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Earl of Strathearn Earl or Mormaer of Strathearn is a title of Scottish nobility, referring to the region of Strathearn in southern Perthshire. Of unknown origin, the mormaers are attested for the first time in a document perhaps dating to 1115. The first known mo ...

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Gille Brigte of Strathearn (1150–1223), sometimes also called Gilbert, was the 3rd

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Strathearn Strathearn or Strath Earn (), also the Earn Valley, is the strath of the River Earn, which flows from Loch Earn to meet the River Tay in the east of Scotland. The area covers the stretch of the river, containing a number of settlements in ...

Biography

He was the son of Ferteth, Earl of Strathearn{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 and his wife Ethen, and first appears on record in 1164, as a witness to a charter by King

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to the monks of

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. He succeeded his father in 1171, and around this time was made

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, the highest legal official in the realm. He does not seem to have taken a large role in public affairs, and does not often occur in public records. A number of royal charters do exist, granting him certain lands in

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. He was more active in ecclesiastical affairs. He took an interest in the newly founded Abbey of Lindores, and in 1200 he and his wife founded an abbey at Inchaffray, dedicated to the memory of their eldest son Gille Críst, who had died two years previously. He was also a benefactor to

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. Gille Brigte (Gilbert) died in 1223, perhaps in his 70s, a very long life for the period, a testimony to his comparatively peaceful career.

Marriage and issue

Gille Brigte married twice. His first wife was Matilda de Albini Brito, daughter of William de Albini Brito.{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 His second wife was Ysenda, a lady who held lands in Abercairny and had two brothers, Sir Richard and Galfric of Gask. By his first wife Matilda, he had seven sons and three daughters: * Gille Críst, held the lands of Kinveachy and

Glencarnie Glencarnie was a provincial lordship in Strathspey, Scotland, co-extensive with the parish of Duthil. It was, alongside Badenoch, Lochaber, The Aird, Stratha'an, Abernethy, Strathbogie and Garioch, one of the eight militarised provincial lordsh ...

, died 5 October 1198{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 * William, died c. 1208{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 * Ferchar, died c. 1208{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 *

, 1176–1245,{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 succeeded his father as the 4th

* Fergus, held the lands of

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, died c. 1247{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 * Malise (Máel ĺsu),{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 held the lands of Rossie. His wife is not known, but he had two sons, Malise and Nicholas. * Gille Brigte/Gilbert of Glencarnie,{{sfn, Neville, 2002, p=457 held the lands of Glencarnie, and had a son of the same name. His line ended in an heiress, Matilda, who was the mother of Duncan (Donnchad) Grant of Freuchie, ancestors of the Earls of Seafield * Matilda or Maud, married Malcolm (Máel Coluim), who became

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* Cecilia, married Walter Ruthven, ancestor of the Earls of Gowrie * Eithne, married David de la Hay, 7th Earl of Erroll, ancestor of the

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* {{cite journal , last=Neville , first=Cynthia J. , title= Native Lords and the Church in Thirteenth-Century Strathearn, Scotland , journal=The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , volume=53 , issue=3 (July) , year=2002 , publisher=Cambridge University Press * Neville, Cynthia J., ''Native Lordship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c. 1140–1365'' (Portland & Dublin, 2005). * ''

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'', ed.

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