Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 09-30-2024.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page


Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Ermengarde DURWARD
  2. Anna DURWARD Death: After 3 May 1326
  3. (Unk) DURWARD

Children:
  1. Thomas DURWARD

Bibliography
  1. Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
  2. Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 05 E-Goojerat. London: St Catherine Press, 1926. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP V [Ap][p0-9].*].
  3. Ravilious, John, family of Alan Durward. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/1/2006. Subject: the family of Alan Durward: a Sinclair ascent?. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/lNjuNtz0x38/m/b1qTnZkXIIAJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/1/2006-115931].
  4. Ravilious, John, William the Lion to William Farrar. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 12/23/2008. Subject: William the Lion to William Farrar. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/wSY7xk_dqs0/m/MWn0GZ4crsUJ. Author address: Therav3 at aol dot com. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/23/2008-120646].
  5. Ravilious, John, Earls of Menteith, Murdoch Earl of Menteith and the Ferrers family of Groby, in The Scottish Genealogist, vol LX no 1 (Mar 2013), pp12-25. Available at https://independent.academia.edu/JohnRavilious. This article at https://www.academia.edu/33794810/TSG_The_Earls_of_Menteith_Murdoch_Earl_of_Menteith_and_the_Ferrers_family_of_Groby_Vol_LX_1_12_25_pdf. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Ravilious Murdoch p[0-9]*].
  6. Borthwick, Richard, Soulis. Posting to soc.genealogy.medieval (email list GEN-MEDIEVAL) on 11/8/1999. Subject: MARJORIE NATURAL DAUG OF ALEXANDER11 OF SCOTLAND. Available at https://groups.google.com/g/soc.genealogy.medieval/c/xa84p3F-b70/m/YtdoA7HP6JoJ. Author address: rgbor at cyllene dot uwa dot edu dot au. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richard Borthwick SGM 11/8/1999].
  7. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p[0-9]*].
  8. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v3p[0-9]*].
  9. Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p[0-9]*].
  10. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP I p[0-9]*].
  11. Paul, Sir James Balfour, Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that Kingdom. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP IV p[0-9]*].
  12. Sheppard, Walter Lee, Royal Bye-Blows III: Illegitimate Descendants of the Scottish Kings to James VI, in NEHGR v122 (Oct 1968) pp265-274. Available at http://americanancestors.org/databases/new-england-historical-and-genealogical-register/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sheppard RoyalByeBlowsIII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
father:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/23/2008-120646, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 12/23/2008-120646, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]
Sources for burial Information
place:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]
Sources with Information about marriage to Marjorie
date:
before 4 Jul 1251 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592],
names:
[Ref: Burke Peerage cclxxxvii, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p591, SP I p6, Sheppard RoyalByeBlowsIII p266]
dotted line to Alan DURWARD & Margery [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/1/2006-115931],
child:
[Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/1/2006-115931, John Ravilious SGM 12/23/2008-120646, Ravilious Murdoch p14, Ravilious Murdoch p21, Richard Borthwick SGM 11/8/1999, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p146, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
child:
[Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]
Research Notes:
Knt, of Coull and Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, Lintrathan, Angus, Lundin, Fife, Reedie (in Airlie), Forfarshire, Urquhart, Moray, etc [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p200, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p4, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p146, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]

heir of his father [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]

Usher of the King of Scots [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p200, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p4, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p146, Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]

1233-5: Earl of Athol [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]

1243-51x2, 1255: styled Justiciar of Scotland [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v4p592]
Justiciar of Scotland [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p200, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p4, Richardson RoyalAnc v3p146]

