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Isabel MacDuff was suo jure Countess of Fife from 1363 until she resigned the title in 1371. She was the only child of Duncan, Earl of Fife, by his wife Mary de Monthermer, daughter of Ralph, Lord Monthermer and Princess Joan Plantagenet, of Acre.[1]
In 1332 she and her mother had been captured at Perth by supporters of Edward Balliol. She was sent as a ward to Northumberland.
In a charter dated 22nd July 1360 Isabel de Fyfe, as daughter and heiress to Duncan, Earl of Fife, lost a claim over the feudal barony of Kinnoul to Sir Robert de Erskine. As there is no mention of a husband in this charter it may have been inbetween her marriages.[2]
Isabel married:
Isabel died shortly after 12 August 1389 and was buried next to Walter Stewart.</blockquote>
Most sources, including the Medieval Lands database,[10] as well as the Dictionary of National Biography,[11] state Isabel's first marriage was to William Ramsay.
However, Richardson has her married first to William de Felton, and gives her children, John (Knt.), Duncan (clerk), and Constance Felton. [12][13] [14]
Not included under his Isabel entry, Richardson, Rosie Bevan, and others, have also now given her a daughter, Joan, married to Sir Walter Faucomberge/Fauconberg (see corrections and discussion, under Sources, below). Other sources, like The History of Parliament, have her granddaughter, Joan, daughter of John, marrying Walter Fauconburg. [15]
Although it doesn't mention Isabel, Constance, or Duncan, the post mortem inquisition of her grandson, John, sorts out many of the family relationships.
William de Felton married Isabella — by 5 April 1345, because on that date at Matfen, Alexander de Cheswyk granted all his lands in Edlingham and Newton, Northumberland to Lord William de Felton, knight, and his wife, Isabella.[16]
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<ref name = "Cawley">Cawley, C. (21 September 2020). Scotland, mormaers, earls, lords (Ch. 4, sec. B). Retrieved from Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Available online; accessed 24 October 2020.</ref>
They had one daughter, whose name was Isabella sometimes called Elizabeth.
The Peerage website incorrectly says they had 2 daughters.