# tblCharter

Title:
Carta regis de terris de Melros, Eldune et Dernewic, cum pasturis et piscaturis

Notes:
Barrow, Charters David I for dates: incorporates material from foundation of 1136, additions of 29 May 1142 and later.


Title:
Confirmatio regis de terras quas dedit rex David, cum piscaturis de Seleschirche et Berwickstrem


Title:
Carta Walteri dapiferi de iv carrucatis terrus in Edmundistun


Title:
Confirmatio Herberti episcopi Glasguensis de decimis de Eskedale


Title:
Carta Cospatricii comitis de Dunbar de terris de Hertesheued et Spot


Title:
Confirmatio regis de Hertesheued et Edmundistun


Title:
Carta Osulfi filii Uctredi de terra de Ringwude


Title:
Carta regis de piscatura de Selchirche et Berwicstrem


Title:
Carta W. de Lindeseia de Fauope juxta Ledre


Title:
Confirmatio regis de terris et libertatibus


Title:
Carta Philippi comitis Flandrie de libero transitu per terram suam


Title:
Carta regis de indemnitate ordinis Cisterciensis

Notes:
carta super indempnitate ordinis conseruanda


Title:
Privilegium regis quod fratres monasterii de Melros sint quieti de theloneo et consuetudinibus de mercatis


Title:
Carta Walteri dapiferi de uno tofto cum xx acris


Title:
Carta David marescalli regis data Willelmo Lunnoc de piscariis

Notes:
grant of fishery for 20s a year to William Lunok


Title:
Carta regis de domo et terra et servicio Willelmi Lunnoc

Notes:
grant of houses on briggate. Barrow no 97


Title:
Carta Moysis arbalestarii de x acris terre


Title:
Testimonium de quieta clamatione Elvine vidue de domibus et terra super Nessum


Title:
Carta Dunecani filii Gilberti dilii Fergus, de Moybothilbeg et Bethoc


Notes:
dabunt mihi et heredibus meis unam marcam argenti tam singulis annis ad recognicionem de elemosina de Auchnephur


Title:
Carta Rogeri de Scalebroc, de Drumeceisviene, Alesburc et Auchnephur


Title:
Confirmatio Dunecani filii Gilberti comitis de Carric


Title:
Confirmatio Henrici filii Turst' et Marie uxoris ejus, filie Rogeri de Scalebroc


Title:
Carta Rogeri de Scalebroc de piscatura in ostio de Don et salina et terra in territorio de Grenan


Title:
Confirmatio Raderic MacGillescop et Cristiane eius sponse, filie R de Scalebroic


Title:
Carta Dunecani de Carric de duabus salinis in feodo de Tornebiri


Title:
Confirmatio regis de terris de Thumlocher et Weitkerric quas dedit Robertus Avenel


Notes:
RRS i, no 292.Temp Malcolm IV and William I. Full rights, except hunting and capture of wolves; donor remits a 5 mark rent ad procurandum lumen ante altare Sancte Marie imperpetuum; after wife's death quitclaims a rent of 4 marks.


Title:
Quieta clamatio reditud a Roberto Avenel et Gervasio eius herede

Notes:
quitclaims 4 marks p.a. owed by monks in farm of Eskedale: quo iste prefate pitancie inperpetuum dabuntur eidem conuentui quatenus per annum his scil. Diebus; die quo ipse Robertus seculum relinquens se ex tito reddidit domui illi; et iterum die illo quo idem R. defunctus est; et iterum de sexta a die natiuitatis dominice. In commemoratione anime Sibille uxoris R; dies autem quartus est dies obitus ipsius Geruasii.


Title:
Confirmatio Jocelini episcopi de toftu in burgo


Title:
Confirmatio walteri dapiferi de iv carucatis terre concessis ab avo suo


Title:
Carta Patricii comitis de Dunbar de carrucata terre


Title:
Carta Eve vidue Roberti de Quinci de v acris terre


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et ecclesiam de Dunbar de decimis grangiarum

Notes:
compositio between Melrose and church of Dunbar relating to tithes at Edmunston and Hertisheuede.


Title:
Confirmatio archdiaconi et cleri Laudoniensis


Title:
Confirmatio regis de Hertesheued et Spot


Title:
Chirographum de divisis inter Steintun et grangiam


Title:
Confirmatio Walleui comitis de Dunbar de Hertesheued et Spot


Title:
Confirmatio regis de donantibus avi et patris comitis Patricii et ipsius comitis Patricii


Title:
Carta Patricii de Withichum, deterra de Lochaneshalech


Title:
Carta Roberti de Kent de terra et pastura cum seipso

Notes:
ipsi monachi dederunt mihi centum sol. Hanc donationem feci cum meipso ita quod monachi concesserunt mihi cimiterium suum et seruitium monachi in decrddu mro


Title:
Carta Rogeri filii Glaii de quadam terra


Title:
Carta quinque militum Walteri dapiferi de eadem terra cum pastura


Title:
Carta Rogeri de Steintun de v acris cum pastura de Elwaldescakeslonigge


Title:
Carta Willelmi Walensis de terra per divisas


Notes:
excepto quod quinque marcas argenti mihi et heredibus meis annuatim persoluent


Title:
Carta Ricardi Walensis de Barmore et Godenech


Notes:
duabus marcis argenti ad duos terminos mihi et heredibus annuatim reddendis


Title:
Confirmatio Walteri dapiferi de Machelin et de Barmore et Godenech


Title:
Confirmatio Walteri senescalli cum declaratione quorundam articulorum


Title:
Confirmatio Walteri dapiferi de eisdem terris et de divisis


Title:
Carta Walteri dapiferi de relaxatione annui reditus


Title:
Carta Walteri dapiferi de foresta de Are


Title:
Carta Petri de Curri de terris de Dalhengan et Bargouer


Title:
Carta Waldeui comitis de Dunbar de pastura


Title:
Carta Patricii comitis de Dunbar de li acris terre


Title:
Carta Alani constabularii Scotie de Alwentchawis


Title:
Carta Walteri senescalli de terra cum pastura in Auldenestun data hospitali de Auldenestun


Title:
Carta eiusdem de eadem terra data monasterio de Melros


Notes:
in scambium pro terra quam Willelmum de Moreuille diuisit eis in ultima sua voluntate


Title:
Carta eiusdem (constabularii Scotie) de weadem


Title:
Carta Roberti de Londoniis de carrucata terre


Title:
Carta Roberti de Berkeli de carrucata de Morhus


Title:
Carta Hugonis de Normanvill de Kelvesete et Faulawe


Title:
Carta Ricardi de Morville constabularii de libertate arandi terram de Bleneslei


Title:
Carta Alani dapiferi de quieta clamatione de Bleneslei


Title:
Carta Willrlmi de Morvill constabularii de terra juxta Milcheside


Title:
concordia inter Melros et Patricium comitem de Dunbar facta in presentia regis


Title:
Conventio cum comite de Dunbar de pastura foreste


Title:
Carta comitis Patricii de Dunbar de Sorwelesfeld


Title:
Carta Ricardi de Morauilla constabularii de loco in Witelei infra marginem foreste ad vaccariam seu berchariam


Title:
Carta eiusdem de capella Sancte Marie de Parco cum terris


Title:
Confirmatio Willelmi constabularii de eisdem


Title:
Carta Ricardi de Morevill de terra ultra Leder


Title:
Confirmatio regis de compositione inter Melros et Ricardum de Morevill de foresta inter Galhe et Ledre


Title:
Perambulacio regis inter Melros et homines de Wedale


Title:
Carta Roberti Corbet de quadam parte terre per divisas


Title:
Carta Walteri Corbet de altera parte per divisas


Title:
Carta Walteri de Wildeshoureres de terra per divisas


Title:
Conventio inter Melros et Huctredum de Grubheved de Halkahs cum perambulatione


Title:
Carta Huctredi de Grubheved de terra de Elstaneshalche


Title:
Carta comitis Patricii de Dunbar de 2.5 acris terre


Title:
Carta Jocelini episcopi Glasguensis de ecclesia


Title:
Confirmatio Florentii episcopi electi Glasguensis


Title:
Compositio cum persona de Hunum de decimis


Title:
confirmatio Willelmi filii Johannis de donatione patris


Notes:
monachi de Melros inuenient mihi capellanum post decessum meum et prenominate uxoris mee qui missas celebret in perpetuum pro animabus nostris…in quadam capella qua in honore Sce Marie infra supradictas diuisas construxi


Title:
conuentio inter Melros et Willelmum militem de Hunum


Title:
Carta eiusdem de terra per divisas cum petraria


Title:
Carta eiusdem Anselmi de terra per divisas


Title:
Carta Symonis de Lyndesei de Hungerigg et Holemede data Helene eius filie


Title:
confirmatio Symonis Mauleuerer et Giliberti Avenel


Title:
Carta Symonis de Lyndesei de terra juxta Erdeburisburne data Patricio homini suo


Title:
Carta Walteri senescalli de terra de Molle in escambium pro terra de Freretun


Title:
Quieta clamatio abbatis et conventus de Kelkou

Notes:
carta de excambio de Molle et de Freretun


Title:
Carta Walteri senescalli de tota terra de Molle


Title:
Conventio inter Melros et Kalchou de divisis ubi conceditur terra de Prenwennessete


Title:
Carta conventus de Kalchou de eadem terra


Title:
Confirmatio Philippi de Valoniis camerarii


Title:
Carta Roberti de Bernaldebi, de Ravenesfen


Title:
Carta Roberti de Bernaldebi de quadam terra per divisas


Title:
Carta Gaufridi filii Walleui de iii bovatis terre in tenemento desuper Ravenesfen


Title:
Carta Gaufridi filii Wallevi de iiii bovatis terre in tenemento desuper Ravenesfen


Title:
Carta Gaufridi filii Walleui de xiii acris in tenemento desuper Ravenesfen


Title:
Carta Gaufridi coci de terra ad Hordlau data hospitali Hierosolume

Notes:
condicione tali quod Isabella sponsa Willelmi de Ridale et heredes sui uel cui ipsa assignare uoluerit in feudo et hereditate teneant predictam terram de prenominato domo


Title:
Carta Ysabel uxoris Willelmi de Ridale, de terra ad Hordlau


Title:
Confirmatio regis de piscaria quam dedit Willelmus de Brus


Title:
Carta Henrici de Bradfoth et Sigberith eius sponse de managio in Karleolo


Title:
Carta Patricii de Ridale de terra per divisas


Title:
Confirmatio regis de omnibus terris monasterii


Title:
Privilegium regis de causis prosequendis et pugnatore inveniendo


Title:
Privilegium regis de indemnitate a toloneo


Title:
Carta regis de piscaria unius retis in Berwicstrem, data Radulpho de Hauuil, falconario


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Morthington de terra in Briggate


Title:
Carta Ade le Vilure de terra super Nesse


Title:
Carta Petri presbiteri de terra in Snoco et terra iuxta stagnum vivarii.


Title:
Carta regis confirmans cartam Dunecani filii Gilberti


Title:
confirmatio regis donationis Rogeri de Scalebroc


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et ecclesiam de Moybothil de decimis


Title:
Petitio Dunecani comitis de Carric de constituendo episcopo fideiussore


Title:
Relaxatio trium marcarum, de terris de Bethoc et Auchnefure, per eundem comitem


Title:
Quieta clamatio Gillescopewyn Mackenedi senescalli de Carric


Title:
Carta Thome de Colevilla cognomento Scot de Keresban


Title:
Conventio inter monasteria de Melros et de Valle Dei


Title:
Confirmatio Gervasii Avenel de Tumlouher et Watkers roch


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et Rogerum Avenel in colloquio coram rege et baronibus


Title:
Carta Johannis Avenel de dimidia carucata terre

Notes:
reddendo annuatim domino feodi pro omni seruicio...unam liberam pipis ad natale domini et faciendo forinsecum seruicium Domini Regis


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Lillesclif de duobus toftis in burgo


Title:
Carta Johannis filii Micahelis de terra per divisas, data monasterio de May


Title:
Carta Johannis filii Michaelis de terra in Fastenei data Mauricio homini suo


Title:
Carta eiusdem concessa monasterio de Melros


Title:
Carta Johannis de Norberwic de terra in Kingissete


Title:
Carta Henrici de Beletun de terra de Kinigissete


Title:
Confirmatio Philippi filii Philippi de Pethcox


Title:
Confirmatio Philippi filii Philippi de satisfaciendo pro Beleside


Title:
Carta eiusdem de translatione rivuli de Presmineburne


Title:
Carta Philippi filii Philippi de Petcox de parte prati


Title:
Quieta clamatio Ricardi Walensis militis de duabus marcis pro terris de Godeney et Barmor


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et rectorem de Balinclog de decimis


Title:
Carta Alani constabularii de toto vasto de Lambermor in escambium pro Keresban


Title:
Confirmatio regis donationis Alani constabularii


Title:
Carta Patricii comitis de Dunbar de venditione equicii et de pasture


Title:
Carta Roberti de Muscampo facta Willelmo de Grenlaw


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Grenlaw de tribus carrucatis terre


Notes:
warantia comitis P super terra de Halsinton


Title:
Carta Willelmi Purveys de libero transitu per terram de Mospennoc


Title:
Confirmatio regis de dimidia carrucata in Edinham et duobus burgagiis in Kingestrete de Rokesburc


Title:
Confirmatio regis donationis Rogeri Burnard


Title:
Confirmatio Nicholai Corbet de piscariis


Title:
Carta Johannis de Normanuill de terra  per divisas


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et ecclesiam baptismalem de decimis


Title:
Confirmatio regis donationis Johannis de Normanvill


Title:
Carta Johannis de Normanvill de terra perambulata


Title:
Carta eiusdem de quatuor acris terre et dimidia


Title:
Carta Johannis de Normanvill de Morhus per divisas


Title:
Quieta clamatio Johannis filii Philippi de Mackeston


Title:
Carta Roberti de vere comitis Oxonie de quatuor acris terre


Title:
Carta regis de terris inter Galwe et Ledyr et de terris ex australi parte de Twede


Title:
Carta eiusdem de eisdem terris deforestatis cum prohibitione venandi sine licentia conventus


Title:
Confirmatio regis de quieta clamatione comitis de Dunbar


Title:
Carta Johannis filii Ylif, de bovata terra et acra prati concessa magistro Ade de Baggat


Title:
Confirmatio Avicie filie Johannis de terra quam eius pater dedit monasterio.


Title:
Carta Thome filii Gilleberti de decem acris terre in feodifirma


Title:
Carta regis de vasto de Ethric per divisas


Title:
Carta regis de Ethric in liberam forestam


Title:
Carta Petronille filie Ade Harang de terra in Bortwick


Title:
Carta Gaufridi filii Gaufridi de terra per divisas


Title:
Carta Cristine filie Willelmi de Cresswell concessa Hugoni braciatori


Title:
Conventio inter Melros et Jeddewrd de ecclesia et decimis

Notes:
Inuenient abbas et conuentus de jeddewrde quandam capellanum idoneum qui celebrabit diuina pro animabus Willelmi filii Johannis et Sonancie uxoris sue ..in loco ubi dictus episcopus Glasguensis ordinauit.


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Laundelis de Brunecnolleflat


Title:
Carta Willelmi filii Johannis de terra de Rasawe


Title:
Confirmatio Johannis de Laundelis de Rasawes


Title:
Renunciatio Alexandri de Chathou et provisio de divisis


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et ecclesiam de Hunum de decimis de Raschawe


Title:
Resignatio Matildis Corbet de terra per divisas cum pastura


Title:
Carta Walteri de Ridale de terra quam Matildis Corbet tenuit in duarium


Title:
Confirmatio Willelmi de Vesci de undecim bovatis terre quas Walterus de Ridale contulit


Title:
Carta Ade filie Ade de Dunelmo de Thodholeside et Standestanerig


Title:
Venditio de Hungerig et Holemede ab Ada de Hetune


Title:
Confirmatio et renunciatio Ricardi de Hetun


Title:
Carta Isabel vidue Roberti de Polloc de Hungerig data Simoni de Lindesey


Title:
Confirmatio Willelmi de Vesci de tota quam de eo tenuit Walterus filius Alani


Title:
Quieta clamatio a monachis de Calchou de Molle et Innerwic data Waltero Senescallo


Title:
Testimonium Willelmi episcopi Glasguensis de eadem quieta clamatione


Title:
Confirmatio Roberti de Lundon de terra in Lekehalu data a patre suo


Title:
Carta Nes filii Nes de Walentun de decem acris in Lyveringham


Title:
Carta Walteri de Kilnum de octo acris in Kilnum cum pastura


Title:
Carta Roberti de Muscampo de terra in territorio de Hethpol per divisas


Title:
Carta eiusdem de testibus scriptis in carta


Title:
Carta eiusdem de libertatibus monachorum


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et Kirkeham de decimis de Trolhope


Title:
Carta Regis de libero passagio per patriam


Title:
Confirmatio regis omnium cartarum libertatum et jurium


Title:
Carta Nicholai textoris de terra in Briggath


Title:
Privilegium Roberti de Brus comitis et Margirie comitisse de Carric


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et cicarium de Dumfres de decimis


Title:
Renunciatio Walteri de Welham de quadam particula terre


Title:
Carta Johannis Cumyn militis de transitu per terram suam


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et derongal de decimis de Dunscor


Title:
Carta Alexandri Senescalli de terris et pasturis de Mauhelin et Carentabel


Title:
Carta Alexandri Senescalli de libertatibus de Kyle


Title:
Conventio inter Torphechin et Reginaldum le Cheyn militum de jure patronatis ecclesie de Howiltre


Title:
Confirmatio comitis Patricii de Dunbar, super venditionem equicii patris sui et de communa


Title:
Confirmatio Patricii Corbet de terra de Hardlau et Hunggerig cum divisis


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Alwentun de terra in territorio de Halsingtun


Title:
Confirmatio Willelmi filii Willelmi de Alwentun


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et conventum de Eccles de decimis feni de Pithlishouh


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Hornerden militis de Milnescroft per divisas


Title:
Carta Petri de Haga domini de Bernerside de dimidia petra cere ad capellam Sancti Cuthberti de veteri Melros


Title:
Carta venditionis Ricardi Burnard domini de Farningdun de Estmedou de Farningdun


Title:
Carta Nicholai Corbet militis de piscariis de Malcarvistun et libertate piscandi


Title:
Carta Johannis de Normanvill concessa Walrano eius fratri


Title:
Carta Walranni de Normanvill concessa Wydoni eius fratri


Title:
Carta Guidonis de Normanville concessa domino Thome de Normanvill eius fratri in excambium pro terra in Angus


Title:
CartaThome de Normanville concessa monasterio


Title:
Confirmatio Walrani de Normanvill militis


Title:
Carta Johannis de Vescy de Altunburne data Willelmo de Sproueston capellano


Title:
Carta eiusdem facta eidem cum libera foresta


Title:
Confirmatio eiusdem de donatione Willelmi de Sprouistoun


Title:
Carta Johannis senescalli de duabus libris cere ad lumen Sancti Waldevi abbatis


Title:
Transumptum bulle Bonifacii VIII de privilegiis ordinis Cisterciensis


Title:
Quieta clamatio Thome de Sumervil militis de annuo redditu pro tofto infra villam


Title:
Privilegium comitis de non capiendo seruicio forinseco de terris de Melros nisi cum communis exercitus regni levatur


Title:
Compositio inter Melros et ecclesiam de Wathstirkir de decimis

Notes:
inter Melros et ecclesiam de Wasthstirkir de decimis


Title:
Instrumentum super reformatione pacis inter Melros et rectorem ecclesie de Dunbar de decimis

Notes:
continet pacis reformacionem inter melros et rectorem ecclesiam de Dunbarr


Title:
Obligatio Willelmi de Durem militis de warantia burgagii

Notes:
Willelmi de Durem de xiiij marcis pro warancia burgagii de Peblis


Title:
Confirmatio Symonis Fraser de Southkingdoris cum capella de Kingildoris et terra de Hopcarthane quas contulit pater suus


Title:
Carta eiusdem de libero transitu per terram suam de Hoprew


Title:
Carta Roberti de Wodford de terra de Wodfordhouse in territorio de Lessydwyn


Title:
Conventio inter Melros et Kelkou de decimis de Molle

Notes:
inter Melros et Kelkou de decimis de Molle


Title:
Carta regis de casualitatibus vicecomitatus de Roxburgh concessis in subsidium fabrice ecclesie de novo construendo


Title:
Carta regis de annuo redditu 100 librarum ad inveniendum ferculum cuilibet monacho


Title:
Privilegium regis de generali protectione et de namis monasterii non capiendis nisi pro eius debito proprio


Title:
Exhortatio regis ad filium suum David de protectione monasterii


Title:
Confirmatio Patricii de Dunbar comitis Marchie de terris monasterii infra doninium suum


Title:
Confirmatio regis carte Alexandri III regis de possessionibus monasterii in burgo


Title:
Mandatum regis de 100 libris solvendis pro ferculo regis


Title:
Renunciatio Ade de Selleby de situ gabelli de Ledynhall


Title:
Carta Willelmi de Selbi facta Thome de Selkirk


Title:
Carta Thome de Selkirk de 3 marcis annui redditus


Title:
Carta Alexandri Fraser de terra in villa


Title:
Privilegium regis quod terre monasterii immunes sint ab omnibus talliagiis


Title:
Privilegium regis quod terre monasterii in valle de Nith libere sint a talliagiis


Title:
Confirmatio regis de terra quam monachi tenuerunt de domino Nicholao de Graham


Title:
Obligatio eiusdem ad pacem regis Anglie existentis ad sufficientem saisinam dandam cum fuerit ipse reseysitus


Title:
Mandement pur doner seysin de teres de eskedal


Title:
Supplication Johan de Graham qe le Roy voille souffrire q'il pousse doner saisyne


Title:
Preceptum regis pro literis confirmationis


Title:
Carta Johannis de Graham militis de jure patronatus ecclesie de Westyker et de etrris vallis de Eske


Title:
Confirmatio capituli Glasguensis, sede vacante


Title:
Mandatum capituli sede vacante pro institutione saluo jure rectoris


Title:
Mandatum ad instituendum poste mortem rectoris


Title:
Confirmatio regis de terra in Waststirker sub dominio quondam Johannis de Sowlis militis


Title:
Carta communitatis civitatis Glasguensis de inhereditatione Thome de Aula


Title:
Carta Johannis Giffard domini de Yestir de tofto et crofto et 2 bovatis terre in tenemento ville de Yestir


Title:
Carta regis de tofto et corfto in villa de Kynros


Title:
Preceptum regis quod hostilagium in Kynros sit liberum de annua firma


Title:
Carta Jacobi senescalli Scotie quod terre de Kyle sint libere ab ostensionibus armorum et ne unicum auxillium datum Senescallo sit monasterio in posterum prejudicium


Title:
Prima carta Eustachie de Colvyle relicta Reginaldi le Chen patris de jure patronatus ecclesie

Notes:
quod terre de Kyle sint libere ab ostensionibus armorum etc.


