Andrew Moray (justiciar)

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Andrew Moray
Lord of Petty, Bracholy, Boharm and Arteldol
Justiciar of Scotland
Died8 April 1298
Noble family de Moray family
Spouse(s)A daughter of John I Comyn, Lord of Badenoch
Euphemia Comyn
Issue Andrew Moray
Father Walter de Moray
Mothera daughter of Sir Walter Olifard of Bothwell

Sir Andrew Moray, Lord of Petty (died 8 April 1298) was Justiciar of Scotia.

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Life

Andrew Moray was the younger son of Sir Walter de Moray, and a daughter of Sir Walter Olifard of Bothwell who was the son of Sir David Olifard of Bothwell. [1] He and his son were amongst the Scottish noblemen captured following the Battle of Dunbar in 1296. Moray was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he died on 8 April 1298. [2]

Marriage and issue

According to Andrew of Wyntoun, Sir Andrew Moray married a daughter of John I Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, and had issue: [3]

Moray married secondly Euphemia, widow of William Comyn of Kilbride, daughter of Roger FitzJohn and Isabel de Dunbar.

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Notes

  1. Balfour Paul, vol ii, pp123-124
  2. Barrow, Robert Bruce, fourth edition, p.445, n.111.
  3. Wyntoun. Book viii, chap. vi.

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