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THE FRASERS OF COWIE, DURRIS, AND PHILOETH. 1 1 1
Isabella, who was the wife of Sir Edward de Bruce, the King's brother.
The eldest son, Hugh, Earl of Eoss, seems to have become possessed of
the half of the earldom of Buchan on the decease of his brother John, for in
1330 he renounced the advowson of the Church of Philorth, in that district,
in favour of the Crown. 1 He commanded one of the divisions of the Scottish
army at Halidon Hill, and fell in that battle after a long and desperate
struggle. 2 He had no issue by his first wife, Jean, daughter of Walter Steward
of Scotland ; but by his second, Lady Matilda de Bruce, sister of Bobert I., he
had two, perhaps three, sons and two daughters. 3
William, who succeeded him in the earldom.
Hugh, generally known as Hugh of Barichies, to whom his father, or
brother, appears to have given a considerable portion of the half of the
earldom of Buchan.
Euphemia, who married, first, John Bandolph, Earl of Moray, killed at
the battle of Durham in 1346 ; and, secondly, Bobert Stewart, afterwards
Bobert II., at whose accession she became Queen of Scotland.
Janet, who married, first, Sir John de Monymusk ; and, secondly, Sir
Alexander Moray of Abercairny.
William, Earl of Eoss, joined the army assembled at Perth in 1346 by
David II. for the invasion of England, but having slain Banald, Lord of the
Isles, at Elihok (Elcbo), in that neighbourhood, he deserted with all his men,
and retired to his own district of Boss, and his proceedings caused many
others to abandon their sovereign's standard, and materially reduced his
forces. 4
He is said to have married a daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, and
by her had a son, William, who was nominated one of the hostages for the
payment of the ransom of David n. in 1357, but was too ill at the time to
proceed to England, 5 and seems to have died soon afterwards; and two
daughters, Euphemia and Johanna.
Euphemia, the elder of the two, before 1365, and apparently against the
will of her father, married, as already mentioned, Sir Walter de Leslie, who
1 Robertson's Index, p. 29, No. 22. Acts 4 Wyntoun, lib. viii. c. xl.
of the Parliaments of Scotland, vol. i. p. 153.
2 Wyntoun, lib. viii. c. xxvii. 5 Rymer's Foedera, vol. v. p. 792 ; vol. vi.
3 Ibid. lib. viii. c. vii. pp. 35-47.