[702]. Fordun, Annalia, vii.
[703]. Per montanos Scotos, quos Brutos vocant et Galwalenses.—Fordun, Annalia, x. Roger of Hoveden, a contemporary writer, has also, ‘Per Scotos et Galwalenses suos.’ The former may have been the people of Moray. There is a curious document called Letters-patent by William the Lyon in 1171, recognising the right of Morgund, son of Gylleclery, to the earldom of Marr and that of Moray, first printed by Selden, but its authenticity is too doubtful to be founded on.—See Acts of Parl. vi. p. 13.
[704]. Fordun, Annalia, xi.
[705]. Roger Hoveden, Chron. ed. Stubbs, vol. ii. p. 63.
[706]. Fordun, Annalia, xiv. The details of the events in Galloway will be given in another part of this work.
[707]. 1179 Willelmus rex Scotiæ et David frater suus, cum comitibus et baronibus terræ cum exercitu magno et valido perrexerunt in Ros, ibique duo firmaverunt castella, nomen uni Dunscath, et nomen alteri Etherdover.—Chron. Mel. For the identification of these castles, see Origines Parochiales, vol. iii. pp. 458, 529.
[708]. Benedictus Abbas, or the writer under his name, a contemporary chronicler, gives the fullest account of this insurrection. He says, ‘Duvenaldus filius Willelmi filii Duncani, qui sæpius calumniatus fuerat regnum Scotiæ, et multoties furtivas invasiones in regnum illud fecerat; per mandatum quorundam potentum virorum de regno Scotiæ, cum copiosa multitudine armata, applicuit in Scotiam, devastans et comburens totam terram, quam attingebat; et homines fugabat, et omnes quos capere potuit interficiebat.’ He afterwards says of him, ‘qui nominabatur Machwilliam; qui etiam dicebat se regia stirpe genitum, et de jure parentum suorum, ut asserebat, regnum Scotiæ calumniabatur, et multa et incommoda faciebat sæpe Willelmo regi Scotiæ, per consensum et consilium comitum et baronum regni Scotiæ.’ William Fitz Duncan appears with Alice de Rumeli his wife, some time between 1120 and 1140, when he grants a charter in which Thursten, archbishop of York, is mentioned; and Alice survived him, and grants a charter, witnessed by her son, the Boy of Egremont, in 1151, who must have been born between 1130 and 1140.—Dugd. Mon. Donald Ban, if really a son, was either born of a previous marriage with a native Scottish woman, or was a bastard.
[709]. Fordun, Annalia, xvii.
Anno mclxxxv. Bellum fuit in Galweia inter Rolandum et Gillepatricium iiijo non. Julii feria v in quo plures occubuerunt ex parte Gillepatricii, ipse vero interiit cum multis aliis. Iterum Rolandus bellum habuit contra Gillecolmum, in quo frater Rolandi occubuit et Gillecolmus periit.—Chron. Mel.
Between 1178 and 1180 King William grants a charter to Gilbert, Earl of Stratherne, and among the witnesses is ‘Gillecolm Marescald.’ A few years later, but before 1189, the king grants to earl Gilbert the lands of Maddyrnin, but under this condition, ‘that no part of the land should ever be sold to Gillecolm Marescall, or his heirs, or any one of his race, seeing the said Gillecolm forfeited that land for felony done against the king, in that he rendered up the king’s castle of Heryn feloniously, and afterwards wickedly and traitorously went over to his mortal enemies, and stood with them against the king, to do him hurt to his power.’—Chart. Inchaffray, Pref. vi.