DUNBAR, Euffame ¹

   Another name for Euffame was DUNBAR, Euphemia.²

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Euffame married Sir Alexander CUMING of Altyre, son of Ferquhard CUMYN of Altre and Janet CAMERON, 23 or 28 May 1408(contract).^{1 2} (Sir Alexander CUMING of Altyre was born about 1377 and died in 1411 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Alexander Cumyn, eldest son and heir of Ferquhard, married Euffame, sister of Sir Thomas de Dunbar, Earl of Moray.
The marriage-contract or indenture of this date contains a curious specimen of a bond or band, as it was then called, of manrent, but which Sir Alexander was bound to fight on his side, in whatever strife might occur.
The original was found in the charter-chest of Gordon Castle. This indenture made at Fynlettre, the xxiij day of the month of May, the yere of oure Lord M.CCCC, and viij yere, betwix a noble lord and a mychty, Sir Thomas of Dunbarre, Erie of Murreff, on the ta' part, and Alexander Cumyne on the t'other part ..... "

from Bruces and Cumyns

"Euphemia, contracted, on 28 May 1408, by her brother Earl Thomas, to Alexander Cumming, ancestor of the family of Altyre."

from Scots Peerage ^{1 2}