Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Margaret MONFODE
Marriage:
Children:
- Sir James DOUGLAS Birth: Abt 1335
Death: 1420
- Sir William DOUGLAS Birth: 2
Death: After 1 Jun 1406
- John DOUGLAS Birth: 3
Death: Before 26 May 1366
- Sir Henry DOUGLAS Birth: 4
Death: 1393
- Thomas DOUGLAS Birth: 5
Death: After 1378
- Nicholas DOUGLAS Birth: 6
Death: Before 1 Jun 1406
- Ellen DOUGLAS Death: Before 1 Aug 1377
- Margaret DOUGLAS Death: Before 1 Aug 1377
- Elizabeth DOUGLAS Death: After 1 Jun 1406
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Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 09, Moels-Nugent. London: St Catherine Press, 1936. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP IX [Ap][p0-9].*].
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Ravilious, John, Agnes de Graham, wife of John de Monfode. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 1/20/2014. Subject: Agnes de Graham, wife of John de Monfode. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/ONmqdchKOC8/m/hQKM2eI7WBcJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/20/2014-174826].
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Sources for birth and parent Information
- parents:
- [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/20/2014-174826, John Ravilious SGM
11/16/2006-232430, John Ravilious SGM 11/9/2005-161912, John Ravilious SGM
6/9/2007-104437],
- father:
- [Ref: Ravilious AgnesGraham p131, Ravilious QueenEuphemia p51]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- after 5 Apr 1361 [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/20/2014-174826]
Sources with Information about marriage to John MONFODE
- date:
- first marriage of Agnes [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428, John Ravilious SGM
1/20/2014-174826, Ravilious AgnesGraham p131, Ravilious QueenEuphemia p51],
- child:
- [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/20/2014-174826, Ravilious AgnesGraham p130,
Ravilious AgnesGraham p131]
Sources with Information about marriage to Sir John DOUGLAS
- date:
- disp 12 Oct 1344 [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v23-205]
- second marriage of Agnes [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428, John Ravilious SGM
1/20/2014-174826, Ravilious QueenEuphemia p51],
- names:
- [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 6/9/2007-104437],
- child:
- [Ref: Burke Peerage p1428, CP IX p287, John Ravilious SGM
11/16/2006-232430, Ravilious AgnesGraham p131, Ravilious QueenEuphemia p51, SP
VI p343, SP VI p344, Thompson CharlesII v23-205]
Research Notes:
she has been identified as the widow of John MUNFODE, but this is not
completely proved [Ref: SP VI p343]
John P Ravilious has established that the wife of Sir John Douglas was Agnes
Graham, based on his recognition of the significance of the dispensation for
their marriage. Ravilious posted his evidence and conclusion on GEN-MEDIEVAL
on 9 Nov 2005. [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/9/2005-161912, Thompson CharlesII
v23-206]
Two charters in the Registrum Honoris de Morton provide proof of the placement
of Agnes, wife of John de Monfode, as a daughter of Sir Nicholas de Graham and
Mary of Strathearn. The first, identified as 'Carta de Hawthornsike', is a
grant of the lands of 'Hawthornesyk' in the barony of Abercorn to Agnes de
Monfode by John de Graham, lord of Abercorn, dated at Lochleven, 5 Aug 1340
[1]. As John de Graham of Abercorn and Dalkeith, son of Sir Nicholas, had died
on 25 April 1337 [2], the John de Graham of the 1340 charter is clearly his
son and heir.
The past difficulty (at least in part), and the correct identification is
based primarily on the language of this charter. The editor rendered the text
as a grant by John de Graham to ' my dear friend, lady Agnes de Munfode ' ["
dil'ce amice mee d'ne Agneti de munfode "]. The word "amice" was an apparent
error in the transcription of the charter, which I confirmed today with Andrew
B. W. MacEwen. The word actually is "amite": the correct translation of the
text would then read as a grant to 'my dear aunt, lady Agnes de Munfode'.
