BURNET, Christian 1
- Born: About 1462
- Marriage (1): CUMYN, Alexander of Coulter 11 January 1480(1481)(papal dispensation)
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Christian married Alexander CUMYN of Coulter, son of William CUMYN of Inverallochy and Coulter and Elizabeth MELDRUM, 11 January 1480(1481)(papal dispensation). (Alexander CUMYN of Coulter was born about 1450 and died by 1505 1 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"Alexander Burnet died shortly before 15th July, 1505 (Antiq. Ab. Banff, III., 341), leaving issue, besides his heir Alexander, a son Andrew, witness to a sasine in 1507, and a daughter, Christian, who in 1480 or 1481 married, in terms of a papal dispensation on the ground of propinquity, Alexander Cumyn, eldest son of William Cumyn of Culter.** Notwithstanding this marriage, and the previous propinquity alluded to in the dispensation, the relations between the two families seem to have been by no means friendly. It has been seen that Tilliboy and Little Culter are described in the charter of 1324-5, conveying them to Alexander Bumard, as formerly the property of John of Walchop. It is rather left to be understood, than distinctly specified, that they had come into the King's hands by forfeiture, and it is not specified by whose forfeiture."
" **Nisbet gives the following account of this marriage, Appendix, p. 57. Cumin of Coulter: 'V. William Cumin, who married Elizabeth Meldrum, daughter to Sir William Meldrum of Fyvie, Knight, and with her begot Alexander, his eldest son, and William Cumin his second; the eldest married Christian Burnet, daughter to the Laird of Leys, his near kinswoman, and for the consanguinity procured a dispensation from the Pope, dated 11th January, 1480, now in the hands of Cumin of Coulter. His father, William, disliking the marriage, did dispose to his second son, William, the lands of Inverallachie and others he then had in Buchan, and reserved only the barony of Coulter with the pertinents to his eldest son.' "
from Family of Burnett of Leys
Note: The mother of the Alexander Cumyn who married Christian Burnet is named in the footnote extract from Nisbet as Elizabeth Meldrum. This appears to contradict the account in The Irvines of Drum where Alexander Cumyn's uncle is the Laird of Drum. In addition, Sir William Meldrum of Fyvie appears to have lived rather late to be the father-in-law of Alexander Cumyn. According to The Thanage of Fermartyn, Sir William is said to have died in 1508, his father Alexander having died, it is also said there (pages 22-23), before 1450 or 1451. 1
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