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Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Margaret MONFODE

Marriage: Children:
  1. Sir James DOUGLAS Birth: Abt 1335 Death: 1420
  2. Sir William DOUGLAS Birth: 2 Death: After 1 Jun 1406
  3. John DOUGLAS Birth: 3 Death: Before 26 May 1366
  4. Sir Henry DOUGLAS Birth: 4 Death: 1393
  5. Thomas DOUGLAS Birth: 5 Death: After 1378
  6. Nicholas DOUGLAS Birth: 6 Death: Before 1 Jun 1406
  7. Ellen DOUGLAS Death: Before 1 Aug 1377
  8. Margaret DOUGLAS Death: Before 1 Aug 1377
  9. Elizabeth DOUGLAS Death: After 1 Jun 1406

Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. 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].*].
  3. 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].
  4. Ravilious, John, Agnes de Graham, wife of John de Monfode. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/16/2006. Subject: Agnes de Graham, wife of John de Monfode. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/ONmqdchKOC8/m/oNDDSAaVA7QJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/16/2006-232430].
  5. Ravilious, John, Agnes Graham, wife of Sir John Douglas. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/9/2005. Subject: SP Addition: Agnes Graham, wife of Sir John Douglas (d. ca. 1350). Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/fGVsqYJlXfQ/m/_Ek565APROUJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/9/2005-161912].
  6. Ravilious, John, Comyn ancestry of Graham of Dalkeith. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 6/9/2007. Subject: Graham of Dalkeith: their Comyn ancestry. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/hQ78yBdrPpA/m/yDRKvkC6x5UJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 6/9/2007-104437].
  7. Ravilious, John, Agnes de Graham wife of John de Monfode and John de Douglas, in The Scottish Genealogist, vol LX no 4 (Dec 2014), pp129-133. Available at https://independent.academia.edu/JohnRavilious. This article at https://www.academia.edu/34967491/TSG_Agnes_de_Graham_wife_of_John_de_Monfode_and_Sir_John_de_Douglas_TSG_LXI_4_129_133. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ravilious AgnesGraham p[0-9]*].
  8. Ravilious, John, Queen Euphemia and her ancestry, in The Scottish Genealogist, vol LXIV no 2 (Jun 2017), pp49-52. Available at https://independent.academia.edu/JohnRavilious. This article at https://www.academia.edu/35370666/Queen_Euphemia_and_her_ancestry_TSG_LXIV_2_49_52. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ravilious QueenEuphemia p[0-9]*].
  9. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VI p[0-9]*].
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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
                                                       /-----William De GRAHAM
                                              /-----Peter De GRAHAM
                                     /-----Sir Henry De GRAHAM
                                    |         \-----Geva
                            /-----Sir Henry De GRAHAM
                   /-----Sir Henry GRAHAM
                  |        |                           /-----Richer De Boyville
                  |        |                  /-----Gilbert FITZ RICHER
                  |        |         /-----Adam FITZ GILBERT
                  |        |        |         \-----Juliana De SOULIS
                  |         \-----Christiana FITZ GILBERT
                  |                 |                           /-----(Unk) De COMYN
                  |                 |                  /-----(Unk) De COMYN
                  |                 |         /-----Richard COMYN
                  |                  \-----Idonea COMYN
                  |                          |                  /-----Waltheof Of Tynedale
                  |                          |         /-----Uchtred Of Tynedale
                  |                           \-----Hextilde of Tynedale
                  |                                   |         /-----Domnall Bane (Donald) Mac DONNCHAD, King Of Scots
                  |                                    \-----Bethoc Of Scotland
          /-----Sir Nicholas GRAHAM
         |        |                           /-----Robert AVENAL
