Matilda of Angus, also known as Maud, was the daughter of
Maol Choluim,
Earl
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or
Mormaer of Angus
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and, as his heiress, was
countess
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of the
province
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in her own right.
Marriages and issue
She married
John Comyn
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, but he died in
France
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in 1242. They do not appear to have had issue.
A husband was needed to control the dispersed
earldom
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The titl ...
; she then married
Gilbert de Umfraville
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, a
Norman, who was feudal Baron of
Prudhoe
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in
Northumberland
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. He died shortly before 13 March 1245, but not before Matilda had borne him a son named
Gilbert to succeed to the earldom in his infancy:
*Gilbert, married Elizabeth Comyn, daughter of
Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan
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Life
He was the son of William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, and wife Marjory, Counte ...
, had issue. He died in 1308.
Matilda married again before 22 December 1247, Richard de Dover (a grandson of King
John of England
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and his mistress
Adela de Warenne
Adela de Warenne (born c. 1170) was an Anglo-Angevian noblewoman and the mistress of her half-first cousin King John.
Family
Adela was born about 1170. She had a brother, William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey and two sisters.
Her father ...
), the feudal baron of
Chilham
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,
Kent
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, the son of
Richard Fitz Roy. Matilda disappears from records after producing two children:
*Richard of Chilham, Lord of Chilham. He died before 10 January 1266.
*Isabel, married
David I Strathbogie, Earl of Atholl, son of John de Strathbogie and
Ada, Countess of Atholl, had issue.
References
* Paul, James Balfour, ''
The Scots Peerage
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'', (Edinburgh, 1904), vol. i, ''Angus''.
* Richardson, Douglas, ''Plantagenet Ancestry'',
Baltimore
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, 2004, p. 49,
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