Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar 1330-1377

In or before 1330 [his father] Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar [aged 36] and [his mother] Isabella Stewart were married.

Around 1330 Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar was born to Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar [aged 37] and Isabella Stewart.

                    On 12th August 1332 Battle of Dupplin Moor was fought between the supporters of the infant King David II of Scotland [aged 8], son of King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland, and the supporters of King Edward I of Scotland [aged 49], supported by the English. The Bruce army included Robert Bruce Lord of Liddesdale and [his father] Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar [aged 39]. The Balliol army included David III Strathbogie 11th Earl Atholl [aged 23], Ralph Stafford 1st Earl Stafford [aged 30], Thomas Ughtred 1st Baron Ughtred [aged 40] and Walter Manny 1st Baron Manny [aged 22]. The battle is notable for being the first to use dismounted men-at-arms supported by archers; a formation that would bring repeated success to the English both in Scotland and France.
                
                    Robert Bruce Lord of Liddesdale was killed leading a charge.
                
                    Nicholas Hay [aged 47] was killed.
                
                    Thomas Randolph 2nd Earl Moray was killed. His brother John [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Earl Moray.
                
                    Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar was killed.

On 12th August 1332 Domhnhall Mar 9th Earl of Mar died. His sixth cousin once removed Thomas [aged 2] succeeded 10th Earl Mar.

After 21st November 1348 John Murray and [his future wife] Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 14] were married. See Dispensation. She the daughter of John Graham Earl Menteith and [his future mother-in-law] Margaret Graham 2nd Countess Menteith and Mar. They were third cousin twice removed.

                    Vetera Monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum DCI. Clement, etc. Unto a beloved son, a noble man, Thomas Earl of Mar [aged 22], and a beloved daughter in Christ, [his future wife] Margaret [aged 18], widow of the late John of Moray, of the diocese of Aberdeen, greeting. The watchful providence of the apostolic see, tempering at times the rigour of justice with kindness, with gracious benignity permits what the institutes of the sacred canons forbid, regard being had to the quality of the persons and the times, as may appear usefully expedient in the Lord. Forasmuch as your petition laid before us showed that you, son Earl, cannot readily find in all the kingdom of Scotland, whence you are sprung, any woman but thee, daughter Margaret, with whom you may marry as becomes your rank, and that you accordingly desire to be united in marriage, but because you are related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity, you cannot conveniently nor lawfully fulfil this your desire without obtaining the apostolic dispensation thereupon; wherefore you have humbly besought us that we would graciously vouchsafe to provide thercanent by a suitable dispensation: We, therefore, for these and certain other causes explained to us, yielding to these supplications, do, by apostolic authority, and by a special gift of gracz, by the tenor of these presents, dispense, that ye may, notwithstanding the impediment arising from this consanguinity, be free to contract marriage, and after it shall have been contracted, to abide lawfully therein, declaring that the offspring to be conceived of this marriage shall be legitimate. Therefore let no man whatever break this page of our dispensation, or oppose it by rash daring, but if any one presume to attempt this let him know that he will incur the wrath of Almighty God and the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. Given at Avignon, 15th August, in the eleventh year of our pontificate (1352).
                
                    Cum Thoma comite de Marre et Margareta de Moravia dispensatur super matrimonio. Rng. An. XI. Com. Iib. I. fol, 311.
                
