DE IRWYNE, Alexander 3rd of Drum, Sir ¹

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  General Notes:

"It is probable that Sir Alexander Irvine had arranged the contract of the marriage of his son and successor with the daughter of Sir Robert Keith, the Marischal, by which the blood-feud between the Keiths and Irvines was to lapse, but that the sudden call to arms, consequent on the irruption of Donald of the Isles, prevented its completion, and that Sir Alexander's last injunctions were that, if he and his eldest son, Alexander, fell in the impending conflict, his next son, Robert, should fulfil the contract and marry Elizabeth Keith. This appears
to me a simple explanation, in strict accordance with facts, of the origin of the tradition that existed from an early period, and was then embodied in history, that, on the fall of Sir Alexander Irvine at Harlaw, his brother Robert -in consequence of the wish of deceased expressed when sitting on the Drum Stone- changed his name to Alexander, and married Elizabeth Keith, the virgin widow of his elder brother."

from Irvines of Drum ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Laird, c1381 to 1411, of Drum. ¹

Alexander married Daughter DE MONTEFORD.¹ (Daughter DE MONTEFORD was born about 1360.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The following fragment of a genealogy, not now extant, I believe to contain the only authentic notice of the wife of this Irvine of Drum, and of the wife of his son and successor; and is certainly correct with regard to his grandson. It appears to be a cramped translation from a Latin original, and commences:

'Notes from an old paper entitled Genealogia Irvinorum vel Ervinorum a Drum That Laird Drum's mother who fought at Harlaw with the Earl of Mar was called Monteford, a famous knight's daughter who in the Bruce time for his good service got the lands of Lonmay in Buchan, and this Laird Drum who fought at Harlaw married his only one daughter. Alexander Irvine, his son, married the Marischall's daughter.' " (page 26)

"From the fragment of the ancient genealogy which is inserted in the account of Thomas de Irwin, it appears that the only daughter of 'Monteford, a famous knight,' holding lands in Buchan, was the wife of this Sir Alexander Irvine. He left at least two sons - Alexander, his successor, and Robert." (page 37)

from Irvines of Drum ¹