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FRASER, Alexander of Touch-fraser, Thane of Cowie, Chamberlain of Scotland, Sir
(About 1282-1332)
DE BRUS, Mary
(About 1273-Before 1323)
BISSET, Thomas
(About 1277-)
FRASER, John of Touch-Fraser, Sir
(About 1317-)
BISSET, Daughter heiress of the lands of Aboyne
(About 1319-)
FRASER, Margaret heiress of Touchfraser
(About 1336-)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. DE KEITH, William Great Marischal of Scotland, Sir

FRASER, Margaret heiress of Touchfraser 1 3 4

  • Born: About 1336
  • Marriage (1): DE KEITH, William Great Marischal of Scotland, Sir 1 2

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Margaret married Sir William DE KEITH Great Marischal of Scotland, son of Sir Edward DE KEITH of Sinton, Marischal of Scotland and Isabella SINTON heiress of Sinton.1 2 (Sir William DE KEITH Great Marischal of Scotland was born about 1312 and died by 1410 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Sir William de Keith) died not long after, or before 1410, having married Margaret, only child and heiress of John Fraser (and granddaughter of Sir Alexander Fraser, High Chamberlain of Scotland), and Mary, sister of King Robert I. With this
lady he obtained large estates, including the forest of Cowie, which was in the Marischal's possession in 1359, Strachan and Fetteresso, and the lands of Aboyne 6 and Strathekin. By her he left issue..."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)




"The eldest daughter of John Fraser the Lady Margaret Fraser, married Sir William Keith, the great Marischal of Scotland, who received with her the 'arrearage and annuels of Aboyne, with other large estates, particularly the Forest of Cowie, the thanedoin of Durris, the baronies of Strauchan, Culperso, Johnstone, and many others in the counties of Aberdeen and Kincardine' - a princely 'tocher' .....

It thus appears that the lordship, or barony, of Aboyne was in the family of the Bissets for at least three generations, probably four, that is about 100 years; that in the fourth or fifth generation it passed into the family of the Frasers, in which it remained for one generation, or about 30 years, passing in the second into the family of Keith, Earls Marischal, in which it remained two generations, or about 70 years, passing in the third into the family of Gordon ...."

from Electric Scotland 1 2

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).

2 Internet Site, https://electricscotland.com/history/kinnord/chapter06.htm History of Loch Kinnord Chapter VI. Historic Period, to 1400 A.D.

3 e-books, Politics and protestant Lordship in North East Scotland during the reign of James VI: The life of George Keith, fourth Earl Marischal, 1554-1623 by Miles Kerr-Peterson (2016) PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

4 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 4 (1907).

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