Note 695 — Chapter IX · THE KINGDOM OF SCOTIA PASSES INTO FEUDAL SCOTLAND.

1160 Malcolmus rex Scotorum venit de exercitu Tolose, cumque venisset in civitatem que dicitur Pert, Fereteatht comes et v. alii comites irati contra regem quia perrexit Tolosam, obsederunt civitatem et regem capere volueruntvoluerunt, sed presumcio illorum minime prævaluit.—Chron. Mel.

Wynton gives the following account of it:—

Quhen the kyng Malcolme come agayne,

Off hys legys mad hym a trayne;

A mayster-man cald Feretawche

Wyth Gyllandrys Ergemawche,

And other mayster-men thare fyve

Agayne the kyng than ras belywe;

For caws that he past till Twlows,

Agayne hym thai ware all irows;

Forthi thai set thame hym to ta

In till Perth, or than hym sla.

Bot the kyng rycht manlyly

Swne skalyd all that cumpany,

And tuk and slwe.—B. vii. c. 7.

Whom Wynton means by Gyllandrys Ergemawche it is difficult to say. William Fitz-Duncan, son of Duncan, king of Scotland, had attached himself to his uncle David throughout the whole of his career both as earl and as king, and distinguished himself as a commander in all his wars. He married Alice de Romellie, heiress of Skipton and Craven, by whom he had a son William and three daughters. The Orkneyinga Saga says of William Fitz-Duncan, that ‘he was a good man. His son was William the Noble, whom all the Scots wished to take for their king.’—Coll. de Reb. Alb. 346. William Fitz-Duncan was dead in 1151, when a charter was granted of Bolton by ‘Adeliza de Rumelli consensu et assensu Willelmi filii et hæredis mei et filiarum mearum,’ and among the witnesses is ‘Willelmo filio meo de Egremont.’ He was commonly called the Boy of Egremont, and is said to have died under age, but he may have lived till after 1160. This may have been the occasion in which the Scots wished to make him their king, and Wynton’s barbarous name Ergemawche may have been intended for Egremont.