Chapter IX
2
Notably in Paul’s Scottish Peerage sub Angus and Caithness.
3
Ancestor of the Ogilvies, Earls of Airlie.
4
Scots Peerage (Cokayne & Gibbs), sub Angus and Caithness. Dalrymple, Collections, p. 220.
5
Reg. Aberbrothoc, pp. 163 and 262, 1227, Jan. 16, “Magno filio comitis de Anegus.”
6
Robertson, Early Kings, vol. ii, p. 23 (note), who quotes Reg. Dunfermelyn, No. 80, Reg. Morav. 110; Lib. Holyrood, 58, in support.
7
Shaw, Moray, 1775, p. 387, No. iv.
8
i.e., Malcolm’s.
9
Surely an error for “Gilchrist.”
Footnote 10:
See Dalrymple’s Collections, 1705, pp. lxxiii-iv, where “North Caithness” is distinguished from Sutherland conjecturally. Probably, however, it was distinguished rather from the southern part of modern Caithness, viz. Latheron and Wick parishes.
12
This was Sir Reginald Cheyne III.
13
“Gilchrist” not “Gillebride” all through this quotation.
14
Gilchrist, however, died in 1204.
15
Not, we think, of Erlend, but of Paul. But South Caithness probably belonged to the Erlend share, i.e., Latheron and Wick parishes.
16
Sutherland Book, vol. 1, p. 12, note.
17
Robertson’s Index, p. 62.
18
Reg. Morav., p. 341. O.P., vol. ii, 709.
19
Can the Mallard or Mallart be Abhainn na mala airde, “the river of the high brow”? Another interpretation, Abhain na malairte, “river of the excambion” has been suggested.
20
Achness—Ach-an-eas or the field of the waterfall, old Gaelic Achanedes.
21
Marriages, however, of persons of unsuitable ages were freely made in these old times.
22
Norse jarldoms were not given to females, but the jarldom of Orkney was, failing sons, given to the sons of daughters of preceding jarls, such as Ragnvald, son of Gunnhild, and Harald Ungi, son of Jarl Ragnvald’s daughter.
23
Reg. Morav., 215, 216; O.P., vol. ii, p. 486.
24
O.P., ii, p. 482. Euphamia or Eufemia is a Ross family name for centuries. Reg. Morav., p. 333.
25
Bain, vol. 1, year 1258-9.
26
St. Andrew’s, pp. 346 and 347; and for the charter see Reg. Morav., p. 138.
Notes
1 One daughter married Olaf, who was killed at Floruvagr in battle in 1194, see O.S., Rolls edit., pp. 230-1 (trans.) Dasent.
11 This was William de Federeth II, son of Christian, not her husband of the same name.
27 Reg. Morav., p. xxxvi. We do not lay stress upon this argument from the endowment of two chaplains; but it may import that Freskin died a violent death, unshriven.
28 We can, however, trace many parts of “Lord” Chen’s lands. For they are called the lands of “Lord” Chen in the descriptions in later charters quoted in Origines Parochiales, vol. ii, pp. 745 Reay, 749 Thurso, 760 Halkirk, 764 Latheron, 774 Wick, 787-8 Olrig, 790 Dunnet, and 814 Canisbay. His lands in all these parishes were of considerable extent. They included probably the whole modern estate of Langwell and most of the parish of Latheron, and Wick up to Keiss Bay and beyond Ackergill and Riess. In Watten they comprised Lynegar, Dunn, Bilbster, and others: in Halkirk Parish, Sibster, Leurary, Gerston, Baillecaik, Scots Calder, North Calder, and Banniskirk; in Reay Parish, Lybster, Borrowstoun, Forss, and part of Skaill and Brawlbin: in Thurso, Clairdon, Murkle, Sordale, Amster, Ormelie and the Thurso fishings; in Dunnet Parish, Rattar, Haland, Hollandmaik, Corsbach, Ham, and Swiney; while in Canisbay Parish, Brabstermyre, Duncansby, and Sleiklie belonged to Lord Chen. But neither “Lord” Chen nor Johanna ever owned Brawl, the principal seat of the Earls of Caithness; and the Earls of the Angus line had the rest, mainly in Canisbay, Bower, and the northern part of Wick parishes. Johanna did not own any of the Chen lands in the Earldom of South Caithness, which Reginald Chen III acquired after 1340, i.e. the parishes of Latheron and Wick. She probably owned the old parish of Far and Halkirk but not Latheron, though this is erroneously implied in the text.