The Mormaer or Earl of Menteith was the ruler of the province of Menteith in the

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. The first mormaer is usually regarded as Gille Críst (or Gilchrist), simply because he is the earliest on record. The title was held in a continuous line from Gille Críst until Muireadhach IV (a.k.a. Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany), although the male line was broken on two occasions. A truncated version of the earldom was given two years later to Malise Graham, 1st Earl of Menteith, in compensation for loss of the Earldom of Strathearn, which was a likely result of the execution of the Duke of Albany.

List of holders

First line of mormaers/earls

* Gille Críst, Earl of Menteith (Gilcrist) (d. 1189) * Muireadhach I, Earl of Menteith (d. 1213) * Muireadhach II, Earl of Menteith (d. 1234) *

Isabella, Countess of Menteith Isabella, Countess of Menteith (1217 – 1272) was the eldest daughter of Muireadhach II, Mormaer of Menteith. When the old mormaer died without legitimate male heir in 1233, the province passed to Isabella. Isabella married Walter Comyn, Lord ...

**m. Walter Comyn, Lord of Badenoch assumed the peerage in her right. * Mary I, Countess of Menteith **m. Walter "Bailloch" Stewart

Second line, Stewarts of Menteith

Alexander, Earl of Menteith Alexander of Menteith (d. bef. 1306), a Scottish nobleman and member of the Stewart family, he was the Earl of Menteith. Life Alexander was the eldest son and heir of Walter Bailloch Stewart and Mary I, Countess of Menteith and was the Mormaer or ...

Alan, Earl of Menteith Alan, Earl of Menteith (d. c. 1310) was a Scottish nobleman. Life Menteith was the son of Alexander, Earl of Menteith, and is first on record as a hostage in England, to ensure the good behaviour of his father in 1296. He and his brother Peter Me ...

Alan II, Earl of Menteith Alan II, Earl of Menteith (d. after 23 Aug 1315) was a Scottish Nobleman. Life Menteith was the son of Alan, Earl of Menteith Alan, Earl of Menteith (d. c. 1310) was a Scottish nobleman. Life Menteith was the son of Alexander, Earl of Menteith, ...

* Muireadhach III, Earl of Menteith (d. 1332) *

Mary Menteith, Countess of Menteith Mary II, Countess of Menteith was a Scottish noblewoman. Her father was Alan II, Earl of Menteith, who died c. 1330. She is believed to have agreed with her kinsman Muireadhach III, in 1330, that he should hold the Earldom, but when he was kill ...

**m. Sir John Graham assumed the peerage in her right. *

Margaret, Countess of Menteith Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith (c. 1334 – c. 1380) was a Scottish noblewoman. She held the title Countess of Menteith in her own right, having inherited the title c. 1360 from her mother, Mary, Countess of Menteith, who was married to ...

**m. Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany * Muireadhach IV Stewart, Earl of Menteith, executed in 1425 and the peerages forfeited.

Third line, Grahams of Menteith

* Malise Graham, 1st Earl of Menteith (1406–1490) *

Alexander Graham, 2nd Earl of Menteith Alexander Graham, 2nd Earl of Menteith (May 6, 1472 –c. 1537) was a Scottish magnate. Biography Graham appears in the records of Scotland as the Earl of Menteith in 1493. Likely the grandson of Malise Graham, it is of some debate wheth ...

(c. 1475–c. 1537) * William Graham, 3rd Earl of Menteith (c. 1500–c. 1543) *

John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith ( – c. 1565), was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman. Biography John Graham had a gift of his own ward and marriage in late 1543 or 1544, following the death of his father, William Graham, 3rd Earl of Menteith. ...

(c. 1529–c. 1565) *

William Graham, 5th Earl of Menteith William Graham, 5th Earl of Menteith ( – c. 1578), was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman. Biography William Graham was given the gift of his own ward and marriage in 1565, following the death of his father John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith Jo ...

(c. 1555–c. 1578) * John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith (c. 1571–c. 1598) * William Graham, 7th Earl of Menteith (c. 1591–1661), also created Earl of Airth in 1633 *

William Graham, 8th Earl of Menteith William Graham, 8th Earl of Menteith, 2nd Earl of Airth ( – 1694), was a Scottish nobleman. He was active in the suppression of the Covenanters, but struggled with the burden of debts on his estates. On his death in 1694 his titles became extin ...

(c. 1634–1694), extinct or dormant after his death on 12 September 1694

References

* Paul, James Balfour, ''

The Scots Peerage ''The Scots Peerage'' is a nine-volume book series of the Scottish nobility compiled and edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, published in Edinburgh from 1904 to 1914. The full title is ''The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Rober ...

'', Vol. VI, (Edinburgh, 1909) * Roberts, John L., ''Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages'', (Edinburgh, 1997), p. 52 * Clan Campbell Society of North Americ
CCSNA.org, information on the Macoran sept
that began in the latter half of the 17th century under the protection of the Earl of Menteith, who later gave this young Campbell of Melfort a farm at Inchanoch. That Macoran / Campbell married a Miss Haldane, niece of Haldane of Lanrick, and the family prospered. {{DEFAULTSORT:Menteith Extinct earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland History of the Scottish Highlands People associated with Stirling (council area) History of Stirling (council area) Dormant earldoms in the Peerage of Scotland Clan Graham

List of holders

First line of mormaers/earls

Second line, Stewarts of Menteith

Third line, Grahams of Menteith

See also

References