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Données personnelles Euphemia Dunbar Of Tarbat. Countess Of Ross 

• Elle est née avant le 1475 dans Tarbat, Milton, Easter Ross, Scotland.Source 3
• Profession: Countess Of Ross.Source 3
• (Alt. Birth) environ 1490.
• (Alt. Birth) environ 1505: Tarbat, Milton, Easter Ross, Scotland.
• Elle est décédée avant le 1522 dans Milntown Castle, Milton, Easter Ross, Highland, Scotland.Source 3
• Elle est enterrée dans Kilmuir, Easter Ross, Scotland.Source 3

  East End of Church of Kilmuir-Easter

• Un enfant de David Dunbar
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Euphemia Dunbar Of Tarbat. Countess Of Ross

(1) Elle est mariée avec Andrew 'Beg' 'black Baron' Munro.

Ils se sont mariés environ 1506.

Enfant(s):

1. William Munro  ± 1497-????
2. George Munro  ± 1512-1576 
3. Andrew Munro  ± 1521-????

(2) Elle est mariée avec Dugall Bane Mafarquhar.

Ils se sont mariés

(3) Elle est mariée avec John Malcolmson MacIntosh.

Ils se sont mariés

Enfant(s):

1. Lachlan MacIntosh  ????-1551

Notes par Euphemia Dunbar Of Tarbat. Countess Of Ross

!History of the munros of fowlis with genealogies of the principlce families of the name by alexander Mackenzie

[Hamish Maclaren]

"c. This note relates to Euphemia Dunbar, wife of Andrew Beg Munro, 3rd of Milton (MUNRO TREE L/3) , who was the mother of George Munro, 4th of Milton/Dochcarty (MUNRO TREE L/4) and the great-great-great grandmother of John Munro

Euphemia Dunbar is identified in THE MUNRO TREE (1734) as daughter to the Laird of Tarbat. The first Dunbar Laird of Tarbat was James Dunbar, a younger son of David Dunbar of Durris, the latter being a younger son of Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, the first of the Dunbar sheriffs of Moray, and his wife Isabel Sutherland of Duffus. Chronology, as well as clues contained in the KINRARA MANUSCRIPT and THE MACKINTOSHES AND CLAN CHATTAN, by A. M. Mackintosh, make it clear that Euphemia was the sister, not the daughter of the Laird of Tarbat, making her a daughter of David Dunbar of Durris."
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A more detailed discussion on "NOTES ON A FEW FEMALE ANCESTORS OF JOHN MUNRO" will appear in the up coming edition of the MUNRO EAGLE, the publication of the Clan Munro Association in the U. S. (June 2003) See below.

EUPHEMIA DUNBAR, A PATERNAL GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF JOHN MUNRO AND WIFE OF ANDREW BEG MUNRO, 3RD OF MILTON (MUNRO TREE L/3)

The 1734 manuscript identifies the wife of Andrew Beg Munro as "Euffem Dunbar daughter to the Laird of Tarbet." [32]

Contemporary accounts and records make it possible to place Euphemia Dunbar in the somewhat elusive Dunbars. The first Dunbar Laird of Easter Tarbat was James Dunbar, a younger son of David Dunbar of Durris, now Dores, in the County of Inverness. He acquired a nine-year tack of the king's lands in Tarbat on 6 May 1516 [33], and, on 21 August 1526 and 11 May 1542, he acquired feu-ferme charters to Easter Tarbat. [34] Through other grants, he extended his control to other parts of Tarbat parish before dying in August 1560. [35] James Dunbar first appeared in the public record in 1511 as lessee of the mains of Fearn. [36] Assuming that he was at least 21 at that time, he would have been born no later than 1490, which would mean that he was at least 70 at the time of death.

Andrew Beg Munro, who was known for behavior that was loutish even by the standards of his day, died in October 1519, allegedly as the result of a fall down his own stairs as he attempted to make certain that his female servants engaged in the harvest had appeared in a state of nudity as he had decreed. [37] He was survived by Euphemia and three recorded legitimate sons. [38]

As noted above, George Munro was born about 1508, based upon the fact that his son Andrew Munro was already married in 1530. This means that George's mother Euphemia Dunbar would have been born around 1490 if we assume that she was at least 16 at the time of her marriage in 1506 or so. Thus, she was of the same generation as James Dunbar, first laird of Tarbat, and could not have been his daughter. Similarly, if, as suggested, George Munro was not born until about 1508, he would have been around 68 at the time of his death in 1576. James Dunbar seems to have had a somewhat longer life than George Munro although preceding him in death by just sixteen years. This strongly indicates that, as James was only one generation older than George, James was George's maternal uncle, not his grandfather.

George Munro wrote a history of the Mackintosh family with which he was familiar because his mother, the widowed Euphemia Dunbar, married John Malcolmson, the illegitimate nephew of Lachlan, Laird of Mackintosh. This history, which is no longer extant, is cited by the compiler of the KINRARA MANUSCRIPT as one of his principal sources. [39] Lachlan gave Malcolmson "possession of the lands of Connage for some years" so "that he might obtain for him in marriage Euphemia Dunbar, widow of Andrew Monro of Miltown; and in this way he thought to tame John of his wonted maraudings." [40]

As the manuscript says, "it happened otherwise," as Euphemia's husband participated in the murder of Lachlan by stabbing in 1524, leading to Malcomson's beheading in 1534. [41] Euphemia seems to have been unlucky in the husbands chosen by, or for, her.  Her third husband proved just as treacherous. [42]

