Gille Brigte of Angus is one of the earliest attested
Mormaer
In early medieval Scotland, a mormaer was the Gaelic name for a regional or provincial ruler, theoretically second only to the King of Scots, and the senior of a ''Toísech'' (chieftain). Mormaers were equivalent to English earls or Continental c ...
s of
Angus
Angus may refer to:
Media
* ''Angus'' (film), a 1995 film
* ''Angus Og'' (comics), in the ''Daily Record''
Places Australia
* Angus, New South Wales
Canada
* Angus, Ontario, a community in Essa, Ontario
* East Angus, Quebec
Scotland
* An ...
. He was possibly a descendant of
Dubacan of Angus
Dubacan of Angus (Medieval Gaelic: Dubacan mac Indrechtaich) was Mormaer of Angus and the first mormaer of any of the provinces of the Kingdom of Alba to be named individually. He is mentioned as ''Dubucan filius Indrechtaig mormair Oengusa'' (i.e. ...
.
Gille Brigte is recorded as a witness to a
charter dating to 1150. He probably fathered both
Adam and
Gille Críst. He was dead by 1189, when his son Adam was the Mormaer.
Bibliography
* Roberts, John L., ''Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages'', (Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 53–4
12th-century deaths
People from Angus, Scotland
Year of birth unknown
12th-century mormaers
Mormaers of Angus
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