General Notes

After having brought relief to the English garrison of Urquhart Castle, he received a safe-conduct to visit his father in prison, August 1297.

Under the indenture of 1303, he entered the service of Edward I.  In December 1307 he was among the Scottish magnates whom Edward II directed to keep the peace, and in 1308 he received that King's thanks for his good service.  Failing help from England which his father and he had appealed, he made his peace with Brus.

Hugh was one of the guarantors, required by England, of the truce made 1 June 1323, having been "made Erll" on 17 March preceeding; and, by special command of King Robert, he swore to maintain the marriage contract between Prince David and the Princess Joan of England, 1328.

John was killed, in command of the reserve at the battle of Halidon Hill.

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EARLDOM OF ROSS [SCT] (VI, 4)

HUGH (DE ROSS), EARL OF ROSS [SCT], son and heir, was godson to AlexanderIII [SCT]. After having brought relief to the English garrison ofUrquhart Castle, he received a safe-conduct to visit his father inprison, August 1297. Under the indenture of 1303, he entered the serviceor Edward I. In December 1307 he was among the Scottish magnates whomEdward II [ENG] directed to keep the peace, and in 1308 he received thatKing's thanks for his good service. Failing help from England, for whichhis father and he had appealed, he made his peace with Brus. He wasknighted before 5 December 1315. As Hugh de Ros he was one of theguarantors, required by England, of the truce made 1 June 1323, havingbeen "made Erll" on 17 March preceding; and, by special command of KingRobert, he swore to maintain the marriage contract between Prince David[SCT] and the Princess Joan of England, 1328.

He married, [? 1stly], Maud, daughter of Robert DE BRUS, jure uxoris EARLOF CARRICK (by his 1st wife Margaret, suo jure COUNTESS OF CARRICK) andsister of ROBERT I [SCT] (e). She, who was living in September 1323, wasburied at Fearn. He married, [? 2ndly], some time before 1329 (g),Margaret GRAHAM, said to be daughter of Sir David GRAHAM (h). He waskilled, in command of the reserve at the battle of Halidon Hill, 19 July1333; and was buried at Fearn. His widow married, 2ndly (dispensation, 13April 1340], John DE BARCLAY. [Complete Peerage XI:144-5, (transcribedby Dave Utzinger)]

(e) At the unknown date of this charter, he was already a knight. 'BreveCron'., p. 319, says that their son William was b. before their marriage.

(g) When dispensation and legitimation of past and future offspring weregranted, 29 Nov.

(h) Sir David was of Old Montrose, which he acquired by exchange withRobert de Brus.]

6th Earl.

Sir James Balfour Paul, _The Peerage of Scotland_ (Edinburgh,1909-1919), 9 vols.

Hugh, fourth Earl of Ross. On 14 December 1307 he was asked to obey the Earl of Richmond as Warden. Robert I gave to Sir Hugh de Ross, knigh, son and heir of William, Earl of Ross, the sheriffship and Burgh of Crumbathy, or Cromartie, 5 December 1316; the third part of the fermes of Kirkcudbright was assigned to him. He obtained by various charters from the King, the lands ofSkye, Strathglass, Strathconan, etc. He succeeded to the title apparently on 28 January 1322-23, but certainly before 28 March 1324, whe, as Hugh, Earl of Ross, he witnessed a charter of King Robert I to Thomas de Carnoto. The same year he was one of the guarantors of the marriage articles of Prince David of Scotland and the Princess Johanna of England. Hugh, Earl of Ross, renounced to the King the advocation of the church of Philorth, in Buchan, 29 March 1330. At the battle of Halidon Hill near Berwick, fought on 19 July 1333, he led the reserve to attack the wing which Baliol commanded, but his troops were driven back and he himself slain. The English found on his body the shirt of St Duthace, supposed to possess miraculous powers, and restored it to the sanctuary at Tain.

He married first, in 1308, Lady Maud Bruce, sister of the King.

The Earl of Ross married, as his second wife, before 24 November 1329, Margaret, daughter of Sir David Graham of Old Montrose; dispensation granted at Avignon, on the discovery, long after they were married and had issue, of a canonical impediment, and legitimating the children. She was married again, in 1341, to John de Barclay. [The Scots Peerage VII:235-236]
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