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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,...
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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
Aug 30, 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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May 16, 2017 · Husband: Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, 5th Earl of Hertford (married April 30, 1290, died 1295) children: Gilbert de Clare, Eleanor de Clare, Margaret de Clare, Elizabeth de Clare; Husband: Sir Ralph de Monthermer (married 1297) children: Mary de Monthermer, Joan de Monthermer, Thomas de Monthermer, Edward de Monthermer
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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. Joan of Acre was born in 1272 in Acre, or Akko, in what is now Israel.
1297–1371 • Female. Marriage. November 1307. Children (1) Isabella Margaret 11th Countess of Fife and Angus MacDuff. 1320–1389 • Female. View All. Parents and Siblings. Sir Ralph de Monthermer -1st Baron Monthermer. 1270–1325 • Male. Joan Plantagenet of Acre. 1272–1307 • Female.
Oct 7, 2010 · [4] Joan of Acre and Ralph de Monthermer had two daughters: Mary, countess of Fife (1297-after March 1371), and Joan (1299-?), a nun at Amesbury (where she joined her aunt Mary, sister of Edward II and Joan of Acre). Their son Thomas de Monthermer was born on 4 October 1301, and their youngest child, Edward, around 11 April 1304. [5] .
