STRATON, Alexander 5th of Lauriston ¹

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Alexander married Daughter SUTHERLAND, daughter of Robert SUTHERLAND 6th Earl of Sutherland and Margaret STEWART.¹ (Daughter SUTHERLAND was born about 1394.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Alexander Straton Baron of Lauriston = A daughter of Lord Southerland of Dunrobin.

One of the 24 Barons sent to England in pledge for James I, 1424."

from A Book of Strattons

Note:

The name of the Earl of Sutherland is not noted above.

Although, as Scots Peerage, volume 8 points out that it was probably John 7th Earl of Sutherland who was ransomed for King James 1 in the 1420s, the text referring to Earl John's father, Robert, notes someearlier uncertainty about this:

"On 22 January 1400-1 he (Earl Robert) granted to his brother Kenneth the lands of Drummoy, and others, with certain conditions as to services to the neighbouring mills and as to fishings. This writ contains the earliest reference to the castle of Dunrobin, where it is said to be granted, and it was probably used as a residence by Earl Robert ; and it may have been he from whom it took its name, though a building may have stood on the site from a very early period. The later history of Earl Robert was apparently uneventful. He is said to have died in 1442, though he may have deceased before 1427, when the ' Earl of Sutherland ' went to England in place of the eldest son of the Earl of March, and it is probable it was his son who went."(page 329 and 330) ^{1 2}