Matilda of Angus, also known as Maud, was the daughter of Maol Choluim,

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and, as his heiress, was

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of the

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in her own right.

Marriages and issue

She married

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, but he died in

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in 1242. They do not appear to have had issue. A husband was needed to control the dispersed

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; she then married

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, a

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, who was feudal Baron of

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. He died shortly before 13 March 1245, but not before Matilda had borne him a son named

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to succeed to the earldom in his infancy: *Gilbert, married Elizabeth Comyn, daughter of

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, had issue. He died in 1308. Matilda married again before 22 December 1247, Richard de Dover (a grandson of King

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), the feudal baron of

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, the son of

Richard Fitz Roy Richard FitzRoy (c. 1190 – June 1246) (''alias'' Richard de Chilham and Richard de DoverSanders, I.J. ''English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086–1327'', Oxford, 1960, p. 111, note 5) was the illegitimate son of King John of ...

. Matilda disappears from records after producing two children: *Richard of Chilham, Lord of Chilham. He died before 10 January 1266. *Isabel, married

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, son of John de Strathbogie and

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, had issue.

References

* Paul, James Balfour, ''

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'', (Edinburgh, 1904), vol. i, ''Angus''. * Richardson, Douglas, ''Plantagenet Ancestry'',

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