FRASER, Alexander 5th of Lovat ^{1 3 4}

   Another name for Alexander was DE FRASER, Alexander.²

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  General Notes:

"Lord Alexander steps now uppon the stage and in a turbulent time ; he had been at court and yet wearied of it, and his fathers condition heastened him home ... Lord Alexander served heir to his father Hugh, 1400, at
Invernish. In June the Earl of Murray, as judge competent, was substitut by the King (Robert III of Scots) in that place for severall emergents of consequence. This Alexander was a man of a profound wit; he might be a statsman or a churchman. He resolved to begin where his father ended, in reforming the country ; he assisted the Prior of Beuly much in adorning the church and cloister, and was at the cost and expence of the famous
speer steple set up upon the wester pinacle, made up of carved oake, and a curious bell put there. He was offered great matches, but resolved never to marry....."

"He was a man memorable in his generation, who for person, parentage, grace, gestur, vallour, worth, martiall feats, and many other excellent parts meet to accomplish a nobleman, one of the first rank in court or country, so that he by his vertue added worth to his extraction. In end, weary of the world, withdrew himselfe from all secular concerns, and spent the remainder of his dayes in privacy, without issue or ofspring, save one nothus a boy, who was called Gill Rewach Vickhimi (a footnote translates this as The Grizzled Lad of Mac Shimi), of whom is come all the many M'kilrevich about us ... This Lord Alexander was of great age before his father died, and long before his own death he had divested himselfe of all secular concernes, and divolved the whole upon his brother Hughs shoulders, who succeeded him in the estate. Lord Alexander died at Beuly, where he had reclused himselfe
of a long time."

from Chronicles of the Frasers ³

Alexander married Elizabeth DE KEITH.¹ (Elizabeth DE KEITH was born about 1384 and died by 1414 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Alexander Fraser) apparently married, first, a lady named Elizabeth Keith, named in a charter by Robert, Duke of Albany (probably about 1410), to him and her of the lands of Kinnell ... "

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)



In the first place, Alexander Fraser, eldest son of the first Hugh Fraser, according to both genealogies, who must have died before 1416 to enable the second Hugh, married to Janet de Fentoun in that year, to be Lord of the Lovat at the time (he is so styled in the contract), was not unmarried, for the Regent, Robert, Duke of Albany, gave a charter of confirmation of Kinnell to Alexander Fraser and his wife, Elizabeth de Keith."

from The Frasers of Philorth ^{1 4}

Alexander had a relationship with Marion KEITH, daughter of Sir Robert KEITH of Dunottar, Great Marischal of Scotland and Spouse heiress of Troup.^{1 2} (Marion KEITH was born about 1395.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Alexander Fraser) apparently married, first, a lady named Elizabeth Keith, named in a charter by Robert, Duke of Albany (probably about 1410), to him and her of the lands of Kinnell. She seems to have died before April 1414, when a commission was issued to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Alexander de Fraser, of Moray diocese, with Marion, daughter of Sir Robert Keith, Knight. He
had issue a daughter, Marjorie ... "

from Scots Peerage (vol 5)



"Marion, described as daughter of Sir Robert Keith, Knight, of St. Andrews diocese, in a commission for a dispensation of her marriage with Alexander de Fraser, of Moray diocese, dated 26 April 1414.10 This was probably Alexander Fraser of Kinnell and Lovat ... "

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ^{1 2}