Following is the (or a) relevant excerpt from Matthew Hammond.
Sometime between 11 September and 12 October 1233, Alan Durward confirmed a gift of his father's to Arbroath abbey. In it, he styles himself 'doorward of the lord king of Scotland, earl of Atholl' <68>. Alexander II does not call him 'earl of Atholl' in his confirmation of that grant, dated at Kintore, 12 October 1233, but the king did acknowledge Alan as earl in charters dated at Lanark, 9 January 1234, St. Andrews, Christmas Day, 1234, and Aberdeen, 23 February 1235 <69>. What right did Alan have as earl? As has been noted, Earl Henry had a presumably illegitimate son named Conan, who gave easements of his woods at 'Glenerrichidie', perhaps Glen Errochty, and 'Tulach' to the monks of Coupar <70>. Conan also granted to Lindores abbey timber from his wood at 'Tulyhen' between 1219 and 1242 <71>. Sir Colin de Lundin, Alan Durward's brother, witnessed this charter. In a charter to St. Andrews Priory dated 1189x1198, Henry earl of Atholl referred to a 'Colin my nephew' (Colino nepote meo) <72>. If he was Colin de Lundin (Colin is an uncommon name in contemporary charters), that would make Alan Earl Henry's nephew, which would presumably make Thomas Durward the brother-in-law of Earl Henry. Thus, Thomas Durward's wife was probably the daughter of Earl Malcolm by either Hextilda or Earl Henry's mother, whose name is unknown. The latter is more likely, because the inheritance seems to have passed to Alan Durward, not by marriage, but as the closest male heir, after Patrick. The king must have simply favoured a loyal adult subject, wishing to avoid the difficulties that could arise from a minority or a wardship.
<68> Arbroath Liber, no. 128.
<69> Holyrood Liber, no. 93; RRS, v, no. 346; Arbroath Liber, no. 102; Moray Reg., no. 114; RRS, vi, no. 49. Duncan's notion that Alan was the earl of Atholl who witnessed a 1237 letter from the barons to the pope is surely mistaken. Alan witnessed six royal charters between 7 July 1235 and 20 Oct. 1237. In none of these does he call himself earl (cf. Mort. Reg., i, xxxv, App. 3; Moray Reg., no. 37 and at Carte Originales, no. 11; Glas. Reg., no. 174 and 175; Dunf. Reg., no. 75).
<70> C. A. Rent., no. 37. The late breviary, which sometimes has difficulties with medieval names, mistakenly copies Conan as 'Cumingi.'
<71> Lind. Cart., no. 73. John de Hastings, father of the later earl of Atholl David de Hastings, is a witness to this charter...... [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 11/1/2006-115931]



Pedigree of Sir Alan DURWARD
 /-----Thomas DURWARD
Sir Alan DURWARD
|                                                               /-----Duncan Abthane Of Dule, Abbot Of Dunkeld
|                                                      /-----Duncan Lord Of Mormaer Of Athol
|                                             /-----Crinan The Thane Abbot Of Dunkeld
|                                    /-----Donnchad (Duncan I) Mac CRINAN, King Of Scots
|                                   |        |                  /-----Cinaed (Kenneth II) Mac MAEL COLUIM, King Of Scots
|                                   |        |         /-----Mael Coluim (Malcolm II) Mac CINAED, King Of Scots
|                                   |        |        |         \-----(Unknown) Of Leinster
|                                   |         \-----Bethoc
|                           /-----Melmare
|                          |        |                           /-----Ulsius
|                          |        |                  /-----Beorn
|                          |        |         /-----Sigurd Digera Earl Of Northumbria
|                          |         \-----Sibylia Of Northumbria
|                          |                 |                  /-----Uchtred Earl Of Northumberland
|                          |                 |         /-----Ealdred Of Bernicia
|                          |                 |        |         \-----Ecfrida
|                          |                  \-----Aelflaed
|                  /-----Madach Earl Of Atholl
|         /-----Malcolm Earl Of Atholl
 \-----(Unk) of Atholl
         |                  /-----Waltheof Of Tynedale
         |         /-----Uchtred Of Tynedale
          \-----Hextilde of Tynedale
                  |                                             /-----Duncan Abthane Of Dule, Abbot Of Dunkeld
                  |                                    /-----Duncan Lord Of Mormaer Of Athol
                  |                           /-----Crinan The Thane Abbot Of Dunkeld
                  |                  /-----Donnchad (Duncan I) Mac CRINAN, King Of Scots
                  |                 |        |                  /-----Cinaed (Kenneth II) Mac MAEL COLUIM, King Of Scots
                  |                 |        |         /-----Mael Coluim (Malcolm II) Mac CINAED, King Of Scots
                  |                 |        |        |         \-----(Unknown) Of Leinster
                  |                 |         \-----Bethoc
                  |         /-----Domnall Bane (Donald) Mac DONNCHAD, King Of Scots
                  |        |        |                           /-----Ulsius
                  |        |        |                  /-----Beorn
                  |        |        |         /-----Sigurd Digera Earl Of Northumbria
                  |        |         \-----Sibylia Of Northumbria
                  |        |                 |                  /-----Uchtred Earl Of Northumberland
                  |        |                 |         /-----Ealdred Of Bernicia
                  |        |                 |        |         \-----Ecfrida
                  |        |                  \-----Aelflaed
                   \-----Bethoc Of Scotland