Title:
Attestatio eiusdem de jure patronatus ecclesie in qua de successione familie de Colville


Title:
Investitura ecclesie per Robertum Glasguensem episcopum


Title:
Rogat idem robertus ut abbates de Dryburch et Jeddewrd eorum sigilla carte sue apponat


Title:
Privilegium habendi ecclesiam baptismalem per Robertum episcopum Glasguensem concessum


Title:
Carta Ade de Gordon militis de terra in territorio de est Gordon per divisas


Title:
Ratificatio Ade filii domini Ade de Gordon


Title:
Obligatio Willemi de Durem militis de warnatia burgagii


Title:
Preceptum et attestatio sasine de ii bovatis terre in Bemersyd


Title:
Conventio inter episcopum Sancti Andree et Melros de terra de Carthaw in communa habenda


Title:
Carta Johannis de Hormiston de tota terra sua


Title:
Carta regis de tota terra sua et tenemento


Title:
Carta eiusdem de eadem cum servitiis etc libere tenentium ad dictum tenementum pertinentium


Title:
Mandatum regis ad inquirendum si Maxpoffil Heuisyd Cammaystoun et Iliffistoun solebant pertinere ad tenementum de Lessydewyn


Title:
Carta regis de tenemento de Lessydewyn cum servititiis etc dictarum terrarum eidem pertinentium


Title:
Carta Laurentii de Abyrnethy de tota terra sua de Mackyspoffil


Title:
Indulgentia concessa vistantibus capellam de veteri Melros


Title:
Compositio inter Calchou et Melros de decimis de Uggines


Title:
Ratificatio Roberti episcopi Glasguensis de fructibus vicarie de Hassenden in pitanciam concessis


Title:
Confirmatio Patricii comitis Marchie de omnibus terris infra comitatum eiusdem


Title:
Mandatum Willelmi episcopi Sancti Andree de excommunicandis transgressoribus in possessiones seu libertates de Melros


Title:
Protectio regis licet monasterium sit iam ad fidem Anglicorum oer vim et compulsionem constitutum


Title:
Carta regis de regalitate omnium terrarum monasterii


Title:
Carta regis de custuma lanarum monasterii


Title:
Carta regis de licentia speciali tractare cum Anglicis


Title:
Protectio regis cum privilegio de namis nam capiendis et de debitis colligendis


Title:
Attestatio Willelmi episcopi Sancti Andree in qu confirmantur instrumentum et carte de decimis de Edmundiston et Hertisheued

Notes:
ex mera voluntate sua subscripta unanimiter concesserunt videlicet quod dictus J. et S. sponsa in fraternitate dicti monasterii..pro tempore vite dicti J. missam unam in mon. suop singulis diebus cleebrare facient pro eisdem ac nomina eorundem in martilogio suo inter familiares facient conscribi et in morte ipsorum plenum seruicium pro eisdem facient persolui


Title:
Indentura inter Melros et Johannen de Felton militem qui ut recipiatur cum Sybilla sponsa sua in fraternitatem monasterii nec non pro xl libris sterlingorum quietum clamat jus patronatus


Title:
Carta eiusdem de iure quod habuit ex collatione Edwardi regis Scottorum


Title:
Carta quam Johannes de Graham fecit Roberto de graham de jure patronatus ecclesie cum terra de Unthank


Title:
Confirmatio capituli Glasguensis sede vacante


Title:
Protestatione Johane de Grame seignour de Torboltoune sur la wouysoune de la Eglise


Title:
Carta Roberti de Graham de jure patronatus


Title:
Promissio eiusdem de novis cartis et securitate procurandid


Title:
Testimonium contra clameum Ministri de Fale


Title:
Revocatio Johannis de Graham de donatione facta Minsitro de fale


Title:
Carta Roberti de Graham de terris de Dernehunche, Quyltisfelde et Auld


Title:
Confirmatio Willelmi comitis de Douglas de terra de Renwude quam dedit Osulphus de Rengwude


Title:
Resignatio terrarum de Yarlsyde cavillyne Langsyde Senglee Scanehushope et Penercrys a Thoma de Balliolo facta Willelmo comite de Douglas


Title:
Confirmatio Radulphi de Nevyle domini de Raby de Wodefordehouse quam Robertus de Wodforde dedit


Title:
Rauf de Nevill seigneur de Raby grante a mesurose le manoir de Lessydewyn apres son deces lequel monsire Edward de Bailliole eis done a lui


Title:
Endentour parentre le mesme seigneur et le couvent de Melros


Title:
Quieta clamatio Willelmi le Roule de annuo redditu xx solidorum de terris de Hunedun


Title:
Indentura de concessione medietatis baronie de Wylton cum advocatione ecclesie a Gilberto de Maxwell data ,onasterio et de regressu earundem terrarum, soultis xl libris sterlingorum


Title:
Confirmatio regis carte David II regis de regalitate


Title:
Confirmatio regis carte David II regis de licentia tractare cum Anglicis


Title:
Confirmatio regis omnium cartarum et munimentorum de Melros


Title:
Confirmatio regis carte regis David II de custuma lanarum


Title:
The Wardanis precept to the Custumers for passing of the wollys withoutyn custume


Title:
Carta regis in qua confirmatur er de verbo in verbum narratur carta regis David II de advocatione ecclesie Sancti Johannis de Are


Title:
Confirmatio regis privilegii Roberti I regis super libertatibus terrarum de Carric


Title:
Confirmatio Johannis senescalli comitis de Carric de terris infra comitatum de Carric et dominium de Kyle cum le Barmore necnon de Edmundston et Hertisheuide in Laudonia


Title:
Confirmatio regis carte Roberti I regis de libertatibus terrarum


Title:
Instrumentum de approbatione et ratihabitione eiusdem privilegii ab Archibaldo de Douglas domino Galwidie


Title:
Carta Johannis de Boseuill data Johanni de Wemys de terris de Mircarpy, le Rath, Glenyston Polgulde Nethir Cambroun et de Methkill


Title:
Confirmatio Johannis de Wemys militis de terra de Kingissete in territorio de Panschel quam monasterio dedit Henricus de Beltoun


Title:
Carta Malcolmi de Lyn burgensis de Perth de terra in burgo


Title:
Confirmatio regis carte Willelmi comitis de Douglas de terris de Penangushope et Caldcluch inferiori, datis monasterio, pro anima Willelmi de Douglas de Laudonia militis


Title:
Confirmatio Jacobi comitis de Douglas de advocatione ecclesie


Title:
Carta regis data Johanni de Chattov de terris que fuerunt Ricardi...quas tenuit de monasterio


Title:
Confirmatio regis de custuma l saccorum lane


Title:
Preceptum regis directum camerario de eadem


Title:
Privilegium papale et episcopi Glasguensi quod liceat sacerdotibus de Melros sacramenta exhibere monasterii servientibus qui non possunt de facili habere copiam suorum sacerdotum


Title:
Confirmatio Roberti ducis Albanie locumtenentis regis, de carta Walteri Senescalli qua conceditur quod non sit monasterio in prejudicium in posterum quod concessit per biennium sectam hominum de Kyle


Title:
Carta Roberti Logane militis domini de Lastalrike de tenemento


Title:
Testimonium regis de inspectione carte quondam Willelmi comitis de Douglas de jure patronatus ecclesie


Title:
Carta Jacobi Fraser de Ferendrach de terra de Cambestoun in baronia de Lossidwyn


Title:
Obligacioun be Archebalde McDowell for four skore and ten pund because of his releife of his place of Malkarston garantide to the new werke of Melros


Title:
Carta Georgii comitis Marchie de toto bosco super territorio voacto le Soroulesfeilde


# tblLocation

ResourceType:
locum ad edificandum unam uaccariam centum uaccaru


ResourceType:
domum et terram W Lunnok in cirnerio de Briggat in Berwik


ResourceType:
piscatura, salina, patella, ligna de proximo bosco


Notes:
in burgo de Glasgu quod Ranulfus de Hadintune edificauit in prima edificacione burgi ad opus domus de Melros


ResourceType:
quasdam terras in territorio de Lauuedir


Notes:
cum libertate molendi ad molendinum meum sine moltura


ResourceType:
communem pasturam ad 40 vaccas, 1 taurum,40 boues et 8 equos

Notes:
in escambium pro terra quam Willelmum de Moreuille diuisit eis in Cuningham in ultima sua voluntate


Notes:
cum omnibus libertatibus foreste inter Galeghe et Ledre


ResourceType:
locum infra marginem foreste ad vaccariam faciendam


ResourceType:
licentia habendi una uaccarium et domus ad opus earum idoneam


Notes:
monachi  infirmis nostris de Bune concesserunt ut in territorio de Milcheside ..


Notes:
perambulacio. Inter monachos de Meylros et homines de Wedale.


Notes:
ad susceptionem pauperum et peregrinorum


ResourceType:
totam terram quam habuerit in territorio


ResourceType:
terram illam quam monachi emerunt de Roberto de Berneham


ResourceType:
totam terre quam ultimus emimus a Willelmo


Notes:
reddendo mihi et hereedibus sex marcas annuatim ad duos terminos


Notes:
reddendo mihi et hereedibus quinque marcas annuatim ad duos terminos


ResourceType:
quartam partem plenarie ville in territorio de


Notes:
confirmaui deo et Sanctis de May et monachis ibidem


Notes:
impediente quadam conuentione inter me et Rogero


ResourceType:
vastum nostrum in secambium terre que uocatur Keresban


Notes:
ad opus pauperum ad eandem portam ueniencium


Notes:
ad augmentum et emendacionem sustenationis et recreacionis


Placename:
Thodholesfid et Standesstanerif in Westlilliscliue


ResourceType:
totam terram uendidisse pro 10 libris sterling.


ResourceType:
medietatem terre mee, et aliam medietatem vendidissem


ResourceType:
in magna necessitate mea vendidi totam medietatem terre mee


ResourceType:
totum ius et clamium quod habui in terra et edificiis


ResourceType:
centum libras sterlingorum annui redditus


ResourceType:
omnia tenementa burgagia redditus possessiones et piscarias


ResourceType:
pensionis trium marcarum in quadam domo de Croftgate


ResourceType:
totam terram cum pertinenciis inter terras de Erscildoun et Bemersyd


ResourceType:
ad reedificandum ipsum locum per Anglicos nuper combustum

Notes:
xl died de iniuncta eis penitencia misericorditer relaxamus


ResourceType:
tota custuma lanarum usque ad integram summam quinquaginta saccorum


Notes:
inde exigendo ego uel heredes meiseu aliquis alius nomine nostro imperpetuum prater oracionum suffragia deuotarum


Notes:
terra non sit districta per communem guerram Et quamdiu fuerit vasta volumus...


Notes:
ad altare Beate Virginis unum cereum qui ardebit ad missam cotidianum


# tblNames

Notes:
in campo de Berwic quod Malcolmus rex dominus meus dedit mihi


Notes:
confirmasse Willelmo Luno piscarias meas


Notes:
NB quia silue sue quas ad salinas apud Grenan habebant penitus combuste sunt et destructe


Notes:
text lacunary. Context suggests this is Bishop Jocelin's seneschal.


Descriptor2:
filia Roberti filii Fouberti de Steintun


Notes:
diuis in cartis antecessoribus meis  specificantur; illas per.. Et alios probos homines meos plene feci certificari


Notes:
partem terre quam pater meus quondam dederat Alano paruo


Notes:
in omnibus ubique stabo sicut frater et particeps omnium bonorum eiusdem domus


Notes:
parte terre de Bleineslei quam..ego postea W. f .O. concesseram


Notes:
J. Glas. Ep. Et cellarius Melrosensis diuisam perambulauerunt


Notes:
conuentio ad conseruationem pacis et concordie


Notes:
settling dispute with bishop over patronage of  the church


Notes:
Correction of 'R' for 'E', Barrow, no. 365


Notes:
compositio inter ecclesiam de Melros et mr


Notes:
conventio inter nos et Wiilelmum filium Iohannis


Notes:
ii idus Junii pontificatus nostri anno decimo


Notes:
confirmaui Helene terram meam de Hungerigge


Notes:
quam teneo de Roberto de Polloch et uxore eius


Notes:
presens scriptum..tradidimus in manus domini Mathei..


Notes:
terram illam quam monachi emerunt de Roberto..


Notes:
petiticio Duncani comitis ad episcopum Will. Glas. Ep.


Notes:
Cyrographum inter monasteria de Melros et de Valle Dei


Notes:
terre quam W f G. mihi pro homagio et seruicio dedit


Notes:
impediente quadam conuentione inter me et Rogerum de M facta tempore donactionis extendere non potui


Notes:
terram dedit Willelmo cum ducam G sorore mea in liberum maritagium


Notes:
quitclaim to William son of Patrick and his wife


Notes:
abbas et conuentus tenerentur mihi in cent- marc- legalium sterlingorum pro quadam parte terre in Briggath quam eis uendidi


Notes:
compositio inter Melros et conuentum de Dercongal


Notes:
compositio inter Melros et abbtiam Sacri Nemoris


Descriptor2:
cancellario regis et archidiacono Sancti Andree


Notes:
controversia super jure patronatus ecclesie de Howiltre


Notes:
confirmacio super vendicionem equicii patris sui de lawedus


Notes:
compositio de decimis de Pethelhou que ad moniales de Eccles pertinent


Notes:
confirmaui fratri meo ad feodofirmam unam carrucatam terre


Notes:
lumini sancti Walleui abbatis ad inueniendum unum cereum ad tumba ipsius sancti


Notes:
testimonium compositionis de decimis de Eskedal


Notes:
nichil preter solas oraciones exigere valeamus


Descriptor1:
Randulfo comite Morauia,domina Vallis Anandie


Descriptor1:
filius Ade de Selby burgensis de Beruuyc


Descriptor2:
domino Vallis Anandie et Mannie nepote regis


Descriptor1:
de Coluyle relicta Reginaldi le Chen patris


Descriptor2:
comite Morauie et domino Mannie nepote regis


Descriptor2:
comes Morauie et dominus VallisAnandie et Mannie


Descriptor2:
comes Morauie et dominus Anandie et Mannie


Descriptor2:
justiciarium Laudonie attornatum Thome Ranulphi


Notes:
..ac nomina eorumdem in martilogio suo inter familiares facient conscribi et in morte ipsorum plenum seruicium pro eisdem facient persolui.


Descriptor2:
domino de Walston consanguineo Johanni de Graham


Descriptor2:
domino de Walston cansanguineo Johanni de Graham


Descriptor2:
dominus de Welston in baronia de Walterochiskile


Descriptor2:
clericus Sancti Andree publicus notarius


Descriptor2:
filius Johannis de Graham domini de Robertton


Descriptor2:
clericus Glasguensis imperiali auctore Notarius


Descriptor1:
rex Anglie et Francie et dominus Hibernie


Descriptor1:
dux Albanie comes de Fifte de de Menteth


Descriptor1:
duce Rothesaye comite de Carric senescallo Scocie


Descriptor1:
duce Albanie comite de Fyfe et de Meneteth


Descriptor1:
Sancti Angeli Sancte Romane ecclesie Diaconi Cardi


Descriptor2:
magistro in artibus et bacallario in drectis


# tblPersons

Commentary:
Son of Malcolm III of Scots and Margaret, king of Scots 25 April 1124 till his death on 24 May 1165. Father by his wife Matilda daughter of Waltheof earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon, of Henry earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon [4].


Commentary:
Edgar, king of Scots 1097-1107. Son of Malcolm Canmore and Margaret, brother of David I.


Commentary:
Eldest son of King David [1]; earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon. Father by his wife Ada de Warenne of kings Malcolm IV and William I. Predeceased his father on 12 June 1152.


Commentary:
First abbot of Melrose who oversaw its foundation and early growth from 1136 to 1148. Later in his abbacy his relations with his monks deteriorated, due, it was later asserted, to his quick temper and rigid disciplinarianism. In 1148 he was deprived of his office by the abbot of Rievaulx and retired to Clairvaux, where he died in 1149 (OF, p. 22).


Commentary:
Stephen of Blois, nephew of Henry I of England, whom he succeeded in 1135. Died in 1154 when he was succeeded by Henry II, grandson of Henry I.


Commentary:
Bishop John of Glasgow, nominated by Earl David and consecrated between 1114 and 21 January 1118. Died after 3 May 1147.


Commentary:
Son of Duncan II (1074). Was with David I when he invaded England and at the Battle of the Standard in 1138. Lord of Skipton in right of his wife Alice de Rumilly. Died 1152/4 leaving a son William who died young, and three daughters and coheiresses.


Commentary:
Constable of Scotland. Founder of the church of Dryburg in 1150-2, to which his wife Beatrice de Beauchamp gave the church of Bozeat in Northants, subsequently the subject of a long dispute with St Andrews Northampton (see Stringer, 'early lords of Lauderdale'). Died in 1162 according to the Chronicle of Melrose,having taken the habit of a canon regular at Dryburgh shortly before, and was succeeded by his son Richard. His son Hugh was granted the castellany of Knaresborough, Yorks, by Henry II. His daughter Ada married Roger Bertram of Mitford, and Maud married William de Vieuxpont. See Stringer, 'Early lords of Lauderdale', in Stringer, ed., Essays on the Nobility, 44-61.


Commentary:
Younger brother of Walter de Somerville. Tenant of the Lacy honour of Pontefract. He was granted the baronies of Linton in Roxburghshire and Carnwath in Lanarkshire by David of Scotland during the war with Stephen.


Commentary:
Occurs in the Carlisle sections of the English Pipe Rolls during the later 1150s and early 1160s. Son of Swein son of Ailric, brother of Adam fitz Swein, occurs in charters of Pontefract and also of the Honour of Skipton under William fitz Duncan, nephew of David I (EYC vol. vii, nos. 14, 17, 18 etc.). Father of Simon, Jordan and Alice (Cart. Pontefract ii, 462-3).
Son of Swein son of Ailric, brother of Adam fitz Swein. Father of Simon, Jordan and Alice (Cart. Pontefract ii, 462-3).


Commentary:
His wife Christiana was a benefactor of Jedburgh Abbey (RRS ii, 62). He became a canon of Jedburgh at the end of his life (RRS ii 62); he and his brother Ralph were benefactors, granting the church of Abbotsley in Huntingdonshire (ibid.).


Commentary:
William Cumin, chancellor of David I. Formerly a clerk in the household of Geoffrey Rufus, a clerk to Henry I of England who had become bishop of Durham in 1133. When Geoffrey died in 1141 William sought to succeed his patron at Durham, but by 1144 he had failed, having also lost, in 1143, the an archdeaconry of Worcester (recovered by 1157). Subsequently a chaplain to Henry II of England.


