== Biography ==He succeeded his father in 1274 as Earl of Ross. He swore fealty to Edward I King of England in 1292 but took part in the Scottish raids on England in 1296, laying siege to Carlisle and burning Hexham priory. John of Fordun’s Scotichronicon (Continuator) names "Willelmo comite de Ros" among those captured by the English at the battle of Dunbar 27 Apr 1296. A charter dated 6 Nov 1297 ordered the Sheriffs of London to pay "…William earl of Ros…knights, Scottish prisoners in the Tower" for their sustenance. He was returned to Scotland in 1303. m EUPHEME, daughter of --- (-after Jul 1297). A charter dated 3 Sep 1296 records petitions to King Edward I by women whose estates had been seized in Scotland, including an order of restoration of property to "la contesse de Ros". "Eufemia comitissa de Ros" asked King Edward I for credence for "domino Andreæ de Rathe militi et Bernardi de Monte Alto clerico meo" by charter dated Jul 1297. William & his wife had three children
== Sources ==: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uilleam_II,_Earl_of_Ross Uilleam II, Earl of Ross, ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'']
==References==
http://www.thepeerage.com/p467.htm#i4668
===Notes=== MacDonald, William (1904). Scottish Armorial Seals. Edinburgh: William Green and Sons. Retrieved 2015. (Note that MacDonald mistakenly refers to William as the fourth Earl.)
Foedera, p228 to: a b c d e Paul, Sir James (1909). The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: David Douglas. Retrieved 2015.Munro, R.; Munro, Jean (2005). Tain Through the Centuries. Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited. Retrieved 2015.Education Scotland, "Elizabeth de Burgh and Marjorie Bruce", Education Scotland (a Scottish government agency, "the national body in Scotland for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching"). Retrieved July 11, 2015.David Cornell, "Bannockburn: The Triumph of Robert the Bruce", Yale University Press,, 2009. Retrieved July 11, 2015.John P. Ravilious, The Ancestry of Euphemia, Countess of Ross: Heraldry as Genealogical Evidence, The Scottish Genealogist, Vol. LV, No. 1 (March 2008), pp. 33–38
===Bibliography===* Barrow, G.W.S., ''Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland'', (Edinburgh, 1988)* John P. Ravilious, The Ancestry of Euphemia, Countess of Ross: Heraldry as Genealogical Evidence, The Scottish Genealogist, Vol. LV, No. 1 (March 2008), pp. 33–38*[[Thomas Rymer|Rymer, Thomas]],''Foedera Conventiones, Literae et cuiuscunque generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae''. London. 1745. (Latin) [http://www.archive.org/details/fderaconventione01ryme]
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: Name: William O'Beolan /3rd Earl of Ross,
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