FOOTNOTES:

[94] In this discussion the province of Lothian is not included.

[95] Ri Mortuath is an Irish term. We find, more usually, in Scotland, the Mormaer.

[96] Op. cit., vol. i, p. 254.

[97] History of Scotland, vol. i, pp. 135-6.

[98] Celtic Scotland, vol. iii, pp. 303, 309.

[99] Celtic Scotland, vol. iii, p. 368.

[100] It should of course be recollected that the Gaelic tongue must have persisted in the vernacular speech of the Lowlands long after we lose all traces of it as a literary language.


APPENDIX C

TABLE OF THE COMPETITORS OF 1290

(Names of the thirteen Competitors are in bold type)

                        Duncan I
(1034-1040)
                       
               
               
      Malcolm III
(Canmore)
(1057-8-1093)
                Donald Bane
(1093-1097)
               
      David I
(1134-1753)
                   
               
      Prince Henry                    
                 
                             
      William
the Lion
(1165-1214)
        David
Earl of
Huntingdon
  Ada m.
the Count
of Holland
Marjorie
m. John
Lindesay
   
                                 
                                                 
Alexander II
(1214-1249)
  Isabella m.
Robert Ros
Ada m.
Patrick, Earl
of Dunbar
Margaret
m. Eustace
Vesci
Aufricá m.
William Say
Henry
Galithly
Margaret m.
Alan of
Galloway
Isabella m.
Robert
Bruce
Ada m.
Henry
Hastynges
           
                                                 
                                                   
                                                   
Alexander III
(1249-1285-6)
Marjorie                     Devorguilla
m. John
Balliol
    Henry
Hastynges
           
                                                   
Margaret m.
Eric II
of Norway
Nicolas
Sovles
William
Ros
Patrick
of Dunbar
William
Vesci
Roger
Mandeville
Patrick
Galithly
John Balliol
(1292-1296)
Robert
Bruce
John
Hastynges
Florent,
Count of
Holland
Robert
Pinkeny
John Comyn
m. a sister of
John Balliol
                                 
Margaret, the
Maid of Norway
(1285-6-1290)
  Edward
Balliol
Robert Earl
of Carrick
  John Comyn
(stabbed by Bruce
in 1305-6)
       
  Robert I
(1306-1329)
 

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