Máel Petair of Mearns
Máel Petair of Mearns is the only known Mormaer of the Mearns. His name means "tonsured one of (Saint) Peter".[1]
Professor Dauvit Broun of the University of Glasgow identifies his father as a man called Loren.[2] Little is known of him except that, in 1094, he is said to have killed King Duncan II of Scotland, suggesting he was an associate of Donald III of Scotland.[3]
Bibliography[edit]
- Anderson, Alan Orr, Early Sources of Scottish History: AD 500-1286, 2 Vols, (Edinburgh, 1922), Vol. II, pp. 89–91
References[edit]
- ^ Watson, W. J. (13 March 1925). "Personal Names: The Influence of the Saints". Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness. 32: 224.
- ^ Broun, Dauvit (1999). The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries (Studies in Celtic History). Woodbridge, Suff: Boydell. p. 158. ISBN 978-0851153759.
- ^ "Gaelic Kingdoms: Kingdoms of Caledonia". The History Files. Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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