Christina de Valognes was the daughter and heiress of William de Valognes

William de Valognes

William de Valognes was the only son of Philip de Valognes and was granted a charter of the baronies of Panmure and Benvie by King William the Lion, previously granted to his father. On his father's death in 1215, William de Valongnes was made High Chamberlain to Alexander II...

, Baron of Panmure and Benvie, and High Chamberlain of Scotland.

She married Sir Peter Maule of Fowlis

Peter Maule

Sir Peter Maule was the eldest son of Richard Maule of Fowlis. He married Christina de Valognes, daughter and heiress of William de Valognes around 1224, passing the baronies of Panmure and Benvie into the Maule family....

 around 1224, uniting the two Anglo-Norman

Anglo-Norman

The Anglo-Normans were mainly the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the Norman conquest by William the Conqueror in 1066. A small number of Normans were already settled in England prior to the conquest...

 families, and with him had two sons, William

William Maule of Panmure

William Maule was the eldest son of Sir Walter Maule, Baron of Panmure and Benvie. William succeeded as Baron in 1348 on his father's death. He married Marion Fleming of Biggar, daughter of Lady Jane Barclay of Brechin. He died before 1407 and left one son, Thomas Maule, who succeeded him as Baron,...

, the successor of the baronies of Panmure and Benvie, and Sir Thomas Maule

Sir Thomas Maule

Sir Thomas Maule was the youngest son of Sir Peter Maule and Christina de Valognes, Baron and Baroness of Panmure and Benvie.He was Captain of Brechin Castle, and led the defence when the English forces, led by Edward I laid siege in July, 1303, during the First War of Independence...

, captain of Brechin

Brechin

Brechin is a former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland. Traditionally Brechin is often described as a city because of its cathedral and its status as the seat of a pre-Reformation Roman Catholic diocese , but that status has not been officially recognised in the modern era...

 Castle, who was killed in a siege led by Edward I

Edward I of England

Edward I , also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III, Edward was involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, which included an outright rebellion by the English barons...

 in August 1303, during the First War of Scottish Independence

First War of Scottish Independence

The First War of Scottish Independence lasted from the invasion by England in 1296 until the de jure restoration of Scottish independence with the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton in 1328...

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