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	The Chief, the clan and its organization
		Hence the Mormaors, Teshachs and their lesser Chieftains, under “gavel” became Chiefs in their own right over the course of time, and family distinctions were broken, reformed, and broken time and again under a variety of relationships.
		Eventually the great power of these Mormaors was broken up, and their provinces converted to thanages or earldoms, many of which were held by Saxon or Flemish nobles, who possessed them by marriage to the females heiresses.
		By the law of gavel, the property of the clan was divided into proportions among all the male branches (cadets) of the family, to the exclusion of females, who, could not succeed to the property or the chiefship.
	mysite.verizon.net /resrz8zf/clanmactavishseannachie/id4.html (2364 words)

	Siol nan Gaidheal - The Battle of Inchbare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Celtic laws were soon discarded in favour of Roman laws, Celtic titles such as Mormaor were changed to the Teutonic 'Earl.' The Thanes found their powers and privileges being gradually withdrawn as the laws and usages of tanistry were changed to the law of primogeniture.
		The Mormaor of Ross was now facing certain calamity, his men must have been totally exhausted and any attack by 2,400 fresh horsemen could only have one result.
		The Mormaor of Ross started to send parties of men back across the ford to the relative safety of the trees and expanses of marshy flood plain on the north side of the ford.
	www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com /inchbare.htm (2939 words)

	Siol nan Gaidheal: Duncan 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Duncan had usurped the throne by an edict of Malcolm II, having himself illegally crowned whilst many of the Mormaors who should have been consulted were attending the funeral of his grandfather King Malcolm II on Iona.
		On the I4th of August 1040, his Torfness army under Mormaor Gartnait of Mar was almost wiped out by Thorfinn's 2,400 Orcadians, and Gartnait was killed along with a great number of the Irish and foreign mercenaries.
		At Iona a meeting of all the Mormaors except Duncan, Mormaor of Atholl, (hereditary Abbot of Dunkeld who was Duncan 1st's father and was not present) confirmed that Mac Beath was duly elected King per the ancient laws of Tanistry.
	www.siol-nan-gaidheal.com /duncan.htm (1797 words)

	THE ANCIENT EARLDOM OF MAR
		The ancient title borne by the governors of the province of Mar was ‘mormaor,’ a Pictish dignity inferior only to that of king.
		Melbrigda was noted for a large and very prominent tooth, and Sigurd, having cut off the head of the fallen mormaor, suspended it to his saddle-bow and galloped in triumph across the battlefield.
		The first mormaor of Mar whose name has come down to our day in a written document was Martachus, who in 1065 was witness to a charter of Malcolm Canmore in favour of the Culdees of Lochleven.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/scotland/esnews/es0302.asp (2351 words)

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		The fragmentary records of Scottish history at this period show a dark, misty picture of violence, betrayal, and revenge.
		Take the case of Findlaech, the mormaor - provincial high steward - of Moray, murdered by his nephews around 1020.
		The latter's widow, Gruoch, a lady with royal connections, then married Findleach's son, the new mormaor.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Millennium/0,2833,294764,00.html (524 words)

	Scotland - MSN Encarta
		With this event and as a result of the inheritance of the crown of Strathclyde by Malcolm’s grandson and successor, Duncan I, the Scottish domains, thereafter known as Scotland, embraced all the territory north of Solway Firth and the Tweed River.
		Duncan’s reign, a period of disastrous wars and internal strife, ended in 1040 with his assassination by Macbeth, mormaor (great steward) of Ross and Moray, who then became king of Scotland.
		Macbeth held the throne until 1057, when he was defeated and killed by Duncan’s son Malcolm III Canmore.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761561065_7/Scotland.html (1440 words)

	Amazon.com: Mormaor: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These were known as mormaors, a composite Gaelic word meaning great-officers.
		The provinces were ruled by mormaors (subkings) who appointed the High King.
		II King of Scots, 1214-49- 287.25-26 Marmor of Clochnaben or, mormaor, from the Gaelic mormaer : in ancient Scotland the high...
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Mormaor&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1 (669 words)

	Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: Finley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The clan Finley of Scotland, a Highland family of the country in the vicinity of Inverness, is said to be one of the most ancient of all Highland clans.
		says in substance "Macbeth (son of Finley, a Celtic chieftain in Scotland, and mormaor of Moray, son of Ruadher) succeeded his father as mormaor of Moray, became a successful general under and afterwards revolted against and killed in battle, Duncan, King of Scotland.
		It is possible that some kinship may have existed between the families of Finley and Farquharson, one of the latter name who was slain at Pinkie in 1547, bore the name of Finley Mor on account of his great height and strength.
	www.schenectadyhistory.org /families/hmgfm/finley.html (2322 words)

