William de Moravia, 1st Earl of Sutherland

William de Moravia, 1st Earl of Sutherland (also William Sutherland ) († around 1248 ) was a Scottish magnate .

William de Moravia was a son of Hugh Freskin , a Flemish vassal of the Scottish King William the Lion . After a rebellion in northern Scotland, the king Freskin gave the northern Scottish rule Sutherland as a fief. After the death of his father after 1214, William de Moravia inherited these properties as Lord of Sutherland . Between 1223 and 1245 he was made Earl of Sutherland . This may have happened around 1235, when King Alexander II also made Magnus Earl of neighboring Caithness . William is believed to have died in 1248 when his son and heir William was still a minor.

He had at least two sons:

William Sutherland, 2nd Earl of Sutherland (around 1235–1306 / 07)
Walter of Duffus († 1263) ⚭ Eupheme of Ross, daughter of Ferchar, 1st Earl of Ross

Web links

William Sutherland, 1st Earl of Sutherland on thepeerage.com
Sutherland, Earl of (S, 1235) at Cracroft's Peerage
CA McGladdery: Sutherland family (per. C. 1200 – c. 1510). 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

Individual evidence

^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Scotland and Its Neighbors in the Middle Ages . Hambledon, London 1992, ISBN 1-85285-052-3 , p. 83.
↑ Barbara E. Crawford: The Earldom of Caithness and the kingdom of Scotland, 1150-1266 . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland , John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-113-4 , p. 34.

predecessor	Office	successor
New title created	Earl of Sutherland between 1223 and 1245 – about 1248	William

personal data
SURNAME	Moravia, William de, 1st Earl of Sutherland
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sutherland, William, 1st Earl of Sutherland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish magnate
DATE OF BIRTH	12th Century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1248

[1] Geoffrey WS Barrow: Scotland and Its Neighbors in the Middle Ages . Hambledon, London 1992, ISBN 1-85285-052-3 , p. 83.

[2] Barbara E. Crawford: The Earldom of Caithness and the kingdom of Scotland, 1150-1266 . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland , John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-113-4 , p. 34.