         |        |                  /-----Gervase AVENAL
         |        |                 |         \-----Sibyl
         |        |         /-----Roger AVENEL
         |        |        |         \-----Sibyl
         |         \-----(Unk) AVENEL
 /-----John GRAHAM
|        |                                             /-----Malise Earl Of Strathern
|        |                                    /-----Ferteth Earl Of Strathern
|        |                           /-----Gilbert Earl Of Strathern
|        |                          |         \-----Ethen
|        |                  /-----Robert Earl Of Strathern
|        |                 |        |                           /-----Roger III De TOENI, Baron Of Flamstead
|        |                 |        |                  /-----Ralph V De TOENI, Baron Of Flamstead
|        |                 |        |                 |         \-----Ida (Gertrude) Of Hainault
|        |                 |        |         /-----Roger IV De TOENI, Baron Of Flamstead
|        |                 |        |        |        |         /-----Sir Robert II De Beaumont, Earl Of Leicester
|        |                 |        |        |         \-----Margaret De BEAUMONT
|        |                 |        |        |                  \-----Amicia De Gael
|        |                 |         \-----Margaret De TOSNY
|        |                 |                 |                  /-----Roscelin De BEAUMONT, Viscount Of Maine
|        |                 |                 |         /-----Richard I De BEAUMONT, Viscount Of Maine
|        |                 |                 |        |         \-----Constance
|        |                 |                  \-----Constance De BEAUMONT
|        |                 |                          |         /-----Richard II Seigneur of l'Aigle
|        |                 |                           \-----Lucie De L'AIGLE
|        |                 |                                    \-----Beatrice
|        |         /-----Malise Earl Of Strathern
|        |        |        |                           /-----Freskin
|        |        |        |                  /-----William FRESKIN
|        |        |        |         /-----Hugh De MORAVIA
|        |        |         \-----(Unk dau) De MORAVIA
|        |        |                 |                           /-----Gillemichel MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife
|        |        |                 |                  /-----Duncan MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife, Regent Of Scotlan
|        |        |                 |         /-----Duncan MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife, Justiciar Of Scot
|        |        |                  \-----Annabela Of Fife
|        |        |                           \-----Ela
|         \-----Mary Of Strathearn
|                 |                                    /-----Ansketil De BULMER
|                 |                           /-----Stephen De BULMER
|                 |                          |        |         /-----Peter De HUMEZ
|                 |                          |         \-----(Unk) De HUMEZ
|                 |                  /-----Thomas De MUSCHAMP, Baron Of Wooler
|                 |                 |        |         /-----Robert De MUSCHAMP
|                 |                 |         \-----Cecily De MUSCHAMP
|                 |         /-----Sir Robert De MUSCHAMP, Baron Of Wooler
|                 |        |        |                           /-----John FITZRICHARD
|                 |        |        |                  /-----Eustace Fitz John De BURGO, Constable Of Chester
|                 |        |        |         /-----William De VESCY, Baron Of Alnwick
|                 |        |        |        |        |         /-----Ivo De VESCY, Baron Of Alnwick
|                 |        |        |        |         \-----Beatrice De VESCY
|                 |        |        |        |                  \-----Alda TYSON
|                 |        |         \-----Matilda De VESCY
|                 |        |                  \-----Agnes
|                  \-----Marjory De MUSCHAMP
|                           \-----Isabel
Agnes GRAHAM
 \-----Isabella



