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, Maccus
(About 1095-)
DE MACCUSWELL, Herbert
(About 1140-)
DE MACCUSWELL, John
(About 1178-About 1241)

 

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DE MACCUSWELL, John 1

  • Born: About 1178
  • Died: About 1241 1
  • Buried: abour 1241, Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1

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  General Notes:

"JOHN DE MACCUSWELL witnessed with his brother Robert, as son of Herbert the Sheriff, a grant to Kelso Abbey about 1210. Sometime Sheriff of Teviotdale, he was a guarantor of the marriage treaty between Alexander II. and Joan of England in 1220, and was Chamberlain from about 1231 to 1233. He is said to have acquired Carlaverock Castle in Nithsdale, in later times the chief seat of the family."

from Scots Peerage 1

Sources

1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).

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