King denuded him of all his revenues as Abbot and handed them over to the monks of the recently founded Abbey of Arbroath. He does not seem to have been deprived of the 'dominium' or lordship which he held as Abbot, and retrained his position as Lord of Abernethy. He and his wife Devorguile are recorded as visitors to the shrine of St. Cuthbert at Durham early in the 13th century. He granted, with consent of his son and heir Patrick, an annual payment of 10/ out of his lands of Blanebreich to the Canons regular of St. Andrews. Laurence had a chfrater between 1204 and 1228 from Reginald de Waren of the lands of Coventre in exchange for those of Wester Dron, and another from Gregory, Bishop of Brechin, of the land formerly disputed between Dunlappie and Stracathro. On 5 Apr. 1223 King Alexander II confirmed to him the lands of Glendukie and Balmeadow, which his father had and on 24 June the King confirmed to him that land in the royal castle of Roxburgh quitclaimed by the King's nephew William, son of the Earl of Dunbar. After 1233 Laurence sold the lands of Cultran, Balmerino and others to the monastery of Balmerino for 200 merks paid to him by the executors of William the Lion's widow, Queen Ermengarde, who had founded it. As late as 1244 he accompanied King Alexander II to the meeting with Henry III and was one of the Barons who swore to the ratification of the treaty of Newcastle. Laurence then lived as a secular Baron at Kerpal (Carpow) the old mansion of the lords of Abernethy.

Issue-

• I. Patrick- probable d.v.p. before 1254
• II. HUGH-
• III. William- of Saltoun, East Lothian
• IV. Henry-
• V. Marjory- int. Palm Sunday 1259, Sir William Douglas "Longleg", bur. St. Bride's Church, Douglas

Ref: The Scotts Peerage- Vol. VII, pp.398-9

Some sources show an additional child:

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

Abbots and lords of Abernethy

The abbots of Abernethy were descendants of Gille Míchéil, Earl of Fife. The abbacy may have been held by Áed (called Hugo or Eggu and other Latinised forms), son of Gille Míchéil,[2] but the abbacy is first attested when Áed's son Orm is confirmed in possession of it by King William of Scotland in the 1170s, in condition for making concessions favorable to the King's new monastic establishment at Arbroath Abbey.[3] The title of Abbot disappears in the sources during the abbacy of Laurence, with the title of dominus predominating:

• Orm de Abernethy (fl. 1170s)
• Laurence de Abernethy (fl. 1190s)
• Hugh de Abernethy (d. 1291)
• Alexander de Abernethy (d. c. 1315)

Following the death of Alexander Abernethy, the title passed to his daughter Margaret who married John Stewart of Bonkyll, who assumed the title, as well as being granted the forfeited Earldom of Angus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_Abernethy

Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Abernathy-222

The Laurence Abernethy, represented on this Profile, is the son of Orm Abernethy, Lay Abbot of the Culdee Monastery at Abernethy, in the Earldom of Strathearn. This line of Abernethy, later Lord Saltoun, is discussed by Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, Volume 7, between pages 396 and 416. Laurence de Abernethy starting page 398.[1]
Key Assertions. Based on the history outlined above it is clear that Laurence de Abernethy was born c. 1160 and died c. 1260. An unusually long time for this period although noted by Balfour Paul. There are a number of critical assertions:

That this relates to a single Laurence de Abernethy and that Laurence, son of Orm, and Laurence de Abernethy are the same person.

Lord of Abernethy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Lord of Abernethy was from the 12th century to the 14th century the hereditary holder of the church and lands of the Scottish monastery at Abernethy. It gradually evolved alongside the title Abbot of Abernethy, displacing that term in extant sources by the end of the 13th century. It was held by the descendants of Gille Míchéil, Earl of Fife.

As Lord Abernethy, it is a subsidiary title of the Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon. The Mormaers and Earls of Fife had enjoyed the privilege of crowning new Kings of Scots. Following the failure of the main MacDuff line, and after the execution of the Stewart Murdoch, Earl of Fife in 1425, the privilege fell back to the second line of MacDuffs, those of Abernethy.

Through them this honour was regarded as passing to the Douglas Earls of Angus, notably at the coronation of James III in 1460 when George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus proclaimed "There! Now that I have set it upon your Grace's head, let me see who will be so bold as to move it."

This continuity has survived to the current era, most notably at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, when the then Lord Abernethy and Angus, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton bore and presented the Crown of Scotland to the Queen at St. Giles' Cathedral. Hamilton's son the 15th Duke, and the 16th Duke performed similar duties at the opening of Scottish Parliaments since 1999.

Abbots and lords of Abernethy

The abbots of Abernethy were descendants of Gille Míchéil, Earl of Fife. The abbacy may have been held by Áed (called Hugo or Eggu and other Latinised forms), son of Gille Míchéil, but the abbacy is first attested when Áed's son Orm is confirmed in possession of it by King William of Scotland in the 1170s, in condition for making concessions favorable to the King's new monastic establishment at Arbroath Abbey. The title of Abbot disappears in the sources during the abbacy of Laurence, with the title of dominus predominating:

• Orm de Abernethy (fl. 1170s)
• Laurence de Abernethy (fl. 1190s)
• Hugh de Abernethy (d. 1291)
• Alexander de Abernethy (d. c. 1315)

Following the death of Alexander Abernethy, the title passed to his daughter Margaret who married John Stewart of Bonkyll, who assumed the title, as well as being granted the forfeited Earldom of Angus.

Douglas lords of Abernethy His granddaughter Margaret Stewart, 4th Countess of Angus and Lady of Abernethy, had an illegitimate son by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. In a charter of 1389, Lady Angus transferred the titles of Earl of Angus and the Lordships of Abernethy and Bonkyll to her child.

George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus, Lord of Abernethy and Bonkyll (1380–1403), upon his betrothal to Princess Mary, daughter of Robert III of Scotland

For further Lords of Abernethy please see:

• Earl of Angus Duke of Hamilton Notes
• Maxwell Vol II, p.17
• See genealogical chart Archived 2001-07-17 at the Wayback Machine by Dauvit Broun.
• Barrow, "Reign of William the Lion", p. 80; McGladdery, "Abernethy family (per. c.1260–c.1465)". References Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages [self-published source][better source needed] Bannerman, John, "MacDuff of Fife", in A. Grant & K. Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 20–38 Barrow, G. W. S., "The Reign of William the Lion", in Scotland and its Neighbours in the Middle Ages", (London, 1992), pp. 67–89 Maxwell, Rt. Hon Sir Herbert. A History of the House of Douglas. Freemantle, London, 1902 McGladdery, C. A., "Abernethy family (per. c.1260–c.1465)", in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 , accessed 11 August 2007
• “ The Abbots of Abernethy & Dunkeld” At that time, Áed’s son Orm was officially confirmed as lay abbot of Abernethy Abbey. The Abbots of Abernethy were descendants of Gille Míchéil, Earl of Fife (my 27th great-grandfather). Although the abbacy was first held by Gille Míchéil’s son, Áed, the position was not officially recognized by the state until the 1170s by William “The Lion” of Scotland (my two-times 25th great-grandfather). The hereditary lay abbots in my family were Áed de Abernethy (my 26th great-grandfather), Orm de Abernethy (my 25th great-grandfather), and Laurence de Abernethy (my 24th great-grandfather).
• 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 by Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 Publication date 1904-1914. Vol. 7. Page 396-398. Archive.Org
• 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.
  • 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.