That Agnes was a sister of the elder Sir John de Graham (and daughter of
Sir Nicholas), and not his sister-in-law, is indicated by the word "amite",
indicating that she was a paternal aunt [nominative form "amita"]. A
subsequent charter confirms this: a subsequent grant of the lands of
'Hawthornsike' by William Mure of Abercorn, dated 5 April 1361 mentions 'lady
Agnes de Montfode, relict of the deceased John de Montfode ' ["d'ne Agnetis de
montfode relicte quond' Joh'is de montfode"] [3]. Her name was de Monfode, but
(obviously) by marriage.
That Agnes, wife of Sir John de Douglas, was a niece of Agnes (de Graham)
de Monfode and not identical to her, is further supported on chronological
grounds. Sir John de Graham (son of Sir Nicholas and his wife Mary of
Strathearn) was born before 19 May 1278: an inquisition of 19 May 1306,
concerning the Muschamp inheritance, found that he was 28 years of age
[possibly phrased as '28 years and more'] [4]. Agnes de Graham had a
dispensation for her marriage to Sir John de Douglas in October 1344 [5], by
which date she had issue and evidently continued producing offspring after
that date (they had a total of 9 sons and daughters that are known). Assuming
a minimal range of 15 years to produce 9 offspring, from say 1335/1340 to
1350/1355, Agnes would reasonably be assumed to have been born between say
1290 and 1320, but probably no earlier than between say 1295 to 1300. Mary of
Strathearn was born sometime before 20 March 1248/9, as an IPM dated 20 March
1254/5 found that she was aged 6 [presumably, '6 and more'] [6]. The latest
point at which we might assume a child to have been born to Mary of Strathearn
by Nicholas de Graham would have been between say 1288 and 1294. It would be
an extreme stretch to place Agnes, wife of Sir John de Douglas, as a daughter
of Mary of Strathearn given these constraints. [Ref: John Ravilious SGM
11/16/2006-232430]
In prior threads it was noted that Sir John de Douglas' wife Agnes had been
identified as Agnes de Graham in a dispensation dated 12 Oct 1344. It was
asserted that she was likely a daughter of Sir John de Graham of Abercorn
based on known grants of land, onomastics and other evidence, but no proof of
the relationship was then known. It was also assumed, given that there
appeared to have been two individuals identified as John de Graham of
Abercorn, that they were father and son, and that the oft-mentioned Agnes de
Monfode was the aunt of the younger, and sister of the elder John de Graham
[1].
Evidence has been noted courtesy of the National Records of Scotland that,
together with charters in the Registrum Honoris de Morton, prove that Agnes de
Graham (John de Douglas' wife) was in fact the same individual as Agnes, widow
of Sir John de Monfode of Skirling, Peeblesshire (adjoining the parish of
Kilbucho). By her first marriage, Agnes had a daughter Margaret de Monfode:
Margaret married firstly Alexander Cockburn, by whom she had two sons, William
de Cockburn of Skirling, and Edward, and a daughter Agnes. She married
secondly William de Cragy, by whom she had a son John (dsp before 14 April
1377) and a daughter Margaret. Margaret de Cragy, sister and heir of John,
granted a charter dated at Dalkeith, 14 April 1377, resigning her lands of
Ardlory in Kinross, for which act she appointed "my dear uncle lord William de
Douglas, knight, my attorney, procurator and special messenger" [2]. The fact
that this grant was made at Dalkeith would indicate that Sir William de
Douglas, younger brother of Sir James of Dalkeith (d. 1420) was the uncle of
Margaret de Cragy. Given the Cragy descent from Sir John de Monfode and his
wife Agnes, this would clearly imply that Agnes 'de Monfode' was the same
individual as Agnes de Graham, the wife of Sir John de Douglas, and that Sir
James Douglas of Dalkeith and his brother William were younger half-brothers
of Margaret de Monfode, mother of Margaret de Cragy.
