Margaret de Menteith

Margaret de Menteith (fl 1311–1324) was a daughter of Alexander, Earl of Menteith and his wife Matilda. She was the wife of Alexander de Abernethy, a noted Scottish knight and opponent of Robert I of Scotland. She is first encountered in historical records as "lady Margaret de Abrenythy", a lady of the court of Isabella of France, Queen of England, in 1311/12. She resided in England as late as 30 January 1324/5, when the Calendar of Patent Rolls recorded the grant by King Edward II of England: "Licence for Margaret de Abernythyn to go to Scotland to treat with her friends for the recovery of the lands of her inheritance in Scotland."

Her identity as a daughter of Alexander, Earl of Menteith was first proposed in 2003.^[1] Andrew B. W. MacEwen found proof of this identification in 2006, which was published in The Scottish Genealogist in September 2010.^[2]

Her issue by Sir Alexander de Abernethy includes two daughters:

• Margaret de Abernethy, wife of Sir John Stewart, Earl of Angus; and
• Mary de Abernethy, wife of (1) Sir Andrew de Leslie and (2) Sir David de Lindsay.

References

1. John P. Ravilious, The Ancestry of Mary Abernethy: a Menteith Connection ?, Soc. Gen. Medieval, 5 December 2003
2. J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Alexander, Earl of Menteith and Sir Alexander de Abernethy, The Scottish Genealogist (September 2010), Vol. LVII, No. 3, pp. 130–139

See also

• F. D. Blackley, The Household Book of Queen Isabella of England (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1971), p. xiv.
• Calendar of Patent Rolls, 18 Edw II pt. 2, page 87, mem. 32.
• J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Alexander, Earl of Menteith and Sir Alexander de Abernethy, The Scottish Genealogist (September 2010), Vol. LVII, No. 3, pp. 130–139.