Person:Ailín I, Earl of Lennox (1)
Ailín I _____, Earl of Lennox
 
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Name Ailín I _____, Earl of Lennox
Unknown[2] Alwin _____, Earl of Lennox
Gender Male
Living[1] bef abt 1178
Marriage to Unknown
Death[2] Abt 1199
Reference Number? Q4697106?
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Ailín I of Lennox, also Alún or Alwin, ruled Lennox sometime before 1178. He is an obscure figure, known only in two sources, and remains characterless. It is not certain that he was ever recognized as a Mormaer of Lennox, although one source does call him that. In the 1170s, Lennox was in the nominal possession of David, the brother of King William I. David was given the territory as a fief of the crown in 1178.

However, the land was restored to a native magnate, Ailin's son Ailín, and recognized as a Mormaer (comes). The reasons for this are unknown. Perhaps the crown had never really controlled it; or perhaps, as Neville suggests (p. 15), the frontier region of Lennox lost its importance after the defeat and death of Somhairle mac Gille Bhrigdhe. Part of the reason was undoubtedly the promotion of David to the Earldom of Huntingdon.

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  1. ↑ Ailín I, Earl of Lennox, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Livingston, Edwin Brockholst. The Livingstons of Callendar and their principal cadets: the history of an old Stirlingshire family. (Edinburgh: Printed at the University Press by T. and A. Constable for the author, 1920)
    494, 1920.
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