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LESLIE, Euphemia (II) 'Countess, 8th of Ross' 1
- Born: About 1399
- Marriage (1): Unknown
User ID: V840.
General Notes:
"The Countess Euphemia being under age at her accession, and being, it is said, of a weakly constitution, small, and deformed, was induced by her maternal grandfather, Robert Duke of Albany, then Regent of the kingdom, to resign her rights to the Earldom of Ross in favour of her maternal uncle, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan."
from Family of Leslie
"Euphemia (Leslie), de jure Countess of Ross not, however, so styled in the only charters containing her name, but only as daughter and heiress of Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross seems to have had a somewhat unfortunate career. From a precept of 11 July 1405, it would appear she was then the ward of her grandfather, Robert, Duke of Albany, who then styles himself Lord of the ward of Ross. It is stated by some historians of the family that she was deformed, or ' crouch backed,' and she was probably in consequence of a weakly constitution. In any case, her uncle by marriage, Donald, Lord of the Isles, claiming to be Earl of Ross through his wife Margaret or Mary Leslie, thought it a good opportunity to set the heiress aside, and marched, in 1411, with a large army to enforce his rights. The battle of Harlaw, on 24 July 1411, frustrated his purpose, and the earldom remained in the hands of the heiress or her guardians. She is said to have entered the convent of North Berwick and become a professed nun, and to have been induced by flattery and threats to give up her rights to the Governor's second son. It has been alleged in a recent work that one or both of these causes prompted the attempt of the Lord of the Isles, but dates will not admit of this. His attempt was in 1411, whereas the Countess did not resign the earldom till June 1415."
from Scots Peerage (vol 7) 1
Euphemia married.
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