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- Name Suffix: Earl of Atholl
Malcolm, 2nd Earl of Atholl; married 2nd Hextilda, daughter ofUchtred/Waltheof and widow of Richard Comyn, and died between 1186 andAug 1198, leaving [Henry], apparently by his 1st wife. [Burke's Peerage]
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Earl of Atholl [Scotland], son or Malcolm, who was probably son of Madachby a prior marriage. He made a donation to the Priory of St. Andrews atsome date before 1174, and to the Dunfermline between 1183 and 1186. Hemarried as his 2nd wife Hextild, daughter of Waltheof, or Uchtred, andwidow of Richard Comyn. [Complete Peerage I:304]
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Malcolm, second Earl of Atholl, was the son of Madach, but probably by adifferent wife from Margaret, Hakon's daughter, as Harald Maddadson wasapparently her only son. In the 'Liber Vitæ' of the Cathedral of Duryam,a record of the benefactors to that fane from its foundation, his name isinserted, by a writer of the thriteenth century, as 'Malcolmus, filiusMadi, comes Athodlie.' The Norwegian writers imply that Earl Madach orDaddad survived until near 1152, and Malcolm appears in a charter by KingDavid I to the monks of Deir, which must be granted before 1153, and heis there designed as 'Malcolm d Athotla,' being ranked between Duncan,Earl of Fife, and Gillebride, Earl of Angus. He is styled 'MelcolmusComes' in 1154, in a charter by King Malcolm IV to the monks ofDunfermline; and he is referred to as 'Comed de Athwotle,' in a chartergranted in the year 1161-62 by Arnald, Bishop of St Andrews. He alsoappears as a witness or a granter of various charters during the reign ofKing William the Lion, down to about the year 1189, the latest certainnotice of him being in a charter, referred to below, which must have beengranted not earlier than 1182 and not later than 1189. The Earl may havesurvived beyond that year, though he was dead before 24 August 1198, whenhis son Henry is styled Earl of Atholl. Malcolm was twice married, butthe name of his first wife has not been ascertained. His second wife wasHexilda, Hextilda, or Extilda, widow of Richard Comyn, the first of thatname who died soon after 1176, and whe was Countess of Atholl in or after1182. We learn this from the 'Liver Vitæ' already cited, where she isstyled 'filia Ucthredi,' and from a confirmation by her as Hextilda,Countess 'de Eththetela,' of a grant by her lord, Richard Comyn, in hislife, though the date of her writ is uncertain. She was thus the sameHestilda, daughter of Uchtred (or Godrith), son of Waldeve of Tynedale,by Bethoc, daughter of King Donalbane, through whom in 1291, the Cumynsclaimed the crown of Scotland. Both of his wives are referred to by EarlMalcolm in a charter by him between 1182 and 1189, granting to the monksof Dunfermline, for the welfare of the soul of his wife, and of the Kingshis predecessors reposing there, the church of Moulin and certain landson condition that he and his wife Extilda, when they die, shall be buriedthere. It is doubtful if Earl Malcolm had any children by his secondwife. [The Scots Peerage I:416-417]
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Abt 1126 - Bef 1198 (72 years)