CRICHTON, Margaret 'of Kirkpatrick' ¹

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Margaret married Sir James GORDON of Lochinvar, son of Sir Robert GORDON of Glen, then of Lochinvar and Mariota ACARSANE 'of Glen', 1520(papal dispensation).¹ (Sir James GORDON of Lochinvar was born about 1498 and died on 10 September 1547 in Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, near Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"James Gordon of Lochinvar in September 1525 granted a bond of manrent to Robert, Lord Maxwell. On 11 July 1526 he and Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig and their friends and followers killed Thomas Maclellan of Bombie, in the High Street of Edinburgh....

On 6 or 16 March 1528 he was appointed King's Chamberlain for the Lordship of Galloway for five years. In November 1529 he was summoned with the Laird of Garlies to meet the King at Ayr. He was in the King's suite on his matrimonial expedition to France in 1536. On 1 April 1537 he was constituted Governor of the town and castle of Dumbarton, and Chamberlain of that lordship, then in the Crown by forfeiture ; and on 28 July of the same year he was on the assize for the trial of John, Lord Glamis. He held also the appointment of Captain of the castle of Douglas for five years from 1537....

He built the aisle to the old church of Dalry, afterwards used as the family burial-place : over the window in the south end is a stone with the arms of Gordon and Crichton impaled, and the date apparently 1546. In the words of Queen Mary's gift to his successor of the nonentry of Stitchill, James Gordon of Lochinvar 'deceissit vndir our baner in the feild of pynkecleuch,' 10 September 1547.

He married, by Papal dispensation dated in 1520, Margaret, only daughter of Robert Crichton of Kirkpatrick, with whom he acquired lands in the parish of Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, and by whom he had issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