Everything about Mormaer Of Mearns totally explained
The
Mormaer or
Mormaerdom of Mearns is the most obscure
medieval Scottish
Mormaerdom. It is known only from one source, a source relating that
Máel Petair,
Mormaer of Mearns, killed
Donnchad II. There is good reason to believe that this isn't some mistake, and that Mearns was once a Mormaerdom. The early
thirteenth century source, known to historians a
de Situ Albanie, adds believability to this because it lists Mearns in a list of 13 Scottish regions which in 6 1/2 pairs each formed one of the seven ancient Kingdoms of the
Picts. Only two of the eleven other regions are not attested in sources as Mormaerdoms, those ones being
Fothriff and
Gowrie. It is probable that by the time Mormaers begin to be consistently attested, for example roughly between
1150 and
1250, Mearns was absorbed by the crown and not regranted.
Bibliography
- Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286, 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922), Vol. I, pp. 89-91
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