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CRICHTON, John
(About 1425-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. ERSKINE, Daughter heiress

CRICHTON, John 1

  • Born: About 1425
  • Marriage (1): ERSKINE, Daughter heiress before 1557 1

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John married Daughter ERSKINE heiress, daughter of Sir John ERSKINE of Kinnoull and Unknown, before 1557.1 (Daughter ERSKINE heiress was born about 1433.)


  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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Sources

1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 3 (1906).

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