	Moray House
		Prior to the formal establishment of the peerage, numerous individuals ruled over Moray with the title of mormaor or earl.
		Perhaps the most well-known Earl of Moray was James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, the husband of Elizabeth Stewart, 2nd Countess of Moray, who held the Earldom ''jure uxoris'' (by right of his wife), as he was the subject of a famous ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray" ("Murray" being a variant spelling of "Moray").
		Lulach, King of Scots and Mormaor of Moray (d.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/140/moray-house.html (1656 words)

	Dingwall
		At that time the Cromarty Firth, on the shores of which Dingwall is situated, penetrated farther inland and the people lived in twig and mud hovels in this rather swampy area.
		One of these Mormaors, by the name of Finlaec, was the father of Macbeth, and he lived in Dingwall Castle, which itself has a glorious history.
		Later, Macbeth, who had grown up in Dingwall and played along the Cromarty Firth as a boy, was Mormaor of Ross before ascending the Scottish throne.
	www.clandavidsonusa.com /dingwall.htm (971 words)

	Royalty & Nobility
		With the at least grudging approval of the other Pictish mormaors, Kenneth was crowned High King in 843 ruling for 16 years, a remarkable term for those troubled times.
		Of course, in another retelling of the tale, Kenneth, aligned with the Vikings, defeated the Picts, murdered the mormaors and imposed his reign on the majority through brutal repression.
		Immortalized by Shakespeare as a devious weakling, the historical Macbeth MacFinnie was a far different man. When Malcolm Forranach, the destroyer, died without direct heir, his grandson Duncan assumed the throne.
	www.fraserofwesthill.com /prime2.html (2902 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Macbeth's father, Finlay, was the mormaor of Moray and Ross until he was killed by Gillagomgain (on King Duncon's command), who then took the title of Mormaor of Moray as his own and was wed to Gruoch, who was a member of one of the older ruling families.
		After Gillacomgain's death (Macbeth killed him), Macbeth became the Mormaor of Moray and wed Gruach, taking in her infant son, Luach, as his own.
		Both Duncan and Macbeth were the grandsons of the high king of Scotland at the time, Malcolm the Destroyer, but Duncan was the son of Malcolm's oldest daughter and this might have been the reason that he became the next king.
	avalon.gargoyles-fans.org /castle/magic/macbeth.html (206 words)

	A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang - Free eBook
		n the death of the Mormaor she married Macbeth, and when Macbeth slew Duncan (1040), he was removing a usurper--as he understood it--and he ruled in the name of his stepson, Lulach.
		The world will always believe Shakespeare's version of these events, and suppose the gracious Duncan to have been a venerable old man, and Macbeth an ambitious Thane, with a bloodthirsty wife, he himself being urged on by the predictions of witches.
		He was, in fact, Mormaor of Murray, and upheld the claims of his stepson Lulach, who was son of a daughter of the wrongfully extruded House of Aodh.
	manybooks.net /titles/langandr15951595515955.html (192 words)

	Places & Peoples
		The idea the name derives from their painting their bodies blue is now largely discredited.
		The Picts were ruled by a High King who was appointed by the ri, or lesser kings, the mormaors (great officers) of the seven provinces into which the land was divided.
		By the early years of the 11th century, the famous Viking,Thorfinn Raven-Feeder, had become Earl of Orkney and was made also Earl of Caithness, which made him also a mormaor, one of the ri of Scotland.
	www.fraserofwesthill.com /prime1.html (2278 words)

	Turriff Monastery.
		In the grant by Gartnaid the mormaor, and Ete his wife (AD1132) we find amongst the witnesses, "Domongart ferleginn Turbruad", or
		of Turriff; and that of Colban the mormaor, and Eva his wife, dated somewhat later, is witnessed by "Cormac abb.
		The monastery of Turriff is associated with St Congan who flourished at the beginning of the eighth century.
	www.cushnieent.force9.co.uk /NewChurches/turriff.htm (533 words)

	THE CAMPBELLS OF CAWDOR
		He was undoubtedly murdered at Glamis, certainly at Cawdor, and positively at the Castle of Inverness - all by proof irrefragable.
		The investigations of modern historians, however; have led to the conclusion that Duncan was not murdered at all, but fell in battle against Macbeth, who was the hereditary Mormaor of Ross and, in right of his wife, Graach, Mormaor of Moray.
		Her grandfather had been dethroned and killed by Malcolm, her brother assassinated, and her first husband, the Mormaor of Moray, burned in his castle along with fifty of his friends.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /Sites/Scotland/esnews/es0802a.asp (2659 words)

