8th Earl of Mar Garnait of Mar

Male - Bef 1305


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  • Name Garnait of Mar 
    Title 8th Earl of Mar 
    Born Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Name Gartnait mac Domhnaill 
    Reference Number 130 
    Died Bef Sep 1305  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I130  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father Domhnall I of Mar,   b. Abt 1243, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1302, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Helen Ferch Llywelyn,   b. Abt 1206,   d. 1253  (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Family ID F1968  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Christina Bruce,   b. Abt 1273, Seton, East Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1356  (Age ~ 83 years) 
    Children 
     1. Domhnall II of Mar,   b. Abt 1302, Saline, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1332, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 30 years)  [natural]
     2. Helen of Mar,   b. Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1342, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [natural]
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 
    Family ID F1773  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • Gartnait of Mar - Gartnait mac Domhnaill (Gartnait, Donald's son) - was the eighth known Mormaer of Mar, ruling from somewhere around 1301, perhaps as early as 1297, until his death in 1305. He was a son of Domhnall I of Mar, brother of Isabella of Mar and brother-in-law of Robert I of Scotland.

      We last hear of his father alive in 1297, and we hear of his son Gartnait as Mormaer perhaps in 1302, and definitely by 1305. Gartnait himself is known to have collaborated with Edward in some form during the crackdown of 1297, but this does not necessarily mean any break with his father or with Robert I, whom his fathered supported.

      In 1302, a document containing terms of reconciliation between Edward I of England and Robert stipulates that Robert should act as warden of Gartnait,1 implying that Gartnait's father Domhnall had just died. However, he was married to Robert's sister Christina Bruce, perhaps in 1295.