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DE STRACHACHYN, John 1
- Born: About 1220
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Died: by 1278 1
User ID: C928.
General Notes:
"About 1220 a charter is witnessed by Waldeve de Strachachyn ; and in 1278 John de Strachachyn, son and heir of the late John of Strachachyn, resigned his lands of Beth1 Waldeve into the hands of .Alexander II., when the king conveyed them to the Abbey of Dunfermline (Registrum de Dunfermlyn).
[1 The lands of Beth or Beath form a parish of that name, about seven miles to the east of Dunfermline]"
from Memorials of Strachan and Wise (1877)
"The veneration with which the memory of the pious queen was regarded required no formal pontifical canonisation to give her name a sanctity which doubtless received in time such additions as are the natural tribute of a superstitious age. The chamber in which the closing scene of her life transpired continued thereafter to be associated with her memory, and designated by her name. The earliest notice has already been referred to. It occurs in a charter of King Alexander III., which grants to the monastery of the blessed Queen Margaret at Dunfermline, and to the monks there serving God, a moiety of the land of Beth Waldef, 'which John of Strathechyn unto us on the day following the Sabbath before the Feast of St Dunstan the Archbishop, in the month of May in the year of grace 1278, at the Maiden Castle of Edinburgh, in our chamber which is called the chamber of the blessed Queen Margaret, by rod and staff for himself and his heirs, remised, released, and quitted claim.' "
from Notice of St Margaret's Chapel Edinburgh Castle 1 2
John married.
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