This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Earl of Atholl" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(April 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Earldom of Atholl
The Arms of the Realm and Ancient Local Principalities of Scotland[1]
Creation date
12th century
Peerage
Peerage of Scotland
First holder
Dubdon of Atholl (Mormaerdom)
Present holder
Bruce Murray, 12th Duke of Atholl
Status
Extant as subsidiary title of Duke of Atholl
Former seat(s)
Blair Castle
The Mormaer or Earl of Atholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province of Atholl (Ath Fodhla), now in northern Perthshire. Atholl is a special Mormaerdom, because a King of Atholl is reported from the Pictish period. The only other two Pictish kingdoms to be known from contemporary sources are Fortriu and Circinn. Indeed, the early 13th century document known to modern scholars as the de Situ Albanie repeats the claim that Atholl was an ancient Pictish kingdom. In the 11th century, the famous Crínán of Dunkeld may have performed the role of Mormaer.
Royal connections continued with Máel Muire, who was the son of King Donnchad I, and the younger brother of Máel Coluim III mac Donnchada. Matad was perhaps the most famous of the Mormaers, fathering Harald Maddadsson, a notorious rebel of the Scottish King and perhaps the first Gael to rule Orkney as Earl of Orkney. The line of Máel Muire and Crínán came to an end when Forbhlaith, the daughter of Mormaer Henry married David de Hastings.
The latter marriage produced a daughter, Ada, who married into the Strathbogie family, a semi-Normanized Gaelic family with Fife origins. The Strathbogies ruled until the Wars of Independence, when the Campells took over. It finally passed to the Stewarts.
^Bartholomew Scotland of old : clan names map; the lands, the arms and the crests. 1983. ISBN 0-7028-1709-0
The Mormaer or EarlofAtholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province ofAtholl (Ath Fodhla), now in...
(1629), Earlof Tullibardine (1628), Earlof Tullibardine (1676), Earlof Strathtay and Strathardle, in the County of Perth (1703), Marquess ofAtholl (1676)...
first Earlof Tullibardine married the heiress to the Stewart earldom ofAtholl and Atholl therefore became a Murray earldom in 1626. The Murray Earlof Atholl...
of Canada. Blair Atholl Duke ofAthollEarlofAtholl Vale ofAtholl Pipe Band MacGillonie Atolovo, a Bulgarian village named after a Duke ofAtholl Medieval...
John Murray, 1st Marquess ofAtholl. The title passed down through generations, with various earls serving in the House of Lords as Scottish Representative...
ofAtholl, who became the seventh Baron Strange as well. He was the grandson of Lady Amelia Anne Sophia Stanley, daughter of James Stanley, 7th Earl of...
Tullibardine, who succeeded as EarlofAtholl. Many Stewarts continued to live in the Atholl area with many claiming descent from the Wolf of Badenoch. They were...
king afterwards. Máel Muire, EarlofAtholl is a possible third son of Duncan, although this is uncertain. The early period of Duncan's reign was apparently...
Lord of Badenoch (died c. 1275), a northern neighbour of David I Strathbogie, EarlofAtholl (died 1270), who started building on the Earl's land while...
title in the Peerage of England supposedly created in 1318 for Scottish lord David of Strathbogie, 10th EarlofAtholl. Despite lack of evidence supporting...
of King James V of Scotland John Stewart, 4th EarlofAtholl (died 1579), Scottish nobleman, son of the 3rd EarlofAtholl John Stewart, 5th Earlof Atholl...
daughter of Hugh, Earlof Ross. They had four children: David Stewart, Earlof Strathearn, born about 1356 and died in 1389. Walter Stewart, EarlofAtholl, born...
earlofAtholl, ODNB Brown, Atholl and the Death of James I, pp. 27–8 Brown, Atholl and the Death of James I, p. 28 Brown, Atholl and the Death of James...
Stewart ofAtholl David Stewart, Earlof Strathearn Walter Stewart, EarlofAtholl Alan Stewart, 4th Earlof Caithness David Stewart, Master ofAtholl John...
other women of the party were sent to Kildrummy in August under the protection of Bruce's brother, Neil Bruce, and the EarlofAtholl and most of his remaining...
Global Information
