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Around 1178-8, William the Lion granted Erroll (Herol), located on the north side of the Tay estuary, to
William II de Haya for the service of two knights. The barony, which was granted as a hereditary right (in feu and heritage), awarded the privileges associated with that rank, including the right
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of 1930 clouds the issue by raising the possibility of there being two
Williams, while the 1970 edition makes no reference to a second William. The “Hay cartwheel” shows two Williams. In this unusual document, the first of these Williams, the pincerna, is shown as having three sons, William, Robert
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for the benefit of the souls of King
Malcolm; his uncle Ranulf de Soulis, and others, which grant was confirmed by King William, ostensibly between 1187 and 1195, although these dates are thought by Barrow to be too late. An abstract of William II de Haya's charter exists in Coupar Angus documents
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William II and Eva had six sons, David, William III, John, Thomas, Robert and
Malcolm. William II was still alive in 1201, as proved by a charter in the Benholm Charter-chest of that date, but apparently died soon afterwards. David succeeded his father as Baron of Erroll and married Ethna, the
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states only that, “it is not improbable that Ethna was a daughter of
Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn, whose mother’s name was Ethna”.
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Falaise in Normandy. In order to regain his freedom, in December, 1174 he had to sign the punitive
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