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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.
When Isabella MacDuff Countess of Fife was born in 1322, in Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Sir Donnchadh MacDuff Earl of Fife, was 33 and her mother, Mary de Monthermer, was 25. She married Sir William Ramsay Stewart of Coluthie about 1345.
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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,...
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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
24 de mar. de 2021 · Isabella, countess of Fife, was female heir to the premier earldom of Scotland in the mid-fourteenth century. The daughter of Duncan, earl of Fife, and Mary de Monthermer, her life provides us with fascinating insight into the agency of an elite woman in late medieval Scotland.
30 de ago. de 2022 · Mary de Monthermer, Countess of Fife (October 1297 – circa 1371) was an English noblewoman. Parents: She was a daughter of Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer and his wife Joan of Acre. Married: In 1306-07, her grandfather Edward I and uncle Edward, Prince of Wales arranged for her to wed Duncan Macduff, 8th Earl of Fife (1289–1353).
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When Sir Donnchadh MacDuff Earl of Fife was born in 1289, in Methil, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Duncan MacDuff 9th Earl of Fife, was 27 and his mother, Lady Joan de Clare Countess of Fife, was 21. He married Mary de Monthermer in 1307.
When Mary de Monthermer was born in October 1297, in Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, her father, Sir Ralph de Monthermer -1st Baron Monthermer, was 27 and her mother, Joan Plantagenet of Acre, was 25. She married Sir Duncan Donnchadh IV 10th Earl of Fife Mac Duff in November 1307.