                    Clemens episcopus etc. Dilecto filio nobili viro Tbome Comiti de Marre, et dilecte in Christo filie Margarete, relicte quondam Iobaunis de Moravia vidue, Aberdonensis diocesis, salutem etc. Sedis apostolico providentia circumspecta nonnunquam rigorem iustitie mansuetudine temperans, quod sacrorum canonum prohibent instituta, de gratia benignitatis indulget, prout personarum ct temporum qualitate pensata, id in deo (utiliter viderit expedire. Exposita siquidem nobis vestra petitio continebat), quod tu, fili ComeB, in toto regno Scotie, unde oriundus existis, aliquam mulierem, nisi te, filia Margerita, cum qua secundum tui status decentiam matrimonialiter copulari valeas, comode invenire non potes, et quod vos perinde matrimonialiter coniungi invicem affectatis: sed quia tertio et quarto affinitatis gradu vobis mutuo attinetis, huiusmodi vestrum desiderium adimplere comode (licite, dispensatione super boc apostolica non obtenta,) non potestis: quare nobis humiliter supplicastis, ut providere vobis super hoc de oportune dispensationis gratia dignaremur. Nos igitur ox hiis et aliis certis causis nobis expositis huiusmodi supplicationibus inclinati, vobiscum, ut impedimento, quod cx huiusmodi affinitate provenit, non obstante, matrimonium invicem contrahere libere et in eo, postquam contractum fuerint, remanere licite valeatis, auctoritate apostolica de speciali dono gratie tenore presentium dispensamus, prolem suscipiendam ex huiusmodi matrimonio legitimam nunciantes. Nulli ergo omnino hominum liceat hanc paginam nostre dispensationis infringere etc. Si quis autem etc. Datum Avinione xvm. Kal. Septembris Pontificatus nostri anno undecimo.

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After 15th August 1352 Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar [aged 22] and Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 18] were married. She by marriage Countess Mar. See Dispensation. She the daughter of John Graham Earl Menteith and Margaret Graham 2nd Countess Menteith and Mar. He the son of Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar and Isabella Stewart. They were fourth cousin once removed.

Around 1354 Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar [aged 24] and Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 20] were divorced, or the marriage annuled, probably as a consequence of there being no children from the marriage.

Around 1355 Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar [aged 25] and Margaret Stewart 3rd Countess Angus and Mar were married. She by marriage Countess Mar. She the daughter of Thomas Stewart 2nd Earl Angus [aged 24]. He the son of Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar and Isabella Stewart. They were first cousin once removed.

In 1357 [his brother-in-law] William Douglas 1st Earl Douglas [aged 34] and [his sister] Margaret Mar Countess Douglas 11th Countess Mar were married. She the daughter of [his father] Domhnall Mar II Earl of Mar and [his mother] Isabella Stewart.

On 26th January 1358 [his brother-in-law] William Douglas 1st Earl Douglas [aged 35] was created 1st Earl Douglas. [his sister] Margaret Mar Countess Douglas 11th Countess Mar by marriage Countess Douglas.

Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke

Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.

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Around 1359 John Drummond of Stobhall 11th Thane of Lennox [aged 41] and [his former wife] Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 25] were married. See Dispensation which appears to have been sought and given after the marriage. She the daughter of John Graham Earl Menteith and [his former mother-in-law] Margaret Graham 2nd Countess Menteith and Mar.

On 29th April 1360 [his former mother-in-law] Margaret Graham 2nd Countess Menteith and Mar died. Her daughter [his former wife] Margaret [aged 26] succeeded 3rd Countess Menteith.

In 1361 Robert Stewart 1st Duke Albany [aged 21] was created 1st Earl Fife. [his former wife] Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 27] by marriage Countess Fife.

In 1361 [his father-in-law] Thomas Stewart 2nd Earl Angus [aged 30] died. His daughter [his wife] Margaret succeeded 3rd Countess Angus.

On 28th September 1361 Robert Stewart 1st Duke Albany [aged 21] and [his former wife] Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 27] were married. He by marriage Earl Menteith. See Dispensation. She the daughter of John Graham Earl Menteith and [his former mother-in-law] Margaret Graham 2nd Countess Menteith and Mar. He the son of King Robert II of Scotland [aged 45] and Elizabeth Mure Queen Consort Scotland. They were fourth cousin once removed. He a great x 4 grandson of King John of England.

In 1377 Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar [aged 47] died. His sister Margaret succeeded 11th Countess Mar.

Around 1380 [his former wife] Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 46] died. She was buried at Inchmahome Priory [Map].

In 1417 [his former wife] Margaret Stewart 3rd Countess Angus and Mar died.

Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar 1330-1377

Royal Ancestors of Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar 1330-1377

Ancestors of Thomas Mar 10th Earl of Mar 1330-1377