215:(1289–1353). A papal dispensation was granted on 4 November 1307. A posthumous child, Duncan had spent his minority in England. As was common for the time, she was very young – only nine years old. They had one surviving daughter, who was born fourteen years after they married. She would come to inherit Duncan's lands:
241:. He was able to obtain mercy however and was permitted to return to Scotland to raise money for his ransom, which he did in 1350. Duncan died three years later. Mary would die at least eighteen years later (sometime after 1371); their daughter succeeded as Countess of Fife, but resigned the earldom to
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