Máel Petair of Mearns is the only known Mormaer of the Mearns. His name means "

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d one of (Saint) Peter". Professor Dauvit Broun of the

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identifies his father as a man called Loren. Little is known of him except that, in 1094, he is said to have killed King Duncan II of Scotland, suggesting he was an associate of Donald III of Scotland.

Bibliography

* Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286'', 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922), Vol. II, pp. 89–91

References

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