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.
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Earl of Sutherland between 1223 and 1245 – about 1248 |
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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 |