Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

KING DAVID II.— ARCHD. DE DOUGLAS, REGENT. 167
appears to have been led by the Earl of Ross ; with him was Kenneth Earl of
Sutherland, and Murdoch Earl of Menteith, both of whom fell ; also, Malcolm
Earl of Lennox, an aged baron, and one of Bruce's first friends ; John Camp-
bell, Earl of Athol, nephew of the late king ; James and Simon Fraser, John
de Graham, Alexander de Lindesay, and many other men of distinction.
The Regent,* mortally wounded, was left on the field and taken prisoner by
the English.
The immediate consequence of this battle was the surrender of Berwick to
the English, and the subsequent submission of almost the whole kingdom to
Baliol, who traversed it with an army without finding any one to oppose him.
Five castles, however, held out for David :
Dumbarton, by Malcolm Fleming ; Urquhart, by Thomas Lauder ; Loch
Leven, by Alan de Vipont ; Kildrummie, by " Christian the Bruce," whose
son, the Regent Earl of Marr, had been killed at Dupplin, and whose third
husband, Sir Andrew Moray, was a prisoner in England. Loch-Maben also
was held by Patrick de Charteris.
Baliol, having thus repossessed himself of the Crown by foreign assistance,
seemed determined to complete its humiliation. On the 10th February an 1334.
assembly of his party was held in Edinburgh, when Lord Geoffrey Scrope at-
tended as commissioner from Edward, and many other Englishmen were there
to forward their own and their masters' interests. Lord Henry Beaumont,
David twelfth Earl of Athol, and Richard Lord Talbot, had their estates
restored to them ; and a great many other Englishmen were rewarded with the
lands of those Scottish nobles who had fallen at Halidon. The King of
England had for his portion the town and county of Berwick, the forests of
Jedburgh, Selkirk, and Ettrick, and the counties of Roxburgh, Peebles, Dum-
fries, and Edinburgh, with the constabularies of Linlithgow and Haddington,
and all their towns and castles.
* This Archibald de Douglas, Lord of Galloway, Regent of Scotland from March 1333 until July of
the same year, was the half-brother of the good Sir James — William the Hardy, seventh Lord Douglas,
having married first the sister of Lord Keith, who sent his two nephews, "James and Hugh" to be
educated in France upon their father's second marriage with Eleanor de Ferrers, descended from Helena
de Quincy, eldest daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway ; by this lady William seventh Lord de Douglas
had also two sons (carried off by Bruce with their mother to Loch-Maben, as we may remember).
Of these, " Archibald," the eldest, became Lord of Galloway, and married " Dornagilla," only daughter
of John Cumyn of Badenoch, by "Mary" his wife ("Joannem Cuminium," cui "Maria Domagilke
Soror nupserat.") — Rerum Scoticarum, " Liber Octavus." Archibald, Lord of Galloway and Regent of
Scotland, killed at Halidon Hill, left by Dornagilla his wife two sons ; first, Ifil.iam, who succeeded his
uncle Hugh in 1343 as Lord of Douglas, and was afterwards created first Earl of Douglas; second,
Archibald Lord of Galloway, who left no legitimate heirs ; but William the Black Douglas, Lord of
Niddesdale, was his son nat., who married the King's daughter " Egidia."" The Regent's daughter
Eleanor, or Alianore, married first Alexander de Bruce, eighth Earl of Carrick, killed with his father-in-
law at Halidon, leaving an only daughter, Alianore. — See Earldom of Carrick.