Matilda, Countess of Angus

Matilda of Angus was the daughter of Maol Choluim, Earl or Mormaer of Angus and as his heiress was countess of the province in her own right.

She was first married to John Comyn, but his early death in France in 1242 meant that a new husband was needed to control the dispersed Earldom. The man selected was Gilbert de Umfraville, a Norman, who was feudal Baron of Prudhoe in Northumberland. He too died shortly before March 13, 1245, but not before Matilda had borne him a son to succeed to the Earldom.

Matilda married thirdly, before December 22, 1247, a grandson of King John of England, Richard de Dover, feudal baron of Chilham, Kent, son of Richard Fitz Roy, to whom she had one son, Richard, and one daughter Isabel, who married David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl. Matilda (called Maud in English records) thereafter disappears from records, and her son Gilbert de Umfraville, 1st Earl of Angus, succeeded her in his infancy.

References

• Paul, James Balfour, The Scots Peerage, (Edinburgh, 1904), vol. i, Angus.
• Richardson, Douglas, Plantagenet Ancestry, Baltimore, 2004, p.49, ISBN 0-8063-1750-7

Preceded by Maol Choluim

Countess of Angus 1240-1246x

Succeeded by Gilbert de Umfraville