Born about 1252 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of Robert (Bruce) Lord of Annandale and Earl of Carrick jure uxoris — married about 1271 in Scotland [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 9 Nov 1292 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland

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Biography

Marjory (or Margaret), Countess of Carrick, married Adam de Kilconcath (Kilconquhar), 3rd Earl of Carrick^[1] in her right, who d on Crusade at Acre in 1270 without issue. What followed belongs to legend and has been much embroidered by novelists, but the probability appears to be that Robert de Brus, the son of Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale and of Cleveland (known to history as "Robert Bruce the Competitor"), newly returned from the Crusade, visited the Countess to bring her the news of her widowhood. He encountered her while she was hunting, she judged him a worthy trophy, and the consequence was his capture and enforced sojourn in her castle until he married her a few days later. Cynics and historians insist that this was a ruse to allow Alexander III to take a lenient view of their having married without his consent, and when he seized her castle and lands she regained them with payment of a fine (perhaps the same fine she would have paid for licence to marry anyway). Countess Marjorie d 1292 brought into this world five sons and five daughters, of whom the most famous son was to become King Robert I, 4th Earl of Carrick. Her husband, Earl of Carrick in her right, resigned the earldom to his eldest son on Nov. 9, 1292, after the Countess had died.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), vol. III, pages 520-528 SCOTLAND 4.
2. ↑ 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 : Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 : Free Download, Borrow, And Streaming : Internet Archive". 2020. Internet Archive. Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, Vol II, pps 426, 432-5.

See Also:

• Douglas Richardson, "Royal Ancestry", 2013, Vol. 1, pp. 596-597.
• Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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