William FitzDuncan (Dunkeld) Moray (abt. 1090 - abt. 1151)

Born about 1090 in Scotland [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Alice (Rumilly) FitzGerold — married 1138 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died about 1151 at about age 61 in Scotland [uncertain]

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Biography

William (Dunkeld) Moray is Notable.

”Baron of Allerdale “Baron and Honor of Cockermouth," "Baron of Egremont and Aspatria," "Baron of Cumberland," "Butcher of Craven”

William FitzDuncan Dunkeld was born the son of Duncan II, King of Scots and his wife, Ethelreda of Northumberland.^[1][2][3]

Children of William FitzDuncan and Unknown 1st Wife or Mistress

• Gospatric MacWilliams ^[1][4][5]
• Donald Bane MacWilliam ^[1][2][4]

He was "strenously loyal to" ^[6] and "the constant attendant of his uncle, David I King of Scots,” ^[1] who succeeded his brother, Alexander I, as king of Scots on 25 Apr 1124. ^[7] Consequential to this position of trust, in 1137, William FitzDuncan commanded a division of the Scots army which invaded Northumberland. “After failing in attempt to take the castle of Wark, Siege of Wark, he wasted Yorkshire with great barbarity and monstrous cruelty to women and children…In 1138, he advanced with a force of Galway men into Craven, and in a battle near Clitheroe, Battle of Clitheroe near the source of the Ribble, he gained a victory on June 19th…He was in command of a part of the Scots army at the Battle of the Standard 22 August 1138.” ^[1]

About 1138, he married Alice de Rumilly, daughter of William Meschin, of Skipton, Yorkshire and Egremont, Cumberland, and Cecily daughter of Robert de Rumilly. ^[1][2][8] By inheritances of this wife, he acquired titles and lands, “Baron of Allerdale," "Baron and Honor of Cockermouth,” "Baron of Egremont and Aspatria," and "Baron of Cumberland." ^[9][1]Name

Children of William FitzDuncan and Alice Rumilly

• William "the boy of Egremont" “died childless between 1153 and 1154.” ^{[1][2][3][10][11]}
• William of Egremont DUPLICATE (SEE RESEARCH NOTES.)
• Cecily (FitzWilliam) le Gros, wife of William le Gros, Count of Aumale, lord of Holderness ^[1][2]
• Amabel (FitzWilliam) de Lucy, ^[1] wife of Reynold (Reginald) de Lucy. ^[2]
• Alice (Rumilly) de Courtenay, wife of Gilbert Pipard and Robert de Courtenay ^[1][2]

He died about 1151.^[5]

Disputed Child

Marjory FitzDuncan is not the daughter of William FitzDuncan (Dunkeld) Moray, "I think she definitely never existed, and the Latin statement (Marijoriam, junioriem filiam Willelmi hostiarii, domini rigis nepotis) in History of the clan Gregor, p. 15 has probably been falsified or misquoted." John Atkinson. Please don't reconnect.

Research notes

1. He "wasted Yorkshire with great barbarity and monstrous cruelty to women and children." The probable consequences to his descendants, “Donald Macwilliam and, it is said, 500 of his men were killed, and Donald's head was sent to the king,” “Guthred (Guðrøð) Macwilliam…was betrayed, captured, presented to the king's son, the future Alexander II, at Kincardine, andy decapitated; the corpse was then left hanging by the feet,” “Then, or possibly in 1230, the last known member of the family, an infant daughter, was publicly put to death in Forfar, when her head was dashed against the market cross.” ^[6]-
2. William of Egremont is a duplicate of William "the boy of Egremont", merge requested 11/29/2022 Perkins-11750 03:04, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
3. No reliable source was located for the name of his 1st wife or mistress, shown as Gruaidh Moray. Her name was changed to Unknown Moray.
4. No reliable source was located for the name of his son, shown as Ranulf Moray. He was disconnected.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), volume III, pps. 213-214 HARINGTON 3.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Dunbar, Archibald Hamilton. Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005-1625, with Notices of the Principal Events, Tables of Regnal Years, Pedigrees, Tables, Calendars, Etc. United Kingdom: D. Douglas (1906), pp. 37-40.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Cawley, Charles Medieval Lands: a Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families. Hereford, UK: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (2006), citing, “WILLIAM FitzDuncan ([1091/94]-[1153/54]). His parentage is confirmed by the Chronicle of John of Fordun…” chap. 3. B. Duncan. 1. a.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Cawley, Charles Medieval Lands: a Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families. Hereford, UK: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (2006), citing, “The name of William’s supposed first wife or mistress is not known. It is clear that William FitzDuncan’s sons Gospatrick and Donald could not have been born from his known marriage. It is not known whether they were sons of an earlier otherwise unrecorded marriage or were illegitimate.” chap. 3. C. DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM FitzDuncan.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Duncan, A. A. M. Duncan II Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2004), citing, “William had two sons, a Gospatric who is once mentioned and may have been a child of an earlier marriage, and William, 'the boy of Egremont', who succeeded to his father's English lands and died childless in or soon after 1163, so that the inheritance passed to his three sisters. William fitz Duncan made no known claim to the throne of Scotland, nor did his lawful heirs in 1291.” ODNB.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Scott, W. W. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. “Macwilliam family.” United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2004), Macwilliam family
7. ↑ Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 578-580 SCOTLAND 2. David I.
8. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage, founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom." Edinburgh: David Douglas, (1905), Vol. II, Archive.org, pp. 2-3
9. ↑ Daniel Lysons and Samuel Lysons. "Cockermouth," in Magna Britannia: Volume 4, Cumberland. London: T Cadell and W Davies (1816), British History Online, citing, “Cockermouth is the site of the barony of Allerdale, since called the barony and honor of Cockermouth. This barony was given by William de Meschines to Waldeof, son of Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar, whose grand-daughter brought it to William Fitz-Duncan, nephew of Malcolm, King of Scotland; one of the co-heiresses of Fitz-Duncan, who was twice married, died without issue; the two others, whose issue eventually shared this barony in moieties, married William Le Gros, Earl of Albemarle, and Reginald De Lucy; the heiress of Lucy married Multon, who took the name of Lucy. After the death of William de Fortibus, Earl of Albemarle, and Isabel his countess, without issue…”pps. 40-45
10. ↑ Duncan, A A M. Kingship of the Scots, A.D.842-1292: Succession and Independence. (Edinburgh Classic Editions). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2002) (Kindle), p. 91, citing, and the third brother, Ethelred, who inherited the abbacy of Dunkeld, probably died young.” https://a.co/aDW8wcS.
11. ↑ Calendar of documents relating to Scotland Vol I by Joseph Bain. Publisher: Edinburgh : H.M. General Register House, 1881. Page: xxiii.

See also:

• Wikipedia: William fitz Duncan
• Wikipedia: Earl of Moray
• Wikipedia: Meic Uilleim
• Clan MacFarlane: William FitzDuncan, of Skipton, 'Earl of Moray'
• Sanders, English Baronies, p.134
• "Superstition has it that no male child should ever survive to inherit Egremont Castle because of the perfidious conduct of William le Meschines to one Robert Curthose by desertion and for the atrocities committed on helpless women and children by William Fitzduncan. It was he that held the unsavoury title the "Butcher of Craven." Read, E. A. “A 1000 Years of Egremont.” Egremont Medieval Festival History Pages; The History of Egremont and the Castle. Egremont Medieval Festival (2002). http://www.whitehaven.org.uk/egremont3.html.