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Mary MacDuff, Countess of Fife (née de Monthermer; October 1297 – c. 1371) was an English noblewoman. She was a daughter of Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer and his wife Joan of Acre. Other sources have her being born in 1298.
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Birth
Circa 1298, Mary was born to Ralph de Monthermer and Joan (Plantagenet) de Clare, likely fifth or sixth, but second surviving daughter of King Edward I of England. Although the marriage of Joan and Ralph was clandestine and consequently incurred the king's wrath, he acquiesced and legitimized the union on 2 August 1297, thus recognizing, if not fully sanctioning their marriage (within several years, however, Ralph had become a favorite of the king). To this marriage, three additional children...
Marriage
The papal dispensation for Mary's arranged marriage to Duncan MacDuff, Mormaer of Fife, was dated 12 October 1306. There appears, however, to have been an issue of consanguinity, as on 3 November 1307, in a Papal letter from Pope Clement V to the newlyweds, a dispensation was granted to preserve their marriage, as Edward II confirmed that Duncanand Mary were related in the fourth degree. As was common practice among Medieval nobility, Mary was a mere child when she married 17-year-old Duncan,...
Notable Events
Historical accounts list Mary's daughter, Elizabeth, as having had four husbands, first, that of an unlikely marriage to William Ramsay (by whom she allegedly had a daughter, Elizabeth), secondly Walter Steward (m. 1360/61), then Thomas Biset (m. after 1363), and lastly John Dunbar (m. after 1365).In contrast, Thomas Gray in the Scalacronica, states that Mary's daughter, Elizabeth, married first her guardian Sir William de Felton of Northumberland, as well as Constable of Roxburgh, some time...
1. While no supplemental details regarding Mary and her daughter's capture in Perth have been located, additional information may be available in, "A. G. Scott and D. E. R. Watt. (Eds.). Scotichronicon, Vol. 7," although as of October 2020, online access is not available. 2. Interestingly, in Alison Weir's book, Britain's Royal Families, the Comple...
Cokayne, G. E. (1887). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom (p. 351). Londong: G. Bell & Sons. Retrieved from Internet Archive (Availab...Gray, T. (1907). Scalacronica: The reigns of Edward I, Edward II and Edward III (p. 126). Trans. Herbert Maxwell. Glasgow: J. Maclehose. Retrieved from Internet Archive (Avail...Weir, A. (2008). Britain's royal families, the complete genealogy (p. 83). London: Vintage Books. Retrieved from the personal library of Pamela Moen; accessed 30 October 2020.Cawley, C. (20 July 2020). England, kings 1066-1837 (Ch. 3, Sec. A [Edward], no. 7). Retrieved from Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (Available online); accessed 30 September 2020.- Female
- Duncan (Macduff) Macduff Ivth Mormaer of Fife
Mary de Monthermer (1298–after 1371) Duchess of Fife. Born in 1298; died after 1371; daughter of Joan of Acre (1272–1307) and Ralph Monthermer, earl of Gloucester and Hertford; married Duncan Fife (1285–1353), 10th earl of Fife (r. 1288–1353), in November 1307; children: Isabel of Fife (c. 1332–1389).
When Mary de Monthermer was born in October 1297, in Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, her father, Ralph Monthermer, was 28 and her mother, Joan of Acre, was 25. She married Sir Donnchadh MacDuff Earl of Fife in 1307.
English Noblewoman and Countess of Fife. Her mother was Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward II of England. Her mother faced intense disapproval of King Edward when she secretly married a squire in her household, Ralph de Monthermer. Ralph was imprisoned in Bristol Castle until Joan pleaded her case to the king. In...
22 de may. de 2020 · Ralph de Monthermer (1270 - 5 April 1325) Earl of Hertford, Earl of Gloucester (April 1297 - 7 April 1307) from 1309: 1st Baron Monthermer Earl of Atholl (under Edward I) Family Marriage: (Secretly): January 1297 in England Wife: Joan of Acre 4 Children: Mary de Monthermer (October 1297- ca. 1371), married Duncan, Earl of Fife.
One of the more unlikely romances in the late thirteenth century was that between Joan of Acre, daughter of King Edward I, and Ralph de Monthermer, son of the Lord Knows Who. For Ralph, a squire in Joan’s household, was of such obscure origins that his parentage is unknown.