By Malcomson, Euphemia had a son named Lachlan, referred to in the KINRARA MANUSCRIPT as George Munro's brother-uterine. [43] William, the son of Lachlan Mackintosh who had been killed by Malcolmson and his associates, eventually became Laird of Mackintosh.  In 1548, William took Lachlan, into his favor and granted him for some years the lands of Connage.  Lachlan bound himself by oath to give faithful obedience to the laird, and George Munro of Dochcarty, James Dunbar of Tarbat, and Robert Dunbar of Durris, the son and heir of James Dunbar's brother Alexander Dunbar of Durris, "pledged the greater part of their fortune for his fidelity." [44]

These guarantors of Lachlan's fidelity are identified in the Latin version of the manuscript as "ejus cognati et consanguinei," which is translated as "his cousins and kinsmen." [45] Both "cognati" and "consanguinei" usually denote kin who are related by blood, but "cognati" frequently means "related on the mother's side," especially in Scotland. [46]

A. M. Mackintosh in his THE MACKINTOSHES AND CLAN CHATTAN, [47] at 130-131, both quotes and paraphrases provisions of two contracts, dated 26 February 1548, which show the steps taken by young Lachlan's kin to save him from his father's sin in having murdered William's father. The author says that James Dunbar of Tarbat and Robert Dunbar of Durris were probably brothers of George Munro's mother. [48] He was apparently unaware that Robert Dunbar of Durris had succeeded his father Alexander Dunbar of Durris, the older brother of James Dunbar of Tarbat, in 1526. [49]

In pledging their respective lands to guarantee Lachlan's fidelity to his chief, James Dunbar of Tarbat and his nephew Robert Dunbar, as successor Laird of Durris,
provided convincing evidence of Euphemia Dunbar's place among the Dunbar family as a daughter of David Dunbar of Durris, 5th son of Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, the first of the Dunbar sheriffs of Moray, by his wife Isabel, daughter of Alexander Sutherland of Duffus. [50]

As it happens, Lachlan's oath of loyalty to the Mackintosh chief proved to be of no avail as "he determined by every sinister means to make away with his innocent chief. ; " [51] This resulted in Lachlan's execution in 1551 "as confessedly the betrayer of their chief.  " [52] Lachlan's misconduct does not seem to have caused the forfeiture of the lands of his kin who had guaranteed his loyalty.

The attached line of descent will assist the reader in fitting the females whose origins were the subjects of this article into John Munro's ancestry.  John Munro's multiple lines of descent from King Robert II of Scotland, and at least one line of descent from King Robert III of Scotland, will be the subject of a future article.
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32. Munro, p. 3. R. W. Munro, ed., THE MUNRO TREE--A GENEALOGY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE MUNROS OF FOULIS AND OTHER FAMILIES OF THE CLAN--A MANUSCRIPT COMPILED IN 1734 EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES (Edinburgh 1978

33. RSS 1:2762.
John Dowden, THE BISHOPS OF SCOTLAND, ed. J. Maitland Thomson (Glasgow: James Maclehose and sons 1912), pp. 222-224; D. E. R. Watt, FASTI ECCLESIAE SCOTICANAE MEDII AEVI AD ANNUM 1638, 2nd draft (Edinburgh: Scottish Record Society 1969), p. 289; REGISTRUM SECRETI SIGILLI REGUM SCOTORUM [hereafter RSS], eds. M. Livingstone and others (Edinburgh 1908-), 1: 1469, 1 May 1507

34. RMS 3: 372; RMS 3: 2661.
REGISTRUM MAGNI SIGILLI REGUM SCOTORUM [hereafter RMS], eds. J. H. Burton and others (Edinburgh 1882-1914)

35. Adam, p. 77.
Adam, p. 109; Dowden, p. 222-22. He was for a time abbot of Melrose, and one of the cloister tombs bears an inscription referring to the spouse of Robert Fraser, apparently one of Abbot John Fraser's kin. See James A. Wade, HISTORY OF ST. MARY'S ABBEY, MELROSE, THE MONASTERY OF OLD MELROSE, AND THE TOWN AND PARISH OF MELROSE (Edinburgh: Thomas C. Jack 1861

36. Adam, p. 117.

37. William Fraser, THE EARLS OF CROMARTIE (Edinburgh 1876) vol. 1, p. 431.

38. Munro p. 3.

39. This manuscript is named for Lachlan Mackintosh of Kinrara, who compiled and wrote it a few years before his death in 1686. See Jean Munro and R. W. Munro, eds., ACTS OF THE LORDS OF THE ISLES 1336-1493 (Edinburgh: Scottish History Society 1986) p. 4. This genealogy of the Mackintosh family appears in print, with an English translation from the Latin by Walter Macleod, in Walter Macfarlane, GENEALOGICAL COLLECTIONS (Edinburgh: Scottish History Society 1900) v. 1, p. 148.

40. Kinrara, p. 216.

41. Kinrara, pp. 216-218.

42. Kinrara, p. 222.

43. Kinrara, p. 241.

44. Kinrara, p. 227.

45. Kinrara, p. 227.

46. P. G. W. Glare, ed., OXFORD LATIN DICTIONARY (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1982), pp. 344-345, 410; Maurine and Glen Harris, comps., CONCISE GENEALOGICAL DICTI0NARY (Salt Lake City:
Ancestry Inc. 1989), p. 50. A crown charter granted by King James V to George Munro of Dochcarty on 27 July 1542 refers to James Dunbar of Tarbat as George's "consanguineus." RMS 2: 2732.

47. A. M. Mackintosh, THE MACKINTOSHES AND CLAN CHATTAN (Edinburgh 1903).

48. A, M. Mackintosh, pp. 130-131.

49. Adam, p. 112; RMS 3:390, 14 November 1526.

50. Sir Robert Douglas, THE BARONAGE OF SCOTLAND (Edinburgh 1798), p. 119.

51. Kinrara, p. 227.

52. Kinrara, p. 232.
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