ERSKINE, Robert of that Ilk, High Chamberlain of Scotland, Sir ¹

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Robert married Beatrice LINDSAY, daughter of Sir Alexander DE LINDSAY and Daughter STEWART, after July 1335.¹ (Beatrice LINDSAY was born about 1302 and died by 1352 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Robert Erskine married, first, Beatrice Lindsay, daughter of Alexander Lindsay of Crawford, and widow of Sir Archibald Douglas, for a short time Regent of Scotland, who fell at Halidon Hill on 19 July 1333. It is not certain when the marriage took place, perhaps some time later, as she was apparently still a widow in July 1335, and she died before 1352"

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹

Robert next married Christian MENTEITH heiress of the Earldom of Mar, daughter of Sir John MENTEITH Lord of Arran, Skipnish, Knapdale, and Strathgartney and Elyne or Ellen of Mar, after 1351.¹ (Christian MENTEITH heiress of the Earldom of Mar was born about 1324 and died about 1387 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"She (Ellen of Mar) also had a daughter Christian, married, first, to Sir Edward Keith of Synton, and secondly, some time after his death in 1350, to Sir Robert Erskine of that Ilk, with issue. The latter marriage is proved by more than one writ, the most important being a charter quoted by Sir Robert Douglas, though not now known to exist, by which Sir John Menteith, Lord of Arran, granted to his daughter Christian Menteith and Sir Edward Keith her husband, the lands of Pirchock and others. The other writ is a charter by Thomas, Earl of Mar, nephew of Ellen, where he styles Christian Keith wife of Sir Robert Erskine his cousin." (page 580)

"... she (Beatrice Lindsay) died before 1352, in or about which year Sir Robert married, secondly, Christian Menteith or Keith, widow of Sir Edward Keith of Sinton. The circumstances of the marriage are briefly recounted in a dispensation for their marriage dated 6 March 1355. In some private quarrel, then so prevalent in Scotland, Sir Robert had wounded and imprisoned Walter Menteith and his brother, cousins of Christian, while some of their party were slain. To appease the feud thus engendered, a marriage was, with King David's consent, arranged between Sir Robert and Christian, for which they asked a dispensation from Rome, as she and Beatrix Lindsay were related in the fourth degree. The dispensation was applied for in the time of Pope Clement vi., who died (6 December 1352) before issuing it, and they were deceived by the clerk who was intrusted with the application, and who wrote that he had finished his business. The parties taking this to mean the dispensation was obtained, married, and had issue, but discovering their error, they renewed their petition, which was now granted, the marriage being declared valid and the children legitimate." <(page 595)

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