FRASER, Alexander 5th of Philorth 1
User ID: C940. General Notes: "Alexander Fraser, fifth of Philorth. At an inquest held in Aberdeen on 4 October 1491, Alexander Fraser was adjudged to be of weak mind, and incapable of managing his affairs ; and the jury went on to declare that he had been in this state for five years, but that his brother William was careful of his own affairs, and fully able to manage those of another person, and was then seventeen years old. Sir Walter Ogilvy of Boyne was appointed curator to the Laird of Philorth, which office he held until 1496, when William Fraser and George Fraser, brothers of Alexander, and John Fraser of Ardglassie were associated with him in the guardianship. William, third Earl of Erroll, and Sir Gilbert Keith of Inverugie, purchased the ward and marriage of Alexander Fraser from the Crown about 1486, and the Earl of Erroll sold his share to the Thane of Cawdor, whose daughter Marjorie Fraser was contracted to marry on receipt of a dispensation from Rome, as they were god-brother and god-sister to one another. He probably never married her, and certainly had no issue. He died about 1500, and was succeeded by his brother William." |