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THE HOUSE OF DUNROD. iS
claimant yielding to the other, the dls{)ute was reft-ired
•i for settlement to King WiiTuun and the great digna-
taries of hia court sitting at Lanark, liy them the
Bidhop's plea was sustained, and thereupon he mag-
nanimously granted to his defeated opponent permission
to have a private chapel in the castle of his Ijarony."
Then, or at some such early time, the Kirk of Kilin'ide
was assigned as his prebend to the Chanter of (Glasgow
Cathedral.
Isabella de Valoins, daughter and heiress of Iloger,
marrying David Curnin, carried the barony and castle
to her husband ; and this branch of the Cumins
flourished here for the next hundred years and more.f
Yet the memory of the De Valoins family lingers in
the neighbourhood still, if it be true, as has been
suggested, } that the names of R-oger and his brother
Philip, are enshrined in the local place-names, liogerton
and Philipshill.
The Kilbride lands having fallen to the Crown by
forfeiture of the Cumins, were granted by Kingllobert
Bruce to his daughter, Marjorie, as part of her dowry,
when she married Walter the Steward. From Ilobert,
the son of Walter and Marjorie, before he came to the
throne as King Robert II., John Lindsay of Dunrod
received a portion of the lordship of Kilbride. This
portion consisted of the Mains, or lands immediately
around the manor place, with no doubt the uld castle
of De Valoins and the Cumins if it still existed ; as
well as the lands of Rogerton, Thornton, Bogton, Carn-
Reg. Epis. Glasg., Vol. I., p. 48.
t Grig. Paroch., Vol. I., p. 101.
\ Ross ; Busbij and its Neighbuurlutud.