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He was possibly 1st Mormaer of Mar. Wikipedia: Gille Chlerig is not kno w n i n a n y c apacity other than being father of Morgan.
THE ANCIENT EARLS OF MAR Mar, which gave its name to what is now claime d t o b e t h e o ldest existing Scottish title, was one of the original gre at d i v i s ions, afterwards called earldoms, into which Scotland was divid ed, w h i l e i ts lord was one of the body referred to as the seven earls, w ho a r e s a i d to have acted as advisers of the King. The district extende d e a s t a n d west from Braemar, or the Braes of Mar, to Aberdeen, and nor th a n d s o u th from the Braes of Angus to the Don.(1-566) Like other such d i s t r i cts of Scotland it was at an early historical period under the rul e o f a M o r m aor or High Steward. 'Donald, son of Emhin, son of Cainnech, ' M orm a o r o r Great Steward of Mar, said to be of the race of Old Ivar a nd o f t h e C l an Leod of Arran, was one of those Scottish chiefs who went t o I r e l a nd to assist King Brian Boruimha against the Danes, and fell at t h e b a t t le of Clontarf in 1014.(2-566) Norse or Danish descent is thus a s c r i b ed to him, but we have no certain knowledge that the succeeding Mo r m a o r s of Mar were directly, or even lineally, descended from him. Ther e i s a l o n g s pace of silence between him(1-567) and
I. Ruadri or Rotheri, who appears on record as the first Earl of Mar, a n d w h o i s a lso styled Mormaor, thus forming a link between the old Celt i c s y s t em and the new feudal ideas of territorial dignities. He appears f i r s t a s ' Rotheri Comes' or Earl, giving consent to the foundation chart e r o f t h e A bbey of Scone, a writ usually said to be dated in 1114, but w h i c h m u st have been a few years later, though not later than 1124, the y e a r i n w h ich King Alexander I., the founder, died.(2-567) He was also a w i t n e s s to the charter by King David to the Abbey of Dunfermline dated p r o b a b ly about 1128.(3-567) In the eighth year of King David (1132) he i s w i t n e ss to a charter by Gartnait, Mormaor of Buchan.(4-567)
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Abt 1090 - 1131 (41 years)
