Memorials of Angus and Mearns, an Account
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Ha $fe SB lH 2BH M 1 1 M MEMORIALS OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS AN ACCOUNT HISTORICAL, ANTIQUARIAN, AND TRADITIONARY, OF THE CASTLES AND TOWNS VISITED BY EDWARD I., AND OF THE BARONS, CLERGY, AND OTHERS WHO SWORE FEALTY TO ENGLAND IN 1291-6; ALSO OF THE ABBEY OF CUPAR AND THE PRIORY OF RESTENNETH, By the late ANDREW JERVISE, F.SA. Scot. " DISTRICT EXAMINER OF REGISTERS; AUTHOR OF THE LAND OF THE LINDSAYS," "EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS," ETC. I REWRITTEN AND CORRECTED BY Rev. JAMES GAMMACK, M.A. Aberdeen CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES, SCOTLAND; AND MEMBER OF THE CAMBRIAN ARCH.fiOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION \ 3&iA-m MEMORIALS OF ANGUS and M EARNS AN ACCOUNT HISTORICAL, ANTIQUARIAN, &* TRADITIONARY. VOL. II. EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS M DCCC LXXXV ILLUSTRATIONS FOR VOLUME II. ETCHINGS BY W. B. HOLE, A.R.S.A. EDZELL CASTLE — Vignette. PAGE MAINS CASTLE, etc., 32 MELGUND CASTLE, 64 ALDBAR CHAPEL, 90 AIRLIE CASTLE, 185 KINNEFF CHURCH, 239 ARBUTHNOTT CHURCH, . .262 VOL. II. MEMORIALS OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS. PART THIRD. C^e 'Batons WHO SWORE FEALTY TO EDWARD I., A. D. 1291-2. MEMORIALS OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS. PART THIRD. THE BARONS WHO SWORE FEALTY TO EDWARD I., A.D. 1291-6. CHAPTER I. Cfje failles of panmure, SECTION I. With ilk their forces all and sum ; Panmuir, with all his men, did cum. Old Ballad of Harlaw. Origin of the family of Maule—Epitaphs from the Tombs of Peter and Ansold at Uttica—Deprived of their Estates in France— Their Settlement in England— In Scotland—Acquire the lands of Easter Fowlis—Sir Peter marries Christina Valoniis, heiress of Panmure—The Valoniis of Panmure—Sir William Maule's submission to Edward I.—Gift of the Chaplainry of Boath—Church of Carmyllie founded—Sir Thomas killed at Harlaw—Death of the Earl of Athole— Sir Thomas Maule attempts to recover the Lordship of Brechin—Chapel at Panmure—Sir Thomas killed at Flodden—Robert imprisoned at London—Commissary Maule —The Maules of Ireland. The early history of the Maules of Panmure, like that of most ancient Scottish families, has been invested with much of romance. Hector Boece and others affirm that the Maules came from Hungary with the Queen of Malcolm Canmore, and afterwards received charters of the lands of Panmure from King Edgar. This, however, is contrary to fact. The De Maules, Masle, or Masculus, were of Norman lineage, descended from the Maules of the Lordship of Maule in the Vexin Francois, eight leagues from Paris, which, together with VOL. II. A 2 MEMORIALS OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS. the adjacent barony of Panmure, belonged to the lords of that name for the long period of four hundred years. One of these, Ansold sire de Maule, and Eectrude his wife, are recorded as benefactors to the Priory of St Martin-in-the-Fields at Paris about the year 1015, and their great-grandson, Peter of Maule, who was also a friend to the Church, died on the 12th of January in the year 1100. He was buried in the cloister of the church of Uttica, to which he had granted various lands and patronages, and where the following eulogy upon his tomb long perpetuated his name and virtues : — " Post annos Agni centum cum mille supemi Flos procerum Petrus prope Jani decidit Id us. Dapsilis et betus multum fuit atque facetus, Plus epulis quam militias studiosus agoni, Summus apud proceres et nobilium fuit teres. Vixit honoratus terra qua pausat humatus, Et dedit banc sedem Christi genetricis ad aedem. Bis senus Jani sol nubilus extitit illi, Sed sol Justitiae praece fulgidus esto Mariae. Plangit Parisius : pangat super nunc Paradisus, Per Sanctos, sedem quibus banc concessit et aedem." Ansold, eldest son of Peter of Maule, took a prominent part in the wars of Italy, and down to the year 1118 signalised himself in several battles ; but about that time he assumed the habit of a monk of St. Benedict, and died in the Monastery of Uttica. He was interred beside his father, where an elegant tablet, bearing this inscription, by Odo of Montreuil, was erected to his memory : — ' ; Si quis erit qui scire velit dum vivus adesset, Quis fuerit, quern tumba tegit, quod nomen baberet : Ansoldi nomen fuit buic, et militis omen, Quinta dies fit ei requies in fine Decembris. 1 Detur ei pietate Dei merces requiei. Amen." Ansold had seven sons, of whom Peter, the eldest, was in every way a contrast to his father, being so arrogant and 1 Appendix No. xxyii. (1). Registrum de Panmure, privately printed from the MS. belonging to the family, must be the authority for all the earlier and most of the later statements regarding the Maules, Earls of Panmure, and the Ramsays, Earls of Dalhousie. THE MAULES OP PANMURE. 