Bannatyne Club > Registrum Episcopatus Moraviensis, e pluribus codicibus consarcinatum approximately A.D. MCCCC [i.e. 1400]

1330 granted a charter on the occasion of liis sister Eustachia's marriage with
Gilbert de Moravia of Culbyn. It is dated at the chapel of Saint Andrew at Gold-
espy, from which it may be concluded that the family had before that date settled
at Dunrobin. Earl Kenneth was killed at the battle of Halidon Hill, 1333. He
was succeeded by his son
William Earl of Sutherland, who married Margaret, daughter of Robert I.
The family name in his time was still De Moravia or De Murref. His son and
successor was called, during his father's life, William De Murrif. x It is only neces-
sary farther to mention, that this Earl married secondly Joan Countess of Strath-
ern. y The subsequent pedigree of Sutherland is too well known to the historian
and lawyer, from the labours of Lord Hailes, to require notice here.
DE MORAVIAS
OP DUFFUS
AND PETTY.
THE HOUSE
OF DUFFUS.
Willelmus Filius Freskin witnessed a charter granted by Malcolm IV. to
Berowaldus Flandrensis, of the lands of Innes, z at Christmas 1 100. a Between
1162 and 1171 he obtained a charter from that King of the lands " of Strabrok,
" Duffus, Rosisle, Inchikel, Machir and Kintrai, quas terras pater suus Friskin tenuit
" tempore reyis David avi mei." b He witnessed several charters of King William
between the years 1187 and 1199, and never any but those granted in Moray. c
Willelmus Fresckyn was Sheriff of Invernaryn in 1204. d He left three sons, Hugh,
William and Andrew.
Andrew was a churchman, Parson of Duffus in 1209. e He is probably the
person who refused the Bishoprick of Ross in 1213. f He is mentioned in 122 l, g
but may by that time have been dead.
Hugh appears, along with his father, about the end of the twelfth century. h
b This charter certainly existed in the middle
of last century in the charter-chest of the Earl
of Buchan, the proprietor of the lands of Stra-
* Rot. Scot. 41 Edward III.
y John de Menteth, Sheriff of Clackmanan,
sold to John Mercer, burgess of Perth, the ward
and relief of the lands of Umquhil William de
Moravia Lord of Tullybardyn, granted to him
by William Earl of Sutherland and " Dominam
" Johannam Comitissam sponsam suam, Comi-
"tissam vidclicet dc Stratheri/n," at Perth on the
Sunday next before Easter 1352 In archicis
Ducis de Atholl.
z App. No. 1.
a The date is proved by its being witnessed
by William Bishop of Moray, there styled Papal
Legate, which rank he obtained in that year,
ar ' ''"•! in the vpar M'
brok in Linlithgowshire. Though now missing,
it is still in the inventory of his Lordship's title-
deeds, and it was seen and copied by Nisbet,
from whom the words above are quoted. — Nis-
bct, App.p. 183.
« No. 5, 9, 11, 12. Shaw's Moray,p. 496.
d Robertson 's Index,p. xix.
e No. 119.
f Chron. Melr.
e App. 4.
l> No. 12. 13 : Shau: n. 406.