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The Mormaer or Mormaerdom of Strathearn was the most important Mormaerdom in the High Medieval Kingdom of the Scots after the Mormaerdom of Fife. The first Mormaer, Máel Ísu I is recorded by Ailred of Rievaulx, where he is the leading native Scot in the company of King David I at the Battle of the Standard, 1138. The last native ruler was Maol Íosa V, also Earl of Orkney, who chose the wrong side in the Balliol-Bruce conflict which followed the death of King Robert I of Scotland. Thanks to the recent work of Cynthia Neville, Strathearn is now one of the best understood Scottish mormaerdoms.
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- Neville, Cynthia J., Native Lorship in Medieval Scotland: The Earldoms of Strathearn and Lennox, c. 1140-1365, (Portland & Dublin, 2005)