Descendants of Sir Alan DURWARD
1. Sir Alan DURWARD m1. Marjorie m2.
m. Marjorie father: Alexander II King Of Scots

2nd generation

2. Ermengarde DURWARD m. Sir William De SOULIS
m. Sir William De SOULIS father: Nicholas De SOULIS mother: Annora De NORMANVILLE
3. Anna DURWARD m1. Colban MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife m2. Sir William De FERRERS
m. Colban MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife father: Malcolm MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife mother: (Unk Dau)
m. Sir William De FERRERS father: William De FERRERS, Earl Of Derby mother: Margaret De QUINCEY
4. (Unk) DURWARD m. John BYSET
m. John BYSET

3rd generation

6. Ermengarde De SOULIS m. Patrick DUNBAR, Earl Of March Or Dunbar
m. Patrick DUNBAR, Earl Of March Or Dunbar father: Sir Patrick DUNBAR, Earl Of March Or Dunbar mother: Marjory COMYN
7. Nicholas De SOULIS m. Margaret COMYN
m. Margaret COMYN father: Alexander COMYN, Earl Of Buchan mother: Elizabeth De QUINCY
8. Marjory m. Alan De MENTEITH, Earl Of Menteith
m. Alan De MENTEITH, Earl Of Menteith father: Alexander De MENTEITH, Earl Of Menteith mother: Matilda
9. Duncan MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife m. Joan De CLARE
m. Joan De CLARE father: Sir Gilbert DeCLARE, Earl Of Gloucester And Hertford mother: Alice De LUSIGNAN
11. Sir William De FERRERS, Lord Ferrers Of Groby m1. Ellen De SEGRAVE m2. Ellen
m. Ellen De SEGRAVE father: Sir John De SEGRAVE, Lord Segrave mother: Christine De PLESCY
m. Ellen
12. Cecilia BYSET m. William De FENTON
m. William De FENTON
14. Muriel BYSET m. Sir David GRAHAM
m. Sir David GRAHAM father: David GRAHAM mother: Agnes NOBLE

