Dunrobin Castle

Clan Sutherland

The Sutherlands (Sutherlarach) and Murrays (Moireach— Latin: de Moravia) descend from Freskin, son of Ollec, a Flemish knight with lands in what is now Pembroke in Wales. He was granted by David I, King of Scots, the lands of Strabrock in West Lothian and also Duffas in conquered Moray. Freskin or his son William intermarried with the Picto-Scottish Royal House of Moray, in whose defeat he was taking part, following the Norman custom of consolidation by intermarriage. At about this time the southern part of Caithness was being wrested from the Norse who had long controlled that northern extremity, and the resultant territory (known as "Sudrland" or "the South-Land" by those northwardly-oriented Northmen) was given before the year 1211 to Hugh of Moray, son of William, by William the Lion, King of Scots. ....
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Sutherland of Duffus crest

• A1. Ollec, Flemish knight;
  • B1. Freskin, lvd:1130, m. Aliz Corbet;
    • C1. William de Moravia;
      • D1. William de Moravia;  <==  Clan Moray
      • D2. N. de Moravia;  <==  Clan Murrey
      • D3. Hue de Moravia of Duffus and Strabrock;
        • E1. William de Moravia, 1st Earl of Sutherland;
          • F1. William de Moravia, 2nd Earl of Sutherland;
            • G1. Kenneth de Moravia, 4th Earl of Sutherland, d:1333, m. Mary of Mar;  ==>  Earls of Mar
              • H1. Nicolas Sutherland of Duffus, m. Marjory Le Cheyne;  ==>  Clan Cheyne
                • I1. Henry Sutherland of Torboll, m. Margaret Murray;
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      • J1. Alexander Sutherland of Duffus, lvd:1433, m. Muriel Chisolm;  <==  Clan Chisolm
        • K1. Isobel Sutherland, m. Sir Alexander Dunbar;  <==  Clan Dunbar
        • K2. William Sutherland of Berriedale, lvd:1474;
          • L1. Alexander Sutherland, Master of Duffus, lvd:1427/1480;
            • M1. Christian Sutherland, b:1468, m. Sir William Oliphant;  <==  Clan Oliphant