Donnchad II, Earl of Fife

Donnchad II, Earl of Fife

Mormaer Donnchad II (1154–1204), anglicized as Duncan II or Dunecan II, succeeded his father Donnchad I as a child. As a child of the previous Mormaer, he was entitled to succeed his father through primogeniture, but not to lead his kin-group, Clann MacDuib. That probably fell to his cousin, Aed mac Gille Míchéil. Like previous Mormaers of Fife, Donnchad II was appointed Justiciar of Scotia (i.e. Scotland North of the Forth). Donnchad's minority also meant that Ferchar, Mormaer of Strathearn, took supreme place as head of the Gaelic nobility and guide for the boy-king Máel Coluim IV.

The scholar Geoffrey Barrow suggests that it was during Donnchad's tenure that Beinn MacDuibh took its names, i.e. when Donnchad II acquired land in that area (Barrow, 1980, 86). Donnchad, like other Mormaers of Fife, kept in close association with the king. His name is recorded, among other places, in a charter granted to the priory on the Isle of May.

Donnchad's person was required to be a hostage following the defeat of William the Lion and the Treaty of Falaise, although in fact he certainly sent someone else in his place. (Barrow, 2003, 106).

On Christmas Day 1160, he married Ada (Ela/Hela) who is named in official documents as a close relative of King Máel Coluim IV, translated as a half sister by his father Henry of Scotland or niece from the Latin text.[1][2][3][4] Máel Coluim IV's father Henry of Scotland is believed to have had children prior to his marriage.[5] Donnchad II had three sons, Mael Coluim, Donnchad, and Dabíd (Malcolm, Duncan, and David), two notably named for the Scottish Kings. He had a fourth child, a daughter, whose name is unknown. The Earls of Fife are considered to have been important allies of the Scottish Kings from King Dabid I onward. In 1152, on the death of Scottish King Dabid I's son Henry of Scotland, Donnchad I had escorted Máel Coluim IV, introducing him as the royal heir.[6]

His son Máel Coluim succeeded him in 1204.

Notes

  1. ^ Dalton, Stephanie. 15 Jan 2006.Walking the line back in time profile of Johnny Cash, Scotland's People, Scotsman.com. Retrieved 28 June 2007.
  2. ^ Manzoor, Sarfraz (Sunday 7 February 2010).Scottish roots of Johnny Cash, the man in black tartan.Guardian.uk.co, The Observer. Retrieved 2011-04-12.
  3. ^ Cash, John R. with Patrick Carr, Johnny Cash, the Autobiography, Harper Collins 1997, p. 3.
  4. ^ Cash, Roseanne (2010). Composed a memoir. Viking Press/Penguin Group. ISBN 978-1-101-45769-6. 
  5. ^ Paul, Sir James Balfour (ed.), Wood’s Edition of David Douglas’s Scots Peerage (Edinburgh, 1907) vol IV, p 7.
  6. ^ Barrow, G.W.S. Earl's of Fife in the 12th Century, (Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1952-53), p. 54.

Bibliography

  • Bannerman, John, "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), pp. 20–38
  • Barrow, G. W. S., The Anglo-Norman Era in Scottish History, (Oxford, 1980).
  • Barrow, G. W. S. Earl's of Fife in the 12th Century, (Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1952–53), pp. 51–61.
  • Barrow, G. W. S., The Kingdom of the Scots: Government, Church and Society from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century, (Edinburgh, 2003)
  • Paul, Sir James Balfour (ed.), Wood’s Edition of David Douglas’s Scots Peerage (Edinburgh, 1907).
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Donnchad I
Mormaer of Fife
1154–1204
Succeeded by
Máel Coluim I
Legal offices
Preceded by
Uncertain, last known was Causantín, Earl of Fife
Justiciar of Scotia
c. 1154–1204
with Matthew, Bishop of Aberdeen (c. 1172–1199)
Gille Brigte, Earl of Strathearn (c. 1172–1199)
Succeeded by
Uncertain, next known was William Comyn, jure uxoris Earl of Buchan

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