DUNBAR, Thomas 3rd Earl of Moray ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"It was ... proposed to marry him to Eufamia Leslie, Countess of Ross, but the proposal was not carried out. Before the Pope's commission could have reached Scotland, she had, on 15 June 1415, resigned, probably under compulsion, her earldom and lands in favour of John, Earl of Buchan, son of the Regent Albany."

"There is no valid evidence that the Earl had any issue at all. He is said indeed to have had a daughter Janet,
who, it is affirmed, was married to a Fraser of Lovat. But the Wardlaw MS., which is probably the source of the
statement, is so confused and incorrect at this point that it cannot be relied on."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ¹

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  Marriage Notes:

"Thomas Dunbar, third Earl of Moray, whose name occurs first on record in May 1414, when he and his father appended their seals to a grant by John de Narn to his son John. He is next named on 3 June 1415, when his father was still alive. It was then proposed to marry him to Eufamia Leslie, Countess of Ross, but the proposal was not carried out. Before the Pope's commission could have reached Scotland, she had, on 15 June 1415, resigned, probably under compulsion, her earldom and lands in favour of John, Earl of Buchan, son of the Regent Albany. (See title Buchan.) He succeeded his father some time before 9 August 1422. [...]

As to this Earl's marriage nothing is certainly known. As stated above, it was proposed in June 1415 he should marry Euphemia [Leslie], Countess of Ross suo jure, but this did not take effect, and it is said that the lady, after resigning her estates, became a nun. [...]

In August 1422 the contract with Lovat binds the latter to marry his son and heir (then an infant) to a daughter of the Earl 'gotin or to be gotin on Isobell of Innes,' who is not named as the Earl's wife; and failing such daughter, the heir of Lovat shall marry a daughter of the Earl 'to be gotten betwixt him and his spousit wife,' and so on until a marriage took place.

Macfarlane, who recites this contract, assumes that Isobell Innes was the Earl's mistress, and that his 'spousit wife' was alive, but this is doubtful. It seems more probable that the 'spousit wife' and her children were yet in the future, and that the contract was somewhat of a speculative nature, as it is not clear that the Earl had any children by Isobel Innes, whether she was his wife or not. There is no valid evidence that the Earl had any issue at all. He is said indeed to have had a daughter Janet, who, it is affirmed, was married to a Fraser of Lovat. But the Wardlaw MS., which is probably the source of the statement, is so confused and incorrect at this point that it cannot be relied on."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ¹