!SOURCE: Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND,
Edinburgh, 1813, p. 479.
!SOURCE: George Crawfurd, THE PEERAGE OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, 1716,
p. 24.
David Earl of Athole, their Successor, was Constable of Scotland, in the
Beginning of the Reign of King Robert I. He''s so design''d in a Charter
granted by that Monarch, erecting the Lands of Tarves into a Regality, in
favour of the Monks of Arbroth, 26th. of February 1311 (Register of
Arbroth). And another David Earl of Athole, his successor, who was
constituted Governour of Scotland, by Edward Baliol; for whose Service
he rais''d an Army, but was totally routed and himself killed, at the
Battle of Kilblain, by the Scots, under the Conduct of Patrick Earl of
March, and Sir Andrew Murray, anno 1335. His Estate by Forfalture
falling to the Crown, it so continued till King David II. was pleas''d to
bestow both the Estate and Title of Earl of Athole, upon John Campbel,
Son of Sir Neil Campbel of Lochow, by the Lady Mary Bruce his Wife,
Daughter of Robert Earl of Carrick, and Sister to King Robert Bruce; but
he dying without Succession, the Title became extinct by his Death, but
did not long so continue, for King Robert II was pleas''d to revive it again
in the Person of Walter Steuart his second Son, by Eupham Ross his
Queen in the 4th Year of his Reign, anno 1375 (Sir James Balfour''s
Genealogical Collections, M.S.).