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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1320 - 1369 (49 years)
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| Name |
Robert Munro [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
| Suffix |
VIII of Foulis |
| Born |
1320 |
Dingwall, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland  [8] |
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| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1369 |
, , , Scotland |
| Person ID |
I11 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
19 Aug 2013 |
| Father |
George Munro, VII of Foulis, b. 20 Jul 1305, , , , Scotland , d. 20 Jul 1333, Berwick on Tweed, , Northumberland, England (Age 28 years) |
| Mother |
Lady Euphame Ross, b. 1305, , , , Scotland , d. 1334, , , , Scotland (Age 29 years) |
| Family ID |
F1339 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Lady Jean Ross, b. 29 Nov 1329, , , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland , d. 1366, , , , Scotland (Age 36 years) |
| Married |
1350 |
Dingwall, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland |
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| Children |
| + | 1. Hugh Munro, IX of Foulis, b. 1352, Dingwall, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland , d. 1425, Evanton, , Ross and Cromarty, Scotland (Age 73 years) |
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| Last Modified |
12 Jan 2010 |
| Family ID |
F7270 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Robert was just a child when his father was killed at the Battle of Halidon Hill. His estates were carefully managed by his uncle, John, until Robert attained majority. John was able to redeem portions of the estate that had previously been mortgaged.
Robert is described as being "a man of abilities and economical habits of life."
He had a charter from William, Earl of Ross, of the lands of Pitlundie and others in which the rental was a pair of white gloves or three pennies Scots, if required, alternately.
In 1364, Robert obtained from William, Earl of Ross (and confirmed by King David II), a charter of confirmation of Easter Fowlis and other lands. Mackenzie claims that this charter mentions that these lands had belonged to his predecessors since the time of Donald, the founder of the family. R.W. Munro says the charter contains no such allusion to Robert's predecessors. This charter was confirmed by King David II later in the same year.
Some evidence suggests that Robert served as one of the Baron Bailies of the Earldom of Ross, a very important office in those feudal times. He was killed in an obscure skirmish in defense of the Earl, probably while acting as his Baron Bailie in the north. He was said to have been pursuing fugitives. Strangely and incongruously, he appears as Robert de Munro in Balnagowan charters of 1341, 1362, 1398 and 1372, despite his death date.
Robert is the first Munro chief for whom there is contemporary genealogical evidence.
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«i»Robert de Munro, appears in charters of the Rosses of Balnagowan, 1341, 1362, 1368. Said to have married, first, Jean, daughter of Hugh Ross of Balnagowan, but chronologically more likely to have been a sister of this Hugh, and daughter of Hugh, Earl of Ross.«/i»
("The Monroe Book" - by Dr. Jean Guilford)
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(1) "The Munro Tree (1734)" by R. W. Munro - Edinburgh (1978) - K
Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA [9]
- (Medical):Robert was killed while assisting William, Earl of Ross in an obscure clan fight while in pursuit of a band of fugitives.
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- [S247] History of the Munros of Fowlis, Alexander Mackenzie, M.J.L., (Published in Inverness, Scotland by A & W Mackenzie (1898)), p. 11-13 (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. 440 (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).
- [S686] The Munro Tree (1734), R. W. Munro, (Privately published in Edinburgh, Scotland (1978)), K (Reliability: 3).
- [S727] The Monroe Book, Dr. Joan S. Guilford, (Franklin, North Carolina: Genealogy Publishing Service, 1993.), p. 5, 7. (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 28 Dec 2010), KG7V-TP5 (Reliability: 3).
- [S702] Clan Munro files - Loehr, Reta Malan, Reta Malan Loehr, Genealogy data received from Reta Malan Loehr - Jun 2009 (Reliability: 3).
- [S389] Clan Munro files - Schuster, Richard, Richard Schuster, Email from Richard Schuster dated 3 May 2005 (Reliability: 3).
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