The implication of the Cragy-Douglas relationship has been confirmed by a
group of charters of the Carmichael family of Skirling, made available through
the NRS website. In particular, one charter of John de Cragy (Margaret's
brother) dated "c. 1370" was witnessed by (among others) "Sir James of
Douglas, lord of Dalketh, and Sir Henry of Douglas, brothers, uncles of the
granter" [3].
Given this proof of Agnes de Graham's marital history, and that she was
aunt of the last John de Graham of Abercorn [4], it is evident that there were
3, not 2, John Grahams of Abercorn. Chronology indicates that Agnes, the
mother of Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith (b. say 1330/35) and his many
siblings, could not have been the daughter of Sir Nicholas de Graham and his
wife Mary of Strathearn (born before 20 March 1248/9). Agnes then must have
been the daughter of their son the first John de Graham of Abercorn, who was
born before 28 May 1278 [5]. Agnes therefore had a brother, the father of John
de Graham, her nephew, who granted the lands of Hawthornsyke to her in 1340.
This was most likely the John Graham who died on 25 April 1337 [6], previously
thought to have been one and the same with the first John Graham of Abercorn.
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/20/2014-174826]
Pedigree of Agnes GRAHAM
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William De GRAHAM
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Peter De GRAHAM
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Sir Henry De GRAHAM
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Geva
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Sir Henry De GRAHAM
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Sir Henry GRAHAM
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Richer De Boyville
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Gilbert FITZ RICHER
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Adam FITZ GILBERT
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Juliana De SOULIS
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Christiana FITZ GILBERT
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(Unk) De COMYN
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(Unk) De COMYN
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Richard COMYN
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Idonea COMYN
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Waltheof Of Tynedale
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Uchtred Of Tynedale
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Hextilde of Tynedale
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Domnall Bane (Donald) Mac DONNCHAD, King Of Scots
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Bethoc Of Scotland
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Sir Nicholas GRAHAM
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Robert AVENAL
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Gervase AVENAL
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Sibyl
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Roger AVENEL
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Sibyl
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(Unk) AVENEL
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John GRAHAM
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Malise Earl Of Strathern
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Ferteth Earl Of Strathern
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Gilbert Earl Of Strathern
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Ethen
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Robert Earl Of Strathern
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Roger III De TOENI, Baron Of Flamstead
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Ralph V De TOENI, Baron Of Flamstead
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Ida (Gertrude) Of Hainault
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Roger IV De TOENI, Baron Of Flamstead
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Sir Robert II De Beaumont, Earl Of Leicester
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Margaret De BEAUMONT
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Amicia De Gael
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Margaret De TOSNY
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Roscelin De BEAUMONT, Viscount Of Maine
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Richard I De BEAUMONT, Viscount Of Maine
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Constance
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Constance De BEAUMONT
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Richard II Seigneur of l'Aigle
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Lucie De L'AIGLE
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Beatrice
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Malise Earl Of Strathern
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Freskin
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William FRESKIN
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Hugh De MORAVIA
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(Unk dau) De MORAVIA
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Gillemichel MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife
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Duncan MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife, Regent Of Scotlan
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Duncan MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife, Justiciar Of Scot
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Annabela Of Fife
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Ela
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Mary Of Strathearn
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Ansketil De BULMER
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Stephen De BULMER
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Peter De HUMEZ
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(Unk) De HUMEZ
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Thomas De MUSCHAMP, Baron Of Wooler
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Robert De MUSCHAMP
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Cecily De MUSCHAMP
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Sir Robert De MUSCHAMP, Baron Of Wooler
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John FITZRICHARD
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Eustace Fitz John De BURGO, Constable Of Chester
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William De VESCY, Baron Of Alnwick
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Ivo De VESCY, Baron Of Alnwick
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Beatrice De VESCY
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Alda TYSON
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Matilda De VESCY
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Agnes
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Marjory De MUSCHAMP
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Isabel
Agnes GRAHAM
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Isabella
Descendants of Agnes GRAHAM
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