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Monteith, a district of SW Perthshire. Excepting Balquhidder parish, which anciently belonged to the stewartry of Strathearn, the district of Monteith comprises all the lands W of the Ochils in Perthshire, whose waters discharge themselves into the Forth. The vale of the Teith, whence the name is derived, occupies the central and larger part, but is flanked on the one side by the Perthshire section of the upper vale of the Forth, and on the other side by the lower part of the vale of Allan Water. The entire district measures about 28 miles in length from E to W, and 15 in extreme breadth; and includes the whole of the parishes of Callander, Aberfoyle, Port of Monteith, Kilmadock, Kincardine, and Lecropt, with part of the parishes of Kippen, Dunblane, and Logie. Large tracts of it are eminently rich in the finest elements of landscape. Previous to the abolition of hereditary jurisdictions, Monteith was a separate or independent stewartry. Forming with Strathearn the ancient province of Fortrenn, Monteith was the seat of an old Celtic earldom, whose first earl, Gilchrist, appears in the reign of Malcolm IV. (1153-65), and which, about the middle of the 13th century, passed by marriage to Walter Comyn, second son of the great Earl of Buchan. He was one of the regents of the kingdom at the time of his death in 1258, when the earldom was obtained by his brother-in-law, Walter Stewart, third son of the third High Steward of Scotland. Walter's great-great-granddaughter, Margaret, conveyed the earldom by marriage to Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany and Regent of Scotland, whose son and successor, Murdoch, was beheaded at Stirling in 1425. Two years later the earldom of Monteith was granted to Malise Graham, formerly Earl of Strathearn. His seventh descendant, William, for nearly two years was styled Earl of Strathearn and Monteith; but, on being deprived of those titles, in 1633 was created Earl of Airth and Monteith-a title dormant since 1694, but claimed by the Barclay-Allardice family. See Dr Wm. Fraser's Red Book of Monteith (2 vols., Edinb. 1880).
(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)
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| Feature Description: | "a district" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Perthshire ScoCnty |
| Place: | Menteith |
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