Descendants of Agnes GRAHAM
1. Agnes GRAHAM m1. John MONFODE m2. Sir John DOUGLAS
m. John MONFODE
m. Sir John DOUGLAS father: Sir James DOUGLAS mother: Joan

2nd generation

2. Margaret MONFODE m1. John De CRAGY m2. Alexander De COCKBURN
m. John De CRAGY
m. Alexander De COCKBURN
3. Sir James DOUGLAS m1. m2. Agnes DUNBAR m3. Egidia STEWART
m. Agnes DUNBAR father: Sir Patrick DUNBAR mother: Isabel RANDOLPH
m. Egidia STEWART father: Walter High Steward Of Scotland mother: Isabel GRAHAM
5. John DOUGLAS m. Mariota Le CHEYNE
m. Mariota Le CHEYNE father: Sir Reginald CHEYNE mother: Helen De ABERNETHY
6. Sir Henry DOUGLAS m. Marjory STEWART
m. Marjory STEWART father: Sir John STEWART

3rd generation

13. Margaret De CRAGY m1. John STEWART m2. Herbert MAXWELL
m. John STEWART
m. Herbert MAXWELL
14. William De COCKBURN m.
19. Margaret DOUGLAS m. Philip De ARBUTHNOTT
m. Philip De ARBUTHNOTT father: Hugo De ARBUTHNOTT
20. (Unk) DOUGLAS m. Walter TWEEDIE
m. Walter TWEEDIE
21. Sir James DOUGLAS, Lord Dalkeith m1. Elizabeth STEWART m2. Janet BORTHWICK
m. Elizabeth STEWART father: Robert III King Of Scots mother: Annabella DRUMMOND
m. Janet BORTHWICK father: Sir William BORTHWICK mother: (Unk) HAY
23. Agnes DOUGLAS m1. Sir John LIVINGSTON m2. John GORDON
m. Sir John LIVINGSTON father: Sir William LIVINGSTON, Lord Callendar mother: Christian De CALLENDAR
m. John GORDON
24. Jacoba DOUGLAS m1. Sir John HAMILTON m2. Sir William DOUGLAS
m. Sir John HAMILTON father: Sir David HAMILTON mother: Janet KEITH
m. Sir William DOUGLAS father: James DOUGLAS, Earl Of Douglas
28. Sir William DOUGLAS m1. Marjory LINDSAY m2. Christian LINDSAY
m. Marjory LINDSAY father: Alexander LINDSAY, Earl Of Crawford mother: Marjorie DUNBAR
m. Christian LINDSAY father: Alexander LINDSAY, Earl Of Crawford mother: Marjorie DUNBAR

4th generation

31. Hugh ARBUTHNOTT m. Margaret KEITH
m. Margaret KEITH father: Sir Robert KEITH, Marischal Of Scotland mother: (Unk) Of TROUP
32. Margaret De ARBUTHNOTT m. Sir William MONYPENNY
m. Sir William MONYPENNY father: Thomas MONYPENNY mother: Christian KEITH
33. Christian TWEEDIE m. William CALDCOTIS
m. William CALDCOTIS father: John De CALDCOTIS mother: Marion De CRAWFORD
35. James DOUGLAS, Lord Dalkeith m. Elizabeth GIFFORD
m. Elizabeth GIFFORD father: James GIFFORD
36. Sir Henry DOUGLAS m. Margaret DOUGLAS
m. Margaret DOUGLAS father: James DOUGLAS, Earl Of Douglas mother: Beatrice SINCLAIR
38. William LIVINGSTON m. Elizabeth CALDCOTIS
m. Elizabeth CALDCOTIS father: William CALDCOTIS mother: Christian TWEEDIE
40. Sir James HAMILTON m. Janet LIVINGSTON
m. Janet LIVINGSTON father: Sir Alexander LIVINGSTON mother: (Unk) DUNDAS
43. Sir Henry DOUGLAS m. Elizabeth ERSKINE
m. Elizabeth ERSKINE father: Sir Robert ERSKINE, Lord Erskine mother: Elizabeth LINDSAY
44. Sir James DOUGLAS m. Janet FENTON
m. Janet FENTON father: Walter FENTON

5th generation

48. Robert ARBUTHNOTT m. Giles OGILVY
m. Giles OGILVY father: Sir Walter OGILVY, High Treasurer Of Scotland mother: Isabel GLEN
49. William MONYPENNY, Lord Monypenny m. Katherine STEWART
m. Katherine STEWART
50. Elizabeth CALDCOTIS m. William LIVINGSTON
m. William LIVINGSTON father: Sir John LIVINGSTON mother: Agnes DOUGLAS
51. James DOUGLAS, Earl Of Morton m. Joan STEWART
m. Joan STEWART father: James I King Of Scots mother: Joan De BEAUFORT
55. Edward LIVINGSTON m.
58. James HAMILTON, Lord Hamilton m1. Eupheme GRAHAM m2. Mary STEWART m3. m4. Janet CALDERWOOD
m. Eupheme GRAHAM father: Sir Patrick GRAHAM, Earl Of Strathern mother: Eupheme STEWART, Countess Palatine Of Strathern
m. Mary STEWART father: James II King Of Scots mother: Marie Of Gueldres
m. Janet CALDERWOOD
59. Alexander HAMILTON m.
60. John HAMILTON m.
61. Gavin HAMILTON m. Jean HAMILTON
m. Jean HAMILTON
64. Mary HAMILTON m. Sir William KEITH, Marischal Of Scotland
m. Sir William KEITH, Marischal Of Scotland father: Sir Robert KEITH, Marischal Of Scotland mother: (Unk) Of TROUP
65. Sir Robert DOUGLAS m1. Elizabeth BOSWELL m2. Isabel SIBBALD m3. Mariot BALLIE
m. Elizabeth BOSWELL father: David BOSWELL
m. Isabel SIBBALD father: Sir John SIBBALD mother: Joan LIVINGSTON
m. Mariot BALLIE father: Sir William BALLIE