Alan II, Earl of Menteith (d. after 23 August 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 and Matilda (Maud), and is first on record as a hostage in England, to ensure the good behaviour of his father in 1296. He and h ...

and Marjory or Margery, and is first noted in an order dated at

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in 1307 to provide foodstuffs ' to the two sons of the

Earl of Menteith The Mormaer or Earl of Menteith was the ruler of the province of Menteith in the Middle Ages. 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 continuou ...

, and the son of the Earl of Stratherne'. He evidently was an English prisoner, but he either escaped to the Scottish camp or was exchanged for an English nobleman held by the Scots. 'Alan, son of Earl Alan of Menteith' was the beneficiary of the entail by his cousin Duncan of the Earldom of Fife in the event of the failure of lawful heirs in an agreement dated at Crichton, 23 August 1315. He died some time before 1 August 1323, on which date his uncle Muireadhach III witnessed a charter as

Marriage and issue

Alan II, Earl of Menteith married an unknown lady, by whom he had a daughter

Mary II, Countess of Menteith Mary II, Countess of Menteith was a Scottish noblewoman. Her father was Alan II, 7th Earl of Menteith, who died c. 1330 and her mother is known only as Marjory. She is believed to have agreed with her kinsman Muireadhach III, in 1330, that he sh ...

.J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Murdoch, Earl of Menteith and the Ferrers family of Groby, The Scottish Genealogist (March 2013), Vol. LX, No. 1, pp. 12-25

Notes

References

Balfour Paul, Sir James ''Scots Peerage'' IX vols. Edinburgh 1904. Joseph Bain, Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland, 1272-1307. Edinburgh, 1884 (Vol. II) {{Use British English, date=October 2024 Mormaers of Menteith 14th-century Scottish earls