Morgund Mac Gyloclery

   Another name for Morgund was Morggán Earl of Mar.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹³⁰⁵
Morgund, who first appears on record as a witness to a charter by King David I. to the monks of Dumfermline dated between 1147 and 1152, [Early Scottish Charters. p.181] but if the dates assigned to charters by him and his wife are accepted, he may have been Earl before or from 1141 [Antiq. of Aberd. and Banff, iv. 690, 691]. It is probable, however, that the later date is more correct. He is designed 'Mac Gyloclery,' or son of Gyloclery, in one writ of undoubted credit, and has been described as the son of Gillocher, Earl of Mar, but this last statement at present rests only on a doubtful document, the authenticity of which is much disputed, but according to which Morgund presented himself before King William the Lyon, at Hindhop Burnemuthe, in the King's new forest ('apud Hindhop Burnemuthe in mea nova foresta') on the tenth Kalend of June (23 May) 1171, claiming the earldom of Mar, in presence of the council and army of Scotland then assembled. The King thereupon, it is said, summoned an inquest, who found that Morgund was son and lawful heir of Gillocher, Earl of Mar, upon which the King granted and restored the earldom to Morgund. The latter then further petitioned for the earldom of Moray on the same grounds, that his father Gillocher was last vest therein. Another inquest found that he was the true and lawful heir of Moray, but because the King was heavily engaged in war with England, and the men of Moray could not be subjected to his will, he was unable to do justice to Morgund. But he promised that when he could terminate the war and subdue the rebels, he would recognise the rights of Morgund to the earldom of Moray.

Morgund was a considerable benefactor to the Priory of St. Andrews, and between 1165 and 1171 made a special grant to the canons there of the church of Tarland in Cromar, for the benefit of himself and his wife, that wherever in Scotland they might die, they were to be buried at St. Andrews.[Reg. Prior. S. Andree, 246] Later, before 1178, he and his wife further granted the adjoining church of Migvie to St. Andrews. Earl Morgund died probably in the year 1182, certainly before 30 March 1183, when he is referred to as dead in a bull by Pope Lucius III.

~James Balfour Paul's The Scot's Peerage, Vol. V, pp.567-568

• Web Reference: Morggán, Earl of Mar.
Morggán of Mar, is the first Mormaer of Mar to appear in history as "more than a characterless name in a witness-list.". His father was Gille Chlerig. He is often known as Morgrund or Morgan.

Morgund married Ada.