The Douglas book . Aberbrothoc, meant rather than Earl GLUebride. pp. 263, 335. It has generaUy been taken 3 Chronica de Mailros, p. 142. for granted, although there is no evidence to , , , . , , . ,, * Origines Parochiales, vol. li. p. 8O0. b*>ar out the statement, that this Magnus was son of Earl Gillebridc ; but as he is called Ibid. THK CELTIC EARLS OF AXGUS. dated 7th July 1235, but the document is so decayed that the name isillegible.^ Malcohn, Earl of Angus, died before 1242, leaving his earldom to hisonly surviving child, Matilda. He was the last of the Celtic Earls of Anus. ^ Ret^i
The Douglas book . Aberbrothoc, meant rather than Earl GLUebride. pp. 263, 335. It has generaUy been taken 3 Chronica de Mailros, p. 142. for granted, although there is no evidence to , , , . , , . ,, * Origines Parochiales, vol. li. p. 8O0. b*>ar out the statement, that this Magnus was son of Earl Gillebridc ; but as he is called Ibid. THK CELTIC EARLS OF AXGUS. dated 7th July 1235, but the document is so decayed that the name isillegible.^ Malcohn, Earl of Angus, died before 1242, leaving his earldom to hisonly surviving child, Matilda. He was the last of the Celtic Earls of Anus. ^ Ret^istrum Honoris de Morton, vol. XXXV. The succession to the earldom ofCaithness after the death of Earl !ilagnus isshrouded in mystery, but there is little roomto doubt the probability of the suggestion that in the later pedigree of the CaithnessEarls, the names of the Umfravilles have beenerroneously inserted. [Cf. Origines Paro-chiales, vol. ii. p. S05, and Robertsons EarlyKings of Scotland, vol. ii. p. ]. THE NORMAN EARLS OF ANGUS. ll/TATILDA, styled Countess of Angus, succeeded to her father, Earl?^ Malcolm. From a statement in the Chronica de Mailros,^ under theyear 1242, that John Comyn, Earl of Angus, died in France, it is the beliefauionj? historians that he was the first husband of the Countess was the only son of Richard, eldest son of William Comyn, Justiciar ofScotland and Earl of Buchan, and he is said to have died in his fatherslifetime, leaving by the Countess a son, Bertold, who died young. Countess Matilda married secondly, in 1243, Sir Gilbert Umfrayillk,-a well-known and powerful Northumbrian baron, some of whose ancestors atleast had been in high estimation at the Scottish Court. He has been handeddown to posterity as the famous baron, and the guardian and matchle-^sornament of the north of England.^ As Earl of Angus he took part intransmitting to the Pope, for confirmation, the bond by King Alexanderthe Second of Scotland to King Henry the
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