Maol Choluim I, Earl of Fife

Seal of Maol Choluim.

Mormaer Maol Choluim of Fife (or Máel Coluim, usually anglicized as Malcolm), was one of the more obscure Mormaers of Fife, 1204 – 1228.

We do know that he married Matilda, the daughter of Gille Brigte, the Mormaer of Strathearn. He is credited with the foundation of Culross Abbey. He was succeeded by his nephew Maol Choluim II upon his death, probably in 1228.

[edit] Bibliography

John Bannerman, "MacDuff of Fife," in A. Grant & K.Stringer (eds.) Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship and Community, Essays Presented to G.W.S. Barrow, (Edinburgh, 1993), pp.20-38