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

Tulibardyn c in Perthshire. It is difficult to hold it a mere aceidental coincidence,
that, on the banks of the Lossy, in the midst of the possessions of the Northern De
Moravias, a small property bore the same name of Tulibardyn so early as the epis-
copate of Andrew de Moravia, who died in 1242. f It is now perhaps impossible to
say which of these places, so distant from each other, first bore the name, but that
one was named from the other is at least probable. Such an importation of the
name of some favourite former residence has been at all times common in Scotland,
and frequently confounds the modern topographer. It is here immaterial to settle
the question of precedency, since the inference of the connexion of the Perthshire
family with that of Morayshire arises equally, whether the name was transplanted
from Stratherne to Elgin, or from the banks of the Lossy to Perthshire. s
' Thc ascertained pcdigree of the ancestor of Tulibardyn and of his wife is as follows : —
Malis
JoHN DE MlRREYE
Sheriff of Perth.
Malcolm de Moravia
knight.
JOHN DE
MORATIA
WlLLIAM DE
Moravia, knight. =
Marv
the Morays
of Tulibardyn.
' N. 27.
e The low country of Moray affords several
instances of names of places imported by settlers
from other distriets ; as Dalvey, on the west
bank of Fmdhorn, from a place of the same
name in Strathspey ; Inverugie from the castle
of the Keiths in Buchan ; Inchbrok, probably
from a place in the De Moravias barony
in Linlithgow. It is certain the Morayshire
place of Tulibardyn bore that name before
1242. We have no evidence of the De Moravias
having property in Stratherne at so early a
period. But we find tlie grandfather of Ada
the wife of Sir William de Moravia, possessed
of " that town of Katherlauenach called Tuli-
" bardyn" before 1234 (App. 10). It is possi-
ble that the father or grandfather of Sir William,
of whose property we know nothing, but who,
being sheriffs of Perthshire, must have had lands
there, and who appear to have been early con-
nected with the district of Stratherne and with
the family of its Earls, may have brought that
name into Perthshire, though not then pro-
prietors of the place so named : or otherwise,
the Perthshire family, still maintaining, as we
have seen, their connexion with the north, may
have carried into Moray the name of their re-
sidence, or of the seat of their new connex-
ions.
« Muriel's seal, given ineorrectly by Sir G. Mackenzie
{herahlry), is eograved at the end of tlie preface from an
Impression attached to App. 13. Her arms are the cheverons
of the Earls of Stratherne.