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
University of Glasgow
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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
11th-century Scottish people
11th-century murderers
People from Kincardine and Mearns
Mormaers
Scottish regicides
11th-century mormaers
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