FORBES, Alexander 2nd of Pitsligo, Sir

   Another name for Alexander was FORBES, Alexander of Kinaldie.^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"The chief vassals of the Earls of Mar the Forbeses of Puttachie brandling into four great divisions about the date of Harlaw, sent numerous cadets widely over the shire. They appear in the Garioch more in the alliances of houses for mutual defence, than in the character of landed proprietors, until the era of the Reformation. The
Pitsligo Forbeses, however, in the fifteenth century, had Kinaldie and other properties, one of which, Lethinty in Logiedurno parish, they possessed from 1455 until the Civil War.

In 1455, Alexander Forbes of Kinaldie held Lethinty, with William Grant as tenant of the town. He died in 1477, and in 1485, his grandson, Alexander Forbes, was served heir to him, as Alexander Forbes of Kinaldie and Pitsligo, in the lands of Lethinty, held of the King as Earl of the Garioch, for a pair of spurs valued at twenty merks, and ten pounds in times of peace."

from Earldom of the Garioch ²

Alexander married Maria HAY, daughter of Sir Gilbert HAY apparent of Erroll and Alicia HAY.¹ (Maria HAY was born about 1425.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Wm. Forbes of Pitsligo, who was first knight of Kinaldie, who married dam Agnes Fraser, daughter to the Lord Fraser, with whom he got the lands of Pitsligo, in marriage, who did bear to him Sr Alexander Forbes. Sr Alexander Forbes did marrie the Earle of Erroll's daughter, who did bear to him Sr Alex. Forbes of Pitsligo, George Forbes, Arthur Forbes, who was Laird of Rirres, with four daughters; one married on John Gordon of Pitrevie; the 2d on the shirreff of Cromertie ; the 3d on the Laird of Moncoffer; and the 4th on the Laird of Balquhallie."

from Family of Forbes ¹