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| Married:1 | Duncan of Fife (-1204), Justiciar of Scotland | ||||
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| Malcolm of Fife (-1228), 6. Earl of Fife2 | ||
| David de Strathbogie (-)3 | ||
| Duncan (-)4 | ||
| (Unknown) of Fife (-)5 | ||
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| She is named in a grant which he made to the Abbey of Dunfermline of the church of Calder Comitis, or Earl's Calder, which is confirmed by Ela his wife and by Robert, Bishop of St. Andrews, who died in 1158 or 1159. The terms of the writ by Countess Ela suggest that she was heiress of Earl's Calder. Earl Duncan may have acquired that barony also by his marriage with her. She was, according to the charter quoted, the niece of King Malcolm, but it has been objected that Malcolm, who was born in 1142, could scarcely have had a niece marriageable in 1160. Yet it is possible that Ada or Ela might be the child of an illegitimate son or daughter born to Malcolm's father Earl Henry, in his youth, as he had at least one illegitimate child, and may have had others.6 | ||
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