George Munro, V of Foulis

1200 - 1282  (82 years)

• Name	George Munro  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Suffix	V of Foulis
  Born	1200	Foulis Easter, , , Scotland   [7]
  Gender	Male
  Died	1282	Beallach Na Croig, , , Scotland
  Buried	Fortrose, , Ross And Cromarty, Scotland
  	George was buried at the Chanonry of Ross.
  Person ID	I8	Munro
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2013

  
  

  Father	Robert Munro, IV of Foulis,   b. 1175, , , , Scotland ,   d. 1239, Dingwall, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland  (Age 64 years)
  Mother	Freskyn,   b. Abt 1172, Morania, , Ross-shire, Scotland ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	1194-1214
  Family ID	F9529	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Stewart,   b. 1229, , , , Scotland ,   d. , , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
  Children	+ 1. Robert Munro, VI of Foulis,   b. Abt 1261, Foulis Easter, , , Scotland ,   d. 1323, Foulis Easter, , , Scotland  (Age ~ 62 years)
  Last Modified	17 Jun 2009
  Family ID	F1342	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  On a charter granted by William Earle of Sutherland to the Archdean of Murray, George, as a witness, is styled "clarissimo (or carissimo or charissimo) et fidelissimo consanguineo Georgio Munro de Foules" He succeeded in 1239 as the fifth Baron of Foulis. He had all his Ross-shire lands confirmed to him by a charter from King Alexander II before 1249. The charter states that the lands were held of old by his ancestor, Donald. Mackenzie says this is the first Munro Chief who can be confirmed by contemporary records, but R.W. Munro says no trace has been found of the charters that Mackenzie cites. The Eyre-Todd reference relates a story about George that sounds very like one that Mackenzie tells about George X of Foulis. The two stories could have been mixed up. Eyre-Todd says: The friendship that the Munros had with the Earl of Ross got the Munros into serious trouble. "In 1282 the clans Iver, Talvigh, and Laiwe, and others, had rebelled against the Earl, the latter seized their leader and imprisoned him at Dingwall, and the rebels, to safeguard their chief, carried off the Earl's second son from Balnagown, and held him as a hostage. Thereupon, according to Sir Robert Gordon, 'The Munroes and the Dingwalls, with some others, gathered their forces and pursued the Highlanders wthl all diligence, so overtaking them at Beallach na Croig, betwixt Ferrindonnel and Loch Broom. There ensued a cruell fight, well foughten on either side. The clan Iver, clan Talvighe, and clan Laiwe were almost utterlie extinguished and slain, but the Munros had a sorrowful victory, with great loss of their men, yet carried back again the Earl of Ross his son. "'The Laird of Kindun was there slain, with seven score of the surname of Dingwall. Divers of the Munroes were slain in this conflict, and there were killed eleven of the house of Foulis, that were to succeed one another, so that the succession fell unto a child then lying in his cradle.'" Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [8, 9]

  
  

• Sources

  [S686] The Munro Tree (1734), R. W. Munro, (Privately published in Edinburgh, Scotland (1978)), p. 2 (G) (Reliability: 3). [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 8 (Reliability: 3). [S687] Highland Clans of Scotland, The, George Eyre-Todd, (Garnier & Company, Charleston, South Carolina, 1969 (Excerpts can be found in the Clan Munro files - Eyre-Todd, George)), p. 439 (Reliability: 3). [S649] Clan Munro files - Brown, Julia A., Julia A. Brown, Membership application for Julia A. Brown - 10 May 2008 (Reliability: 3). [S645] Clan Munro files - Boggs, Elizabeth Monroe, Elizabeth Monroe Boggs, Pedigree of the Munro Family - undated (Reliability: 3). [S743] Family of Adam, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, (https://new.familysearch.org/en/action/unsec/welcome : copyright 2008), accessed 6 May 2010), LQRS-2LP (Reliability: 3). [S702] Clan Munro files - Loehr, Reta Malan, Reta Malan Loehr, Genealogy data received from Reta Malan Loehr - Jun 2009 (Reliability: 3). [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 8-9 (Reliability: 3). [S687] Highland Clans of Scotland, The, George Eyre-Todd, (Garnier & Company, Charleston, South Carolina, 1969 (Excerpts can be found in the Clan Munro files - Eyre-Todd, George)), p. 439-440 (Reliability: 3).