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Source: Scots Peerage Volume 4 (1907) - The Ancient Earls of Fife - Gillemichael

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GILLEMICHAEL MacDuff Mórmaer of Fife

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Archive.org https://archive.org/details/DouglasRScotsPeerageVol41907/page/n15/mode/1up Douglas R Scots Peerage Vol 4 1907 Topics Douglas R Scots Peerage Vol 4 1907 Collection folkscanomy_history; folkscanomy; additional_collections Language English Douglas R Scots Peerage Vol 4 1907 Addeddate 2017-07-02 01:21:57 Identifier DouglasRScotsPeerageVol41907 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4rk03j1g Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 600 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.3 plus-circle

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Douglas R Scots Peerage Vol 4 1907
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PAGE 4 III. Gillemichael succeeded to Earl Constantine. It has been assumed that he was the son of the latter, but there is no evidence of the relationship. In King David’s charter of the 4 shire ’ of Kirkcaldy and its church to Dun- fermline 4 there is a clause prohibiting any one of the heirs of Constantine, Earl of Fife, from calling in question the grant. From the language of the charter it may be as- sumed that Constantine was then dead, 5 and it is note- worthy that Gillemichael is not mentioned either as heir of Earl Constantine, or as a witness to the charter. His identity is doubtful : whoever he was, his position among the magnates of Scotland was a high one. In King David’s confirmation charter to Dunfermline he appears as 4 Gillemichael Macduf,’ and is ranked immediately after the Earls and before Herbert the Chancellor, and a great noble like Hugh de Morevill, afterwards Constable. 6 4 Gillemichell ’ appears to have rendered great services to the King, and it is not improbable that the territorial earldom became for the first time hereditary to him and his heirs. 7 He witnessed several other charters of King David to Dunfermline, and also the same King’s charter of confirmation to Holyrood. Earl Gillemichael did not hold the earldom many years, and there is some doubt as to the year of his death, which has been given as 1139, but he appears in a charter dated about 1133, while Duncan is styled Earl in 1136, if not earlier. 6 1 Beg. de Dunfermelyn , 13. 2 Wood’s Douglas’s Peerage. 8 Beg. de Dunfermelyn t 10. 4 Ibid. 6 Sir A. C. Lawrie gives circa 1130 as the date of this charter ; Early Scottish Charters , 76. 6 Beg. de Dunfermelyn , 4. 7 Complete Peerage , iii. 8. v. Fife. 8 Beg. de Dunfermelyn , 15; Beg. Epis. Olasguensis , 9. PAGE 5 The name of Gillemichael’s wife has not come down to us. He had at least two sons and one daughter : — 1. Duncan, his successor. 2. Hugh, father of Hugh (sometimes called Egius and Eugenius). 1 (See title Wemyss.) 3. Ete, wife of Gartnait, Earl of Buchan, is described as the daughter of Gillemichael, and it is not improbable that she was the daughter of this Earl, as there is no other Gillemichael of that period known to history on record. Gillemichael may have had another son, Adam , pro- genitor of a family designed from its lands De Syras , and who is a frequent witness to charters of King William, Earl Duncan, and Robert and Richard, bishops of St. Andrews. 2 IV. Duncan, fourth Earl of Fife, succeeded sometime before July 1136

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III. Gillemichael succeeded to Earl Constantine. It has been assumed that he was the son of the latter, but there is no evidence of the relationship. In King David’s charter of the 4 shire ’ of Kirkcaldy and its church to Dun- fermline 4 there is a clause prohibiting any one of the heirs of Constantine, Earl of Fife, from calling in question the grant. From the language of the charter it may be as- sumed that Constantine was then dead, 5 and it is note- worthy that Gillemichael is not mentioned either as heir of Earl Constantine, or as a witness to the charter. His identity is doubtful : whoever he was, his position among the magnates of Scotland was a high one. In King David’s confirmation charter to Dunfermline he appears as 4 Gillemichael Macduf,’ and is ranked immediately after the Earls and before Herbert the Chancellor, and a great noble like Hugh de Morevill, afterwards Constable. 6
4 Gillemichell ’ appears to have rendered great services to the King, and it is not improbable that the territorial earldom became for the first time hereditary to him and his heirs. 7 He witnessed several other charters of King David to Dunfermline, and also the same King’s charter of confirmation to Holyrood.
Earl Gillemichael did not hold the earldom many years, and there is some doubt as to the year of his death, which has been given as 1139, but he appears in a charter dated about 1133, while Duncan is styled Earl in 1136, if not earlier. 6
1 Beg. de Dunfermelyn , 13. 2 Wood’s Douglas’s Peerage. 8 Beg. de Dunfermelyn t 10. 4 Ibid. 6 Sir A. C. Lawrie gives circa 1130 as the
date of this charter ; Early Scottish Charters , 76. 6 Beg. de Dunfermelyn , 4. 7 Complete Peerage , iii. 8. v. Fife. 8 Beg. de Dunfermelyn , 15; Beg. Epis. Olasguensis , 9.

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The name of Gillemichael’s wife has not come down to us. He had at least two sons and one daughter : —
1. Duncan, his successor.
2. Hugh, father of Hugh (sometimes called Egius and
Eugenius). 1 (See title Wemyss.)
3. Ete, wife of Gartnait, Earl of Buchan, is described as
the daughter of Gillemichael, and it is not improbable that she was the daughter of this Earl, as there is no other Gillemichael of that period known to history on record.
Gillemichael may have had another son, Adam , pro- genitor of a family designed from its lands De Syras , and who is a frequent witness to charters of King William, Earl Duncan, and Robert and Richard, bishops of St. Andrews. 2

IV. Duncan, fourth Earl of Fife, succeeded sometime before July 1136