4th generation

15. Patrick DUNBAR, Earl Of March Or Dunbar m. Agnes RANDOLPH
m. Agnes RANDOLPH father: Thomas RANDOLPH, Earl Of Moray mother: Isabel STEWART
19. (Unk) De SOULES m. Sir John De KEITH
m. Sir John De KEITH father: Sir Robert De KEITH, Marischal Of Scotland mother: Barbara DOUGLAS
20. Alan De MENTEITH m.
21. Mary Countess Of Menteith m. Sir John GRAHAM, Earl Of Menteith
m. Sir John GRAHAM, Earl Of Menteith father: Sir Patrick GRAHAM mother: Annabelle Of Strathearn
23. Duncan MACDUFF, Earl Of Fife m. Mary De MONTHERMER
m. Mary De MONTHERMER father: Ralph De MONTHERMER, Lord Monthermer mother: Joan PLANTAGENET
24. Henry De FERRERS, Lord Ferrers Of Groby m1. m2. Isabel De VERDUN
m. Isabel De VERDUN father: Sir Theobald De VERDUN, Lord Verdun mother: Elizabeth DeCLARE
25. Sir Thomas De FERRERS m. Ankaret BUTLER
m. Ankaret BUTLER father: William Le BOTILLER, Lord Botiller mother: Ela HERDEBURGH
26. Anne De FERRERS m. Sir Edward DESPENSER
m. Sir Edward DESPENSER father: Hugh Le DESPENSER, Lord Despenser mother: Alianore DeCLARE
28. Alice De FENTON m. Sir Henry SINCLAIR
m. Sir Henry SINCLAIR father: Sir William SINCLAIR mother: Amicia

5th generation

32. Agnes m. Sir Patrick HEPBURN, Lord Of Hailes
m. Sir Patrick HEPBURN, Lord Of Hailes father: Adam HEPBURN mother: Marion FOURBOUR
34. (Unk Dau) De KEITH m. Robert MAITLAND
m. Robert MAITLAND father: William MAITLAND
39. Margaret GRAHAM, Countess Of Menteith m1. Sir John MORAY m2. Sir Thomas Earl Of Mar m3. Sir John DRUMMOND m4. Robert STEWART, Earl Of Fife, Duke Of Albany
m. Sir John MORAY father: Sir Andrew MORAY mother: Christian BRUCE
m. Sir Thomas Earl Of Mar father: Donald Earl Of Mar mother: Isabel STEWART
m. Sir John DRUMMOND father: Maurice DRUMMOND mother: Marion ERSKINE
m. Robert STEWART, Earl Of Fife, Duke Of Albany father: Robert II STEWART, King Of Scots mother: Elizabeth MURE
40. Elizabeth Countess Of Fife m1. Sir William De FELTON m2. Walter STEWART m3. Sir Thomas BYSET m4. John DUNBAR
m. Sir William De FELTON father: Sir William De FELTON mother: Eustancia
m. Walter STEWART father: Robert II STEWART, King Of Scots mother: Elizabeth MURE
m. Sir Thomas BYSET
m. John DUNBAR
42. Elizabeth DeFERRERS m1. David STRATHBOGIE, Earl Of Atholl, Lord Strath m2. John MALEWAYN
m. David STRATHBOGIE, Earl Of Atholl, Lord Strath father: David STRATHBOGIE, Earl Of Atholl, Lord Strath mother: Catherine De BEAUMONT
m. John MALEWAYN father: John MALEWAYN mother: Margery WALEYS
43. Philippe De FERRERS m. Sir Guy BEAUCHAMP
m. Sir Guy BEAUCHAMP father: Thomas BEAUCHAMP, Orig K.G., Earl Of Warwick mother: Katherine MORTIMER
44. Sir William De FERRERS, Lord Ferrers Of Groby m1. Margaret De UFFORD m2. Margaret PERCY
m. Margaret De UFFORD father: Robert De UFFORD, K.G., Earl of Suffolk mother: Margaret De NORWICH
m. Margaret PERCY father: Henry De PERCY, Lord Percy mother: Idonia De CLIFFORD
46. Sir Edward DESPENSER, K.G., Lord Of Glamorgan m. Elizabeth De BURGHERSH, Baroness Burghersh
m. Elizabeth De BURGHERSH, Baroness Burghersh father: Sir Bartholomew De BURGHERSH, Orig K.G., Lord Burghersh mother: Cicely De WEYLAND
47. Sir Hugh DESPENSER m. Alice HOTHAM
m. Alice HOTHAM father: Sir John HOTHAM
51. Sir William SINCLAIR m.