Thomas
"Mormaer of Mar"
Earl of Mar Lord of Garioch
formerly Mar
Born about in Drumfrieshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of Domhnall Mar
and Isabel (Stewart) Stewart of Mar
Brother of
Margaret (Mar) Douglas Countess of Mar
Husband of
Margaret (Graham) Stewart
— married
about 1352 [location unknown]
Husband of
Margaret (Stewart) Stewart Dowager Countess of Angus and Mar
— married
after 1355 [location unknown]
Died
at about age 47
in Scotland
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| Thomas (Mar) Earl of Mar Lord of Garioch was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland. Join: Scotland Project Discuss: Scotland |
| Preceded by Domhnall II of Mar |
9th Earl of Mar 1332-1373/74 |
Succeeded by Margaret of Mar |
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Biography
Thomas (Mar) Earl of Mar Lord of Garioch is a member of Clan Mar.
Thomas of Mar divorced his wife, Margaret Graham sometime between 1354 and 1360 on the grounds that she did not have children.
Birth
- ABT 1330 Of, Drumfrieshire, Scotland
Death
- ABT 1374
Sources
- Publications of the Scottish History Society (University Press, Edinburgh, 1887-) Vol. 42: "Chartulary of the Abbey of Lindores, 1195-1479".
- Page 281: "Thomam, Comitem de Marre. Thomas succeeded his father, Donald (the Regent who fell in the slaughter at Dupplin), in 1332. He obtained the lordship of Garioch, in 1355, on the death of his grandmoather, Christian Bruce, on whom it had been conferred by King Robert I. He died without issue in 1377, His sister, Margaret, was married to William, first Earl of Douglas, who, in right of marriage, became Earl of Mar."
- Ancestral File Number: 83TP-D1
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