ANGUS COMPLETE PEERAGE 149 King's Council to answer for his contempt in striking one of the King's ministers at the Pari, held at Berwick on the octave of the Assumption, 22 Aug. i296.(°) He m. Margaret, ist da. of Sir Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond in Connaught, by Julian, 2nd da. and eventually sole h. of Maurice fitz Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland. He d. v.p., s.p., before 23 May 1303. (*") His widow m., before 30 June 1308, Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere [Lord Badlesmere], who d. 14 Apr. 1322. She d. late in 1333.] EARLDOM [S.] IX. Qy. EARLDOM, [E.] II. 9 and 2. Robert (de Umfreville), Earl of Angus [S.], and Lord Um- freville [E.], 2nd, but 1st surv. s. ( ■^ I' and h., aged 30 and more at his father's death. He did homage and had livery of his father's lands, 6 Nov. 1307. He was sum., 18 Jan. 1307/8, to attend the coronation of Edward II, and by that King was appointed Joint King's Lieut, and Keeper in Scotland, 21 June 1308, Joint Guardian between Berwick and the Forth, 16 Aug. 1308, and a Commissioner to treat with the Scots, 14 Nov. 1308, 16 Feb. 1309/10, 22 Feb. 13 15/6, and 18 Mar. 13 17/8. (°) He was sum. to Pari, from 19 Jan. (1307/8) I Edw. II to 26 Dec. (1323) 17 Edw. II, by writs directed Roberto de Umframviir comiti de Anegos. He m.^ istly, before 20 Sep. 1303, Lucy, da. and in her issue h. of Sir Philip DE Kyme [i St Lord Kyme], by , da. of Sir Hugh le Bigod, Chief Justiciar of England. He w., 2ndly, Alienor. He d. Mar. 1325, and was bur. in the Abbey of Newminster. (*) Dower was assigned to his widow 10 and 19 July 1325. She w., before 16 Aug. 1327 (at which date he was fined ;^io and had pardon for C) Close Roll, 24 Edw. I, m. 4, Aug. or Sep. 1296. C") In a Ch. Inq. ad quod damnum, Edw. I, file 43, no. 13 (writ 23 May 31 Edw. I), it is stated that Robert was s. and h. of Gilbert de Umframvilla, Earl of Angus, and then under age : and that Margaret, widow of Gilbert, s. of the sd. Gilbert, held Hambleton and Overton, Rutland, in dower. f^) His possessions in Scotland were confiscated by Robert Bruce, and he is styled in a charter dudum comes de Anegus. The English Kings of course did not recognise these proceedings by a usurper, and it seems futile to attempt to estimate the legal effect of this informal confiscation. It is, however, clear that, although the Umfre- villes were sum. under the title of Earl of Angus, among, and with precedence over several of, the English Earls, the Edwards had no idea that they had thereby created another (English) Earldom of Angus. Whether they did not do so, according to modern notions, which are far removed from ancient practice, is another question. C) Writ of diem cl. ext. 12 Apr. 18 Edw. II (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. II, file 90, no. 78 : Exch. Inq. p. m., Enrolments no. 14). According to the Obituary of Newminster [Monast., vol. v, p. 401), he d. secundo idus Apr. ; but this is a mistake, for the escheator seized his lands into the King's hand on 30 Mar. (Escheators' Enrolled Accounts, no. I, 18 Edw. II, rot. 30 d, New Escheats, Northumberland).
