Morggán mac Gylocher, 2nd Earl of Mar

Name: Morgund Macgylocher Mar

Given Name: Morgund Macgylocher

Surname: Mar

Suffix: 2nd Earl of Mar 1

Sex: M

Birth: Abt 1115 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland

Death: Bef 30 Mar 1183 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 1

Change Date: 3 Jul 2007 at 14:47

Note: Morg(r)und Mac Gylocher, 2nd Earl of Mar; witness by 1152 to a charter of David I and his son Henry to Dunfermline, also a confirmatory charter to the same foundation by David's successor Malcolm IV in the mid 1150's; married Agnes and died by 30 March 1183, leaving possibly five or six sons (Malcolm; James; Duncan; David/Donald (possibly the same person); John); one of his sons may have been the man who was his undoubted successor as Earl. [Burke's Peerage]

Father: Gillocher Mar b: Abt 1082 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland

Marriage 1 Agnes b: Abt 1120 in Scotland

Married:

Change Date: 3 Jul 2007

Children

Gilchrist Mar b: Abt 1145 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Duncan Mar b: Abt 1160 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Sources:

Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999

Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999

Page: 1853

Quality: 3

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It is possible that Morggán participated in the so-called Revolt of the Earls, a protest by some of the native Scottish nobility at King Máel Coluim IV's trip to France as a vassal of King Henry II of England.

It is also possible that he became estranged from the French-speaking king William I, as Morggán's name appears in no royal acta of the latter king's reign.

He married Ada, a patroness of churches. Agnes was probably related to the de Warrene family - the family who married Ada de Warenne to king Máel Coluim IV. Morggán and Ada had at least one son, Donnchad, who eventually succeeded to the Mormaerdom. Morggán had another two sons, Máel Coluim and James, but they may have been illegitimate - i.e. the product of an uncanonical marriage acceptable in the celtic system, but not in the Franco-Roman system then gaining favor in Scotland.

His daughter Alesta of Mar was married to Alan Fitzwalter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland and was mother to Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland.

He appears in royal charters dated as early as 1147. He is attested in the documents for the last time in 1178, and was certainly dead by 1183.

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