Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

WILLIAM CUMYN, EARL OF BUCHAN. 401
He founded the Abbey of Deer, and he and his countess, Marjorie, made 12 18.
large donations to Arbroath.
William, Earl of Buchan, gave a stone of wax to the altar at the tomb of 1233.
St Kentigern, Glasgow Cathedral.
"Obeiit Willelmus Cumin, Comes de Buquhan, Abbatie de Der fundator." — 1233.
' Chronica de Mailros.'
His countess survived him; for a controversy arose with the abbacy of Aber-
brothock, when she confirms a grant of a merk of silver, made by her father, 1236.
" Fergus, Comes de Buquhan," to the said abbey.
Soon after (1240), her son Alexander, Comes de Buchan, appears as a witness
to a charter granted by Alexander II., ann. reg. 26.
William Cumyn left, by the Countess Marjorie, two or three sons and four
daughters.
I. Alexander,* who succeeded his mother 2. Fergus. 3. William, whose name appears as
in the earldom. witness to charters (was more pro-
bably a nephew), " William of
Kilbride."
The daughters married —
I. Elizabeth — 2. Jean — 3. Marjorie — 4. Isabel —
William, Earl of Marr. Gilbert de Haya, Sir John de Keth, Francis Lord Cheyne
Elizabeth died in a regent in Great Mareschall. of In verugie an i
1267. 1255-58. Marjorie died Essilmount.
1270.
RICHARD CUMYN, eldest son of the Great Justiciar by his first marriage.
On the death of William Cumyn, Earl of Buchan and Great Justiciar, his 1233.
eldest son by his first marriage succeeded to the paternal estates held by the
Great Justiciar before his second marriage in 1210 with the Countess Marj'orie.
Richard Cumyn was thus the chief of his name ; but his second brother
" Walter," being by marriage " Earl of Mentieth," and by gift from King Alex-
ander II. (in 1228) Lord of Badenoch, and his half-brother "Alexander" suc-
ceeding his mother as " Earl of Buchan," their names as earls appear before his
in all documents, his signature being amongst the magnates. Thus it is found,
* There is a confirmation charter of Alexander, Comes de Buquhan, to the abbacy of Aberbrothock,
as formerly granted to them " by his mother Marjorie, and his grandfather Fergus, Comes." — See ' Earls
of Buchan.'