, Duncan 8th Earl of Lennox, Sir ²

   Cause of his death was beheading.²

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  Research Notes:

FAMILY BACKGROUND

"VII. Margaret, Countess of Lennox (daughter of Donald 6th Earl of Lennox), succeeded, though she nowhere appears on record under that title, but is only referred to as the wife of her husband, Walter of Faslane, styled Lord of Lennox. They are said to have married about 1344, but not improbably their union was later. He was, as already stated (page 330), a direct descendant of Aulay, Allan or Alwin, the fifth son of Alwin, second Earl of Lennox, and was the nearest heir-male of the earldom. Notwithstanding this, however, he is only once styled Earl of Lennox, apparently shortly after Earl Donald's death, and is thereafter usually described as Lord of Lennox or Lord of the earldom of Lennox. He is named in record, apparently for the first time, in a charter of 1351, when a grant of lands which had been given to his father was continued to him, with the office of Forester of the woods of Lennox and the office called 'Toosachiorschip,' or heritable bailiary of the earldom. Later, 1360-1364, he had other lands bestowed upon him by Earl Donald, and he appears very frequently as a witness to charters by that Earl. [....]

In 1385 Walter and Margaret, his wife, resigned the whole earldom and lordship of Lennox within the sheriffdoms of Stirling and Dumbarton in the hands of King Robert II. at Stirling in favour of their son, Sir Duncan of Lennox, Knight, who received a charter of the same on 8 May 1385, followed by a similar resignation and regrant on 19 August 1388, when their liferent rights were specially reserved. They were apparently both dead before 17 February 1391-92, when the marriage of their granddaughter was arranged. They had issue :

1. SIir Duncan, who succeeded."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ²

Duncan married Helen CAMPBELL, daughter of Archibald CAMPBELL 4th of Lochow and Mary LAMONT, April 1373 (dispensation).¹ (Helen CAMPBELL was born about 1352 and died before 1447 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"3. Helen Cambel, m. Duncan, son of Walter, son of Alan, (Dispensation dated April 1373). "

from The Red Book of Scotland




"John (Macdonald), who married Ellen, daughter of Gillespic Campbell, afterwards wife of Duncan, Earl of Lennox, and died v.p. Their son Angus is mentioned as a hostage in the bond of submission given by the Lord of the Isles to David u. in 1369. There is no trace of any issue of Angus." (page 39)

"Earl Duncan married, sometime before 30 March 1373, Ellen or Helen Campbell, daughter of Archibald or Gillespie Campbell of Lochawe. She was the widow of ' John of the Isles,' apparently the eldest son of John, first Lord of the Isles, by his first marriage with Amie, daughter of Ruari of Bute. John of the Isles died about 1369, leaving a son Angus, who died a youth. Between 1369 and 1373 his widow married Duncan, then styled son of Walter Macallan of Foslane. Her first marriage is referred to in a dispensation for which they applied on the ground that although they knew that John of the Isles, Helen's first husband, and Duncan were related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity, yet to pacify serious feuds and prevent murder and bloodshed among their kinsmen and friends, they had contracted marriage 'per verba de futuro,' and had issue, thus incurring the penalty of excommunication from which they petition to be relieved, and their marriage sanctioned. Earl Duncan's wife survived him, and was alive in 1434, but died before 1447. They had issue" (pages 340-341)

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)



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