Malcolm MacDuff^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

Abt 1208 - 1266  (58 years)

• Name	Malcolm MacDuff
  Birth	Abt 1208	Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	1266
  Notes	Name Suffix: 7th Earl of Fife Malcolm MacDuff, Earl of Fife, nephew and heir of Malcolm the 6th Earl,being son of Duncan, brother of the 6th Earl, by Alice, daughter ofWalter Corbet, of Markerstoun. He favoured the English party. He was oneof the guarantors of a treaty with the English in 1237 and 1244; was oneof the guardians of the Realm, 20 Sep 1255. He m. Helen, daughter of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. He d. 1266. Hiswidow m. Donald, Earl of Mar, who d. about 1292. She was living 1291.[Complete Peerage V:373] ______________________________________ Malcolm, son of Duncan, nephew of the last Earl, succeeded his uncle in1228 as seventh Earl of Fife. He was one of the guarantors of a treatywith the English at York, 25 September 1237, and of another treaty in1244, by which King Alexander II engaged to live in peace with England,and he joined with other nobles in a letter to the Pope to the sameeffect. In the reign of King Alexander III Earl Malcolm was one of thefaction of King Henry III, and was appointed one of the Regents ofScotland and guardians of the yound King and Quenn 20 September 1255. On24 April 1256 Earl Malcolm of Fife was fined in Northumberland for notcoming before the justices on the first day of a court. He was one of theScottish nobles to whom King Henry made oath that he would restore theQueen of Scotland and her child, when she went to England for her firstconfinement in 1260. The Earl died in 1266, having married Helen, adaughter of Llewellyn, Prince of Wales. She survived him, and married,secondly, Donald, Earl of Mar. She was alive in 1291, and was stilldrawing her terce from her first marriage. [The Scots Peerage IV:9]
  Person ID	I11298	Wilson-Maynard Family Tree
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2004

  
  

  Notes	_UID4CD1A13A7CA3CB45B241FCC3BE69A646ECBE
  Family ID	F6809	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Helen verch Llywelyn,   b. Abt 1230, Caernarvonshire, Wales d. Aft 1295 (Age 66 years)
  Notes	_UIDABED884F71E4FB4EB8BED7109D27852CDF15
  Children	1. Colbran MacDuff,   b. Abt 1245, Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 1270 (Age 25 years)   2. MacDuff MacDuff,   b. Abt 1250, Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 22 Jul 1298, Battle of Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 48 years)
  Family ID	F6776	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S1072564679] Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd , V:373. [S1072564688] Ancestral Roots of Certain Americian Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr, 252-30. [S1072564680] The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, IV:6. [S1072564681] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, 1853.