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Birth:          ABT 1062 Morayshire, Scotland
Death:          AFT 1115 Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I14823
Earl of Moray, Lay Abbot of Dunkeld

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Edelrad [son of Malcolm III], apparently Earl of Fife, who fl. early 12th century and 
was also Abbot of Dunkeld; possibly the same person as Eth. [Burke's Peerage, p. 
2538]

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Burke's Peerage, page 1058, on the Earldom of Fife, previous creations:

Fife, constituted one of the Mormaerships into which much of pre-1st Millennium 
Scotland was divided. By the beginning of the 12th century the former Mormaer of Fife 
was beginning to be called Earl of Fife. The first of the new designation seems to 
have been Beth, who as either Earl of Fife or Moray (more probably the former) is 
recorded as having been active in 1115. (The historic figure Macbeth was son of a 
Mormaer of Moray, and since "Mac" means "son of" there may be a connection.) 
However, another figure referred to as Earl of Fife about the same time, that is to say 
during the reign of David I (reigned 1124-1153), is a shadowy personage called in 
contemporary documents either "Ed" or "Head" and identified by leading authorities 
with Edelread, son of Malcolm III (reigned 1058-93). Yet a third Earl of Fife appears to 
have existed in the person of Constantine, who died in the late 1120's. (It is possible 
that "Ed/Head" was really Earl of Forthreve.

The first person to hold the Earldom of Fife on a hereditary basis may well have been 
Gillemicel MacDuff, who died about the mid-1130's. Certainly the title remained in his 
family, passing almost always from father to son, till 1353, when the 8th Earl's only 
child, Elizabeth or Isabel, became Countess of Fife. She married four times, each of 
her husbands being known as Earl of Fife in right of his wife. She died without issue, 
having made over the Earldom to her second husband's brother Robert Stewart, Earl 
of Menteith, her 2nd husband and he being second and third sons respectively of 
Robert II.

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EARLDOM OF FIFE (SCT) (I)

Beth, who, as "Beth, Comes" was witness to the charter of Scone in 1115, may not 
improbably be considered as Earl of Fife, though possibly as Earl of Moray. There 
appears also to have been one "Ed [Edelrad?] Comes" or "Head, Comes" in charters 
temp. David I, who probably was Edelrad (son of Malcolm III), Abbot of Dunkeld, and, 
according to some accounts, Earl of Fife. This "Ed, Comes" was contemporary with 
Earl Beth and with Earl Constantine, his successor. [Complete Peerage V:372]

Parents
____ Malcolm III "Ceanmor" (ABT 1033 - 13 Nov 1093)
FINNSDOTTIR Ingeborg (ABT 1023 - BEF 1069)

Siblings
EDELRAD Heth (Beth) (Ed) (Head) (ABT 1062 - AFT 1115)

Marriage To ____ Tul (BEF 1058 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Lulach ("the Fool") (ABT 1031 - 17 Mar 1058)
OF ANGUS Fimmghuala (ABT 1030 - )

Children by ____ Tul BEF 1058 - 
MAC ETH Duff (ABT 1078 - )

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