Malise IV, Earl of Strathearn

He was an ardent supporter of King Robert the Bruce, in contrast to his father, Malise III, who sided with Edward I of England.

He is first recorded in January 1306, when he and his mother petitioned King Edward to release his father, who had been mistakenly imprisoned.

On the fall of the castle, the elder Malise was captured by his son, who then took control of the earldom of Strathearn.

Though the identity of his first wife is not known, we know that by her he had a son and a daughter: Malise, who succeeded his father as eighth Earl, and Mary or Maria, who married John de Moray of Drumsargard.

Her third husband, Maurice Murray, was granted the earldom of Strathearn after it was lost by the eighth Earl.