Gille Brigte, Earl of Angus

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Gille Brigte of Angus is one of the earliest attested Mormaers of Angus. He was possibly a descendant of Dubacan of Angus.

Gille Brigte is recorded as a witness to a charter dating to 1150. He probably fathered both Adam and Gille Críst. He was dead by 1189, when his son Adam was the Mormaer.

John L. Roberts, Lost Kingdoms: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages, (Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 53 - 54