m. FERNELITH, Countess of Athol
d. 1269 Tunis
By his marriage to Fernelith, Sir David became the eighth Earl of Athol.(2) He was one of the guarantees of the peace treaty between Alexander II and Henry III in 1244.(1) He granted to Ness, the king's physician, the lands of Dunfolenthin for his homage and service.(3) In 1268 he and other Scottish knights went on an expedition to the Holy Land and he died at Carthage in Tunisia the next year.(4)
Issue-
(1) Rymer's "Foedera"- Vol. I, p. 428
(2) Chron. Melrose
(3) Chartulary of Cupar- pp.69-70
(4) Chron. Melrose
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, ed., new ed., Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester, U.K., 2000- Vol. I, p. 305
"The Scottish Nation"- William Anderson, A. Fullarton & Co., Edinburgh, 1880