Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan (Scottish Gaelic: Iseabail MacDuibh or Iseabail inghean Dhonnchaidh was a significant figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence. She was the daughter of Donnchadh III, Earl of Fife and Johanna de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester. She was married to John Comyn, Earl of Buchan and thus was the Countess-consort of Buchan.

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  • Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan (Scottish Gaelic: Iseabail MacDuibh or Iseabail inghean Dhonnchaidh was a significant figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence. She was the daughter of Donnchadh III, Earl of Fife and Johanna de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester. She was married to John Comyn, Earl of Buchan and thus was the Countess-consort of Buchan. After Robert the Bruce murdered John III Comyn, Lord of Badenoch at Greyfriars Kirk in Dumfries, the Earl of Buchan joined the English side in the Scottish Wars of Independence. Isabella took the contrary view. According to tradition, the ceremony of crowning the monarch was performed by a representative of Clan MacDuff, but Isabella arrived in Scone the day after the coronation of Robert the Bruce in March 1306. However, the Bruce agreed to be crowned for a second time the day after, as otherwise some would see the ceremony as irregular, not being performed by a MacDuff. Bruce was defeated at the Battle of Methven in June 1306, so he sent Isabella and his female relatives north, but they were betrayed to the English by the Earl of Ross. Edward I of England ordered her sent to Berwick-upon-Tweed with these instructions: "Let her be closely confined in an abode of stone and iron made in the shape of a cross, and let her be hung up out of doors in the open air at Berwick, that both in life and after her death, she may be a spectacle and eternal reproach to travellers. " She was imprisoned in this cage for an undetermined amount of time. It has been suggested that she was later moved to a convent, but there is no clear record of this. Her eventual fate is uncertain, it has also been suggested that she may have returned to Scotland as part of the exchange of prisoners after the Battle of Bannockburn, but there is no mention of her. Since the return of all the other important prisoners after Bannockburn was well-documented, a more likely event was that she had died. Whether it was during her imprisonment at Berwick-upon-Tweed or later is simply unknown. Mary Bruce was treated in a similar fashion at Roxburgh Castle.
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  • Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan (Scottish Gaelic: Iseabail MacDuibh or Iseabail inghean Dhonnchaidh was a significant figure in the Wars of Scottish Independence. She was the daughter of Donnchadh III, Earl of Fife and Johanna de Clare, daughter of Gilbert de Clare, the Earl of Gloucester. She was married to John Comyn, Earl of Buchan and thus was the Countess-consort of Buchan.
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  • Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan
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