The Mormaer or Earl of Menteith was originally the ruler of the province of Menteith in the Middle Ages. The first mormaer is usually regarded as Gille Críst, simply because he is the earliest on record. The title was held in a continuous line from Gille Crist until Muireadhach IV (aka Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany), although the male line was broken on two occasions. A truncated version of the earldom was given two years later to Malise Graham, in compensation for loss of the Earldom of Atholl.
[edit] List of holders
[edit] First line of mormaers/earls
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- Gille Críst, Earl of Menteith (d. 1189) first recorded mormaer/earl
- Muireadhach I, Earl of Menteith (d. 1213)
- Muireadhach II, Earl of Menteith (d. 1234)
- Isabella, Countess of Menteith
- Mary I, Countess of Menteith
- Alexander, Earl of Menteith
- Alan, Earl of Menteith
- Muireadhach III, Earl of Menteith (d. 1332)
- Mary Menteith, Countess of Menteith
- Margaret, Countess of Menteith
- Muireadhach IV Stewart, Earl of Menteith, executed in 1425 and the peerages forfeited.
[edit] Second line, from 1427
[edit] See also
The Stuart-Menteth Baronetcy, of Closeburn in the County of Dumfries and Mansfield in the County of Ayr, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 August 1838 for Charles Stuart-Menteth. The Stuart-Menteth family traces its descent from Walter Comyn (third son of Walter Comyn, Justiciar of Scotia), who in 1258 married Isabella, Countess of Menteith (or Menteth).}
[edit] References
- Paul, James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, Vol. VI, (Edinburgh, 1909)
- Roberts, John L., Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages, (Edinburgh, 1997), p. 52
- Clan Campbell Society of North America CCSNA.org, information on the Macoran sept that began in the latter half of the 17th century under the protection of the Earl of Menteith, who later gave this young Campbell of Melfort a farm at Inchanoch. That Macoran / Campbell married a Miss Haldane, niece of Haldane of Lanrick, and the family prospered.
