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DE IRWYNE, Alexander 3rd of Drum, Sir
(About 1356-1411) |
DE IRWYNE, Alexander 3rd of Drum, Sir 1
User ID: Z437. 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 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: |
1 e-books, The Irvines of Drum and Collateral Branches by Jonathan Forbes-Leslie (1909).
2 e-books, A Short Account of the Family of Irvine of Drum in the County of Aberdeen by Captain Douglas Wimberley (1893).
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