Genealogical memoirs of the Duffs

Genealogical Memoirs of tJic Duffs.
son Murdoch, Duke of Albany, being guilty of
high Treason against his nephew, King James ist,
was, with two of his sons, tried, condemned, and
executed in 1425, and all his Estates and Honours
forfeited to the Crown.
Others say that the Duffs in the North are
immediately descended from the Strabolgys, Earls
of Athol. They were a younger branch of the
same old Thanes of Fife ; and of their rise and
ending in the Two Co-heiresses, the story is
thus : —
Thomas, Brother to Allan, Lord of Galloway,
lineally descended from Fergus, the first Lord
Galloway mentioned in History, who flourisht in
Malcom Canamore's time, was created Earl of
Athol by King Alexander 2d, in anno 1223,
upon his marriage with Isabel, second Daughter of
Henry, Earl of Athol.
This Earl Henry was Grandson of Malcom, a
younger son of King Donald 7th, who was
Brother to Malcom Canamore, and the first upon
whom that Title was conferred. Isabel's eldest
Sister was dead without issue male ; her name is