Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

THE DAUGHTERS OF ROBERT BRUCE. 267
and after him William Cumyn, Earl. of Buchan and Grand Justiciar of Scotland,
was also Custos of that province. This was after the frequent rebellions of the
M'Williams and M'Heths, descendants of William the son of Duncan (eldest
son of Malcolm Csenmore), by his (William's) first wife, a descendant of the
ancient Maormors, finally conquered by William Cumyn, Earl of Buchan, who
then had a grant of Badenoch for his second son.
When King Robert Bruce erected the Province of Moray into an earldom 1314.
for Thomas Randolph his nephew, the boundaries were very extensive. " From
Fochabers on the Spey, to Glengarry and Glenelg, to the boundaries of Argyll
and the earldom of Ross."
The charter of erection is still extant.
After the death of Edward Bruce, the king's brother, Thomas Randolph was
appointed Guardian of the realm and of the heir, in case of his being under age
at the time of the king's death ; and failing him, these offices to devolve on the
Lord James of Douglas.
I. Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, died, leaving, by his Countess Isabel, July 28,
daughter of Sir John Stewart of Bonkyl, two sons, " Thomas and John," and two i: ^2 2 -
daughters, "Agnes and Egidia."
II. Thomas, second earl, died S.p., twenty-three days after his father.
III. John, third earl, a prisoner in England from 1335-1341, married "the
Lady Euphemia de Ross," who married, secondly, by Papal dispensation in 1355,
King Robert II.
John was killed at Durham in October 1346, leaving no heir.
On the death of both her brothers, the heroic Lady Agnes Randolph, married
to Patrick, ninth Earl of Dunbar and March, assumed the title of Countess of
Moray, which earldom descended and was confirmed to her second son, John,
on his marriage with Marjorie, daughter of King Robert II. by his first marriage, July 11,
for which a Papal dispensation was obtained.* I 37°-
* Pittscottie says, They were the nephews and not the sons of Agnes, but that her sister Egidia was
the wife of the Earl of March's brother.
"In old times," says he, "Robert the Bruce gave the Earldom of Moray to his own sister's son,
Sir Thomas Randolph of Strathdon, Chief of Clan Allan, whose works can testify his life, in the fourteen
books rehearsed before in this same histoiy. Sir Thomas had two sons, the eldest called " Thomas," the
youngest " John." They were both killed without succession. He had also two daughters, of whom the
eldest was called "Black Agnes," by reason she was black-skinned. This woman was of greater spirit
than became a woman to be. She was married upon Patrick Earl of March. The second sister, called
" Geiles" {Egidia), was married upon John, brother to the Earl of March, and bore to him two sons —
" George," who succeeded his father's brother heritably in the earldom of March, and another called
" John," a man of singular virtue and beauty.
This man was married upon King Robert II. 's daughter, and promoted 'to be Earl of Moray, for it returned
again to the king's house, by reason that it failed in the heirs-male of Randal ; and this was the first Dun-
bar that bruicked the lands of Moray. — Pitscottie's ' History of the James'.'