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John of Scotland (or John de Scotia or John le Scot), 9th Earl of Huntingdon and 7th Earl of Chester (c. 1207 – 6 June 1237), sometimes known as "the Scot", was an Anglo-Scottish magnate, the son of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Matilda of Chester, daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc.
- John de Scotia, the Scot
- Matilda of Chester, Countess of Salisbury suo jure
- Extinct – reverted to crown
When John of Scotland Earl of Huntingdon and Chester was born about 1207, in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England, his father, David of Scotland 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was 64 and his mother, Matilda of Chester, was 37. He married Elen ferch Llywelyn in 1222.
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- Elen Ferch Llywelyn
John of Scotland , 9th Earl of Huntingdon and 7th Earl of Chester , sometimes known as "the Scot", was an Anglo-Scottish magnate, the son of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Matilda of Chester, daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc.
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Source citation. Also known as John the Scot and John of Huntington, he was born abt. 1207, the only surviving son of David of Scotland and Maud of Chester. He became Earl of Huntington and Northampton upon his father's death in 1219. He became the 7th Earl of Chester after his mother's younger brother, Ranulf de Blondeville, died in...
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- 1219 Earl of Huntingdon
- 1222 Marriage to Helen of Wales
- 1232 Earl of Chester
- 1237 Death and Burial
- 1237 Widows Marriage to Robert de Quincy
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Parents: David of Scotland and Maud de Meschines The Annales Londonienses name "Johannem" as the son of "comiti David" & his wife. John of Fordun’s Scotichronicon (Continuator) names "Robertum…et Henricum necnon Johannem Scotum ab Anglis vocitatum" as the three sons of "David, rex quondam Willelmus frater" and his wife "Matildem filiam Hugonis…comi...
Earl of Huntingdon (1185 inh - 2nd)Earl of Chester (1232 cr - 1st)He succeeded his father in 1219 as Earl of Huntingdon and Garioch. "Johannes de Scocia comes Huntedun" donated "terram…de Lundors" to Lindores Abbey by undated charter, subscribed by "Henrico de Striuelin fratre meo…". John became Earl of Huntingdon in 1219 on the death of his father.
John married Elen ferch Llywelyn, daughter of Llywelyn the Great, in about 1222. m. c. 1222 Elen ferch Llywelyn "the Elder" m ([1222]) as her first wife, HELEN of Wales, daughter of LLYWELYN ap Iorwerth Fawr ("the Great") Prince of Wales & his second wife Joan [illegitimate daughter of John King of England] (-1253 before 24 Oct). The Annales Cestri...
He was created Earl of Chester 21 Nov 1232, in succession to his maternal uncle: the Annales Cestrienses record the death “VII Kal Nov apud Walingford” of “Rannulphus comes Cestrie et Lincoln” and that “Johannes de Scocia” was made “comes Cestrie...XI Kal Dec...apud Northampton”. On the death of John's maternal uncle, Ranulph de Blondeville, Earl o...
He died in Darnhall, Cheshire [5/7] Jun 1237 and was buried in Chester at the Abbey of St Werburg). bur. St Werburg, Chester, CHS The Annales Cestrienses record the death “apud Darnal VII Id Jun” 1237 of “Johannes de Scocia comes Cestrie et Huntendon” and his burial “apud Cestriam”. Matthew Paris records that it was suspected that his wife "filia L...
The Annals of Dunstable record that “Johannes comes Cestriæ” died in 1237 and “eius uxor…filia Lewelini” married “Roberto [de Quinci]” against her father’s wishes. She married secondly (1237 before 5 Dec) Robert de Quincy. A writ after the death of "Eleanor, sometime the wife of John Earl of Chester", dated "the eve of St Martin 38 Hen III", record...
John died childless on 6 June 1237, aged 30. He too, like his uncle Ranulph before him, left four sisters as his co-heirs. They agreed to share the estates between them, and to make the husband of the eldest sister Christian, William de Forz, Earl of Chester and Huntingdon by right of his wife. However Henry III decided that the earldoms should be ...
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- Ellen Ferch Llewelyn
David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (8th Earl) (1144–1219) John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (9th Earl) (1207–1237) Second creation (1337) William de Clinton, Earl of Huntingdon (1304–1354) Third creation (1377) Guichard d'Angle, Earl of Huntingdon (d. 1380) (Life Peerage) Fourth creation (1388)
magnate. John of Scotland, 9th Earl of Huntingdon and 7th Earl of Chester, sometimes known as "the Scot", was an Anglo-Scottish magnate, the son of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon by his wife Matilda of Chester, daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc. Background. John married Elen ferch Llywelyn, daughter of Llywelyn the Great, in about 1222.
