Máel Muire of Atholl was
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 Continenta ...
of
Atholl
Atholl or Athole () is a district in the heart of the Scottish Highlands, bordering (in clockwise order, from north-east) Marr, Gowrie, Perth, Strathearn, Breadalbane, Lochaber, and Badenoch. Historically it was a Pictish kingdom, becoming ...
at the beginning of the 12th century, until sometime perhaps in the 1130s. According to the
Orkneyinga Saga
The ''Orkneyinga saga'' (Old Norse: ; ; also called the ''History of the Earls of Orkney'' and ''Jarls' Saga'') is a narrative of the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and their relationship with other local polities, particularly No ...
, Máel Muire was a son of king
Donnchad I and a younger brother of King
Máel Coluim III. A ''Malmori d' Athótla'' is mentioned in a charter relating to a year after 1130, contained within the
Book of Deer
The ''Book of Deer'' () (Cambridge University Library, MS. Ii.6.32) is a 10th-century Latin Gospel Book with early 12th-century additions in Latin, Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic. It contains the earliest surviving Gaelic writing from Scotland ...
.
Bibliography
*
Anderson, Alan Orr, ''Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286'', 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922
* Roberts, John L., ''Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages'', (Edinburgh, 1997
External links
Gaelic Notitiae to the Book of Deer
{{DEFAULTSORT:Atholl, Mael Muire, Earl of
Nobility from Perth and Kinross
11th-century births
1130s deaths
Mormaers of Atholl
12th-century mormaers
Sons of kings