STRATHERNE. 285 (probably as a second wife), about 1216, Marjory MdscaMP, who d. s,n,m.( a ) before 125D-56, He was living 1201, but d. before lL J 67 C b ) VL 12G5? 6. MauseC) Karl of Stratherne [S.], probably B. ami b. of the above Mains by a first wife, but possibly bis nephew or cousin, b. about 1210 ; waa one of the Guarantor* for the alliance between Scotland and Norway, in 1281. He m. firstly Emma, living 1261-67, d. before 1291. Hem. sec Uy, before 1292, Mary, widow of Hugh Aukiinkthy (who d. before 1290) and formerly of Magnus, KlNfi OF Man( (I ) (wliu d. 1269), said to be a da. of Eugene he Eiuiadia. He, accordingly, on 12 July 1291 did homage to Edward I. at Stirling, and, 12 days afterwards, " Maria, Rtgina dc Man ct CumUissa. dc Strathcrne" did homage at Perth in presence of [him, the said] Earl Malise. He ((. between 1202 and 1296. His widow, who was confirmed, by the King of England in 1291) in her possessions, m. .Sir William Fll'zw.wUNK, an Englishman in the service of Edward 1. in Scotland, who d. a prisoner there shortly before 23 Dec. 1299. She, herself,;-, d. before 10 Oct. 1303. VII. 1295? 7. NfAM8B,( e ) Earl of Stratuerne [ST, and b. by first wife. b. about 1260. He m., probably about 1290, Agnea,(0 who was livinR 1311. Thro' her. not improbably,!*) the right of these Earls to the Barldoat of Caithness [S ] was derived. He is said,' 1 ) to have m. secondly Johanna, da. of Sir John m; Mbstbith. Kerf, before 1320. This Johanna m. Johu (Cash-bbix), %tXL ok Athou. [S.I. who was slain at the battle of llalidon Hill, 19 July 1333. She •l subsequently idi-pons. 11 July 1339) Sir Maurice Mouav, of Drumsargard, tf. in 1313. EitlL or Stkatiikunk [H ], who d. 17 Oct. 1316 (see below-}, leaving her surviving. VIII. 131S 1 S. U ausf.,(' ) Emu, of Stuatiieuxe [S.], s. and b., by to Agnes, aliovenamed, b. about 1290; was in the English service in 1332. Scotland iu 1307. His name in 1320, appears on the letter to the Pope, asserting the independence of Scotland. Iu a charter of 1321 he styles himself "BAHL OF THE K.YKLDOMS OF STRATH EltXE, (■J She had 11 no son, but two daughters only, who inherited their mother's lands in Northumberland, and their succession is well known [J. Bain, as on p. 284, note "d " above]. These were ll) Muriel, 2.1 wife of William, Earl of Mar [S.], who d. about 1281, she herself dying s.p. before 12 Nov. 1291 ; (2) .Marion. 10 years old and more, and then wife of Nicholas Graham, when, in 1291, she became heir to her sister. [Burnett's " Early Earls of Mar " iu " the QtHtnlogiti," vol. IV, N.S.]. I 1 ") Ford u u states that he rf. iu 1271, but " it is probable that Malise d. sooner" [J. bain, »( supra]. He is said to have d. iu France, 1271. and to have been bur. at Duukeld. 0=) See p. 28 i, note " d." C 1 ) The reasons for supposing that Mary, widow of Hugh Abernethy, was the same person as Mary, Queen of Mau, are given by J. Bain, ut tupra. (") "Sobtrlton't Index, by an odd error, makes out that she m. one William de Hatiu'Mon • • • tho' not impossible it is the last degree improbable that Maria, Queen "f Man, should have remarried between 23 Dee. 1209, when FitzWarin was just dead, and 10 Oct. 1303, be/arc which last date she, herself, was dead," [J. Bain, ut supra.] (0 Her son. Malise. was old enough iu 1306-7, to be a petitioner with her on behalf of his father, then a prisoner in England, and was himself then in the English service. ("■') Dr. Skene observes that Mary, widow of Hugh Abernethy, and afterwards wife 'if Earl Malise, " is the only person thro' whom the 4th Malise could have claimed My right to tkt Earldom aj Caithness," but, says J. Bain (ut supra), "surely if this uere so, Alexander of Abernethy, the s. of her former husband, Hugh Abernethy, would have had better right, as there is nothing to shew he was not her son ; and we never hear of any claim by him or his daughters, who carried the Abernethy succession, to the Stewards, Earls of Angus, and the Lindsays of Crawford. There we, however, two hitherto unknown Countesses [1] Emma, the first wife, in my view, of the 2d Earl Malise, and [2] Agnes, wife of the third Earl Malise, by either of whom the right to Caithness may have descended, tho' unfortunately, not knowing their surnames, it is mere conjecture as yet." I 1 ') "According to Dr. Skene aud the authorities cited by him ; . . . but nothing appears in the English records as to her." [J. Bain, «£ supra.]
