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Euphemia I, Countess of Ross

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issued a commission to dissolve this marriage and then on 5 and 15 December to grant a divorce. The date of Euphemia's death is not certain. She was still alive on 5 September 1394, and it is possible that 20 February 1394/5, usually assigned as the date of Stewart's death, was that of her own.
75:. To give the earldom of Ross to Leslie, he forced Euphemia to marry him and, on 23 October 1370, renewed the earldom of Ross to Euphemia’s father only on the condition that it pass to Euphemia and Leslie upon his death. The charter of the earldom of Ross and of the lands of 89:, dated 24 November 1366 (variously reported as December 1367), the dispensation being necessary in that Walter Leslie had had illicit intercourse with a woman related within the fourth degree of kinship with Euphemia 557: 365: 552: 93: 96:, better known in history as "The Wolf of Badenoch." This marriage occurred on 24 or 25 July 1382. However, on 9 June 1392, 567: 525: 128: 450: 498: 518: 428: 161: 118: 433: 572: 439: 185: 493: 460: 455: 358: 110: 465: 56: 444: 417: 124: 48: 131:, and in her right, succeeded to the earldom of Ross, and carried it to a new family, the Macdonald 407: 86: 402: 231: 562: 397: 351: 547: 475: 79:
was made to them in their own favor and that of their heirs male and female in reversion.
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euphemia ross walter leslie their heirs male and female in reversion.
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Leslie predeceased her in 1382, whereupon she married, secondly,
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Countess of Ross
Uilleam III
Mormaer of Ross
King David II
Walter de Leslie
Europe
Alexandria
Egypt
Skye
papal
dispensation
Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan
Pope Clement VII
Walter Leslie
Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross
Mariota
Donald (of Harlaw) Macdonald
Lords of the Isles
Uilleam III
Countess of Ross
Alexander Leslie
The Scots Peerage
History of the Mackenzies
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