BETON (BETHUNE), Robert, Sir ¹

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Robert married Daughter BALFOUR heiress of Balfour.¹ (Daughter BALFOUR heiress of Balfour was born about 1325.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir John Balfour, representative of the ancient family of Balfour of that Ilk, died in 1375, leaving an only daughter and heiress, who married, about 1360, Sir Robert Betoun, familiaris regis, younger son of Alexander de Betoun. There is a charter of Robert II., in his favour, dated 1378, confirming one by Duncan, Earl of Fife, of the lands of Balfour, Newton and Kettel."

from East Neuk of Fife

Note:

1

The father of the heiress is elsewhere given a different first name.

2

The year of marriage here seems rather late, if, as the text goes on to say, their son John had a charter of Tollybrecks in 1361. ¹