	History in Gargoyles
		For more info than is presented here check out a book called "Monarchs of Scotland" by Stewart Ross, it has info about the MacAlpin line as well as a family tree.
		was the mormaor of Moray and Ross until he was killed by Gillacomgain (on King Duncon's command),
		who then took the title of Mormaor of Moray as his own and was wed to Gruach, who was a member of one of the older ruling families.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Hills/3633/garghist.html (3414 words)

	Kenneth II - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Kenneth's reign also saw consolidation of his kingdom in the central area north of the Tay River.
		He was murdered as a result of a conflict with the mormaor (high steward) of Argyll.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Kenneth II" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-kenneth2.html (291 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707), by ROBERT S. RAIT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We do hear of them, for the reigns of the successors of Malcolm Canmore are largely occupied with revolts in Galloway and in Morayshire.
		The most notable of these was the rebellion of MacHeth, Mormaor of Moray, about 1134.
		The "rightful" heir, an un-named cousin of Malcolm, was murdered, and his sister, Gruoch, who married the Mormaor of Moray, left a son, Lulach, who thus represented a rival line, whose claims may be connected with some of the Highland risings against the descendants of Duncan.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/6/6/4/16647/16647-h/16647-h.htm (18250 words)

	Wikinfo \| Earl
		Nevertheless, some consider the earldoms named for counties (or county towns) to retain more prestige.
		Some major earldoms in Scotland originated from the office of mormaor: others developed later by analogy.
		An Earl has the title Earl of X when the title originates from a placename, or Earl X when the title comes from a surname.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Earl (602 words)

	Amazon.ca: High Kings and Vikings: Books: Nigel G. Tranter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After reading Tranter's Kenneth (an excellent book about Kenneth Mac Alpin, uniter of Scotland and Pictland, in the 9th century), I wanted to have the story continued.
		It begins about 150 years later, with Scotland challenged internally (with mormaors vying to be High King, assassinations, and battles with Viking marauders).
		Tranter (who was about 90 when he wrote this historical novel) tells the story in a compelling way.
	www.amazon.ca /High-Kings-Vikings-Nigel-Tranter/dp/0340696699 (746 words)

	Finderne (Moray) 21 st September 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I would therefore expect MSPs to seek a more robust justifications for these allocations than has been offered so far, when Parliament discusses grant distribution on March 1.'
		Almost a thousand years ago, the mormaor, or ruler of Moray was MacBeth.
		He was a descendent of the Cenél Loairn of Dalriada and under the system of Tanistry he had a legitimate claim to the Kingship of Scots, which he made good in 1040 when he killed Duncan I in battle.
	www.alba.org.uk /localby/finderne.html (809 words)

	(Margaret MONTGOMERY - Maelbrighte MacRuaridh of MORAY , Mormaor)
		(Margaret MONTGOMERY - Maelbrighte MacRuaridh of MORAY, Mormaor)
		Maelbrighte MacRuaridh of MORAY, Mormaor (____ - UNKNOWN)
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	www.clandonald.org.uk /genealogy/index/ind0294.html (188 words)

	The FEUDAL HERALD - February 1999
		We hope our overseas readers will not consider this temporary prominence of constitutional matters misplaced.
		The mormaor was known, however as "Maelbrigte the Tooth" and it was his famously prominent tooth that, bouncing up and down in the gallop, cut into Sigurd's knee, poisoned his blood and shortly thereafter killed him.
		Mr Tony Benn, the former Anthony Wedgewood-Benn (the erstwhile Viscount Stansgate), might reflect on this incident of post mortem vengeance, for, as related below, he lectured the House of Commons on the antiquity of peerage titles, and was in gross error in respect of the Earls of Mar (as he is habitually in much else).
	www.baronage.co.uk /nl/nl-01-02.htm (3523 words)

	A Short History of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		had slain the unnamed male heir of the House of Aodh, a son of Boedhe, in order to open the succession to his own grandson, “the gracious Duncan.” Boedhe had left a daughter, Gruach; she had by the Mormaor, or under-king of the province of Murray, a son, Lulach.
		On the death of the Mormaor she married Macbeth, and when Macbeth slew Duncan (1040), he was removing a usurper—as he understood it—and he ruled in the name of his stepson, Lulach.
		Malcolm Canmore, Duncan’s grandson, on the other hand, represented the European custom of direct lineal succession against the ancient Scots’ mode.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/1/5/9/5/15955/15955-h/15955-h.htm (20424 words)

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