Euphemia, 6th Countess of Ross

Euphemia, 6th Countess of Ross (also Eupheme Ross ) (* 1345 , † between September 5, 1394 and 1399) was a Scottish noblewoman .

origin

Euphemia came from the Ross family , who named themselves after the Ross area in the Highlands . She was the eldest daughter of Uilleam, 5th Earl of Ross and his wife Mary of Islay.

Marriage to Walter Leslie

Euphemia's father was in opposition to the policies of King David II in the 1360s . Before 1366, he got Euphemia to marry the knight Sir Walter Leslie , a loyal follower of the king. In 1370 the king achieved that not Hugh, a brother of her father, but Euphemia and her husband were heirs to Earldom Ross and from the Isle of Skye. After her father's death in early 1372, she and her husband inherited their father's estates. Legally she was Countess of Ross , but on only one occasion she called herself Countess of Ross . Usually she was dubbed Lady Ross and her husband Lord of Ross .

From her marriage to Walter Leslie, she had two children:

• Alexander Leslie, 7th Earl of Ross
• Mary Leslie (also Mariota) ⚭ Donald, Lord of the Isles

Remains of the funerary monument of Euphemia in the ruins of the Cathedral of Fontrose

Second marriage to Alexander Stewart

After the death of her first husband on February 27, 1382 Euphemia married in the same year Alexander Stewart , a younger son of King Robert II. Shortly after the marriage was her husband, who later as a Wolf of Badenoch was notorious for Earl of Buchan collected . Alexander also took over the administration of Ross, but in 1392 Euphemia had the marriage, which had remained childless, annulled and took over the administration of her possessions again herself. The last document sealed by her dates from September 5, 1394. She was buried in Fortrose Cathedral. Her son Alexander became her heir from her first marriage.

literature

• John Anderson: The Ancient Earls of Ross . In: James Balfour Paul (Ed.): The Scots Peerage . tape 7 : Panmure – Sinclair . David Douglas, Edinburgh 1910, p. 230–244 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Eupheme de Ross, Countess of Ross on thepeerage.com , accessed September 10, 2016.
• Earl of Ross (Ferquhard MacTaggart). fmg.ac, accessed on September 21, 2014 . 
• RW Munro, Jean Munro: Ross, Euphemia (d. Before 1399). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

predecessor	Office	successor
Uilleam	Countess of Ross 1372 – before 1399	Alexander Leslie