Commentary:
Matad/Maddoc earl of Atholl in or before 1136. He died at an unknown date between 1139 and 1159 and was succeeded by his son Malcolm..


Commentary:
Tenant of the honour of Huntingdon associated with Earl Henry from c. 1136. Father of Gilbert .Probably same as Robert II de Umfraville, lord of Prudhoe, Northumberland, who died c. 1145 leaving Odinel I.


Commentary:
Younger brother of William fitz Alan of Oswestry (Shrops), entered King David's service c. 1136. Steward of David I, Malcolm IV and William I. Died 1177. Married Eschina, heiress of Mow (perhaps granddaughter of Uctred son of Liulf, lord of Mow temp. David I (RRS ii, 245,p. 283); also known as de Londiniis, as were her daughters Auice and Cecilia (wife of Simon Mauleverer); another daughter Eschina predeceased her and was buried at Kelso (Lib Chel. Nos 146-8). Assiduous courtier during the 1150s and 60s, his court attendance fell off until his death in 1177.  See OF, 230-1.Father of Alan the steward and ancestor of the Stewart kings of Scotland..


Commentary:
Osbert II of Arden, from an English family named from their holding in Warwickshire, where they were tenants of the earls of Warwick and Chester. Osbert II, son of Osbert, went on the Second Crusade and died some years after leaving two daughters,


Commentary:
Probably William, elder son of Walter de Lindsay, steward of Huntingdon, whom he succeeded around 1162. Justiciar of Lothian c. 1189-98 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 137), lord of Crawford. He died c. 1205, when he was succeeded by his son David.


Commentary:
Archdeacon of Glasgow 1126/7 to 1153/9 who held the church of Old Roxburgh during the reigns of David I and Malcolm IV (RRS i, no.114).


Commentary:
Clerk and chaplain to David I, later archdeacon of St David's (Barrow, David I, p. 33).


Commentary:
Gospatrick III, son of Gospatrick son of Maldred, earl of Dunbar and lord of Beanley, Northumberland, from 1138 to 1166, when he was succeeded by his son Waltheof [53]. Father also of a son Patrick [458]. Benefactor of numerous monasteries in his lands in Scotland and Northumbria, he was founder of Cistercian nunneries at Coldstream and Eccles, Berwickshire; buried at Durham and possibly first a monk there (Complete Peerage 4, p. 505).


Commentary:
Contemporary of David I, his son John [628] had succeeded him as lord of Hownam in Roxburghshire by 1166. Gave the teind of Crailing Mill to Jedburgh (RRS ii, 62).


Commentary:
Son of Robert I de Brus, lord of Annandale (d.1142). Married Euphemia, daughter of William earl of Aumale. His eldest son Robert (III) predeceased him in 1191 leaving as heir his younger son William [843]. He died in 1194.


Commentary:
Malcolm IV king of Scots 24 May 1153 until his death on 9 December 1165, eldest son of Henry earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon [4] and Ada de Warenne. His heir was his brother William the Lion [40].


Commentary:
William the Lion king of Scots from 9 December 1165 till his death on 4 December 1214, son of Henry earl of Northumberland [4] and Ada de Warenne. Married 5 September 1186 Ermengarde de Beamont by whom he was father of Alexander II, Margaret wife of Hubert de Burgh, Isabella, wife of Hugh Bigod earl of Norfolk, and Marjory, wife of Gilbert earl of Pembroke.


Commentary:
Abbot of Kelso until his election to see of Glasgow (Chron Melrose).  Consecrated 24 August 1147. Died 1164.


Commentary:
Lord of Eskdale by grant of David I (Barrow, David, no. 273), died on 8 March 1185 as a novice of Melrose. Justiciar of Lothian c. 1170-78 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 137). Father by his wife Sybil [175] of Gervaise, also a benefactor of Melrose, and Robert the clerk. Described as 'intimate friend' by the Chronicler of Melrose, a major benefactor over many years. The chronicle also reveals that his daughter had issue a daughter Isabella by William IV, whom the king married to Robert de Brus in 1183; their descendants were among the competitors for the Crown in 1291.


Commentary:
Bishop of Moray by 24 May 1153. Died 24 January 1162.


Commentary:
Abbot of Kelsoe 1147-60. Bishop of St Andrews from 1160 to 1162.


Commentary:
Prior, then, from about 1155, abbot of Jedburgh.


Commentary:
Abbot of Holyrood, Edinburgh, 1152 to c. 1172.


Commentary:
Same as Engleran bishop of Glasgow (178).


Commentary:
Son of Halenald and brother of John de Bidun, lord of Lavendon, Buckinghamshire. Chancellor under David I and (till 1164) Malcolm IV. Reappointed by William I. Elected bishop of Dunkeld in 1178, but never consecrated as he died soon afterwards (Chron.Melrose).


Commentary:
Perhaps Geoffrey, illegitimate son of Alan I of Percy (d. 1130/5) lord of Topcliffe, Yorkshire, and brother of Alan II de Percy and Henry [67]. Malcolm IV confirmed to Whitby Abbey the grant made by Alan de Percy and his brother Geoffrey and confirmed by David I, of land in Heiton (in Roxburgh) and Osnam (RRS i, 156), and the grant to Jedburgh Abbey of the church of Oxnam by Geoffrey de Percy, Newbigging in the same being given by his brother Henry after Geoffrey died (RRS ii, 62, dated 1165 x 1170).


Commentary:
Godson of David I; justiciar of Lothian  in early years of William I (Barrow 6, 44). His son Walter also held the position. His ancestral estate in the honour of Huntingdon was confiscated by Simon II de Senlis, but he was given, in addition to Smailholm in Roxburghshire (where he granted a carucate to Dryburgh Abbey, RRS i, 110), land between the North and South Calder that formed the great lordship of Bothwell by Malcolm IV (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 330).


Commentary:
Earl of Dunbar, 1166-82, son of Gospatrick [25] and Derdere. Maried Alina [445] (d. 20 August 1179). In 1175 was one of the hostages for William I's release from imprisonment. Succeeded by his son Patrick [98] on his death in 1182. Father also of Constantine and Helen. (Complete Peerage 4, p. 505).


Commentary:
Adam, chaplain of David I and Malcolm IV in the castle of Roxburgh, brother of Nicholas chamberlain of Malcolm.


Commentary:
Nicholas of Roxburgh, brother of Adam the chaplain of Roxburgh castle. Clerk to Malcolm IV from around 1151, chamberlain 1159-65 and chancellor from 1165 until his death in 1171 (noted in Chron Melrose, p. 133).


Commentary:
Peter the son of Walter of Stirling's land in Ednam is mentioned in a charter of Malcolm IV for Dryburgh Abbey c. 1153/9 (RRS i, 129).


Commentary:
Cf Hervey son of Philip marescall who confirmed to Kelso Simon Fraser's grant of a toft at Keth; father of John de Keth the marshal (Lib Celchou nos 87-8)


Commentary:
Brother of Gospatrick III of Dunbar [25], son of Gospatrick II.  Melrose held some of his land in East Lothian from him at ferm (RRS i, nos. 132-3).


Commentary:
Son of Hugh de Moreville, d. 1162, Constable of Scotland, and Beatrice de Beauchamp.  Constable of Malcolm IV and William I. Married Avice of Lancaster, daughter of William. Described by Chronicle as constable of the king, 'a firm friend of ours', he died in 1189 or 1190. According to the Monastic Annals he had been a monk of the abbey for some time. Father of William I's constable William and Helena,wife of Roland fitz Uchtred. His widow Avice died on 1 January 1191.


Commentary:
Paternal uncle (patruuus) of Robert son of Richard of Londoniis [492]; his wife Margaret was mother by an earlier marriage of Henry Lovel; she occurs as a benefactor of Jedburgh (RRS ii 62).


Commentary:
Dapifer of the honour of Huntingdon in succession to Robert Grimbald. Attested charters of Henry earl of Huntingdon 1136-48 (Barrow, David I, nos 63-4).


Commentary:
Son of Alan I de Percy of Topscliffe, Yorkshire, by his wife Emma de Gand. Half-brother of Alan's natural son Geoffrey [50].


Commentary:
Son of Osulf son of Uctred.Like his father, donor of land in Ringwood to Melrose, with the assent of his son Thomas [777] and attested by his uncle (avunculus) Edward.


Commentary:
Second abbot of Newbattle, died 19 August 1179 (Chron. Mel. p. 137). Barrow, RRS ii, index, gives variant of his name as English Eanfrith.


Commentary:
Probably distinct from homonym, Walter son of William, steward of honour of Huntingdon under Malcolm, from 1157-62 (RRS i,  p. 155) and probably his son, brother of William of Lindsay (d. c. 1205). The younger Walter, sheriff of Berwick (1212 x 1232, RRS ii, p. 64).


Commentary:
Duncan II earl of Fife (1154-1204), father of Malcolm [136] (earl 1204-30, d.s.p.) and Duncan [560, father of Earl Malcolm (d. 1266)]. Married in 1159/60 at Edinburgh Ela de Warenne, kinswoman of Malcolm IV. Justiciar of Lothian (see Barrow, RRS ii, p. 44). Complete Peerage 5, p. 373).


Commentary:
Died c. 1178. Nephew of William Cumin [13], chancellor to David I till 1141, he laid the basis for the family fortunes in Scotland by his marriage to Hextilda daughter of Uhtred son of Waltheof, lord of part of North Tynedale in Cumberland. He gave the church of West Linton to Kelso Abeey, where his son John was buried (Barrow, Daiv I, nos. 277 and 280, and p. 32.Father of William (d. 1233).


Commentary:
Brother of Robert of Berkeley [189], perhaps from a Somerset family. Curialis of William I, who married Walter to the heiress of Ardoyne in Aberdeenshire. Held fees of Inverkeilor and 'Neuton' by 1173 x 1182 (Barrow, Kingdom, p.312) Succeeded Philip de Valoines as chamberlain and held it until his death about 1193 (Barrow, 6). Second husband of Eva, widow of Robert de Quincy. His heiress was Agatha wife of Humphrey fitz Theobald de Addeville (from a Shropshire family associated with the Montgomeries) who took her name of de Berkeley (RRS ii, 344 and note).


Commentary:
Hugh of Roxburgh, clerk and chancellor of William I; bishop-elect of Glasgow when he died on 10 July 1199 (Chron Melrose, p. 147).


Commentary:
Royal chaplain under William I. Became archdeacon of Glasgow by 1195 (Barrow, 33).


Commentary:
Master John of Roxburgh, treasurer of  the diocese of Glasgow. Died as a novice of Melrose on 2 February 1196 (RRS ii, 62, note 36, Chron. Melrose, p. 146); OF, p. 25.


Commentary:
Son of Walter I fitz Alan [16]. His daughter Avelina was wife of Duncan fitz Gilbert [132]. Died 1204 and was succeeded by his son Walter [257].


Commentary:
Son of Stephen Bulmer (d. 1171-2), whose wife Cecily (d. c. 1180) was sister and heir of Ranulf de Muschamp, lord of Wooler, Northumberland, who died before 1154. He assumed his mother's name. He was succeeded by his son Robert when he died in 1190.


Commentary:
First of the Hays of Errol (see A. Wagner, 'The origin of the Hays of Erroll', Genealogist's Magazine, 1954, 1955.) Nephew and knight of Ranulf I de Soules (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 325-6). Occurs as royal butler under Malcolm IV and in 1179 under William I, under whom he was a prominent and favoured baron (RRS ii, p.37). Granted Errol in Perthshire by 1178 x 1182 (RRS ii, 204; Barrow, Kingdom, p.312). Died c. 1201; his widow Eva and son David settled a dispute with St Andrews cathedral priory before 1205 (RRS ii, 435). His younger son Malcolm was probably the king's butler and a landholder in Perth who lived until the 1240s.


Commentary:
Held royal fief of Kinnaird, less Pitmiddle, for one knight's service, from 1172 x 1174 (RRS ii, 135; Barrow, Kingdom, p.312)


Commentary:
Died in Jerusalem in 1192 (Chron. Melr.).


Commentary:
Lucius III, elected 1 September 1181, died 25 November 1185


Commentary:
Henry II of England, 1154-89; father of Richard I and John.


Commentary:
Son and successor of Henry II as king of England, 1189-1199.


Commentary:
A David marshal gave land at Whitchester (in Longformacus, Berwickshire) to the nuns of Coldstream , c. 1200 (Coldstream Cart., no. 27); RRS ii, pp. 38 and 63


Commentary:
Son of Jocelin; tenant of David de Bonule [115].


Commentary:
Earl of Dunbar 1182-1232, son of Earl Waltheof (d. 1166) [53]. Born in 1152, came of age in 1173 and died on 31 December 1232, attended by A. abbot of Melrose, his 'friend and kinsman' (Chron. Melrose, p. 177) (Complete Peerage iv, 504-5). Married first Ada (d. 1200), natural daughter of William I by whom he had issue Patrick, William, Robert and Fergus, and secondly Christine, widow of William de Brus. He died 31 December 1232 as a monk and was buried at Eccles. Father of Patrick II (d. 1248), father of Patrick III (d. 1289), father of Patrick IV (d. 1308).


Commentary:
Lord of Lenzie and Kirkintilloch, sheriff of Forfar, justiciar of Scotia from 1205, and, c. 1212-31, earl of Buchan in right of his wife Marjory. Founded the Cistercian abbey of Deer in 1219. Given the lordship of Badenock in 1229 for his part in destroying the MacWilliams (descendants of William son of Duncan and pretenders to the throne). Died 1233 and was buried in the abbey of Deer. Father of Richard (d. c 1244/9), Walter (dsp 1258), William, a clerk, Jean, wife of William earl of Ross and David, by his first wife, and by Marjory of Alexander earl of Buchan , William, Fergus, Idonea, wife of Gilbert de la Hay, Agnes, wife of Philip de Fedarg (Meldri=um) and Elizabeth wife of William earl of Mar..


Commentary:
Marshall to William I, granted his fisheries in the Tweed that William Lunok and his heirs held of Richard's uncle David de Bonule [115].


Commentary:
Uncle of William I's marshall Richard [114].


Commentary:
Lachlan, son of Uctred of Galloway and Gunnilda, daughter of Waltheof of Allerdale (Stringer, 'Early lords of Lauderdale'); adopted the non-Gaelic name Roland. Married Helena de Moreville, in whose right he succeeded her father and brother as royal constable. He died at Northampton on 19 December 1200 and was succeeded by his eldest son Alan of Galloway [470] (Barrow, 37).A younger son Thomas [969] became earl of Atholl (d. 1231). A daughter married Walter Biset in 1233 (Chron. Melrose, 177). Granted Melrose a salt-works at preston near Kirkbean in Kirkcudbrightshire, with pasture for animals, a site for a house, and right to timber in the wood of Preston (OF, 243).


Commentary:
Granted 10 acres in Berwick to Melrose with the assent of his son William [120].


Commentary:
Son of Guy the carterer of Roxburgh. Gave a toft in Berwick to Melrose for the salvation of his lord William de Somerville and himself before 1200 (OF, p. 246)..


Commentary:
Lord (earl) of Carrick; married Avelina daughter of Alan the Steward [86] after abducting her in 1200, prompting the king to take pledges from her father that peace would be maintained and the matter resolved by legal means. Sought to establish a cell of Paisley at Crossraguel in Carrick from 1214 on, perhaps as a gesture of goodwill to the Stewarts.Gave Maybothel in Carrick to Melrose in 1198 (Chron Melrose, p. 145). He died in 1250 when his heir was his son Neil (d. 1256). He may have been married more than once. His issue were sons Neil, Colin, John, Alan (two of the name) and Alexander.  (Hector L MacQueen, p. 77-8, in The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland ed. S. Boardman and Alasdair Ross (2003).


Commentary:
Bishop 1174-99. Monk and prior of Melrose, elected abbot in April 1170 after the resignation of Abbot William on 22 April (Chron. Melrose, p. 132). Promoted cult of his predecessor Waltheof. Appointed to the second most important spiritual office in the kingdom, the bishopric of Glasgow, on 23 May 1174, he resigned his abbacy only on his consecration as bishop, probably by 10 April 1175. Died 17 March 1199, possibly at Melrose; he was buried in the abbey church on the north side of the monks' choir, according to Roger of Howden, chronicler and canon of Glasgow (OF, p. 24-5). Brother of Helias (409).


Commentary:
Abbot William of Holyrood c. 1187 until 1206.


Commentary:
Archdeacon of Glasgow 1166. His successor first occurs 2 February 1196 (RRS ii, p. 62 note 36).


Commentary:
Son of Earl Duncan of Fife (d. 1204) and Ela, niece of Malcolm IV (RRS ii, no. 190). Died without issue in 1228 when he was succeeded by his nephew Malcolm (d. 1266), son of his brother Duncan and Alice Corbet. Buried at his foundation of St Servanus, Killenross (Chron. Melrose, p. 176). Complete Peerage vol. 5, p. 373.


Commentary:
Son of Ferteth (d. 1171). Earl of Strathearn, 1171-1223. Succeeded by his eldest surviving son Robert (d. 1237/44).


Commentary:
Knight of Duncan fitz Gilbert fitz Fergus [132] from whom he held land in far north of Carrick in Ayrshire, at Greenan, by the mouth of the River Doon. In the 1190s granted Melrose the right to build a salt-work on the coast of his lordship of Grenan, plus the right to take wood for fuel from the nearest of his demesne woods (OF, 243). His daughters Maria [167] and Christiana [169] and their respective husbands, Henry fitz Turstin [166] and  Raderic MacGillescop [165], confirmed his gifts.


Descriptor:
MacMurchan camerarius Dunecani filii Gileberti

Commentary:
Chamberlain of Duncan fitz Gilbert lord of Carrick [132].


Commentary:
Third son of Henry earl of Northumberland [4]. Earl of Lennox 1174-78, earl of Huntingdon 1185-1219. Married Matilda, sister of Ranulf earl of Chester on 26 August 1190 (Chron. Melrose). At his death in 1219 his heir was his son John the Scot (d.s.p. 1237). Father also of Margaret (eventual heiress), wife of Alan of Galloway, Isabel (d. 1252) wife of Robert de Brus (d. 1230), Ada wife of Henry de Hastings (d. 1250) and Matilda (d.s.p.).


Commentary:
Clerk of Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow [133]


Commentary:
Son of Fergus lord of Galloway. Briefly shared succession with his brother Uhtred before having the latter murdered: RRS i, p. 8


Commentary:
Probably same as Gillenem Maccolem (no 36)


Commentary:
Son of Richard de Moreville, whom he succeeded as royal constable in 1189/90. He died in 1196, when his heir was his sister Helena, wife of Roland fitz Uchtred. His grants to Kelsoe were confirmed by Robert de Landeles [633] who had married his widow Muriel (Lib. de Calchou, 322). His first wife was Christiana [599].


Commentary:
Confirmed the grant of Roger de Scalebroc [139] as husband of one of his daughters.


Commentary:
Married a daughter of Gilbert de Umfraville. Made grants of land at Makerstoun to Kelsoe attested by his sons Robert [605] and Walter [621], and confirmed the grant of Michael of Malkarveston and his wife Christiana (Lib. de Calchou, nos. 236, 238). His wife is names as Asa in Lib. Calchou no. 359.


Descriptor:
sponsa Raderic filia Rogeri de Scalebroc


Commentary:
Sheriff of Ayr, new burgh founded probably in 1205 (Barrow, p. 34, 64)


Commentary:
Son of Kenedy, one of the supporters of Gilbert son of Fergus king of Galloway. One of four supporters slain in a battle led by Gilbert's nephew and rival Rolland with the help of William I on 4 July 1185. His descendants, the Kennedys of Dunure, reestablished themselves as key followers of Gilbert's son Duncan earl of Carrick (MacQueen, 'Survival and Success: the


Commentary:
Son of Robert Avenel [42] (d. 1185). Justiciar of Lothian with David Lindsay I late in the reign of William the Lion, c. 1208-c. 1215 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 137). Gave a charter for Melrose attested by his wife Sybil [909]. Buried at Melrose beside the tomb of his father in 1219 (OF, p. 26). Father of Gervaise, Robert and Roger.


Commentary:
Nephew of Abbot Alwin of Holyrood.Chaplain of Malcolm IV (Chron. Melrose). Elected 1163, consecrated 28 March 1165. Died 1178, probably 13 May.


Commentary:
Chancellor of Malcolm IV (Chron. Mel.) until 1161 as subordinate of Walter de Bidun (RRS i, p. 29); archdeacon of Glasgow 1161/2, elected bishop of Glasgow 13 or 20 September 1164, consecrated 28 October 1164. Died 2 February 1174.


