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FITZDUNCAN, William

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  • Name FITZDUNCAN, William 
    Birth 1090  Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
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    Death 1147  Perth, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
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    Person ID I65945  Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
    Last Modified 19 Aug 2021 

    Family MESCHINES, Lady Alice de ,   b. 1124, Skipton, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationSkipton, Yorkshire, Englandd. 1187, Egremont, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years) 
    Marriage 1144  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F16158  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Jan 2022 

  • Notes 
    • "William probably came to Scotland with his uncle David before 1124, and supported the latter loyally and effectively after he became king in 1124. He led the contingent which attacked Wark Castle in January 1138, ravaged in Yorkshire fiercely, won a victory at Clithero, and devastated Craven before joining the king at Cowton Moor in August, where he angrily opposed the attempts of Robert (I) de Brus (d. 1142) to persuade David to go home. He then fought at the battle of the Standard, but does not seem to have accompanied David south in 1141, and, apart from witnessing charters, is not heard of again until David I confirmed him by force in the honour of Skipton and Craven in 1151. William married Alice de Rumilly, who inherited lands in Copeland and Skipton, and himself inherited Allerdale, south of Derwent, through his mother. It is surely likely that he also had Scottish lands, and in an English inquest of the thirteenth century he is called earl of Moray, a province forfeited to the crown in 1130; but he is never so called in Scotland. According to charter evidence William fitz Duncan had died by 1154.

      "William had two sons, a Gospatric who is once mentioned and may have been a child of an earlier marriage, and William, the boy of Egremont, who succeeded to his father's English lands and died childless in or soon after 1163, so that the inheritance passed to his three sisters. William fitz Duncan made no known claim to the throne of Scotland, nor did his lawful heirs in 1291, although Orkneyinga Saga (about 120040) makes the striking comment that the son of Malcolm and Ingibiorg was Duncan, king of Scots, father of William who was a great man, and whose son, William the noble, every Scotsman wanted for his king (Orkneyinga Saga, 72). This may, however, be a confusion with William's son, Donald MacWilliam (probably illegitimate), who from 1179 led a rebellion against King William the Lion with support from Moray and Ross."
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