Morgund mac Gylocher 2nd Earl of Mar (Morggán, Morgrund, Morgan) 
Morgund was born in 1115 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland.1 Morgund's father was Earl Gillocher of Mar and his mother was <Unknown>. His paternal grandparents were Morgaan of Mar and Ada de Warrene. He was an only child. He died at the age of 68 on March 30th, 1183.1 General Notes
Morggán, Earl of Mar
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Morggán of Mar, is the first Mormaer of Mar to appear in history as "more than a characterless name in a witness-list."1. His father was Gille Chlerig. He is often known as Morgrund or Morgan.
It is possible that Morggán participated in the so-called Revolt of the Earls, a protest by some of the native Scottish nobility at King Máel Coluim IV's trip to France as a vassal of King Henry II of England.
It is also possible that he became estranged from the French-speaking king William I, as Morggán's name appears in no royal acta of the latter king's reign.
He married Ada, a patroness of churches. Agnes was probably related to the de Warrene family - the family who married Ada de Warenne to king Máel Coluim IV. Morggán and Ada had at least one son, Donnchad, who eventually succeeded to the Mormaerdom. Morggán had another two sons, Máel Coluim and James, but they may have been illegitimate - i.e. the product of an uncanonical marriage acceptable in the celtic system, but not in the Franco-Roman system then gaining favor in Scotland.
His daughter Alesta of Mar was married to Alan Fitzwalter, 2nd High Steward of Scotland and was mother to Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland.
He appears in royal charters dated as early as 1147. He is attested in the documents for the last time in 1178, and was certainly dead by 1183.
References
1. Oram, "The Earls and Earldom of Mar", p. 47
Bibliography
Richard D. Oram, "The Earls and Earldom of Mar, c1150-1300," Steve Boardman and Alasdair Ross (eds.) The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c.1200-1500, (Dublin/Portland, 2003).
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0960 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1014 in Clontarf, Dublin, Ireland
- b.0985 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
<Unknown>
- b.1020 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
<Unknown>
- b.1050 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.30 Mar 1083
- b.1060 in Warenne, Normandy, France
- b.1082 in Dumfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland
- b.0968 in Fecamp, Normandy, France d.02 Jan 1052 in Eu, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France
- b.0968 in Normandy
- b.0992 in Harcourt-de-Caileville, Brionne, Eure, Normandy d.26 Jan 1058 in Abbey of St. Pierre-sur-Dives
- b.0998 in France d.1059
- b.0965 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandie, France
- b.0970 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.0969
- b.1004 in Vascoeuil, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1059
- b.0970 in Longueville, Normandie, France
- b.0985 in Longueville-sur-Scie, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
<Unknown>
- b.1115 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.30 Mar 1183
<Unknown>- b.1089 in Scotland
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Details of Morgund's family with Countess of Mar Agnes
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=bevangenealogy&id=I18010&style=TABLE
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