Alwyn (Lennox) Lennox Second Earl of Lennox (aft. 1160 - bef. 1214)

Born after 1160 in Lennox, Scotland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died before 4 Dec 1214 before age 54 in Dunbartonshire, Scotland [uncertain]

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Alwyn the Younger (Lennox) Lennox Second Earl of Lennox was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland. Join: Scotland Project Discuss: Scotland

Biography

Alwyn was the son and heir of Alwin, first earl of Lennox. His father, "Alwin the elder, Earl of Lennox," was named in his charters. Alwin succeeded his father as the second Earl of Lennox, and styled himself as 'son and heir of Alwin, Earl of Lennox,' and by his son Máel Domnaig (Maldoven) as 'Alwin, younger, Earl of Lennox, son and heir of Alwin, elder, Earl of Lennox.'^[1][2] It is accepted that Alwyn was a minor when David, brother of King William, was granted the earldom while Alwyn was a ward of the Crown. The date of this charter is estimated to be between 1178 and 1182, putting Alwyn's birth roughly 1160 or after.^[3]

He was a benefactor of the Church.^[4] He donated lands to the Church of Kilpatrick,^[5] and lands of Luss to Malduin, Dean of Lennox.^[6]

He was called Mormaer of the Levenax in the Gaelic poem celebrating his coming of age, but Earl of Lennox in contemporary charters.^[4]

Alwyn died between 1208 and 4 December 1214 when his son Maldoven was styled earl of Lennox.^[1][7]

He married Eva, daughter of Gilchrist, Earl of Menteith, and had a large family of nine sons.^[4]

Issue:^[8]

1. Maldouen, succeeded as Earl.
2. Murdach, called by Maldouen the first of his brothers along with Dugald, Aulay and Duncan in a charter in 1217.
3. Dugald, rector at Kilpatrick.
4. Malcolm
5. Aulay
6. Duncan
7. Gilchrist, became the ancestor of Clan Macfarlane
8. Henry
9. Corc
10. Ferchar
11. Eva, m. Malcolm, son of Duncan, thane of Callendar.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} PoMS, no. 2087 (accessed 05 July 2021)
2. ↑ Balfour Paul, Sir James. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1908), vol. 5, pp. 326-331.
3. ↑ Lindores Abbey; Dowden, John, Chartulary of the abbey of Lindores, 1195-1479, (Edinburgh : Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, 1903), pages xxix, 1-2.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Cokayne, George E. and Vicary Gibbs ed., Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. VII: Husee to Lincolnshire, 2nd edition. (London : 1929), pp. 587-589.
5. ↑ [www.poms.ac.uk/record/source/5558/ PoMS, no. 5558] (accessed 05 July 2021)
6. ↑ [www.poms.ac.uk/record/source/2767/ PoMS, no. 2767] (accessed 05 July 2021.)
7. ↑ Fryde, E.B., D.E. Greenway, S. Porter, I. Roy, eds.,Handbook of British Chronology 3rd Edition, (London : Royal Historical Society, 1986), Lennox, page 512. (Borrow on Archive.org.)
8. ↑ Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage. Volume 5:328-330.

See also:

• Sir Bernard Burke, Burke's peerage 1866, 1869.
• The Livingston's of Callender. Scottish Earl's 1162-1396.