ERSKINE, Daughter heiress ²

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Daughter married John CRICHTON before 1557.¹ (John CRICHTON was born about 1425.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Christian Erskine, daughter and heiress of Sir John Erskine of Kinnoull. She had been contracted on 6 July 1445, after her father's death, to James, son and heir of James, first Lord Livingston, but was not married to him. She was then married to a John Crichton, and lastly to Robert Crichton. They had a papal dispensation after their marriage, dated 3 December 1457, narrating that they had married knowing that Margaret Hay, Robert's former wife, had stood to Christian in the fourth and fourth degrees of consanguinity, and that John Crichton, Christian's former husband, had been related to Robert in the third and third degrees per diversas stirpes."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)
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Daughter next married Robert CRICHTON 1st Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, son of Sir Robert CRICHTON 3rd of Sanquhar, Sheriff of Dumfries and Elizabeth, by 1457.² (Robert CRICHTON 1st Lord Crichton of Sanquhar was born about 1427 and died by February 1494(1495) ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Robert Crichton) married twice .... secondly, in or before 1457, Christian Erskine, daughter and heiress of Sir John Erskine of Kinnoull. She had been contracted on 6 July 1445, after her father's death, to James, son and heir of James, first Lord Livingston, but was not married to him. She was then married to a John Crichton, and lastly to Robert Crichton. They had a papal dispensation after their marriage, dated 3 December 1457, narrating that they had married knowing that Margaret Hay, Robert's former wife, had stood to Christian in the fourth and fourth degrees of consanguinity, and that John Crichton, Christian's former husband, had been related to Robert in the third and third degrees per diversas stirpes. Christian Erskine was still alive in 1478, and they had issue, so far as known, one son, Robert"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"Sir John (Erskine of Kinnoull) died in 1445, leaving a daughter and heiress, who was first contracted to James, son and heir of James, first Lord Livingstone, but not married to him. She was married to John Crichton, of whom nothing is known, and finally became the wife of Robert, first Lord Crichton of Sanquhar."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ^{1 2}