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Source: I. GARTNACH in COMYN, EARL OF BUCHAN - The Scots Peerage Volume 2

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Titre	I. GARTNACH in COMYN, EARL OF BUCHAN - The Scots Peerage Volume 2

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GARTNAIT macDarchon Mormaer of Buchan, Aberdeenshire.

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Archive.org https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun02pauluoft/page/250/mode/1up (can also be found at https://www.electricscotland.com/books/pdf/ScotsPeerageVol2.pdf) 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 VOLUME 2 PAGES 250-251

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(can also be found at https://www.electricscotland.com/books/pdf/ScotsPeerageVol2.pdf)

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

VOLUME 2 PAGES 250-251

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Page 250 In the reign of Alexander I., 1107-1124, the Monastery of Scone 2 was founded, and among the names of witnesses and consenting parties to the first charter are those of Rothri and Gartnach, 3 both of them followed by the word 'Comes.' It is otherwise known that Rothri was mormaer of Mar, and Gartnach mormaer of Buchan, 4 and it is inferred that before the twelfth century the fifth province had been divided into two separate portions, each having its own ruler. The genealogical history of the Earldom of Buchan therefore begins with I. GARTNACH, who is the first person certainly known to- 1 Chronicles of Picts and Scots, 136. 2 Wyntoun, Cronykil, ed. 1872, ii. 175 ; Liber Eccl. de Scon, 1. 3 Antiquities of Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, iv. 691. 4 Book of Deer, 93. COMYN, EARL OF BUOHAN Page 251 have been both mormaer and Earl of Buchan. He is styled son of Cainneach (Kenneth). With him is associated in a charter his wife Ete, the daughter of Gillemichel, and as Gartnach may have become mormaer in right of his wife it is uncertain whether Cainnech or Gillemichel was the first mormaer of Buchan whose name has been preserved. Both Gartnach and his wife Ete were alive in 1132. 1 II. EVA, daughter and heiress of Gartnach. She married COLBAN, who became mormaer and Earl in her right. They are commemorated by a grant of land in a deed executed at Helan (Ellon), 2 and witnessed by Oormac, abbot of the monastery of Turriff, and the nobles of Buchan. 3 Even at this early date the little mound of earth, afterwards called the Earlshill, which was the spot where the later Earls of Buchan received investiture, seems to have been the place where the head courts of the earldom were held, and where important business was transacted. There is a remnant of the hillock to be seen in a garden in Ellon. 4 Earl Oolban was one of the leaders of the expedition sent by King William the Lion into England in 1174, 5 and he appears as a witness to a charter by William the Lion to his brother, Earl David, of the Lennox and other territories, between 1178 and 1182. 6 III. ROGER, who was doubtless their son and heir, as he was the grandson of Gartnach.

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In the reign of Alexander I., 1107-1124, the Monastery of Scone 2 was founded, and among the names of witnesses and consenting parties to the first charter are those of Rothri and Gartnach, 3 both of them followed by the word 'Comes.' It is otherwise known that Rothri was mormaer of Mar, and Gartnach mormaer of Buchan, 4 and it is inferred that before the twelfth century the fifth province had been divided into two separate portions, each having its own ruler. The genealogical history of the Earldom of Buchan therefore begins with
I. GARTNACH, who is the first person certainly known to-
1 Chronicles of Picts and Scots, 136. 2 Wyntoun, Cronykil, ed. 1872, ii. 175 ; Liber Eccl. de Scon, 1. 3 Antiquities of Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, iv. 691. 4 Book of Deer, 93.

COMYN, EARL OF BUOHAN Page 251

have been both mormaer and Earl of Buchan. He is styled son of Cainneach (Kenneth). With him is associated in a charter his wife Ete, the daughter of Gillemichel, and as Gartnach may have become mormaer in right of his wife it is uncertain whether Cainnech or Gillemichel was the first mormaer of Buchan whose name has been preserved. Both Gartnach and his wife Ete were alive in 1132. 1
II. EVA, daughter and heiress of Gartnach. She married COLBAN, who became mormaer and Earl in her right. They are commemorated by a grant of land in a deed executed at Helan (Ellon), 2 and witnessed by Oormac, abbot of the monastery of Turriff, and the nobles of Buchan. 3 Even at this early date the little mound of earth, afterwards called the Earlshill, which was the spot where the later Earls of Buchan received investiture, seems to have been the place where the head courts of the earldom were held, and where important business was transacted. There is a remnant of the hillock to be seen in a garden in Ellon. 4
Earl Oolban was one of the leaders of the expedition sent by King William the Lion into England in 1174, 5 and he appears as a witness to a charter by William the Lion to his brother, Earl David, of the Lennox and other territories, between 1178 and 1182. 6

III. ROGER, who was doubtless their son and heir, as he was the grandson of Gartnach.