Matilda, countess of Angus

Biography

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Matilda of Angus, also known as Maud, was the daughter of Maol Choluim, Earl or Mormaer of Angus and, as his heiress, was countess of the province in her own right.

Marriages and issue

She married John Comyn, but he died in France in 1242. They do not appear to have had issue.

A husband was needed to control the dispersed earldom; she then married Gilbert de Umfraville, a Norman, who was feudal Baron of Prudhoe in Northumberland. He died shortly before 13 March 1245, but not before Matilda had borne him a son named Gilbert to succeed to the earldom in his infancy:

• Gilbert, married Elizabeth Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, had issue. He died in 1308.

Matilda married again before 22 December 1247, Richard de Dover (a grandson of King John of England), the feudal baron of Chilham, Kent, the son of Richard Fitz Roy. Matilda disappears from records after producing two children:

• Richard of Chilham, Lord of Chilham. He died before 10 January 1266.
• Isabel, married David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, son of John de Strathbogie and Ada, Countess of Atholl, had issue.

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Matilda who married three times:

• 1. John Comyn (d. 1242)
• 2. Gilbert de Umfraville, Baron of Prudhoe, Northumberland, and
• 3. Richard de Dover, Baron of Chilham, Kent and a grandson of King John of England (Dover died between 1247 - 1261), with issue.

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Maud, suo jure Countess of Angus b. c. 1210, daughter and heir of Malcolm, Earl of Angus (b.c.1185, d. bef 1242) and Mary de Berkeley (b.c.1190). She was the Scottish King Alexander II's second cousin.

• m1. John Comyn [no children]
• m2. Gilbert, Lord of Redesdale, son of Richard de Umfreville and Margaret de Balliol. son Gilbert, Earl of Angus b.c. 1244, d bef 13 oct 1307.

from Compiler: R. B. Stewart, Evans, GA

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda,_Countess_of_Angus cites
• Paul, James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, (Edinburgh, 1904), vol. i, Angus. Page 167. < GoogleBooks >
• Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 2004, p. 49, ISBN 0-8063-1750-7