Philip de Meldrum

Philip de Meldrum,[lower-alpha 1] of Meldrum, Justiciar of Scotia, was a Scottish noble. He was a son of Philippe de Fedarg.

Philip was granted the position of Justiciar of Scotia in 1251, which was the most senior legal office in the Kingdom of Scotland. This position covered the area of Scotland north of the River Forth and River Clyde.

Marriage and issue

Philip married Agnes, daughter of William Comyn, Lord of Badenoch, Justiciar of Scotland and Marjory, Countess of Buchan, they are known to have had the following issue:[1]

  • William de Meldrum
  • Thomas de Meldrum
  • Alexander de Meldrum

Notes
  1. Also known as Philip de Fedarg or Philip de Melgarum

Citations
  1. Douglas 1798, p. 157.
gollark: Too bad, I WILL implement length terminated strings, none are safe.
gollark: For portability the endianness is of course fixed.
gollark: With length terminated strings, you go through the string incrementing the length until you see *a valid integer representation of the length*.
gollark: I'll try and explain explanatorially then; with null terminated strings you basically go through the string incrementing the length until you see \\0, right?
gollark: Why? Maybe implementing it would help. Hmm.

References
  • Douglas, Robert. The Baronage of Scotland, Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Gentry of that Kingdom. Colected from the Public Records and Chartularies of this Country, the Records and Private Writings of Families and the Works of Our Best Historians. Bell & Bradfute, W. Creech, J. Dickson, E. Balfour, P. Hill, W. Laing, A. Guthrie, J. Watson, Manners & Miller, And A. Constable: And By Cadell & Davies, London, 1798.
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