Born [date unknown] in Scotland I
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of Donald (Dunkeld) King of Scots
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Uctred FitzWaltheof
— married
1120 in Northumberland, England
Descendants 
Died about
in Scotland [uncertain]
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Biography
Bethóc Dunkeld, “an only child,” [1] was born about 1070 (based on her age being at least 15 in 1085, the date of her 1st marriage) the daughter of Donald III, King of Scots and an unknown mother. [2][3][4]
About 1085, she married 1st, Uhtred, Lord of Tynedale, son of Waltheof. [2][5]
Child of Bethóc Dunkeld and Uhtred, Lord of Tynedale
- Hextilda of Tynedale, m. 1st, abt. 1105, or abt. 1145, Richard de Comyn, son of John de Comyn; m. 2nd, aft. 1179, as his second wife, her second cousin, Malcolm, Earl of Atholl, son of Maddad, Earl of Atholl and his first wife. [2][5][6][7][8][9]
She married 2nd, Radulf, son of Dunegall Lord of Nithsdale, who died about 1185. [2]
Research Notes
- Hextilda FitzAndlaw, unsourced mother, was detached. Perkins-11750 20:23, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
Sources
- ↑ Paul, Sir James Balfour. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), citing, “Donald Bane…leaving an only child…Bethoc…,” vol. 1, pp. 2-3.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Cawley, Charles. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Medieval Lands Database. B.2. Donald.
- ↑ Duncan, A. A. M. Donald III Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2004), citing “he had a daughter, Bethóc, from whom John Comyn of Badenoch (d. 1302) derived his claim to the throne in 1291.”Donald III
- ↑ Bain, Joseph (ed.). Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland preserved in her Majesty’s Public Record Office, London. Edinburgh: H. M General Register House (1884), vol. II. A.D. 1272-1307, pp. xx, 123.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Dunbar, Archibald Hamilton. Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005-1625, with Notices of the Principal Events, Tables of Regnal Years, Pedigrees, Tables, Calendars, Etc. United Kingdom: D. Douglas (1906), p. 43.
- ↑ Young, Alan, Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1213–1314, (East Linton, 1997), p. 16, citing, “Hextilda was the daughter of Uhtred of Tynedale and Bethoc, only daughter of Donald Ban, brother of Malcolm Canmore and son of Duncan I, king of Scots.”
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Young, Alan, Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1213–1314, (East Linton, 1997), pp. 16, citing, “…Bethoc’, wife of Radulf, the son of Donegal lord of Nithdale. This Bethoc was the mother of Hextilda, wife of Richard Cumin…Radulf was Bethoc’s second husband…Bethoc predeceased Radulf (d. c.1185)…”
- ↑ Paul, Sir James Balfour. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), citing, “He married, about 1145, Hextilda, daughter of Huctred of Tynedale by his wife Bethoc, the daughter of Donald Bane.” vol. 1, pp. 504-505.
- ↑ Young, Alan, Robert the Bruce's Rivals: The Comyns, 1213–1314, (East Linton, 1997), p. 16, citing, “Hextilda was the daughter of Uhtred of Tynedale and Bethoc, only daughter of Donald Ban, brother of Malcolm Canmore and son of Duncan I, king of Scots.”
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