JONSON, Magnus V Jarl of Orkney and Caithness 1
- Born: About 1285
- Marriage (1): Catherine 1
- Died: Before 1329 1
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Magnus married Catherine.1 (Catherine was born about 1290.)
Marriage Notes:
"Magnus, who first appears on 28 October 1312 as a witness to the treaty between King Robert Bruce and King Hakon V. of Norway. On 6 April 1320, as Earl of Caithness and Orkney, he signed the letter addressed by the Scottish nobility to Pope John. He may have been dead before 1321, and certainly died before 1329, when 'Caterina Comitissa Orcadiae et Cathanesiae' grants a charter 'in viduitate,' in which she refers to her late husband as heir of Earl John. Magnus does not appear to have left heirs, as the earldom, or rather that portion of it which his line held, passed to Malise, Earl of Strathearn, evidently as the direct descendant of Matilda, daughter of Earl Gilbert."
from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1
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