Commentary:
Bishop of Dunkeld from 1132. Regular witness tot he acts of Malcolm IV (RRS i, p.6).  Died 1169.


Commentary:
Geoffrey II, abbot of Dunfermlin from 1154, nephew of his predecessor, the first abbot of Dunfermlin (Chron Holyrood); died 1178 (Chron. Melrose, p. 137).


Commentary:
Abbot of Kelso, elected 29 November 1160 (RRS i, p. 14); died 1180 (Chron. Mel., p. 137).


Commentary:
Abbot of Augustinian abbey of Cambuskenneth near Stirling between c. 1152/3 to c. 1171/8.


Commentary:
Archdeacon of St Andrews from c. 1147/52 to 1172; elected bishop of Aberdeen and consecrated on 2 April 1172 (Chron. Mel.); d. 20 August 1199. Related to Robert bishop of St Andrews (d. 1159), whose nephew John the Scot was also Matthew's nephew and Aiulf, dean of Christianity of Lothian. Brother of Odo, steward of St Andrew's cathedral amd ancesor of the Kinninmonths of that ilk. (Barrow, 6).


Commentary:
Ferted, earl of Strathearn died 1171, when he was succeeded by his son Gilbert (Chron. Melrose). Father also of Malise, benefactor of Arbroath (RRS ii, no. 419).


Commentary:
Malcolm earl of Atholl (d. 1197), son of Earl Matad. He died between 15 March 1187 and 15 February 1198, leaving a successor Henry (d. before January 1211).


Commentary:
Second son of Saher I de Quichy (from Cuinchy in Picardy). Settled in Scotland c. 1165.Justiciar of Lothian c. 1170-78 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 137). His grandmother Maud de Senlis was secondly the wife of David I of Scotland. 1170-78 justiciar of Lothian, died 1197. Married Orabilis daughter of Nes fitz William, with whom he had extensive properties in Fife. Father of Saher IV [849], who was earl of Winchester  in 1206/7.


Commentary:
One of small group of William I's administrators. Nothing is known of his origins (Barrow, 6).Lord of Hadden, Roxburghshire, where he granted land to Kelso (RRS ii, no. 180). Married to Margaret (Lib. Calchou no 217), his heir was his nephew Bernard of Hadden (489) (de Hauden).


Commentary:
Brother of Walter de Berkeley [79], important but mysterious pair whom may have belonged to a group of knights from West Wessex, notably Somerset, associated with the Flemish feudatory Robert of Bampton and the Lovels of Castle Cary (RRS ii, p. 6). Married to Cecily [503] daughter of Liulf of Maxton [378] (RRS II, no. 3442). Gave land in Makarstoun to Melrose.


Commentary:
Cf. Herbert I de Arcis, tenant of the Lacy honour of Pontefract, Yorkshire, in 1166.


Commentary:
Nephew or other kinsman ('nepos') of Robert Avenel [42].


Commentary:
Nephew ('nepos') of Gervaise Avenel [176]. Father of William [949].


Commentary:
Elected late 1178, probably consecrated March 1179. Died between 1193 and August 1198.


Commentary:
Abbot of Dunfermlin from 1178 to his death in 1198, when he was succceeded by Robert of Berwick (Chron Melrose, p. 147).


Commentary:
Abbot of Jedburgh from 1174, died in 1192 and was succeeded on 29 May by Ralph, canon of the same church (Chron. Melro. p. 145).


Commentary:
Prior of St Machut, elected abbot of Kelso in 1180 (Chron. Melr., p. 137). Went to Rome on king's business with Bishop Jocelin and Abbot Ernald of Melrose in 1182. Died in 1203 and was succeeded by the prior, Geoffrey (Chron. Mel., p. 148).


Commentary:
Cellarer of Melrose, succeeded Abbot Alan as abbot of Newbottle on 25 May 1214; he resigned on 27 July 1216 and was succeeded by the cellarer Adam on 20 August (Chron. Melr. p. 155, 163).


Commentary:
Occurs as royal clerk of the Provend until 1203, when he became bishop of Dunkeld (d. April/May 1210). Perhaps the same as Richard clericus de liberatione and parson of St Cyrus. Possibly the same as Richard of Arbroath and/or Richard of Scotia: see Barrow, p. 35-6.


Commentary:
Hugh of the Seal, clerk of William I and royal scribe. Bishop of Dunkeld 1214-1230.


Commentary:
Hugh Ridel, lord of Cranston, granted the vill of 'Estrekranest' to Kelsoe abbey (Lib. de Calchou, no. 243-4). Father of Hugh, who predeceased him, and Richard (ibid. 316, 317).


Commentary:
Son of Roger I de Valognes and Agnes de Vescy. Brother of Peter II de Valognes of Benington, Hertfordshire (d. 1158). Went to Scotland in reign of Malcolm IV and was given lordships of Benvie and Panmure by William I. Chamberlain of William I early in his reign, and again from 1193 (in succession to Walter of Berkeley) until his death in 1215. His descendants were hereditary chamberlains of Scotland. Buried at Melrose in the chapterhouse (OF, p. 26); Chron. Melrose, p. 160) after his death in 1215.


Commentary:
Son of Roger de Valognes and Agnes de Vescy of Benington, Hertfordshire, brother of Philip. Held land at Easter Kilbride (Ancestor 11, pp.132-3).


Commentary:
Given fief of Athelstanford, near Haddington, by David I, held under Countess Ada, 1141x1153 (Lawrie Charters no 186 - Barrow, Kingdom, p. 311). Sheriff of Haddington in 1184 (RRS ii, no. 252).


Commentary:
Constructed a toft at the foundation of Glasgow for the use of Melrose.


Commentary:
Abbot of Newbattle 1179 until his resignation in 1201, when he was succeeded by Adam master of the converts [lay monks] (Chron Melrose, p. 148).


Commentary:
Son of Florence III count of Holland and Ada, sister of William I of Scotland. Provost of Utrecht cathedral, he was elected bishop of Glasgow in 1202, but he did arrive in Scotland until 1205 and was probably never consecrated. Resigned between 1 Jan and 15 May 1207. He apparently acted as absentee royal chancellor between 1203 and his deth on 30 November 1210 (Barrow, p. 30).


Commentary:
Abbot of Kinloss elected abbot of Melrose in 1194. Appointed bishop of Down in Ulster in 1202, where his successor occurs by 1224 (OF, 25-7).


Commentary:
Ralph abbot of Kinloss was named in the Chronicle of Melrose as one of those who opposed the ban on Cistercians holding divine service in 1213 (Chron. Melrose, p. 170).


Commentary:
Walter of St Albans; elected 9 December 1207, consecrated 2 November 1208. Died between 19 May and 2 November 1232.


Commentary:
Presumably a relative of William de Blois bishop of Lincoln 1203-6. Occurs as archdeacon of Buckingham in the diocese of Lincoln from 1206 until elected bishop of Worcester in August 1218 (Fasti Ecc. Anglicanae 1066-1300 Lincoln, p. 40).


Commentary:
Son  of  Roland fitz William. Clerk of Bishop Walter of Glasgow


Commentary:
Nephew of Bishop Florence; clerk of Bishop Walter of Glasgow


Commentary:
Walter II, son of Alan fitz Walter fitz Alan [86]. Perhaps underage when he succeeded his father as Steward in 1204. Married Bethoc, daughter of Gillecrist earl of Angus by whom he had several children including his successor Alexander Stewart, Walter Balloch ('the frreckled'), earl of Mentieth in right of his wife, and Euphemia, wife of Patrick II earl of Dunbar (d. 1249). He died in 1246.


Commentary:
Clerk of William I, archdeacon of Lothian, chancellor of William I and Alexander II (1211-26), died 1231.


Commentary:
Son and successor of Gervaise Avenel. At his death in 1243 his heir was Henry Graham of Dalkeith (Barrow, Kingdom, 123). Buried at Melrose next to his father (Chron. Melrose, p. 184).


Commentary:
Lord of Crawford, succeeded his father William as justiciar of Lothian around 1205. Married Eleanor sister and coheiress of John of Limesi of Cavendish, Suffolk (Sanders, Baronies, 30). He died before 1219 leaving sons David II, a minor in 1222, d.s.p. 1241, and Gerard, d.s.p. 1246, and Alice, wife of Henry de Pinkeny of Weedon Pinkeny (d. 1254).


Commentary:
Tenant of Alan fitz Walter Stewart [86]. Granted pasture in the Bothwell Water valley to Melrose, and common rights in the pasture of Innerwick (OF, 223).


Commentary:
Son of Richard (no. 113). Father of Richard,  Hubert, Walter and Ralph. The grant of Ralph Nano of the land of 'Colpenhope' in the territory of 'Ythetham' was confirmed to Kelsoe by Alexander II (Lib. Calchou, no. 392) in 1234.


Commentary:
Lord of Tarbolton, Renfrewshire, under Walter I Stewart. Possibly also a tenant-in-chief, since he frequently attested charters of William I. Possibly father of Adam son of Gilbert, since hewas tenant of Hutton in Dryfesdale under Adam son of Adam son of Richer. Conjected by Barrow 9Kingdom of Scots, 348), to have been a member of the l'Aigle family.


Commentary:
Natural daughter of William I, wife of Patrick earl of Dunbar.


Commentary:
Son of Patrick I of Dunbar (d. 1232) [98] and Ada daughter of William I of Scotland. Married Euphemia (d. c. 1267), daughter of Walter II Stewart. Died at the siege of Damietta in 1248 and was followed by Patrick III (d. 1289). (Comp. Peer. 4, p. 505).


Commentary:
Monk and prior of Melrose, elected abbot in 1207 in succession to the short-lived Patrick (Chron. Melr. p. 149). Appointed bishop of politically sensitive see of Caithness in 1213. Caught in the middle of the struggle between John, earl of Caithness and the king, he lost the support of his people through his rigid insistence on compliance with Church law and the payment of teind and other revenues. In 1222 he was murdered by a mob at Halkirk, for which Alexander II exacted a swift and bloody revenge. Adam was regarded as a saint, martyred for his stout defence of Church rights (OF, p. 30). See also Adam de Macceston (Maxton) for a later Abbot Adam.


Commentary:
Second wife of Patrick earl of Dunbar [98].


Commentary:
Son of Nes de Walenton [319]. Granted Melrose 10 Acres in teritory of Liveringham.


Commentary:
Roger II de Merlay, lord of Morpeth, Northumberland, son of Roger I (d. 1188). A minor in 1188, Duncan earl of Fife paid 500 marks for his wardship and to marry him to his daughter, he came of age in 1194. He died in 1239. His grandfather Ralph (d. before 1137) had married Juliana, daughter of Gospatrick earl of Dunbar (d. 1138).


Commentary:
Son of Ralph Nano (difficult to distinguish with certainty).


Commentary:
Priest of Wittingham, brother of Alan [283].


Commentary:
Eve, widow of Robert de Quincy and Walter de Berkeley gave 20 acres in Edmondstoun to Melrose for the souls of her husbands, her son John, her brother Roland and her sister Christine.


Commentary:
Brother of Eve [287], widow of Robert de Quincy.


Commentary:
Son of Eve [287], widow of Robert de Quincy.


Commentary:
Sister of Eve [287], widow of Robert de Quincy.


Commentary:
Walter of Roxburgh, archdeacon of St Andrews from c. 1173/9 to 1188.


Commentary:
Canon of Jedburgh and prior of Restennot, first Abbot of Scone 1162 to 1186; succeeded by a second Robert, the prior, who resigned in 1198.


Commentary:
Abbot of Holyrood from 1173 to 1178 x 1184.


Commentary:
First abbot of Dryburgh, resigned 1177, when he was succeeded by the prior, Gerald (Chron. Melrose, p. 136).


Commentary:
Robert of Perth, chancellor of Bishop Richard of St Andrews (d. 1178) [177]


Commentary:
Chaplain of Richard bishop of St Andrews [177].


Descriptor:
archidiaconus et uniuersus clerus Laudoniensis

Commentary:
Andrew, archdeacon of Lothian 1165-1179 x 1184.


Commentary:
From a Norman family associated with the de Tosny family, acquired the baronies of Mid Calder in Midlothian and Cambusnethan in Clydesdale from Malcolm IV or William I (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 330-1). Granted the church of Caledoure to Kelso )Lib. de Calchou, no. 348).


Commentary:
Richard, chaplain of Malcolm IV and William I. Bishop of Dunkeld 1170-78.


Commentary:
Robert son of Fulbert de Stenton, brother of Helias of Partic canon of Glasgow [307], and Peter of Pollok; also known as Robert of Pollok (Barrow, Kingdom, 342, 352); tenant of Walter and Alan Stewart, granted five acres of arable at Hartside to Melrose and associated pasture rights (OF, 223). Father of a son Robert, his heir seems to have been his daughter Isabel [366]. His widow Isabel, daughter of Robert Croc, gave Melrose land in her dower at Mow.


Commentary:
Brother of Robert fitz Fulbert of Steinton [306] and Peter fitz Fulbert of Pollock; canon of Glasgow. William I confirmed the grants to Paisley of the church of Mearns (Renfrewshire) by Elias of Partick with the consent of his brother Peter of Pollock 1189 x 1195 (RRS ii, 310).


Commentary:
Son of Robert fitz Fulbert of Stenton [306].


Commentary:
He and his son Philip made grants of land in Beleside and Edmuniston (lost place in Stenton, East Lothian) to Melrose.


Commentary:
Sheriff of Mearns, and of Forfar during c. 1164 x 1190, and forester of Kincardine (Barrow, p. 40).


Commentary:
Son of Matilda, daughter of Gerold de Thanu and Marsiena; granted tenement of Brockemund to Kelsoe, attested by his wife M. and son Henry (Lib. de Calchou, 323).


Commentary:
Son of William de La Haye  [88] (d.c.1201) and Eva. Sheriff of Forfar temp. William I.


Commentary:
Tenant of Earl Patrick of Dunbar [98]; granted property at Spott to Melrose.


Commentary:
John of Maxwell, sheriff of Roxburgh in 1207 (RRS ii, p, 64). Chamberlain of Alexander II from 19 March 1231 to 9 July 1233. Buried at Melrose in 1241 (Chron. Melrose, p. 185). John of Maxwell , son of Herbert the sheriff, and Robert his brother attested a Kelsoe charter of Bernard of Hawdon (Lib. de Calchou no. 213).


Commentary:
Son of Ralph of Kent [336] and his successor by 1177 in a Stewart fee in the parish of Innerwick, East Lothian. His successor was Helen, his sister or daughter, wife of John son of Alan of Montgomery (Barrow, Kingdom of the Socts, p. 351); two other sister, Ada and Emma, were wives of two brothers, William and Ricgard of Havekerviston (Lib. de Calchou, 251-2).


Commentary:
Man of Walter I Stewart from whom he held Kilbarchan, then known as Penuld, from which he gave the Cluniacs at Paisley  two carucates (Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, p. 346).


Commentary:
Tenant of Walter I Stewart [16], holding land at Innerwick and, later, at Ralston in the parish of Paisley. Father of Robert [333].


Commentary:
Tenant of Alan fitz Walter Stewart [86] at Innerwick in Lothian (Barrow, Kingdom, 351-2). His heirs were his daughter Helewisa's husband Roland and his nephew Robert Hunaud (Lib. de Calchou, 249-50). Benefactor of Kelsoe (Lib. de Calchou, no. 248).


Commentary:
Prominent tenant and follower of the Morvilles of Lauderdale. Son of Elsi of Thirlestane who was a baronial sheriff for the Morvilles c. 1162 x 1177; lord of Thirlestane under William de Morville by 1189 x 1196 (Barrow, Kingdom, pp. 298-9, 312).


Commentary:
Peter Haigh of Bemersyde, prominent tenant and follower of the Morvilles.


Commentary:
Son of Henry Wallace. Tenant of Walter I [16] and Alan I Stewart [86]. Granted land at Barmuir in the parish of Mauchline to Melrose (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 349).


Commentary:
Brother of Richard [344]. Tenant of Walter I fitz Alan Stewart [16]; gave part of his fee in Innerwick to Melrose. The toponymic has not been identified (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 352).


Commentary:
Brother of William [343]. Tenant of Walter I fitz Alan Stewart; gave part of his fee in Innerwick to Melrose.


Commentary:
Stewart tenant. Married Helen, sister or daughter and heiress of Robert of Kent. One of a group that gave Melrose land at Innerwick, East Lothian.


Commentary:
Younger son of Robert Avenel baron of Eskdale. Succeeded his father in the small Stewart fee of Innerwick (Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, p. 352).


Commentary:
Probably son of Helewisa, daughter and coheir of Nicholas of the Cotentin, a Stewart tenant, and her husband Roland.


Commentary:
Perhaps originally from the FitzAlan lordshop of Clun in Shropshire, occurs as husband of Isabel [366] daughter and heiress of Robert of Stenton [306], East Lothian, in the Stewart fee (Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, p. 352).


Commentary:
Attested two acts of William I, in 1198 and 1204/5 (RRS ii, nos 398, 464). Took part in an embassy to King John around May 1199.


Commentary:
Daughter and heiress of Robert fitz Fulbert of Steintun, wife of William Wallace.


Commentary:
Successor of Geoffrey sometime before 11 November 1208; died 1211 (Ch Melrose, p.).


Commentary:
Master of the 'converts' ['conversi', lay brothers], elected abbot of Newbattle in 1201 (Chron Melrose, p. 148). He resigned in 1213 and was succeeded by Alan, subprior of Melrose (ib., p. 154-5).


Commentary:
William de Courcy; abbot of Holm Cultram in succession to Gregory sometime between 1203 and 1210; resigned to become abbot of Melrose 16 Nov. 1215, but on 31 August 1216 became abbot of Rievaulx; died 1 February 1224 (Heads, 135).


Commentary:
A monk of Melrose, elected second abbot of Coupar Angus in 1171 (Chron. Melrose, p. 133). Died 1 August 1189 (Chron Melrose,p. 143). Perhaps the abbot R of no. 64.


Commentary:
Lord of Maxton, Roxburghshire. His daughter Cecily [503] married Robert de Berkeley [189] (RRS ii, 342).


Commentary:
Important tenant of Walter I Stewart [16]; probably originated from the castellany or honour of Montgomery near the Stewart origins in Shropshire (Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, p. 344). May have been given the feeof Eaglesham by Walter I; the family certainly held in the fourteenth century.


Commentary:
Seneschal of Walter II fitz Alan [257] (d. 1242).


Commentary:
Nephew of Alan I Stewart; son of Walter I's younger son Walter.


Commentary:
Helias son of Uctred lord of Dundas under Waltheof son of Gospatrick, c 1180 (Barrow, Kingdom, p.312).


Commentary:
Odinel I de Umfraville, son of Robert, was probably dead in 1166. His heir was Odinel II, who married Alice daughter of Henry II's justiciar Richard de Lucy, and died in 1182 leaving Robert III and Richard.


Commentary:
Lord of Fintry, Angus, under Earl David, by 1185 x 1190 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 312). William I confirmed to Hugh Giffard the lands and tenements he held by grant of Malcolm IV and Countess Ada in Yester, Lethington and Haddington, and from his father-in-law Herbert the Chamberkain in Borrowstound, West Lothian and four librates of land in Potton, Bedfordshire, c. 1166 x 1171 (RRS ii, no. 48).


Commentary:
same as Richard of Lincoln, bishop of Moray.


Commentary:
Rainer monk of Melrose who succeeded Abbot Ascelin of Kinloss on 1 March 1174 (Chron Melr. p. 135); elected abbot of Melrose on 23 March 1189 (Chron. Mel. p. 143). He resigned in September 1196 and was succeeded by Ralph prior of Melrose on 18 September 1196 (Ibid., p. 146).


Commentary:
Sub-prior of Melrose elected abbot of Coupar Angus in 1189; resigned 1194 and was succeeded by Ernald prior of Newbottle (Chron Melrose, p. 143, 146).


Commentary:
William Mauvoisin, elected bishop of Glasgow October 1199, consecrated 24 September 1200. Translated to St Andrews 18-20 September 1202. Died 1238.


Commentary:
Nephew of Bishop Jocelin of Glasow [133].


Commentary:
Brother of Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow [133]. Granted the church of 'Dunsyer' to Kelsoe Abbey (Lib. de Calchou, no. 352).


Commentary:
Stewart tenant who granted land in Mauchline at Dalsangan and Bargour to Melrose in 1205 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 349).


Commentary:
Alexander II, son of Malcolm IV, king of Scots 4 December 1214 to 8 July 1249. Married first Joan daughter of King John of England, and secondly, on 15 May 1239 Marie de Coucy [2485], mother of Alexander III. Father also of a natural daughter Marjory, wife of Alan Durward [1032].


Commentary:
According to Barrow, RRS ii, 447 note p. 417, Melrose Liber no 114 dates to 1201 x 1205. This means that this must be a different John from [85].


