DE CHISHOLME, Robert of that Ilk, Sir

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Robert married Anne LAUDER, daughter of Sir Robert DE LAWEDRE (LAUDER) of Quarrelwood, then of the Bass, Justiciar of Scotia, Captain of Urquhart Castle and Unknown. (Anne LAUDER was born about 1310.)

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Sir Robert de Chisholme,

Described as one of the 'Magnates of Scotland.' He fought and was taken prisoner at the battle of Neville's Cross, or Redhill, Durham, on the 17th October, 1346. This Sir Robert de Chisholme married Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood, Constable of Urquhart Castle, on Lochness. He is the first of the name of which any trace is found in the North of Scotland, and it will be shown that from him are descended all the Chisholms of the north. There were certain church lands, in the vicinity of Castle Urquhart, which, on the 6th of December, 1344, being the feast of St. Nicholas, were granted by John, Bishop of Moray, to Sir Robert Lauder. These lands were afterwards possessed by Robert de Chisholme. In 1345 there is a grant of them in his favour by John Randolph, Earl of Moray, probably on the occasion of Chisholme's marriage to Anne, Sir Robert Lauder's daughter and co-heiress. [....]

By his marriage with Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood, Sir Robert de Chisholme had issue -

1. Sir Robert, his heir and successor.

2. William de Chisholme, a churchman, and Treasurer of Moray,"

from History of the Chisholms




"His (Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood's) only daughter, Ann, heiress of Quarrelwood, married in 1335 Sir Robert Chisholme, who in 1364 succeeded his father-in-law, as constable of Urquhart castle."

from The Scottish Nation: Lauder ¹