DE MAKUSWELL, Aymer Chamberlain of Scotland, Justiciar of Galloway ¹

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Aymer married Mary McGAUCHEN heiress of the Mearns (Renfrewshire).¹ (Mary McGAUCHEN heiress of the Mearns (Renfrewshire) was born about 1205 and died after September 1255.)

  Marriage Notes:

"AYMER DE MAKUSWELL witnessed, as brother of John de Mackuswel, a grant to Melrose Abbey about the end of William the Lion's reign. He and his wife Mary were
among those dismissed from office and the Council of Alexander III. in September 1255. Chamberlain of Scotland from about 1258 to 1260, and Justiciar of Galloway 1264, he was one of the magnates who undertook not to make peace with England without the consent of Llewelyn of Wales, 18 March 1258-59.5 According to a MS. family history at Terregles his wife was 'Mary M'Gauchen, heretrix of the Mernis' (Renfrewshire), probably not daughter, as Wood says, but a more remote descendant of Roland de Mearns. He had issue"

from Scots Peerage ¹