SUTHERLAND, Mariot ^{2 3}

   Another name for Mariot was SUTHERLAND, Margaret.¹

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Mariot married William CALDER 7th Thane of Cawdor, son of William CALDER 6th Thane of Cawdor and Unknown, in 1458.¹ (William CALDER 7th Thane of Cawdor was born about 1432 and died in 1503 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"William Calder - 7th Thane of Cawdor:

First married 1458 Margaret (Mariot) Sutherland (daughter of Alexander Sutherland whose wife was daughter of Donald, Lord of the Isles) of the old castle of Dunbeath on the Caithness coast on the Moray Firth. He had five sons - William (the Eldest), John, Andrew, Alexander, and Hutcheon. On 6 November 1467, he purchased the lands of Invermarkie, obtaining a charter from John, Earl of Ross. In 1471 he bought from Andrew Leslie, of Spey with consent of the Bishop of Moray, the Miln of Nairn with loft and pertinents. After the death of Margaret, he married Janet Keith of Inverugie, widow of Alan Kinnaird of Culbin. He received a Crown charter at Edinburgh, 29 May 1476, granting to Him all his lands into one thanage of Cawdor, the Baronies of Clunies and Beath Belmakeith, half of Rait Moy, Dunmaglass, the two Kinikells, Kindess, Invermarkie, Mulchoich, Drummarnie, Ferntosh, and other lands as lie in the shires of Inverness and Forres. He also received permanent hereditary Sheriffship and Keeper of the King's castle at Nairn for himself and his heirs [....]

After his son John died, leaving only Muriel Calder, an infant daughter to be sole heir to the Calder estates, he tried to again use the law to get one of his other sons placed in the family line of succession. He was unsuccessful and Muriel's rights as heiress was made law in 1502. William died the next year."

from Caddell, Calder and Cawdor: the family name in Scotland ¹