Commentary:
Abbot of Coupar Angus, elected to succeed Ralph of Melrose in 1202. He died less than four years later and was followed by the shortlived sub-prior Patrick (OF, 29-30; Chron. Melrose, p. 148-9).


Commentary:
Son of William de Brus of Annandale (d. 1212) [843]. Married Isabel, younger daughter of David of Scotland. Died between 1226 and 1233, leaving issue Robert V, a competitor in 1291 (d. 1295).


Commentary:
Son of William de Brus of Annandale [843] (d. 1212) and Christine.


Commentary:
See Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, p. 352-3, for the suggestion that Adam of Ness was the same as Adam Wallace, and his brother Henry of Ness the same as Henry Wallace. Probably named from either Little Ness, held by Walter I's brother William FitzAlan, or Great Ness, held from 1158 by the Lestrange family, both in Shropshire.


Commentary:
Son of Philip [584]. Lord of Carsphairn (d. 1219), a dependent of Duncan of Carrick. A Norman whose Gaelic acculturation earned him the nickname of 'the Scot'. Arrested in May 1210, charged with treason and imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle; ransomed himself on 30 November (Chron. Melrose; see RRS ii, p. 447).


Commentary:
Betoc, daughter of Gillecrist earl of Angus and Marjorie, daughter of Henry earl of Huntingdon; wife of Walter II Stewart.


Commentary:
Lord of Tarbolton and other places by 1177 x 1204 (Barrow, Kingdom, p.312)


Commentary:
Wife of Earl Waltheof of Dunbar [53]. The death of Alina countess of Dunbar on 20 August 1179 was recorded in the Chronicle of Melrose (p. 139).


Commentary:
Son of Earl Gospatrick of Dunbar [25]; brother of Earl Waltheof [53].


Commentary:
same as [283], Alan brother of Walter fitz Edgar


Commentary:
Son of Hugh. Lord of Yester, Tealing and Powgavie [395] by 1202 x 1207 (RRS ii, p. 32 and no. 418, William I grants Tealing to Walter son of Hugh Giffard 1196 x 1201; Barrow, Kingdom, p.312).


Commentary:
Alan of Galloway, son of Rolland the constable [118] and Helena de Moreville [474]. Succeeded his father as royal constable in 1200, outliving William I by many years. He married Margaret, eldest sister and coheir of John de Lacy ('le Scot'), earl of Huntingdon, by whom he had issue two daughters and coheiresses, Christiana, wife of William de Forz, and Devorguilla, wife of John de Balliol.His second wife was Margaret eldest daughter of Earl David of Huntingdon, and his third Rose, daughter of Hugh de Lacy earl of Ulster (Stringer' early lords Lauderdale). By an earlier wife he was father of Elena, wife of Roger de Quincy (d. 1264). He also had a natural son Thomas who was not permitted to succeed him.


Commentary:
Clerk of Alan fitz Rolland of Galloway [470]


Commentary:
Tenant of Walter I Stewart [16], holding a carucate and a half in Ledgerwood parish.


Commentary:
Daughter of Richard de Moreville [64], sister and eventual heiress of William de Moreville [156]. Wife of Roland fitz Uchtred of Galloway [118].


Commentary:
Granted Melrose one bovate of land in the territory of Faringdon on the high road to Roxburgh attested by his sons Geoffrey, Ralph, Walter and Richard.


Commentary:
Aymer of Maxwell, brother of John the chamberlain of Alexander II [329] and son of Herbert of Maxwell (d. c. 1202]. Justiciar of Galloway in 1264.


Commentary:
Son of David Olifard; followed him as justiciar of Lothian (RRS ii, p. 44), as did his own son Walter II (d.1242).


Commentary:
Nephew and heir of Bernard son of Brien. Held land at Hadden, Roxburghshire. Early in the reign of Alexander II he was permitted to commute castle-ward for a payment of 20s, unless there was a war or state of emergency (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 303).


Commentary:
Held a plough-gate at Lessudden, Roxburghshire, for which he paid an annual rent of 20shillings (RRS ii,  20, 422).


Commentary:
Son of Richard de Londoniis [848] who confirmed his father's (lost) grant of a carrucate in Lessudden to Melrose. He gave the church of Lessudden to Dryburgh Abbey, confimed by William I (RRS ii, 121).


Commentary:
Paternal uncle (patruus) of Robert de Londoniis [492].


Commentary:
Son of Eustache de Vescy [572] (d. 1216) and Marjory or Margaret daughter of William the Lion [2102]. Came of age in 1226 and died in 1253, leaving issue John (d.s.p. 1289) and William (d.s.p.s. 1297) by his wife Agnes, daughter of William earl of Derby (d. 1254).


Commentary:
Natural daughter of William the Lion by, according to the Chronicle of Melrose (p. 145), a daughter of Adam de Hythusum, and wife of Eustach de Vesci whom she married in 1193 (d. 1216).


Commentary:
His death in 1221 was noted in the Chronicle of Melrose (p. 173).


Commentary:
Hugh de Reveden gave the land of 'Floris' to kelsoe in 1258; in 1285 Hugh de Reveden, son and heir of John son of Hugh de Reveden made a quiclaim to Kelsoe (Lib. de Calchounos 218, 219).


Commentary:
Adam son of Adam of Durham; granted to Melrose land he held in West Lilliesleaf from William de Ridale [812].


Commentary:
Married Helen [739] daughter of Simon de Lindsay [738]; he and his wife sold land in Hungerigs in the territory of Mow held of Robert de Polloch [306] and Isabel his wife, confirmed by their son Richard de Heton.


Descriptor:
de Cokeburne constabularius de Rokesburg


Commentary:
Abbot William of Paisley, occurs 1225/6 and possibly in 1248.


Commentary:
Exchanged land in Lekehalu with Alexander de Londoniis. Husband of Mabel [2141].


Commentary:
Son of Patrick, brother of Waltheof [2145].


Commentary:
Cecilia daughter of Liulf son of Maccus lord of Maxton, wife of Robert de Berkeley. They granted a ploughgate in Maxton to Melrose.


Commentary:
Richard of Lincoln, a royal clerk. Elected bishop of Moray 1 March 1187 and consecrated 15 March 1187. he died in 1203.


Commentary:
A second Robert chaplain to William I occurs late in the reign, in February 1213. Before the king died the following year he had been elected bishop of Ross (Barrow, 34).


Commentary:
Chaplain to William I. Disappears around the same time, c. 1196, that a Ralph became bishop of Brechin [775]. Perhaps the same man (RRS ii, p. 32).


Commentary:
Chamberlain of William I who, from 1165, attested 26 of the king's acts, nine of them either at Stirling or Clackmannan. His son Adam attested six acts towards the end of the reign (RRS ii, p. 33-4).


Commentary:
Canon of Glasgow, dapifer to Bishop Jocelyn (d. 1199).


Commentary:
Official of Glasgow. Master John of Huntingdon's earliest recorded appearance as a royal witness in 1200 x 1202.


Commentary:
Lord of Maxton in Roxburghshire, from the family holding Stamfordham in Northumberland (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 123). Father of John, Thomas, Waleran and Henry. He and his wife Alina [535] were benefactors of Melrose.


Commentary:
Granted to Melrose part of Blainslie formerly granted by David I to his foresters and subsequently granted by William I to him, confirmed by the king c. 1185; Barrow (RRS ii p. 297 note) suggests he was perhaps the William brother of Roger son of Audoenus who witness a charter of Edward son of Peter of Restalrig for Newbattle Abbey (Newbattle Registrum, p. 287).


Commentary:
Daughter of William fitz Gilbert, lord of Kendal; Married first William Peverel II of Nottingham (d. 1154), and secondly Richard de Morville (d. 1189). Died 1January 1191 (Chron. Melrose).


Commentary:
Canon of Kirkham, then monk of Melrose; first abbot of Holm Cultram from 1152 until his death in 1192 (Heads of Houses,135), when he was succeeded by the under-cellarer Gregory (Chron. Melrose, p. 145).


Commentary:
Ancestor of the Maules, connected with the de Morvilles in Scotland.


Commentary:
Cleric, steward of Richard de Morville [64] (d. 1189).


Commentary:
Alan, son of the priest of Clapham, named from a village in Yorkshire, follower of the de Morvilles in Scotland. Granted rights at Addinston, near Lauder, by William de Morville. Succeeded Henry de St Clair as baronial sheriff of Lauder. He had purcahsed a confraternity at Furness abbey in Lancashire and apparently retired there to die (Stringer, 'Early lords of Lauderdale').


Commentary:
Abbot of Melrose 1179-89; abbot of Rievaulx 1189 to 1199 when he resigned and was succeeded by William de Punchard[on] (d. 1203). (Chron Melrose).


Commentary:
Master John the Scot, nephew of Archdeacon Matthew and Bishop Robert of St Andrews. His election to see of St Andrews in 1178 was without king's licence and was disputed until he resigned in 1188. Translated to Dunkeld in 1183, before July, and died in 1203.


Commentary:
More likely two names, of which Walter erroneously in genitive.


Commentary:
Knight of Walter I [16] and Alan Stewart. Had a court and a private chapel within Paisley parish, probably on site of Crookston Castle which takes its name from him (Barrow,Kingdom of the Scots, p. 342).


Commentary:
Brother of Roland of Galloway [118]. Became a canon of Holy Rood in 1160, granting vill of Dunroden; he died there on 12 May 1161(Chron Holyrood).


Commentary:
Prior of Lesmahagu (Chron Melrose), elected bishop of Moray in 1203. Died 1222.


Commentary:
Either Abbot William of Holyrood (1187/9 to 1206), or Abbot Walter (1210-1217/18).


Commentary:
Son of William de Vesci of Alnwick, d. 1183. Of age in 1190, he married William the Lion's daughter Margaret, granddaughter of Adam de Hythusum, at Roxburgh in 1198 (Chron Melrose).He died in 1216 at the siege of Barnard castle, leaving William II who came of age in 1226 and d 1253.


Commentary:
Chaplain of William I later in the reign, c. 1196-c1214; worked with Walter of St Albans until 1207, when Walter was elected to the see of Glasgow and William became the senior chaplain working with a  junior named Oliver (Barrow, 32-3).


Commentary:
Clerk of the Provend; see Barrow, RRS ii, p. 34 and note p. 62.


Commentary:
Parson of Kinghorn, clerk of the provend in later years of William I (Barrow, p. 35).


Commentary:
Gilbert of Stirling, clerk of William I and Alexander II, bishop of Aberdeen from 1228 to 1239.


Commentary:
Son of Philip. Chamberlain of Alexander II. Held fee of Benvie and Panmure by 1198 x 1200 (Barrow, Kingdom, p.312). Died in 1219 at Kelso, his body was carried to Melrose for burial (against the monks' wishes) next to his father (Chron. Melrose, p. 171)..


Commentary:
Son of Eustache de Balliol (d.c. 1209). With his brother Henry [919] attained the patronage of William I who gave him the lordship of Inverkeilor. Married a daughter of Walter de Berkeley by whom he was ancestor of the Balliols of Urr and Inverkeilor. Died c. 1244.


Commentary:
Lord of Fowlis Easter in right of his wife, Cristina, daughter of William Maule (Masculus). Sheriff of Perth 1209-12 (RRS ii, p. 64). See RRS ii,  302, 338.


Commentary:
Baron of the honour of Huntingdon (RRS i, 139) given land in Lanarkshire under Malcolm IV (RRS i, p. 107, no. 313).


Commentary:
Prior then abbot of Kelso 1208 to 1218, when he was succeeded by the prior Richard (Chron Melrose, p. 171).


Commentary:
Son of Thomas de Colville [434] (d. 1219). He and his wife Ada [902] augmented the gifts of his father.


Commentary:
Prior Ernald of the Benedictine house of Coldingham, Berwickshire, occurs from c. 1207/8 to c. 1211. Prior Thomas occurs in 1212.


Commentary:
Alan son of Elsi, lord of Thirlestane under William de Morville by 1189 x 1196 (Barrow, Kingdom, p.312). Same as Alan de Tirlestan (338).


Commentary:
First wife of William de Moreville [156].


Commentary:
Abbot of Dundrennan; abbot Rievaulx 1167 till his resignation in 1188; died 9 October 1189 at Bylands abbey (Ch Melrose, p. 143).


Commentary:
Second abbot of Dundrennan after Silvanus went to Rievaulx in 1167. Occurs in 1180. His successor Nicholas occurs in 1196.


Commentary:
Presumably a member of the family of Ros of Helmsley and Wark, perhaps brother of Robert I (d. 1162), son of Peter. A Peter de Ros attested charters of William de Percy in the later twelfth century (Early Yorkshire Charters vol. XI, nos. 25, 27, 30).


Commentary:
Son of Walter I Corbet [168] and a daughter of Gilbert de Umfraville.


Commentary:
From the family of the Northumberland barons of Prudhoe, son of Robert and brother of Odinel I. Constable of William I. His daughter married Walter I Corbet.


Commentary:
Geoffrey, abbot of Dryburg 1203-1209, when he became abbot of Alnwick; succeeded at Dryburgh by the prior William (Chron. Melrose, p. 150).


Commentary:
Succeeded Richard as Abbot of Jedburgh in 1192 (Chron. Melrose p. 145). Abbot until 1205.


Commentary:
Archdeacon of Glasgow from early 1196. Died in London on the way back from Rome in 1222; buried there in the cemetery of St Paul (Chron. Melrose, p.175).


Commentary:
Master John of Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire.


Commentary:
Son of John of Howden, who attested a charter of William I for Cambuskenneth Abbey c. 1173/7 (RRS ii, 161). Father of Isabella, wife of William I de Ridale.


Commentary:
Attested Melrose and Kelsoe charters of Walter and Robert Corbet (Lib. de Calchou, no, 359).


Commentary:
Son of Walter I Corbet [168] and a daughter of Gilbert de Umfraville. His grant of land in Clifton (in Morebattle, Roxburghshire) mentions his wife Alice [622] and was confirmed to Melrose by William I (RRS ii, 447). His daughter Alice was wife of Duncan, younger son of Duncan II earl of Fife, mother of Earl Malcolm (d. 1266).


Commentary:
Son of Orm son of Eilaf [32] (died by 1166), lord of Hownam Law in Roxburghshire. Sheriff of Roxburgh 1165 x 1171 (Barrow, p. 64). His son William [629] occurs from 1189 (RRS ii, 314 and note).


Commentary:
Son of John son of Orm son of Eilaf, lord of Hownam [628]. Married first Gilia [1037] sister of Robert de Muschamp, and secondly Dunantia de Clerefei [692]. See RRS ii, 382 and notes.


Commentary:
Lord of Primside. His grant of land there was confirmed by the king in 1204 (RRS i, 441). Also benefactor of Kelsoe, where his charter mentions his brother Thomas (Lib. de Calchou, 367-8).


Commentary:
Confirmed to Kelsoe the grants of his wife Muriel's first husband William de Moreville [156] (Lib. de Calchou, 322).


Commentary:
Relative of Walter and Ansketin [791] of Ridale.


Commentary:
Enfeoffed by Ansketin of Ridale [791], for whose soul he granted land in the territory of Wittun. Father of Robert [810].


Commentary:
Son of Uctred [637]. Described in Liber Calchou. as 'serviens abbatis'.


Commentary:
May be same as [358], Gilbert clericus de Witingeham, given the association in witness lists with Petrus de Witingham. Clerk to Patrick I of Dunbar [98].


Commentary:
Attested a Melrose charter of Patrick I of Dunbar [98]. Gave the chapel of Wederley to Kelsoe as Gilbert son of Alden de Hom (Lib. de Calchou, 299-301).


Commentary:
Richard of Lincoln, clerk of William I and of Hugh the chancellor, bishop of Moray from 1187 to 1203 (Barrow, RRS ii, pp. 32, 86-7).


Commentary:
English royal servant and chronicler, Roger of Howden, who made one or two visits to Scotland in and around 1193, perhaps connected with the gift of 2,000 merks made by William I towards the ranson of Richard I of England (Barrow, RRS ii, 365 and note, p. 361).


Commentary:
Clerk of Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow who became clerk to William I c. 1194/5 (Barrow, RRS ii, pp. 32, 88-9).


Commentary:
Monk of Melrose, elected successor to Gregory bishop of Ross on 27 February 1195 (Chron. Melrose, p. 146). He died 13 December 1213 (ib.,p. 154).


Commentary:
Roger priory of the Cluniac priory, later abbey, of Paisley, from c. 1195/6 to sometime between 1208 and 1214.


Commentary:
Elected 21 March 1191, died 8 January 1198.


Commentary:
Chaplain occurring in a list of Glasgow clergy c. 1205-7.


Commentary:
Priest of Lilliesleaf; brother of John [684].


Commentary:
Malcolm IV confirmed to Geoffrey I de Melville and his heir Gregory the lands formerly of Macbeth in Liberton (Midlothian) as Malcolm IV had granted it (RRS ii, 59). Geoffrey I was also father, by Matilda Malherbe, of Geoffrey. Gregory's heir in the 1180s was his son Richard (RRS ii, 266-269).


Commentary:
Clerk of Malcolm IV and William I.Attested two charters for Coldingham priory for Malcolm IV (RRS i, nos. 200, 201).


Commentary:
Wife of William fitz John de Hunum [629].


Commentary:
Succeeded his childless brother Robert, son of Odinel, in 1194. Died 1226 leaving Gilbert (earl of Angus iure uxoris), d. 1245.


Commentary:
Chamberlain of Malcolm IV who granted to him and his heirs Lundin in Fife for one knight's service c. 1161/4 (RRS i, no. 255). Father of Walter whose grant to St Andrews was confirmed by William I in 1189 x 1195 (RRS ii, no. 333).


Commentary:
Innocent III, elected 8 January 1198, died 16 July 1216 at Perugia.


Commentary:
Patrick abbot of Dunfermlin between 1202 and 1223.


Commentary:
Perhaps John of Leicester, archdeacon of Lothian; bishop of Dunkeld 1211-1214.


Commentary:
Official, succeeded Ralph as archdeacon of St Andrews in 1209 (Chron Melrose).


Commentary:
Archdeacon of Dunkeld 1200 x 1209-1220 x 1225.


Commentary:
Also known as Anselm of Mow, where he gave land to Melrose and Kelso. His daughter and legitimate heir (there were sons Richard Scot [753] and Gilbert) Matilda was a benefactor, with her husband Richard of Lincoln [721], of Kelsoe (RRS ii, 367, confirmed c. 1193; his daughter Isolda married Alexander son of William son of Edgar (Lib Chel. No 169) she was daughter of a first marriage; his widow was named Agnes (ib. no 162).


Commentary:
Likely a personal name missing. Cf. Richard Gernun [837].


Commentary:
Benefactor of Melrose and Kelsoe, to which he gave land in his wife Matilda's (daughter of Anselm  [716]) inheritance of Mow. Barrow, RRS ii, p. 364. Father of Richard And Thomas and uncle of William (Lib. De Calchou, nos. 158-160, 165).


Commentary:
Son of Patrick [794]. Held royal fief of Whittons, and half Chatto and Lilliesleaf, c. 1153, (Lawrie, Charters, 222, Barrow, Kingdom, p.311). Father of William [792].


Commentary:
Attested a charter of Walter Corbet for Kelsoe (Lib. de Kelsoe, no. 359).


Commentary:
Daughter of Simon of Lindsay [738]. Wife of Master Adam de Heton, mother of Richard.


Commentary:
Daughter of Robert Croc. Probably mother of Simon of Lindsay [738] who held of her and her husband Robert of Polloch [306] and settled land inherited from her on his daughters Helen and Eschina and Melrose.


Commentary:
Married Cecilia daughter of Eschina of Mow [847], wife of Walter I Stewart [16]. Her heir was Gilbert Avenel [744] (Liber Chelcou nos 150, 164).


Commentary:
Son of William. Heir of Cecilia daughter of Eschina of Mow [847] (Liber de Chelcou).


Commentary:
Richard Scot, son of Anselm of Mow [716], and his wife Alice were benefactors of Kelso (Liber de Chelcou nos 163,167).


Commentary:
Son of Eustache fitz John and Beatrice de Vesci, lord of Alnwick, Northumberland. Died in 1183 when his son Eustache [572], by Burga, daughter of Robert de Stuteville of Cottingham (d. 1183) was still a minor.


Commentary:
Perhaps same as Adam de Nes (Barrow, Kingdom of the Scots, p. 352-3).


Commentary:
Chaplain of Walter I Stewart [16] (d.1177).


Commentary:
Dean of Glasgow in the time of bishop William (1200-1202).


Commentary:
Richard de Cave (Chron Melrose), Abbot of Kelsoe from 1206 until his death in 1208, when he was succeeded on 17 June by the prior Henry (Chron Mel. p. 150).


