John Dunbar, Earl of Moray

John Dunbar, Earl of Moray, was a late-fourteenth-century Scottish nobleman and a member of the powerful Dunbar family. Through marriage to Marjorie Stewart, a daughter of Robert II, he became closely connected to the royal dynasty.

He held important lands in northern Scotland and died during a period of intense rivalry among royal sons and regional magnates. His family connections placed the earldom of Moray within the wider struggle over Stewart authority.

In Nigel Tranter’s Courting Favour, His mother’s bequest changes everything, placing the troubled northern earldom of Moray in his hands and making the twenty-two-year-old nobleman King David II’s lieutenant in a region where royal commands carry little weight.