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, Ferquhard Earl of Ross
(About 1180-About 1251)
William (I) 2nd Earl of Ross
(About 1200-1274)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. COMYN, Jean

William (I) 2nd Earl of Ross 1 2

  • Born: About 1200
  • Marriage (1): COMYN, Jean 1 2
  • Died: May 1274, Earl's Allan, Tarbatness, Ross-shire, Scotland 1 2

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William married Jean COMYN, daughter of William COMYN Earl of Buchan, jure uxoris, Justiciar of Scotland and Sarah FITZHUGH (?).1 2 (Jean COMYN was born about 1204.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Jean (Comyn), married to William, Earl of Ross, who died in 1274."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"He (William, 2nd Earl of Ross) obtained a grant of the Isles of Skye and Lewis from Alexander III., and he died at Earles Allane May 1274, having married Jean, daughter of William Comyn, Earl of Buchan, by his first wife. He had issue, so far as known, one son"

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 7 (1910).

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