Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife
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Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife [Duncan IV]
He was born in late 1289, the same year as his father
Donnchadh's initial support for Robert has been doubted,
The Earl of Fife fought with the Bruce loyalists at the Battle of Dupplin Moor where, he being made prisoner, changed sides and, with William Sinclair, Bishop of Dunkeld, a great adherent of Robert the Bruce, crowned Edward Balliol King of Scots at Scone on 24 September 1332.[6] The following year, on 19 July 1333, he fought with the Scottish army at the Battle of Halidon Hill, where he was again captured.
In 1306, Donnchadh married
- iure uxoris. William and Isabella had a daughter named Elizabeth Ramsey. Alternatively she may have been married to William Felton.[7]
- Walter Stewart, son of Robert II of Scotland and Euphemia de Ross. He succeeded as Earl of Fife, de iure uxoris.
- Thomas Biset of Upsetlington, who succeeded as Earl of Fife, de iure uxoris.
- John Dunbar, possibly a son of Patrick V, Earl of March and his first wife Ermengarde. John Dunbar succeeded as Earl of Fife, de iure uxoris.
Isabella ceded the Earldom of Fife to
Notes
- Causantín; see Bannerman, "Macduff of Fife", passim.
- ^ G. W. S. Barrow, Robert Bruce, p. 156
- ^ In Stephen Boardman's book The Early Stewart Kings, p. 13, Boardman gives the account of the contemporary English chronicler Sir Thomas Gray who declared that Donnchadh "had forfeited the earldom to the crown during the reign of Robert I for the murder of an esquire named Michael Beaton and had received it back as a male entail which had reverted to the crown on Duncan's [Donnchadh's] death."
- ^ ibid., p. 278
- ^ ibid., p.258
- ^ Bain, FSA (Scot)., Joseph, The Edwards in Scotland, Edinburgh, 1901, p. 84.
- ^ Andy King, Michael A. Penman, England and Scotland in the fourteenth century: new perspectives, page 119. According to the Scalacronica Isabella was arranged to marry Robert Stewart, but married William Felton who had been in charge of her wardship.
Bibliography
- Bannerman, John, "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 20–38
- Barrow, G. W. S., Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland, (Edinburgh, 1988)
- Broun, Dauvit, "Anglo-French Acculturation and the Irish Element in Scottish Identity", in Brendan Smith (ed.), Britain and Ireland, 9001-300: Insular Responses to Medieval European Change, (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 135–53
- McDonald, Andrew, "Macduff family, earls of Fife (per. c.1095–1371)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 8 Sept 2007