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Fergus
king of Galloway
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role in Wigtownshire
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In the 1120s Fergus, the ruler of Galloway, reconstituted the area’s Anglian bishopric, which was first established in the 8th century, and he built a priory at Whithorn as the bishopric’s cathedral. The lands of Fergus’s descendants eventually passed by marriage to the Balliol family and then to…
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