3 haughty in his disposition, that he was deprived of his patri- monial estates, and his castle was destroyed, by order of Louis vi. and he followed that I. ; although king against Henry of England, it does not appear that he ever received back his lands. Probably to that circumstance we have to attribute the of the to Britain it is certain that migration family ; Guarin, third son of that turbulent baron Peter, came to England in the train of William the Conqueror, and settled in Yorkshire. Eobert Maule, son of Guarin, was the first of the family that appeared in Scotland, and to this country he came with is of his King David I., but nothing further known history, except that he witnessed a charter of Prince Henry, son of King David. William, son of Eobert of Maule, was engaged in the battle of the Standard, and for his services upon that occasion he had a grant of the lands of Easter Fowlis in Perth- shire. To the prior and canons of St. Andrews he gave the chapel of Fowlis, together with pasture for eight oxen, ten cows, three horses, and a hundred sheep, with an injunction 1 that his body should be buried in the cemetery of the canons. William left three daughters, and the youngest two of them were married, respectively, to Mortimer, afterwards of Fowlis, and to Walter Euthven, ancestor of the Earls of Gowrie. About a.d. 1189-99, Eoger of Mortimer had a charter of confirmation of the lands of Fowlis which had belonged to William of Maule, whilst Thomas, nephew of William of Maule, became parson of the church of Fowlis, which he had in pure and perpetual alms 2 for the payment of a merk yearly to the Priory of St. Andrews. But it was Sir Peter, eldest son of Sir Eichard of Maule nephew of William of Fowlis, who was the direct ancestor of the family of Panmure. For, contrary to the account given by 1 Reg. Prior. S. Andree, p. 264. 2 Ibid. 41. The church of Fowlis Easter, which is said to have been built by- Sir Andrew Gray of Fowlis, 1437-60, is nearly a perfect specimen of the architecture of the 15th century. It contains some curious paiutings on panel, in good preserva- tion, and a fine aumbry of hewn freestone. There is also an interesting coffin slab in the kirkyard, embellished with an ornamental cross, a sword, and a hunting horn.— Old Stat. vii. Stat. 465 Acct. pp. 2S7-9 ; New Acct, Forfarshire, pp. 462, sq. 4 MEMORIALS OF ANGUS AND THE MEARNS. Boece, that estate came to the Maules by marriage, when the last-mentioned Sir Peter, about the year 1224, married Christina de Valoniis, daughter and heiress of Sir William de Valoniis, Lord of Panmure in Angus, and by her succeeded not only to that estate, but to those of Benvie and Balruthrie, and also to several properties in England, on the death of Christina, Countess of Essex, 1234-5. The Countess of Essex, according to one account, was daughter of Robert and Guanora of Valoniis, and Eobert was grandchild of Peter of Valoniis, founder of the Benedictine Priory of Binham in Norfolk, remains of the church of which are still standing. Sir Peter de Valoniis was also a Norman, and came to England with William the Conqueror, from whom he had a grant of no fewer than fifty-seven lordships or manors, 1 scattered over six of the most important counties. But according to the family Register of Panmure, Sir Peter de Valoniis, founder of Binham Priory, had a son called Soger, who had six sons, of whom Philip de Valoniis was the fifth, and it was he who had a gift of Benvie, Panmure, and other lands in Forfarshire, from William the Lion. He was long High to that in was buried Chamberlain monarch ; and, dying 1215, " at Melrose, as was also his son William, juxta sepulchrum 2 patris sui." William de Valoniis survived his father four years, and left an only child and heiress, called Christina, who, as before remarked, became the wife of Sir Peter of Maule. It was Sir William, the eldest son of this marriage, who did homage to and Sir the fell King Edward I., Thomas, younger son, de- 3 fending the Castle of Brechin against the English in 1303. The first of these brothers is thus designed in the Ragman Roll— 2Domtnu0 falitllielmug tie Rattle, mtle& He was then head or chief of the Maules of Panmure, also 1 Dugdale, Baronage of England, i. p. 441. 2 Chronica de Mailros, pp. 121, 135. 3 Reg. de Panmure, i. pp. v-xviii, for the detailed account, and references to the second volume. ORIGIN OF THE MAULE FAMILY. 5 Sheriff of Forfarshire at the death of King Alexander in., and a favourite with King Edward, who reduced the relief or entry-money payable on his succession to his Scottish estates from £122, 10s.