Commentary:
Bishop of Brechin, elected 1198/9, consecrated 1202; died after 31 May 1212. Perhaps the same as Ralph the king's chaplain [509], who disappears c. 1196, around the time this Ralph became bishop (RRS ii, p. 32).


Commentary:
Bishop of Dunblane by August 1198; died 1210.


Commentary:
Son of Uctred son of Osulf [69], whose grant of land in Ringwood to Melrose he confirmed.


Commentary:
Born 1110; monk and novice master Rievaulx; first abbot of Revesby 1142-7; elected abbot of Rievaulx by 30 November 1147. Died 12 January 1167 (Vita Ailredi, Heads of Relig. Houses, p.140). His successor was Silvanus abbot of Dundrainin (Chron. Melros, p. 131).


Commentary:
Probably son of Uctred son of Osulf [69] whose charter he attests.


Commentary:
Brother and successor of Water of Rydale, Yorkshire, to whom King David gave land in Roxburgshire; their father was Gospatrick, who had held land in Habton, Yorkshire. Uhtred priest of Lilliesleaf took a dispute over land there against Ansketill of Rydale to the Roman curia in the 1150s and 60s (Barrow, Kingdom, p.262). His eventual heir was his youngest son Patrick [794] (RRS ii, 195 and note p. 249).


Commentary:
Son of Walter son of Patrick I de Ridale [723]. Married Isabella daughter of William dean of Hunum. Father of William.


Commentary:
Wife of William of Ridale [812]. Mother by a previous marriage of Alexander de Seton [2506].


Commentary:
Youngest son and eventual heir of Asketin of Ryedale [791], brother and heir of Walter of Ryedale. Patrick's elder son Walter was ancestor of the family of Riddel (RRS ii, 195 and note, p. 249; RRS i, 42, 312; EYC ii, p. 116).


Commentary:
Henry of Mow; benefactor of Kelso with his wife Eschina [847], widow of Walter fitz Alan Stewart (Liber de Chelcou no. 166). Perhaps the same as Henry son of Anselm, also known as Henry of Carmunnock (cf. Paisley Registrum, 5, 105-6), whose grant of church of Carmunnock to Walter fitz Alan's foundation at Paisley was confirmed by William I 1177 x 1185 (RRS ii no 220).


Commentary:
Otherwise unknown, except for an attestion in a Dunfermline charter, RRS ii, 277, where Barrow suggests the name should read 'Robert'.


Commentary:
Son of Waltheof of Lilliesleaf; brother of Geoffrey [802]. Father of William [2097].


Commentary:
Tenant of Patrick of Ryedale [794]; son of Waltheof of Lilliesleaf; brother of Alexander [798]. Granted land in the territory of Whitton to Melrose.


Commentary:
Free man of Patrick I of Ryedale [794]. Gave land in Whitton to the hospital of Jerusalem. Father of Walter [817]


Commentary:
Daughter of William priest of Hunum [611]; wife of William I de Ridale.


Commentary:
Son of William I de Ridale [792] and Isabella. Married Matilda Corbet [793], mother by a previous marriage of Alexander de Seton [2506].


Commentary:
Son of Walter fitz Patrick de Ridale [723].


Commentary:
Son of Geoffey the Cook of Whitton [805].


Commentary:
Same as William de Ritum cognatus of Walter fitz Patrick of Ridale?


Commentary:
William I granted to Andrew of Synton the sheriffdom of Selkirk, heritably, exempting him from the castle ward formerly rendered at Roxburgh castle by the barony of Synton, in Ashkirk, Selkirkshire (RRS ii, 582).


Commentary:
Brother of Bishop Jocelin of Glasgow [133].


Commentary:
Son of Henry II of England, succeeded his brother Richard I in 1199. Died 1216.


Commentary:
His grant of land in territory of Clifton to Melrose was confirmed by William I 1173 x 1185. Cf W Percy Hedley, 'The sons of Halden, lord of Catterlen', in CWAAS Trans. Ns , lxiv (Barrow, no 214).


Commentary:
Son of Robert II de Brus of Annandale [36] and Euphemia daughter of William earl of Aumarle. Married Christine by whom he was father of Robert (IV) (d. 1226/33) and William. Died in 1212. Gave Melrose a salt-work on the sands of Rainpatrick in Dumfireshire (OF, 244).


Commentary:
A Turgis Bradfoth occurs in the Pipe Rolls for 1156 to 1158 in Carlisle (PR 4 Henry II, p. 120, 5 Henry II, p. 33).


Commentary:
Eschina de Londoniis, wife first of Walter fitz Alan the Steward [16] and secondly of Henry de Molle (of Mow) [745]. She made a grant for Walter's soul to Kelsoe Abey in 1185, and for that of her daughter Eschina, who was buried there (Lib. De Calchou, no. 146-7). Mother also of Avicia and Cecilia; the latter also occurs as 'de Londoniis' and 'de Molle'. Thought to have been heiress of Uctred son of Liulf of Mow (in Morebattle, Roxburghshire, cf. RRS ii, note to no. 245). Mother of Alan fitz Walter, the parentage of her daughters Avicia, Cecilia and Eschina (Liber Chelcou) is unclear. Cecily was wife of Simon Mauleverer and her heir was Gilbert son of William Avenel (perhaps a nephew). Eschina predeceased her mother and was buried at Kelsoe (Lib., no 146) in 1185.


Commentary:
Gave one carrucate in Lessudden to Melrose confirmed by his son Robert [492].


Commentary:
Son of Robert de Quincy [187]. Earl of Winchester, married Margaret (d. 1235), sister and coheiress of Robert IV de Beaumont, earl of Leicester (d. 1204).Father of Roger de Quinci d. 1265.


Commentary:
Son of Malcolm of Lundie and a daughter of Gilchrist earl of Mar; lord of Lundie in Angus and a large tract of the earldom of Mar, with a castle at the Peel of Lumphanan (RRS ii, pp. 38-9; no.414, confirmation of his grant to Coupar Angus abbey, c. 1199). Doorward (hostiarius) to Alexander II, his younger son Alan adopted the term as a surname. He married the daughter of Malcolm earl of Atholl, according to Hammond, 'The Durwards'.  His heir was his son Alan Durward [1032].


Commentary:
Son of Hugh de Normanville [534]. Justiciar of Lothian in the early years of Alexander III, c. 1250-1253/5 and 1259 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 137-8).


Commentary:
Clerk and chamberlain to Alexander III. Bishop of St Andrews, elected 3 June 1239, consecrated 22 January 1240, died 26 April 1253. Chamberlain of Alexander II; brother of Robert de Bernam [859] and Roger [861].


Commentary:
Brother of Robert de Bernam [859] and Bishop David of St Andrews [860].


Commentary:
Daughter of Adam the marshal. Wife of Roger [861], brother of Robert de Bernam [859] and Master David the king's chamberlain, later bishop of St Andrews [860].


Commentary:
Cellarer of Melrose; elected abbot in April 1246 and consecrated on 17 May. Controversially deposed by abbot of Rievaulx in July 1261 (O/F, p. 33). Had considerable management skills and business acumen which benefitted his community; 'active acquirer of property and defender of the abbey's rights, he occupied an important place in national political life through the disturbed period of Alexander III's childhood (1249-58)' (O/F, p. 32).


Commentary:
He and his wife Agnes [866] granted land at Berwick on the Ness (OF, p. 247).


Commentary:
Hugh de Mortemer, canon of Glasgow and prior of May. Attested two charters of William I, RRS ii, no. 398 and 464, 1204/5.


Commentary:
Honorius III, elected pope 18 July 1216; died 18 March 1227.


Commentary:
William de Bondington,  chancellor of Alexander II 30 March 1231 to 8 February 1247. Bishop of Glasgow mid-1233 till his death on 10 November 1258. Buried at Melrose nearthe great altar on 13 November (Chron. Melrose, p. 209).


Commentary:
Son of Earl Duncan of Carrick [132] (d. 1250).


Commentary:
master Hugh, clerk of Earl Duncan of Carrick [132].


Commentary:
Son of Kenedy, one of the supporters of Gilbert son of Fergus king of Galloway. One of four supporters slain in a battle led by Gilbert's nephew and rival Rolland with the help of William I on 4 July 1185. His descendants, the Kennedys of Dunure, reestablished themselves as key followers of Gilbert's son Duncan earl of Carrick (MacQueen, 'Survival and Success: the Kennedys of Dunnure').


Commentary:
Son of David I of Lindsay; justiciar of Lothian from c. 1242 to c. 1251.


Commentary:
Son and successor of Walter II Stewart [257] (d.1246); sometimes known as Alexander of Dundonald, a castle in his lordship. Councillor of Alexander III in 1255, he was principal commander at the battle of Largs, on October 2 1263, when the Norweigians were defeated. Married Jean daughter of Angus MacRory of Bute and had issue his successor James (d. 1309), John, who married the heiress of Bonkill, and Elizabeth, wife of William Douglas the Hardy. He died in 1283.


Commentary:
Buried at Melrose in 1247 (Chron. Melrose, p. 204).


Commentary:
Abbot of Fountains; blessed at Melrose 13 December 1211 (Chron Melrose). Elected bishop of Ely  21 January 1220; died 6 May 1225 (Heads, 133).


Commentary:
Granted the church of 'Kyllosbern' to Kelsoe Abbey, attested by his son Gilconell (Lib. de Calchou no. 340), and, as Edgar son of Donald de Streheuid, the church of Moreton in Strethtun (ibid., no. 347).


Commentary:
Abbot of Vaudey, Lincolnshire, c. 1230 (Heads, 146).


Commentary:
Prior of Kelsoe, succeeded Abbot Henry on 19 October 1218 (Chron. Melrose, p. 171). Died on 2 August 1221 and was succeeded by Herbert Maunsel, secreatry of Kelsoe (Chron. Melr. p. 173).


Commentary:
Bishop of Moray 1222 until his death between 18 September and December 1242.


Commentary:
Bishop of Dunblane, consecrated 4 September 1233, died (probably 19 March) 1258.


Commentary:
Son of William Comin, earl of Buchan [99] (d. 1233). Lord of Badenoch, earl of Menteith in right of his wife Isabella by 1234. One of the most important political figures of his age, especially during the minority of Alexander III, when along with Alan Durward he ran the kingdom. He died suddenly in late 1258, by when his only son Henry had predeceased him. Mentieth was seized by Walter Stewart, husband of Isabella's sister Mary about 1260/1.


Commentary:
Son of Eustache de Balliol (d. .c 1209), who was cousin and heir to Bernard II de Balliol, lord of Barnard Castle. He and his brother Ingram [581] gained the patronage of William I of Scotland, Henry becoming chamberlain to Alexander II (between 18 July 1223 and 9 January 1230, and again from 18 July 1214 and his death before 15 October 1246)) and lord of Cavers and Bennington. Married Lora de Valognes, by whom he was ancestor of the Balliols of Cave and Bennington (Hertfordshire). According to the Chronicle of Melrose one Henry de 'Balolf', probably an error for Baliol, was removed from St James and honoroably buried in the chapter-house at Melrose in 1246 (p. 203); Adam de Baylof was buried next to his father the following year (ib., p. 204).


Commentary:
Geoffrey de Liberatione, royal clerk, Elected bishop of Dunkeld in September 1236 and consecrated during December. Died 22 November 1249.


Commentary:
Daughter of Edgar of Killosbern [890], whose grant to Kelsoe she confirmed (Lib. de Calchou no.341).


Commentary:
Bishop of Whithorn (or Galloway) elected 1209, consecrated before 2 November 1214. Died January or February 1235.


Commentary:
Daughter of King John of England. Married Alexander II of Scots on 19 June 1221. She died 5 March 1238.


Commentary:
Son of Gervaise Avenel [175]. Gave land in Torthorald to Melrose for the use of the poor.


Commentary:
Son of William Comin, later earl of Buchan [99], by his first wife. He died between 1244 and 1249 leaving issue John I Comin of Badenoch [976], William and Richard.


Commentary:
Matthew Scot, chancellor to Alexander II; occurs from 5 June 1227 to his death on 30 April 1230. Bishop-elect of Dunkeld 1229-30.


Commentary:
Councillor of Alexander II. Sheriff of Dumfries in 1237. Father of Thomas Randolf II. T[homas] son of Rannulf and Juliana his wife were buried at Melrose on 18 May 1262 (Chron. Melrose, p. 210).


Commentary:
Son of William Comin [99] (d. 1233) and Marjory countess of Buchan. Married Isabel de Valoniis. Father of William Comin of Kilbride [1011], sheriff of Ayr. Founder of a branch of the Comin family that held land in East Kilbride, Peeblesshire and around Falkirk, and in England in Northumberland, East Anglia and Hertford.


Commentary:
Given land in Borthwick by Petronilla Harang as a widow (no. 267).


Commentary:
Lord of Aboyne, married a sister of Patrick I (d. 1232) earl of Dunbar. According to the Chronicle of Melrose he married the sister of Alan of Galloway in 1233 (p. 177). Opposed the succession to Atholl of Patrick son of Countess Isabella and Thomas of Galloway. Briefly exiled in 1242 after Patrick was murdered by Walter's nephew John Biset. They complained to Henry III of England, then in Gascony, who gave them land in Ulster.


Commentary:
Son of Michael of Methkil; gave land of Pannaseles to Melrose.


Commentary:
Brother of John son of Michael of Methkil [965] who made a grant for his soul to Melrose.


Commentary:
Younger son of Roland of Galloway [118]. Earl of Atholl in right of his wife Isabella. Died 1231, after 19 March, when his son Patrick was a minor. Patrick's inheritance was challenged by his mother's sister Forveleth, leading to his murder by John Biset in 1242.


Commentary:
First Abbot of Balmorinach, a house founded from Melrose in 1229 by Alexander II and his mother (Chron. Melrose, p. 176). He died in 1236 and was succeeded by the cellarer Ralph (Chron. Melr. p. 180).


Commentary:
John I Comin lord of Badenoch, son of Richard Comin [936] (d. 1244/9).Father of a large family by his second wife Alicia de Lindsey of Lamberton, including Competitor John II Comin. He died around 1277.


Commentary:
Brother of Alan fitz Alan fitz Edgar, clerk of Patrick I of Dunbar (d. 1232).


Commentary:
Granted land of Kingissete to Melrose, subsequently confirmed by his son John [2631], and, at the end of the thirteenth century, by John de Wemys [2625].


Commentary:
Son of Philip de Pethcox. Buried at Melrose in 1247 (Chron. Melrose, p. 204).


Commentary:
Son of Seric of Seton [1003]. William I confirmed in 1196 to Alexander son of Philip of Seton Seton and Winton in East Lothian and Winchburgh in West Lothian, for one knight's service (RRS ii, 390).


Commentary:
Sheriff of Edinburgh, Linlithgow and Haddington c. 1264 and frequent witness to charters of Alwxander III in the 1270s.


Commentary:
During the reign of Alexander II William de Vieuxpont, son of William de Vieuxpont and Emma de St-Hilaire, gave the church of Langton to Kelsoe abbey, attested by his son William and Matilda of St Andrew (Lib. Calchou no. 141).


Commentary:
Tenant of Alexander Stewart [885] who confirmed his gift to Melrose of land in Barmuir..


Commentary:
William Comin of Kilbride, son of David Comin [946] and Isabell de Valoniis. Died c. 1277 leaving issue Edmund (d. c. 1314) and John (died before 1315) by his wife Euphemia (married Andrew de Moray after William's death). Failed to maintain his obligations for lands held in England, even joining the side of Simon de Montfort against Henry III in the 1260s, for which he eventually forfeited his English lands.


Commentary:
Son of Patrick II earl of Dunbar (d. 1248) [272]. Rescued Alexander III from the power of the Comyns in 1255. He married Cecily, daughter of John FitzRobert lord of Warkworth, Northumberland, by whom he was father of Patrick, John, Alexander, Agnes, wife of Christell de Seton, and Cecilia, wife of James Stewart. He died in 1289 and was succeeded by his son Patrick IV (d. 1308).


Commentary:
Seneschal of William son of Patrick I [1068] of Dunbar.


Commentary:
Chaplain of Patrick III [1025] of Dunbar


Commentary:
Brother of Thomas, John, Guy and Waleran, sons of Hugh [534]. Rector of Maxton.


Commentary:
Alan Durward, son of Thomas de Lundin [852]. Adopted the vernacular form of his office of hostiarius, ie. door-ward, Durward, as a surname. Effective ruler of Scotland for much of the minority of Alexander III. Intense rival of the Comyn's. Married Marjory, natural daughter of Alexander II by whom he had three daughters, Ermengarde wife of William de Soules, Anna wife of Colban mormaer of Fife, and the wife of John Bisset. He also had a natural son Thomas who was not allowed to succeed him. He died in 1275 anad was buried at Coupar Angus Abbey. See 'The Durward family in the thirteenth century', in Steve Boardman and Alasdair Ross (eds.), The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c.1200–1500, (Dublin/Portland, 2003), pp. 118-38.


Commentary:
Son of Everard de Ros (d. 1183) lord of Helmesley, Yorkshire. Acquired Wark in Northumberland by grant of Henry III. Married, c. 1191, Isabel, natural daughter of William the Lion, former wife of Robert de Brus. Appealed to Alexander II of Scotland for aid against King John in 1215. He died in 1226 leaving Wark to his younger son Robert (d. 1270) [2275].


Commentary:
Chamberlain to Alexander III, occurs 17 February 1251 to 20 August of the same year.


Commentary:
According to Sanders, Baronies, Robert de Muschamp was son and heir of Thomas de Muscamp (d. 1190) of Wooler, Northumberland, and died leaving three daughters in 1250. The Melrose charters indicate that there were two Roberts, father and son, and that Robert son of Robert succeeded his father as a minor (ch. 233, which shows his mother giving his sister in marriage); in a few cases the name of Robert de Muschamp appears, with that of Robert son of Robert de Muschamp [2173] being more frequent; it is clear that the same person, i.e. Robert son of Robert, is indicated throughout. The grant of land by Robert son of Robert de Muschamp was confirmed by Pope Honorius in 1223. Possibly both were benefactors of Melrose: when the second, Robert son of Robert, died in 1252, according to the Chronicle of Melrose (p. 205), he was buried at Melrose. His heirs were the issue of his daughter Cecily, wife of Odinel of Ford, and his daughters Margery [2719], wife of Malise, earl of Strathearn [2718], and Isabel, wife of William de Huntercomb (d. 1271).  In the mid 1220s Robert de Muschamps gave Melrose a block of land at western edge of his lordship, marching with the Bowmont valley, at Trowup and Hethpool (OF, 242).


Commentary:
Daughter of Robert I de Muschamp and Matilda; sister of Robert II de Muscamp [1035]; wife of William fitz John of Hownam [629].


Commentary:
Occurs as deputy justiciar of Lothian in 1248 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 137).


Commentary:
John of Lamberton, son of W. of Stirling, granted the toft and croft once of Nigel the chaplain to Kelsoe abbey, confirmed by his son Walter (Lib. de Calchou nos 296-8). Father of Robert [1066].


Commentary:
Wife of Robert I de Muschamp, whom she survived, and mother of Robert II [1035].


Commentary:
Son of Patrick I of Dunbar [98]. Married Christina Corbet [2070]. His heir was his son Patrick Corbet [2242], a benefactor of Melrose. Also father of Nicholas [1069].


Commentary:
Son of William [1068] son of Patrick I of Dunbar and Christina Corbet [2070]. Granted, for his and his wife Margaret's salvation, the whole of the fishery within his lordship of Makerstoun in 1262 (OF, 245). Occurs in relation to the chapel of Fogo in the time of Adam of Maxton, abbot of Melrose (1261-7).


Commentary:
Son of Walter I (fitz Alan) Stewart [16].


Commentary:
Thomas son of Reginald de Bosco confirmed to Kelsoe the land of 'Estdodineston' quitclaimed by Robert fitz Hugh, attested by the chancellor William de Bosco (258) (Lib. de Calchou, no. 242).


Commentary:
Chancellor to Alexander III, occurs 13 February 1254 to 30 September 1255, when he was elected bishop of St Andrews. He died in 1271.


Commentary:
Son of Duncan earl of Mar (d. 1242/44). Chamberlain of Alexander II. He died between 20 November 1276 and 25 July 1281 leaving a son Donald (d. 1297) by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of William Comyn earl of Buchan. His second wife was Muriel, daughter of Malise earl of Strathern (Comp. Peerage, 8, pp. 401-2).


Commentary:
Member of the family of Sules of Liddesdale, hereditary butlers to the king from the thirteenth century (RRS i, p. 34 and note), descendants of Ranulf de Soulles, butler to David I and Malcolm IV.


Commentary:
Sold land in Edenham to Geoffrey doorkeeper of Melrose for the relief of the poor coming to the door of the abbey.


