8th Earl of Stathearn Maol Íosa V Strathearn 
8th Earl of Stathearn Maol Íosa V was born about 1295 in Drumsargard, Lanarkshire, Scotland. 8th Earl of Stathearn Maol Íosa V's father was 7th Earl of Strathearn Maol Íosa IV Strathearn and his mother was Isabella Jonsdatter. His paternal grandparents were 6th Earl of Strathearn Maol Iosa Strathearn and Elizabeth Comyn. He had a sister named Margaret. He was the older of the two children. He died on October 17th, 1346 in Battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, England.General Notes
Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn
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Maol Íosa V of Strathearn (also Maol Íosa of Orkney) was the last of the native Gaelic family of Strathearn mormaers. He ruled Strathearn as Mormaer/Earl between 1330 and 1334 , and Earl of Orkney between 1331 and 1350.
His career started off so promisingly. After the death of his father Maol Íosa IV in 1329, he inherited Strathearn. In 1330, he inherited the Earldom of Orkney (with the Mormaerdom of Caithness) through his great-grandmother, Earl Gilbert (Gille Brighde)'s daughter Maud, who had married Maol Íosa II.
Maol Íosa's downfall came as a result of renewed Balliol onslaught which followed the death of the great Robert I. Maol Íosa chose to side with Edward Balliol and the English, and fought for the Balliol side at the Battle of Halidon Hill. The Anglo-Balliol alliance, though, turned its back on Maol Íosa, awarding the Mormaerdom to John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey.
Upon the return to power of King David II, Maol Íosa was forgiven, but his Mormaerdom was not restored, instead going to Sir Maurice de Moravia. The Mormaer spent the rest of his days vainly trying to regain it.
He had two wives, the second of whom was Marjory, daughter of Aodh, Earl of Ross. He had four daughters, but no sons. He died in 1350. Strathearn never returned to his heirs, who divided or competed over his more northern inheritance: a grandson named Alexander de l'Arde took seat in Caithness, whereas Erengisle Sunesson, the husband of one of his daughters (possibly named Agnes), received the earl's title of Orkney. Ultimately, lands in both of these and the Norse earldom (that by decision of Haakon VI of Norway in 1379 passed to his grandson Henry Sinclair I, Earl of Orkney, son of William Sinclair, Lord of Rosslyn, and Maol Iosa's (youngest) daughter Isobel of Strathearn.
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- b.~ 1194 in Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1245 in Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland d.25 Mar 1317 in Drumsargard, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1177 in Forfar, Angushire, Scotland d.1239 in Forfar, Angushire, Scotland
- b.1200 in Forfar, Angushire, Scotland d.1259 in Forfar, Angushire, Scotland
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- b.~ 1222 in Forfar, Angushire, Scotland
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- b.~ 1268 in Drumsargard, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1329 in Drumsargard, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1115 in Badenoch, Invernesshire, Scotland d.1179
- b.1163 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1233
- b.1122 in Tynedale, Morayshire, Scotland d.1182
- b.1216 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland d.06 Apr 1290
- b.1170 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1199
- b.1170 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1244
<Unknown>- b.1175 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1248 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.17 Feb 1328 in Castle Prudhoe, Northumberland, England
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, Egypt
- b.1174 in Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.1154 in Hampshire, England d.12 Jan 1235
- b.1226 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.06 Apr 1282 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.1170 d.1234
- b.1208 in Carrick, Scotland d.21 Nov 1264 in Brackley, England
- b.1195 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.1228
- b.~ 1295 in Drumsargard, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.17 Oct 1346 in Battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, England
- b.~ 1275 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
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Details of 8th Earl of Stathearn Maol Íosa V's family with Margery MacAntagart de Ross
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