Euphemia Leslie of Ross 
Euphemia was born about 1318 in Ross, Ross, Scotland. Euphemia's father was Earl Hugh Leslie of Ross and her mother is Countess Margaret Graham of Ross. Her paternal grandparents were Earl William MacAntagart II of Ross and Eupheme de Balliol; her maternal grandfather is Lord John Graham of Dalkeith and Aberkorn. She was an only child. She died in 1387.General Notes
EUPHEMIA ROSS, the 2nd wife and only queen of Robert II, was the daughter of Hugh de Ross, 4th Earl of Ross. She was probably born between about 1325 and 1330, but this is very uncertain. Her mother was the earl's 2nd wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir David Graham of Montrose. Euphemia's parents were granted a dispensation to marry, and a legitimation of past and future children born to them, 29 November 1329.
She had married 1stly, John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, who was killed at the disastrous battle of Neville's Cross, 17 October 1346, leaving her a childless and vulnerable widow of, at the most, 21 years of age, and probably rather younger.
She married 2ndly (dispensation granted by Pope Innocent VI at Avignon, 2 May 1355), as his 2nd wife, Robert Stewart, Earl of Strathearn, who succeeded to the throne as Robert II, 22 February 1371. She gave him 2 sons and 2 daughters. See: Genealogical Notes page. She was crowned at Scone by Alexander de Kyninmund II, bishop of Aberdeen, in 1372.
She died in 1387, predeceasing her husband by about 3 years, but the exact date and the place of her death and burial seem to have gone unrecorded. She must have been a very good-natured and long-suffering lady, putting up with the numerous and flagrant infidelities of her royal husband. Her personal charm and beauty may be inferred from the fact that both her daughters possessed those qualities in a marked degree.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1130
- b.~ 1160 in Scotland d.1251/1258
- b.~ 1194 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland d.1274
- b.ABT 1235/1245 in Fern, Ross & Crom, Scotland d.1323 in Fern, Ross & Crom, Scotland
- b.~ 1115 in Altyre, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1163 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1233 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland
- b.~ 1122 in Tynedale, Morayshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1198 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1140 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1199 in Buchan, Aberdeen, Scotland
- b.ABT 1172/1200 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.< 1244
- b.~ 1275 in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland d.19 Jul 1333 in Halidon Hill, Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1168 d.~ 1210
- b.~ 1191 in Bernard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England
- b.1134 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England d.<13 Oct 1204 in Petsworth, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1212 in Bernard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England d.12 Oct 1268/1269 in Bernard Castle, Gainford, Durham, England
- b.ABT 1157/1162 in Richmond Castle, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1195 in Richmond Castle, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
- b.~ 1156 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1249 in Scotland d. in Fern, Ross & Crom, Scotland
- b.~ 1164 in Galloway, Perthshire, Scotland d.Dec 1200 in Northamptonshire, England
- b.~ 1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234
- b.~ 1172 in Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England d.11 Jun 1217
- b.~ 1218 in Fotheringhay Castle, Galloway, Scotland d.28 Jan 1289/1290 in Kemston, Bedfordshire, England
- b.17 Jul 1144 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.17 Jun 1219 in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1194 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.>06 Jan 1233
- b.1171 in Chester d.06 Jan 1233
- b.~ 1318 in Ross, Ross, Scotland d.1387
- b.1185 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1216 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland d.> 1284 in Eskdale, Langholm, Dumfries, Scotland
- b.< 1243 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland d.~ 1304 in Abercorn, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1190 in Eskdale, Langholm, Dumfries, Scotland
- b.~ 1220 in Eskdale, Langholm, Dumfries, Scotland d.1243 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1270 in Abercorn, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland
- b.ABT 1165/1176 in Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland d.< 1244 in Ruthven, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1194 in Ruthven, Perthshire, Scotland d.23 Nov 1271 in Dunblane, France
- b.~ 1180 d.> 1247
- b.~ 1248 in Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland d.< 1318 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1213 in Wooler,Northumberland,England d.1250 in Wooler,Northumberland,England
- b.1230 in Wooler,Northumberland,England d.~ 1255 in Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1300 in Old Montrose, Angusshire, Scotland
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They had a daughter named Margorie.
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