Commentary:
See no 239. Thurstan son of Osulf and his son William held land in Edenham sold to Melrose by John of Roxburgh [1083].


Commentary:
See no 239. Held land in Edenham from John of Roxburgh [1083] who gave it to Melrose.


Commentary:
Eldest son and heir of Hugh de Normanville [534] of Maxton and Stamfordham.


Descriptor:
de Striuelin cancellarius regis Alexandri

Commentary:
Thomas of Stirling, archdeacon of Glasgow. Chancellor to Alexander II occurs 20 January 1226 to 26 February 1227


Commentary:
Hugh de Potton, archdeacon of Glasgow 1227-1238.


Commentary:
William de Ednam, archdeacon of Dunkeld 1221 x 1225-1245.


Commentary:
Son of Hugh de Normanville [534] and brother of John [1093].


Commentary:
Ralph de Campania, lord of Borgue in Galloway. Royal constable of Roxburgh (Lib. Melrose no. 282).


Commentary:
Master Adam of Maxton, elected abbot of Melrose in succession to Abbot Matthew in 1261. Deposed in 1267 in the general chapter at Citeaux for a serious procedural breach relating to his deposition of Abbot Henry of Holmcultram (Melrose, OF, p. 33).


Commentary:
Buried at Melrose in 1256 (Chron. Melrose, p. 207).


Commentary:
John son of Philip of Maxton. Knight of John de Normanville [1093]. He quitclaimed to the abbey his common pasture in the area of Maxton granted by John de Normanville.


Commentary:
See no. 263 for Thomas son of Gilbert son of Laysing of Lessedwyn


Commentary:
Brother and heir of Aubrey IV de Ver, earl of Oxford (d.s.p. 1214), son of Aubrey III. By his wife Isabel, sister of Walter de Bolbec, he left issue his son Hugh, a minor at his father's death in 1221.


Commentary:
Son of Iliue of Iliueston. Granted a bovate of land and an acre of meadow to Master Adam of Baggat [2022], who, to relieve his poverty, gave him four pounds sterling. His daughter Avice [2032] confirmed the grant, as later did his daughter Agnes [2040].


Commentary:
Buried at Melrose in 1243 (Chron. Melrose p. 184).


Commentary:
Son of William: nephew and successor of William fitz John of Hownam [629] (no. 279) whom he succeeded in 1227 (Chron. Melrose p. 176).


Commentary:
Daughter of John [2021], whose grant she confirmed, attested by her father..


Commentary:
Husband of Agnes daughter of John of Ilivestun [2021]


Commentary:
Daughter of John [2021], wife of Laurence de Ilivistun [2039]. Ratified her father's grant in April 1240.


Commentary:
Son of Gilbert fitz Laysing of Lessudden. Granted 10 acres bought from John of Iliuestun [2021].


Commentary:
Daughter of Adam Harang of Meinichoch. Made a grant, as a widow, of a toft in Borthwick which she had given to Robert Poydras, for the relief of the poor at Melrose.


Commentary:
Son of Alexander de Lundoniis. Confirmed his father's grant of land in Lekehalu.


Commentary:
Canon of Jedburgh, he succeeded the aged Abbot Henry in 1239 (Chron. Melrose p. 182). He died in 1249 and was succeeded by Robert de Gisbourne, a monk of the same house (Chron. Melrose, p. 204).


Commentary:
Divided the fee of Cliftun with William fitz Patrick of Dunbar [1068] and granted a moiety to Melrose before 1232.The land was part of the Corbet fee (nos. 113, 114).


Commentary:
Son of Robert fitz Robert of Thwing in the East Riding of Yorkshire and Emma Dairel. Justice itinerant in Yorkshire between 1221 and 1229. Infirm in 1234, shortly before he was succeeded byhis son Robert. See Complete Peerage vol. 12, p. 735 ff.


Commentary:
Quitclaimed all right in the land of Cliftun to William son of Earl Patrick and Christine Corbet his wife, who were heirs of Roger and his wife Matilda. The land was part of the Corbet fee (see nos. 113, 114).


Commentary:
Wife of William son of Patrick I of Dunbar [1068]. She died in 1241 and was buried in the chapter-house at Melrose (Chron. Melrose, p. 184).


Commentary:
Daughter of William son of Adam de Astenesdene. Held land in Cresswell which she gave to Hugh the brewer.


Commentary:
Hugh the brewer of Astenesdene. Granted land in Cresswell which later went to Melrose.


Commentary:
Simon Fraser the Elder, brother of William Fraser bishop of St Andrews (d. 1297). Sheriff of Traquair in 1268, also served as sheriff of Peebles. Died between June 1291 and November 1292 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 237, no. 19). Gave land of 'Southkingdor' with the chapel of St Cuthbert to Melrose, and the church of Keith (now Humbie) to Kelso Abbey (RRS ii, 239A)..


Commentary:
Perhaps same as 2293. Constable of Roxburgh (Lib. de Calchou, no 160).


Commentary:
His son Robert confirmed his grant to Melrose of land in Lekehalu which he had been given by Walter de Durdun and his wife Mabel.


Commentary:
Norman, lord of Helmsley in Yorkshire and Wark, Northumberland. He died as a monk of Rievaulx in 1155, when his heirs were the issue of his three sisters, including Adelina, wife of Peter de Ros and mother of Robert de Ros of Helmsley, who died c. 1162/3.


Commentary:
Granted land in 'Schottun', on the stream dividing the land of the kings of Scotland and England, to Kelsoe, attested by his brothers William, Walter and Theobald (Lib. de Calchou, 364) Also benefactor of Melrose, as was his son by his wife Amabilia [2166] Walter de Kilnum [2158]. Descendant of Peter de Ros who married the sister and heiress of Walter Espec [2159] of Helmsley before 1130.


Commentary:
Wife of Robert de Scotton [2160], mother of Walter de Kilnum [2158].


Commentary:
Son of Walter de Kilnum [2158], son of Robert de Scottun [2160].


Commentary:
Henry III of England, son of John (d. 1216). King from 1216 until his death on 16 November 1272.


Commentary:
Master Alan de Lenna, Lennum or Lewe. Official to the bishop of Durham, he first occurs as archdeacon of Northumberland on 1 June 1218. Last occurs on 11 November 1239 (FEA 1066-1300, vo. 2, p. 40).


Commentary:
Roger II Bertram lord of Mitford, Northumberland, son of William II Bertram (d. 1199) and a daughter of Odinel II de Umfraville. Of age c. 1215, he died in 1242 leaving a minor son Roger III, of age in 1246 (d. 1271/2).


Commentary:
Prior of the Augustinian house of Brinkburn, Northumberland, in 1223. Prior Ralph occurs between 1186 and 1195; the next recorded prior is Alan, who occurs in 1231 (Heads, p. 154).


Commentary:
Alexander III of Scots, son of Alexander II and Marie de Coucy. King from 8 July 1249 until his death on 19 March 1286. Married first Margaret daughter of Henry III of England and secondly Yolande de Dreux. His sole surviving heir at his death was Margaret, three-year old daughter of his daughter Margaret and Eric II of Norway. She died en route to Scotland around 26 September 1290. A dispute among 13 competitors for the crown followed her death.


Commentary:
Hugh of Abernethy, important landowner in Fife. Sheriff of Roxburgh c. 1264. Regularly attested charters of Alexander III.


Commentary:
Sheriff of Stirling c. 1265, regular witness of royal charters, especially in the mid-1260s.


Commentary:
He and his brother Roger were apparently sons of Roger Barclay of Fordgandenny (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 123-4); both were named as confederates in the Scots-Welsh 'treaty' of 1258. Justiciar of Lothian c. 1262-c. 1279 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 138).


Commentary:
Walter Murray, lord of Bothwell, one of the barons supporting the regent Alan Durward in 1255. Heir of Walter II Olifard, he held his Justiciarship of Lothian by 1257 and probably by 1255 but was driven out in 1258.


Commentary:
Nicholas the weaver of Berwick and his wife Hilda [2194] gave half his property in the Briggate to Melrose and sold them the other half for 100 merks. The monks gave in return ten bolls of marketable wheat, one chalder of barley and half a merk of silver (OF, p. 247).


Commentary:
Wife of Nicholas Textor (Weaver) [2193], burgess of Berwick.


Commentary:
The Robert de Ros for whose soul Walter de Kilnum's gift was made may have been Robert de Ros (d. 126 [2275], or, given that that the soul of Walter Espec (d. 1155) was also mentioned, he may have been an earlier Robert de Ros, grandfather of [2275] and father of Everard (d. 1183); lords of Helmsley, Yorkshire.


Commentary:
Born 1243, son of Robert V de Brus of Annandale (d. 1295) [2236]. Became earl of Carrick in 1271 by marriage to Margaret, daughter and heiress of Earl Neil (d. 1256). He resigned the earldom to his son Robert, future king of Scots [2356], on 9 November 1292. He died in 1304, shortly before 4 April.


Commentary:
Daughter and heiress of Earl Neil of Carrick. Married first before 4 October 1266 Adam de Kilconquhar (d.s.p. 1270) and secondly in 1271 Robert de Bruce (d. 1304).


Commentary:
John of Cheam, elected bishop of Glasgow in 1259, consecrated before 28 October/ Died between 11 June and 13 October 1268.


Commentary:
Master Nicholas of Moffat, archdeacon of Teviotdale under Bishop William of Glasgow (Lib. de Calchou, no. 148).He was elected to succeed him early in 1259 but was not confirmed in Rome (Chron. Melrose, p. 210).


Commentary:
Abbot of Melrose in 1267. Possibly Adam of Maxton (de Macceston, [2003]), or John de Edrom, master of the lay-brothers elected after Adam's deposition during 1267.


Commentary:
Abbot of Rievaulx in 1264. Probably Abbot William who occurs in 1268 (Chartulary of Rievaulx, p. xcvii).


Commentary:
Son of Walter I Olifard, justiciar of Lothian c. 1215 to his death in 1242, when his heir was Walter Murray. He was buried in the chapter-house at Melrose (Chron. Melrose, p. 184).


Commentary:
Bernard Mowat, one of the nobles who escorted Alexander III's daughter Margaret to Norway.


Commentary:
William Wishart, archdeacon of St Andrews, chancellor of Alexander III from 1259 to 1273; bishop of St Andrews from 3 June 1271 until his death on 28 May 1279.


Commentary:
Son of Thomas (son of) Randolf I. Chamberlain to Alexander III, occurs 1269 to 18 August 1277; sheriff of Roxburgh in 1266 and of Berwick c. 1264-66. Comyn supporter after 1289.


Commentary:
William Sinclair justiciar of Galloway in the 1280s and 1290s.


Commentary:
Son of Margaret countess of Buchan (d. c. 1242/44) and her second husband William Comin [99] (d. 1233). He died shortly before 14 March 1290 and was succeeded by his son John (d.s.p. 1308). Father also of Roger, Alexander, William provost of St Mary's, St Andrews (d. 1334/7), Marjory wife of Patrick earl of Dunbar, Emma, wife of Malise earl of Strathern, Elizabeth wife of Gilbert de Umfraville, Elena wife of William de Brechin, and the wife of Nicholas de Soules.


Commentary:
Son of Robert IV de Brus (d. 1226/33) [425] and Isabel of Huntingdon. Married Isabel of Gloucester by whom he was father of Robert king of Scots [2356] (d. 1304); also father of Edward [2408], and Isabella, wife of King Eric of Norway. He died in 1295.


Commentary:
Reginald Cheyne, Comyn supporter, chamberlain of Alexander III from 1266 to 1278. Sheriff of Kincardine c. 1264-66; either he or his son was sheriff of Kincarddine by 1290 and both regularly attested royal charters.


Commentary:
Robert Wischart, elected bishop of Glasgow after 3 June 1271, consecrated 29 January 1273; died after 25 June 1316.


Commentary:
Son of William son of Patrick I of Dunbar [1068] and Christina Corbet [2070]. Lord of Foghou, he gave the chapel to Kelsoe Abbey, confirmed in 1304 by Patrick earl of March (Lib. de Calchou, no. 305, 307).


Commentary:
Gave land in Halsington to Melrose, confirmed by his son William [2252] in December 1270.


Commentary:
Henry de Lambeden, chamberlain of Kelsoe, replaced Abbot Patrick of Kelsoe by papal mandate in 1260; he later died, in 1275, at his own table and was buried the same day (Chron. Melrose, p. 210, 213-214).


Commentary:
Abbot of Dryburgh from 1262 to 1273. Sent on a mission to Edward I by his sister the queen of Scotland in 1268, (Chron. Melrose, p. 235-7).


Descriptor:
de Fusindrith constabularius de Rokesburc


Commentary:
Son of William de Alwenton [2244], whose grant he confirmed in 1270..


Commentary:
Benefactor of Melrose and Kelsoe; his wife was named Marioria (perhaps Marjory); father of Alexander [2264] and Helena (Lib, de Calchou, 320).


Commentary:
Canon of Jedburgh, succeeded the short-lived abbot Robert in 1249 (Chron. Melrose, p. 204).


Commentary:
Peter Haigh of Bemersyde, father of John, made peace with the abbey in the 1260s after infractions which had nearly led to their excommunication.


Commentary:
Perhaps same as Richard son of Roger Burnard. Granted meadow in Farningdon confirmed by Alexander III in 1252.


Commentary:
Younger son of Robert de Ros (d. 1226) [1033]. Lord of Sanquhar and Wark, Northumberland. Cousin of Alexander III, for whose wife Margaret he was appointed guardian by her father Henry III of England in 1251, although he soon lost power and influence to Walter Comyn earl of Menteith. He died in 1270 and was succeeded by his son Robert.


Commentary:
Daughter and heiress of Malcolm earl of Angus (d. 1236/42). Wife successively of John Comyn (d.s.p.s.) 1242, Gilbert de Umfraville (d. shortly before 13 March 1245) and Richard of Chilham or Dover, who died after 22 November 1265. Succeeded by her son Gilbert de Umfraville in mid 1267.


Commentary:
Cellarer of Balmorinach, successor to Abbot Alan in 1236 (Chron. Melrose, p. 180).


Descriptor:
filius Hugonis senescal de Veteri Roxburg


Commentary:
Chaplain and onetime vicar of Mow. He gave land in Mow given to him by John de Vescy [2289]  to Melrose, including land he had enfeoffed to his nephew Vedast de Gedeworth (Jedburgh?) [2297].


Commentary:
Perhaps Alexander son of William son of Edgar, husband of Isolda, daughter of Anselm of Molle [716], benefactor of Kelsoe (Lib., Calchou no 156). Alexander de Molle, father of John de Molle, occurs ibid., no. 168..


Commentary:
Nephew or other kinsman ('nepos') of the chaplain William de Spoweston [2289], who enfeoffed him in land in Mow.


Commentary:
Son of Nicholas de Sules, relative of the Comyns. Justiciar of Lothian from 1279 till his death c. 1292/3, sheriff of Roxburgh by 1289 and before c. 1289-91 sheriff of Inverness.


Commentary:
Son of Alexander Stewart [885] (d. 1282 he married Margaret, heiress of Bonkil, Berwickshire, by whom he had seven sons and a daughter. He was killed in the Battle of Falkirk on July 22 1298.


Commentary:
Son of Alexander Stuart [885] (d. 1282). Sheriff of Ayr in 1288 and of Dumbarton in 1289. In 1296 became one of the six Regents of Scotland and was thereafter associated with each of the Competitors. Married in 1296 Egidia (Gelis) de Burgh, daughter of Walter de Burgh earl of Ulster and acquired a substantial estate near Coleraine and elsewhere in the north of Ireland. He had issue his heir Walter (d. 1326), three younger sons and a daughter Egidia. He died in the service of Robert the Bruce in 1309. See 'James Fifth Stewart of Scotland, 1260(?)-1309, G. Barrow and A. Royan, in Stringer, ed., Essays on the Nobility, 166-94


Commentary:
Heiress of Bonkil, wife of John Stewart, younger son of Alexander Stewart.


Commentary:
Younger son of Simon de Senlis and stepson of David I of Scotland. Sacrist of Melrose when he was elected to succeed the first abbot, Richard, in 1148. Refused election to the see of St Andrews in early 1159. He died as abbot on 3 August. Regarded as a saint locally though never formally canonised.


Commentary:
William of Lamberton, elected bishop of St Andrews 5 November 1297,consecrated 1 June 1298; died 20 May 1328.


Commentary:
Pope Boniface VIII, elected 24 December 1294, died 11 october 1303.


Commentary:
Lord of Lynton; released monks from rent on a toft in Berwick.


Commentary:
Chamberlain of Patrick earl of Dunbar and March [2504].


Commentary:
Servant of Patrick Lemonkton rector of Dunbar.


Commentary:
Abbot of Newbattle in 1291; probably Abbot John, 1291- 1296.


Commentary:
Sold a burgage in Peebles to Melrose. in 1305.


Commentary:
In the Comyn/Balliol party in the Great Cause 1291/2. Confirmed his father Simon's grants to Melrose and added his own.


Commentary:
Onetime lord of 'Dummelliare' whose land Simon Fraser [2341] gave to Melrose.


Commentary:
In the Comyn/balliol party in the Great Cause 1291/2.


Commentary:
Lord of Woodford in Lessuddun; granted all his land there in return for nothing more than the monks's prayers.  The grant of Robert of Woodford was confirmed by Ralph de Neville of Raby in the mid fourteenth century.


Commentary:
An abbot William of Kelso contemporary with Abbot Andrew of Dryburgh, 1350 to 1367/9 [2351]; charter 357 has been misplaced in chronological sequence.


Commentary:
Abbot of Dryburgh 1350 to 1367/9; attests charter no 357 with Abbot William of Kelso, the charter has been misplaced in the sequence since it clearly belongs to the 1360s.


Commentary:
Grandson of the competitor of 1291 [2236]; born 11 July 1274 son of Robert de Brus [2207] and Marjory countess of Carrick. Became king 25 March 1306; died 7 June 1329. Married first Isabella of Mar, by whom he had a daughter Marjory, mother of Robert II Stewart, and secondly Elizabeth de Burgh, mother of Matilda, wife of Thomas Isaac, Margaret wife of William earl of Sutherland, David II of Scots [2238] and John.


Commentary:
John of Lindsay, consecrated bishop of Glasgow 2 July 1323 until his death between 12 February 1334 and 8 February 1336.


Commentary:
William de Sinclair, elected bishop of Dunkeld before 18 July 1309 as nominee of Robert I, while John of Leek was nominee of Edward II. In 1312 Edward switched his support to Sinclair and John was translated to Dublin on 18 May 1311.Consecrated 8 May 1312. he died 27 June 1337.


Commentary:
Bernard abbot of Arbroath, bishop of Sodor 1328-31, chancellor of Robert I 1308-1328. Identified by A.A.M. Duncan (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography [2004]) with Bernard abbot of Kilwinning who attested a Melrose charter in 1296.


Commentary:
Son of Duncan earl of Fife (d. 1288). He was a minor (born c. 1285) at his father's death. Died between 17 March 1351 and 16 April 1355. His heir was his daughter Isabella (d. 1389). Complete Peerage vol. 5, p. 374-5.


Commentary:
Created earl of Moray  between 12 April and 29 October 1312 by Robert I of Scotland, who also made him lord of Annandale and described him in his charters as his nephew (nepos), though the details of the relationship are unclear. Became Regent for Robert's young son David II in 1329, but died on 20 July 1332 at Musselburgh leading ana rmy against an invasion by Edward Balliol. He left two sons who succeeded in turn and died without heir male, Thomas, d. 12 August 1332, and John, d. 17 October 1346, and daughters, of whom the elder, Agnes, wife of Patrick V of Dunbar, was briefly recognized as countess of Moray; she also died without surviving issue..


Commentary:
Son of William Douglas the Hardy and Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Stewart. Formidable soldier and tactician, of key help against the English to the future Robert I, and subsequently of key significance in border raids against the English which significantly benefitted his family. Killed at Teba in Moorish Spain in 1330 on a mission to carry the heart of Robert I to Jerusalem. His own remains and the heart were brought back to Scotland where he was buried at St Bride's. His heirs were his sons William (d. 1333) and Archibald (d.1400).


Commentary:
Walter Stewart, son of James Stuart [2305]  (d. 1309) and Cecilia of Dunbar. Fought on the Scottish side at Bannockburn in 1314. He and his cousin James Douglas governed Scotland during Robert I's absences in Ireland. In 1315 he married Robert's daughter Marjorie. She died after a fall from a horse the following year, after their son, the future Robert II, had been delivered by caesarian section. He died on 9 April 1326 at Bathgate Castle.


Commentary:
Bishop of Moray consecrated 28 June 1299. Died 9 January 1326.


Commentary:
Chamberlain of Robert 1 1319-27. Gave land and associated buildings in Berwick to Melrose.


