DE STRACHACHYN, Waldeve ¹

   Other names for Waldeve were DE STRATHEIHAN, Waldevus,² OF STRATHECAN, Waltheof ¹ and OF STRATHEIHAN, Waldave.³

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  General Notes:

"A charter, dated about the year 1215, sets forth that Waldeve or Waltheof de Strathecan gxanted the lands of Blackerock to the monks of St Andrews. These lands were bounded by the streams Feugh and Dye, in the district of Strachan. In the same charter Ranulp or Randolph is mentioned as son and apparent heir of Waldeve or Waltheof of Strathecan."

from Memorials of Strachan and Wise (1877)

Note:

The Herald and the Genealogist reviewing the Memorials of Strachan and Wise (1873) reject the notion that this man was a 'comes palatinus', on the grounds of mistaken identity, the individual actually being referred to being Walter of Strathearn.




"Dr. Rogers (in the 1873 edition of Memorials of the Families of Strachan and Wise) also cites a charter of Dunfermline abbey, whereby John de Strachechyn, son and heir of the late Sir John de Strathechyn, in the year 1278, resigned his lands of Beth Waldef into the possession of King Alexander II., and the King conveyed them to the abbey of Dunfermline: this Dr. Rogers derives we find (though he does not say so) from the Registrum de Dunfermelyn (Bannatyne Club, vol. 78); but he has overlooked an earlier charter in the same repository which is witnessed by Sir Waldeve de Strachechin, circ. 1220. The lands of Beth or Beath, near Dunfermline, seem, from a very early period, to have been parcelled out among various holders, who added their names to that of Beath to distinguish their portions, and this Waldeve may have been the first of the family who held the lands Beth Waldef afterwards granted to the monks."

from The Herald and the Genealogist ^{1 2}

Waldeve married.