Footnote 22: [(return)]
Norse jarldoms were not given to females, but the jarldom of Orkney was, failing sons, given to the sons of daughters of preceding jarls, such as Ragnvald, son of Gunnhild, and Harald Ungi, son of Jarl Ragnvald's daughter.
Footnote 23: [(return)]
Reg. Morav., 215, 216; O.P., vol. ii, p. 486.
Footnote 24: [(return)]
O.P., ii, p. 482. Euphamia or Eufemia is a Ross family name for centuries. Reg. Morav., p. 333.
Footnote 25: [(return)]
Bain, vol. 1, year 1258-9.
Footnote 26: [(return)]
St. Andrew's, pp. 346 and 347; and for the charter see Reg. Morav., p. 138.
Footnote 27: [(return)]
Reg. Morav., p. xxxvi. We do not lay stress upon this argument from the endowment of two chaplains; but it may import that Freskin died a violent death, unshriven.
Footnote 28: [(return)]
We can, however, trace many parts of "Lord" Chen's lands. For they are called the lands of "Lord" Chen in the descriptions in later charters quoted in Origines Parochiales, vol. ii, pp. 745 Reay, 749 Thurso, 760 Halkirk, 764 Latheron, 774 Wick, 787-8 Olrig, 790 Dunnet, and 814 Canisbay. His lands in all these parishes were of considerable extent. They included probably the whole modern estate of Langwell and most of the parish of Latheron, and Wick up to Keiss Bay and beyond Ackergill and Riess. In Watten they comprised Lynegar, Dunn, Bilbster, and others: in Halkirk Parish, Sibster, Leurary, Gerston, Baillecaik, Scots Calder, North Calder, and Banniskirk; in Reay Parish, Lybster, Borrowstoun, Forss, and part of Skaill and Brawlbin: in Thurso, Clairdon, Murkle, Sordale, Amster, Ormelie and the Thurso fishings; in Dunnet Parish, Rattar, Haland, Hollandmaik, Corsbach, Ham, and Swiney; while in Canisbay Parish, Brabstermyre, Duncansby, and Sleiklie belonged to Lord Chen. But neither "Lord" Chen nor Johanna ever owned Brawl, the principal seat of the Earls of Caithness; and the Earls of the Angus line had the rest, mainly in Canisbay, Bower, and the northern part of Wick parishes. Johanna did not own any of the Chen lands in the Earldom of South Caithness, which Reginald Chen III acquired after 1340, i.e. the parishes of Latheron and Wick. She probably owned the old parish of Far and Halkirk but not Latheron, though this is erroneously implied in the text.
CHAPTER X.
Footnote 1: [(return)]
Reg. Morav., pp. 88, 89, 99, 101, 333. Knighted 1215, was earl in 1226, founded the Abbey of Fearn before 1230, died about 1251.