Commentary:
David II of Scots, son of Robert I and Elizabeth de Burgh. Acceded  7 June 1329; died 22 February 1371. Left no surviving issue by either marriage, to Joanna of England (d. 14 August 1362) and Margaret Drummond, widow of John Logy. His heir was his half-sister's son Robert Stewart [2516].


Commentary:
Son of Patrick IV earl of Dunbar (d. 1308) [2504]. Earl of Moray in right of his second wife Agnes Randolph ('Black Agnes', the heroine of the siege of Dunbar) between October 1357 and 31 August 1358. He died without surviving issue on 11 November 1368, having resigned his titles to the Crown after the deaths c. 1354 of his sons Patrick and John, which reassigned them to his great-nephew George (Comp. Peerage 4, 507-8).


Commentary:
Younger son of Patrick IV earl of Dunbar and March (d. 1308). Lord of Derchester & Birkynside. His son George was eventual heir of his uncle as earl of Dunbar and March.


Commentary:
William of Ramsay of Colhouthie, earl of Fife from 1358 by marriage to Isabella, daughter of Duncan earl of Fife. He was dead by 22 July 1360.


Commentary:
Almost certainly an editorial error for Heruico Marescallo (853).


Commentary:
Burgess of Berwick, father of William [2385], who confirmed his grants to Melrose. Brother of the wife of Godfrey de Colonia.


Commentary:
Son of Adam de Selby [2384], burgesses of Berwick.


Commentary:
Burgess of Berwick, granted to Melrose a pension of 3 marks payable of a house in Croftgate, and a tenement on the ness in Berwick, later confirmed by his son Peter [2391].


Commentary:
Widow of Thomas of Murray when she sold land in Berwick to Thomas of Selkirk [2386].


Commentary:
Son of Thomas [2386] of Selkirk, burgess of Berwick, whose grants to Melrose he confirmed.


Commentary:
Burgess of Berwick; married his daughter to Andrew Grossus [2394].


Commentary:
Sister of Adam de Selby, burgess of Berwick [2384], wife of Godfrey de Colonia.


Commentary:
William of Lindsay, parson of Ayr, chamberlain of Robert I 1314-19.


Commentary:
Robert Keith justiciar of Scotia south of the Mounth 1305-6 (Barrow, Kingdom, p. 138). Given the barony of Aden, forfeited by the Comyns, by Robert I Bruce, his brother Edward being given the barony of Kelly. He gave


Commentary:
Brother of John Moyne [2402] burgess of Berwick.


Commentary:
Brother of Adam [2399], burgess of Berwick. In 1331 his widow Alice and son John gave a charter for Melrose.


Commentary:
Adherent of Robert I Bruce, given thelands of Myles, Elphinstone and Tranent in the sheriffdom of Edinburgh, forfeited by the Comyns..


Commentary:
Son of Malcolm I earl of Lennox (d. 1290/1305). Died 19 July 1333.


Commentary:
Brother of Robert de Bruce king of Scots, who created him earl of Carrick and lord of Galway.


Commentary:
John of Menteith supported Edward I of England. Captured William Wallace and became sheriff of Dumbarton in 1305.


Commentary:
Son of Nicholas, lord of Wastirker. Following an appeal by Melrose to Edward I of England in 1306/7, he confirmed grants of his forebears in Eskdale and the monks rights there. He and his father had a protracted dispute with the monks over land and rights in his lordship. Around 1321 he sought to improve relations by making over his rights in the church of Wastirker.


Commentary:
Abbot of Dryburgh between c. 1308 and 1316.


Commentary:
Second son of Henry de Balliol of Caver; chamberlain for the Guardians and for his cousin King John de Balliol. See G. Stell, 'The Balliol family and the Great Cause of 1291-2', in Stringer, ed., Essays on the Nobility, 150 ff, esp. note 22.


Commentary:
Brother of Alexander [2417], son of Henry de Balliol of Carver.


Commentary:
William de Jarum abbot of Jedburgh 1296 to 1319.


Commentary:
Given the forfeited Comyn barony of Slains by Robert I Bruce.


Commentary:
Robert Marshal abbot of Jedburgh 1319 to 1332.


Commentary:
William de Fogo abbot of Melrose 1310 to 1329. Drew up an agreement with Bishop William of St Andrews temporarily resolving a longstanding controversy between them over lands in Caitha beside the grange of Whitlee. It was accepted that the bishop should hold Caitha for his lifetime, though the grange would remain with Melrose (OF, 217)..


Commentary:
Daughter and heiress of Nicholas Tigrim of Glasgow [2347]; wife of Thomas de Aula.


Commentary:
Held land in Glasgow to which his daughter Christiana [2346], wife of Thomas de Aula, was heir.


Commentary:
Grandson of Hugh Giffard [2440], lord of Yester; granted land his grandafther had given him to Melrose, with milling rights. Married to Euphemia.


Commentary:
Eustachia de Colville, daughter of William son of John de Colville [2457] and a granddaughter of John de Normanville [2454],  lady of Ochiltre and widow of Reginald le Chen senior. Granted melrose the advowson of Ochiltre.


Commentary:
Thomas Dere, abbot of Kinloss after Henry, who occurs in 1316, up to 1344.


Commentary:
Attested the charters of Eustchia de Colville [2445], perhaps as a widow. Ermengarde, daughter of Alan Durward (d. 1275) was wife of William de Soules (died  in November 1293) and mother of Nicholas.


Commentary:
Grandfather of Eustachia Lechenne [2445], who granted the advowson of Ochiltre to Melrose as a widow c. 1316. Brother of William, to whom he gave the church of Ouchiltre, and Thomas, to whom he gave the barony. On Thomas's death without heir male, William succeeded, to the displeasure of John, who withdrew the church and gave it to the Hospital of Torfychyn. His heir was his son William, who married a daughter of John de Normanville and had issue Thomas and Eustachia. The barony of Ouchiltre and the advowson of its church was settled on her, ratified by the four daughters of her uncle William rector of Ouchiltre.


Commentary:
Brother of John [2454]. Inherited the barony of Ouchiltre from their brother Thomas, it was not allowed to pass to his four daughters (three of them married, one to a Marshal, one  to a Mautalent and one to 'le Heronnz).


Commentary:
Wife of John de Colville and mother of Eustachia.


Descriptor:
de Eckford officialis archidiaconus Glasguensis


Commentary:
John de Lindesay, consecrated bishop of Glasgow 2 July 1323; died between 12 February 1334 and 8 February 1326.


Commentary:
Son of Adam [2495]; confirmed his father's grant to Melrose.


Commentary:
Son of John of Hormiston. gave half a carrucate in Lessudden to Melrose


Commentary:
William de Alyncrome occurs as abbot of Kelsoe in a document of 1316 (Lib. de Calchou, no. 310). Abbot until 1326.


Commentary:
Marie de Coucy, married 15 May 1239 Alexander II of Scotland. Mother of Alexander III.


Commentary:
Nicholas de Balmyle, bishop of Dunblane , consecrated 11 December 1307; died between 8 February 1319 and 20 January 1320.


Commentary:
Son of William [2309], brother of William [2489]. Granted the land of Mackyspoffil to Melrose.


Commentary:
Brother of Laurence [2487], son of William [2309].


Commentary:
Son of William [2489] and nephew and heir of Laurence [2487].


Commentary:
Chaplain to Laurence de Abernithy [2487].


Commentary:
Son of Thomas Randolf first earl of Moray [2361], whom he survived by 23 days, dying in battle at Dupplin Moor on 11 August 1332. His heir was his brother John.


Commentary:
Granted land in territory of East Gordon to Melrose, perambulated the bounds in company with his son John. His son Adam [2468] later confirmed the gift.


Descriptor:
de Kinbrigeham senescallo comitis Patricii


Commentary:
Simon de Wedale, consecrated bishop of Whithorn or Galloway 1 February 1327. Died 11 March 1355.


Commentary:
Son of Patrick III earl of Dunbar (d. 1289) [1025]. Died 10 October 1308, leaving issue by his wife Marjory, daughter of Alexander Comyn earl of Buchan, his successor Patrick (d. 1368) and Alexander (grandfather of Earl George [2519].


Commentary:
Son of Matilda Corbet [793], secondly the wife of William de Ridale.


Commentary:
Chamberlain of Patrick V earl of Dunbar and March [2369].


Commentary:
Seneschal of Patrick V earl of Dunbar and March [2369].


Commentary:
William Rae, consecrated bishop of Glasgow on 22 February 1339; died 27 January 1367.


Commentary:
William de Laundels, consecrated bishop of St Andrews on 17 March 1342; died 23 September 1385.


Commentary:
Patrick de Leuchars, bishop of Brechin from late in 1351 until his resignation before 12 June 1383. He was chancellor of David II between 1353 and 1370.


Commentary:
Robert Stewart, son of Walter (d. 1326) and Marjory, daughter of Robert I Bruce of Scotland. Regent for David II in 1333, he eventually succeeded the childless king in 1389, when already advanced in age. He died at Dundonald in 1390 and was buried at Scone. By his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan, he had at least ten children (legitimized after marriage), including his successor Robert III (d. 1406), and Robert first duke of Albany (d. 1420). Issue by his second wife Euphemia, married in 1355 (d. 1387), daughter of Hugh, earl of Ross and widow of John, earl of Moray, included David, earl of Stratherne and Caithness and Walter earl of Caithness and Atholl


Commentary:
Son of Donald II of Mar, whom he succeeded whilst a child living in England. Great Chamberlain of Scotland under David II from 1358-9. Twice married, to Margaret Graham of Menteith (sister of [2518]) and Margaret Stewart, countess of Angus, he died without issue in 1374, when his sister Margaret, wife of William Douglas was his heir (Comp. Peerage, vol. 8, pp. 406-7).


Commentary:
William Douglas, son of Archibald Douglas and Beatrice de Lindsay and nephew of James, a trusted servant of Robert I Bruce. Educated in France, he killed his uncle William on his return and inherited some of his lands. Became earl of Mar by marriage with Margaret, sister and heir of John Randolph of Mar (d. 1332), and was created first earl of Douglas a year later. Justiciar South of the Forth in 1372. Became, as were his successors, a protector of Melrose Abbey, partly to protect their own interests in Teviotdale. After he died at Douglas in 1384 he was buried, in accordance with his wishes, at Melrose, in a side chapel dedicated to the family's patron St Bride (Lib. Melros, no. 490; OF, 42). He left a son James and a daughter Isabel, countess of Mar. He left an illegitimate son George by his wife's sister-in-law Margaret Stewart countess of Angus who later inherited his mother's title,


Commentary:
Great-nephew and heir of Patrick V of Dunbar (d.s.p 1368) [2369]. Son of Patrick son of Alexander of Dunbar and Isabel Randulph (younger sister of 'Black Agnes', second wife of Patrick V of Dunbar). By his wife Christine of Seton he was father of a large family including his heir George and Columba, bishop of  Moray. He died before 17 February 1423 at the age of 82 (Comp. Peerage 4, p. 507-8).


Commentary:
Robert Erskine was Chamberlain to David II in May 1350. and again from April 1363 until the end of 1364.


Commentary:
Widow of John Moigne [2526] burgess of Berwick. She and her son John quitclaimed right in a tenement in 1331.


Commentary:
Son of John Moigne [2526], burgess of Berwick on Tweed and Alice.


Commentary:
Son of Adam, burgess of Berwixk on Tweed.


Commentary:
Edward Balliol, son of John Balliol, declared himself king of Scots and was crowned 24 September 1332, but expelled in December. Restored 1333 to 1336, formally acknowledging Edward III of England as his lord in November 1333. Surrendered all claim to the Scottish crown to Edward III 20 January 1356. He died in January 1364.


Commentary:
Lord of Walston, cousin of John Graham of Torbolton.


Commentary:
Mentioned in relation to the church of Torbolton.


Commentary:
Descendant of Sir John Stuart, lord of Bonkil [2304].


Commentary:
Pope Clement VI, 1342 until his death in 1352.


Commentary:
Clerk of Saint Andrew's and notary public.


Commentary:
Son of John; lord of Robertton in the barony of Cunningham. A John de Graham gave the patronage of the church of Wastirker (given c. 1321 by John son of Nicholas of Graham) to his kinsman Robert de Graham of Walston (OF, p. 260). Sir John Graham married before 1 May 1334 Mary, countess of Menteith, by whom he had issue his heir Margaret countess of Menteith (d. 1380). Having been taken prisoner with David II at the rout of Neville's Cross, he was executed late February-March 1347, since he had previously sworn fealty to Edward III.


Commentary:
William of St Andrews, abbot of Melrose 1342 to 1376.


Commentary:
Abbot of Dryburgh between c. 1324/8 and 1342.


Commentary:
Ancestor of Sir William Keith, Great Marshal and later (in 1430) Earl Marshall of Scotland.


Commentary:
Illegitimate son of James of Douglas (d. 1330). Became third earl of Douglas in succession to his cousin James in 1388. He died in 1400, leaving issue a son Archibald who succeeded him and later became Duke of Touraine in France (d. 1424), and James.


Commentary:
Canon of Glasgow, rector of the church of Douglas.


Commentary:
Canon of Glasgow, rector of the church of Old Roxburgh.


Commentary:
His grant of his land at Ringwood was confirmed by William earl of Douglas, baron of Cavers [2518].


Commentary:
Brother(-in-law?) of Thomas earl of Mar [2517].


Commentary:
Second but eldest surviving son of Ranulf de Neville (d. 1331), lord of Raby, county Durham, and Euphemia of Clavering. Granted lordship of Lessudden, Roxburghshire, by King Edward Balliol, after 1332. Commanded the first division at the battle of Durham, or Nevill's Cross, on 17 October 1346, at which King David of Scotland was taken prisoner. In 1353 he granted the whole of his lordship in free alms to Melrose after his death. He confirmed this after the treaty of Berwick in October 1357, noting that the abbey was to pay him half the farm of the lordship for his lifetime (OF, p. 213). He died 5 August 1367 and was buried at Durham cathedral, leaving his heir John by his wife Alice, daughter of Hugh de Audeley. See Complete Peerage, vol. IX, pp. 497ff.


Commentary:
Son of Ralph de Neville, lord of Raby [2588], whom he succeeded in 1367. Father by his first wife Maud de Percy of Ralph, created earl of Westmorland in 1397. Died 17 October 1388 and was buried besides Maud at Durham Cathedral. For his life see Complete Peerage IX, pp. 502-3.


Commentary:
Lord of half the barony of Wilton, he mortgaged the advowson of the church to Melrose in 1342. It appears to have been redeemed soon afterwards and never became a possession ofthe abbey (OF, 261).


Commentary:
John of Peebles, archdeacon of St Andrews elected bishop of Dunkeld in 1378; chancellor to Robert II Stuart from 1377; died after 15 August 1390.


Commentary:
Eldest son of Robert II Stewart [2516] and his first wife Elizabeth Mure. Occurs as John Stuart earl of Carrick until he succeeded his father as Robert III in August 1390.


Commentary:
Son of Robert II Stewart and Elizabeth Mure, became earl of Fife (late 1371), Menteith, and duke of Albany in 1398. Governor of Scotland during James I's captivity from 1406 to his death on 2 September 1420.


Commentary:
Described as 'nepos' by Robert II Stuart,


Commentary:
Described as 'consanguineus' by Robert II.


Commentary:
Only son of William, first earl of Douglas (d. 1384) [2518]. Married Isabel Stewart, daughter of Robert II, but died without legitimate issue before 18 August 1388 and was buried beside his father at Melrose (OF, 42); Complete Peerage vol. 4, pp. 431-2.


Commentary:
William Cunningham, appraently created earl of Carrick about September 1362, though resigned or deprived before 22 June 1368 when John Stuart, later Robert III of Scotland, was given the title. Cunningham died between December 1396 and 8 July 1399.


Commentary:
Clerk of John earl of Carrick (later Robert III).


Commentary:
Clement VII, anti-pope elected 20 September 1378; died 16 September 1394 at Avignon.


Commentary:
Lord of Amnysfelde. His forebear Robert de Carnoto, son of Thomas son of Thomas son of Walcher de Carnoto, confirmed the churches of Trauersflet and Dungray to Kelsoe in 1266 (Lib. de Calchou no. 345).


Commentary:
Cousin of John de Boseville [2624]. Confirmed the grant of Henry de Belton [990], as confirmed by Henry's son John [2631].


Commentary:
Son of Henry of Belton [990], an early thirteenth century benefactor of Melrose. The grants of Henry and John were later confirmed by John de Wemys [2625].


Commentary:
Burgess of Perth, granted land in the southern part of the town to Melrose.


Commentary:
Sir John Swinton of Swinton. Married Margaret, countess of Mar, after the death of her first husband William Earl of Douglas [2518]. Styled Lord of Mar after the death of his stepson Earl James [2607]. Died 14 September 1402 (Complete Peerage vol. 4, p. 431).


Commentary:
Clerk to James earl of Douglas (d. 1388).


Commentary:
Cousin of Robert II Stuart. Married Janet, widow of Sir David Barclay of Brechin, probably daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Keith of Syntoun. Father of Robert, Lord Erskine (d. he died 1403/4 (Comp. Peerage, vol 5).


Commentary:
Matthew de Glendonwyn, bishop of Glasgow, consecrated in December 1387. Died 10 May 1408.


Commentary:
Gilbert of Greenlaw, bishop of Aberdeen, consecrated before 19 February 1390, died probably on 20 September 1421.


Commentary:
Son of Archibald earl of Douglas (d. 1400) and brother of Archibald earl of Douglas (d. 1424). Succeeded as seventh earl of Douglas on the death of his great-nephew William in 1440.


Commentary:
Alexander of Cockburn of Langton, chancellor of Robert III 1390-1395.


Commentary:
Walter Trayl bishop of St Andrews, consecrated by 15 February 1386; died before 1 July 1401.


Commentary:
Reginald Crawford, keeper of Privy Seal 1391-8; he died after 7 March 1401.


Commentary:
Benedict IX, elected pope atRome in 1389; died 1 October 1404. The name 'Gregory' appears in Melrose no. 496 by error.


Commentary:
Perpetual vicar of church of Moffet in diocese of Glasgow.


Commentary:
Granted a house in Leith to Melrose, confirmed by Robert III in 1397.


Commentary:
Brother of George, earl of March [2519] (d. c. 1423), son of John of Dunbar and Isabella Randolf.


Commentary:
As Brother David de Bennyn he had petitioned Pope Clement VII to provide more ample dispensation of his fitness to hold ecclesiastical office, having already been dispensed from illegitimacy of birth, which was confirmed in March 1380. In 1394 he became abbot of Melrose, aposition held for 28 years, until 1432 (OF, 47).


Commentary:
A member of the household of William bishop of St Andrews (d. 1385); occurs in an inspeximus of Robert III.


Commentary:
Abbot of Kelso between 1392 and around 1411.


Commentary:
Benedict XIII, anti-pope, elected in 1394 to succeed anti-pope Clement VII; deposed 15 June 1409. He died in 1424.


Commentary:
Procurator of the abbey at the papal curia in 1404.


Commentary:
Priest of St Andrew's diocese, notary public in 1404.


Commentary:
James Fraser, lord of Frendraught in the barony of Lessudden in Roxburghshire, granted Cambestoun to Melrose (OF, p. 213).


Commentary:
Sir William Keith, Great Marshal and later (1430) Earl Marshall of Scotland.


Commentary:
Son and heir of George earl of March and Dunbar [2519] (d. c. 1420/3). Forfeited the earldom in 1435. Died between 1455 and 1457.


Commentary:
Christine of Seton, wife of George I earl of Dunbar and March (d. c. 1420/3).


Commentary:
Nephew of George I earl of Dunbar and March.


Commentary:
Knight of George I earl of Dunbar and March [2519].


Commentary:
Retainer of George I earl of Dunbar and March.


Commentary:
Clerk of George I earl of Dunbar and March.


Commentary:
Alexander abbot of Coupar Angus 1209 to 1240.


Commentary:
William de Somerville was buried at Melrose in 1242 (Chron. Melrose, p. 184).


Commentary:
Rector of the church of Linton in Lothian, and of the chapel of Fofo, given to Melrose by Nicholas Corbet.


Commentary:
Husband of Annabel daughter of Nicholas Weaver (textor) of Berwick [2193].


Commentary:
Daughter of Nicholas Weaver of Berwick [2193], wife of Richard Barber [2713].


Commentary:
Malise I earl of Strathern, son of Earl Robert (died between 25 September 1237 and August 1244). Married Marjory [2719], daughter and coheiress of Robert II de Muschamp. His son and successr was Malise II (d. 1313).


Commentary:
Daughter and eventual coheiress of Robert II de Muschamp [2173] (d. 1252). Wife of Malise I earl of Strathern [2718]


