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Magnus of Orkney

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Birthplace: Orkney Islands, Scotland
Death: circa 1321 (42-60)
Scotland
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Son of John Magnusson, Jarl of Orkney and Princess Kristina Magnusdatter av Norway
Husband of Countess Katherine of Caithness Orkney
Father of Margaret Caithness of Orkney, Heiress of Lovat and Isabella Strathearn, of Caithness

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About Magnus of Orkney

Magnus of Orkney

MAGNUS V, Jarl of Orkney and Earl of Caithness (?) 1311 to 1321
or a. 1329. On 28 Oct. 1 312 he witnessed the treaty of Inverness between
King Robert I and Hakon V, King of Norway (1299 to 1319), and on 6 Apr. 1320 he signed the Letter of the Scottish Nobles to the Pope, John X X I I . He may have d. before 4 Aug. 1321 , and was certainly dead by 1329, when his widow granted a charter as such. Jarl Magnus V Johnsson, the last of the Angus line, m. Katherine, whose parentage is not recorded, and d. about I329.

Source: Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 10, appendix A, p. 30. https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE934240

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Magnus of Orkney's Timeline

1270
1270
Orkney Islands, Scotland
1289
1289
Wick, Caithness, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1300
1300
Orkney and Caithness, Scotland
1321
1321
Age 51
Scotland