ERSKINE, John younger (5th) of Dun, Sir 1 2
- Born: About 1477
- Marriage (1): RUTHVEN, Margaret before 21 June 1508 1
- Died: 9 September 1513, Battle of Flodden Field, Northumberland, England 1
User ID: C402.
Research Notes:
NUMBERING
The fourth laird of Dun, John Erskine, and his son, also John, both died at Flodden. In the Pedigree of Erskine of Dun in the article Erskine of Dun by A. W. Cornelius Hallen, the son, John Erskine married to Margaret Ruthven, is numbered as '5th of Dun'. Most other sources reserve this number '5th of Dun' for John Erskine of Dun, his son, born about 1508-9, who married Elizabeth Lindsay as his first wife. This latter system of numbering is generally used here, with a bracketed number given also, indicating that another numbering is possible if the second John Erskine who fell at Flodden is included in the numbering. 2
John married Margaret RUTHVEN, daughter of Sir William RUTHVEN Lord Ruthven and Isabel LEVINGTON 'of Saltcoats', before 21 June 1508.1 (Margaret RUTHVEN was born about 1478 and died in 1548 1 3.)
Marriage Notes:
"1. Hon Margaret Ruthven (d. 1548), mar. (1) bef. 1499 as his second wife Alexander [Stewart], 2nd Earl of Buchan, (2) bef. 21 Jun 1508 Sir John Erskine, Yr. of Dun (d. 9 Sep 1513), (3) bef. 23 Dec 1518 James Stewart of Ryland (d. bef. 11 Mar 1524/5), and (4) (annulled 1534) William Wood of Bonnyton, and had issue by her first husband ..."
from cracroftpeerage website
"On 21 January 1490-91 he (Alexander Stewart) got from his father a charter to himself and his wife, Isobel Ogilvy, of the lands of the barony of Ketthis and others ; and on 6 February 1499-1500, another of the same lands to himself and his second wife, Margaret Ruthven.......... His second wife survived him, and was married, secondly, before 21 June 1508, to Sir John Erskine, younger of Dun, who fell at Flodden ; thirdly, to James Stewart of Ryland, before 23 December 1518 ; and fourthly, to William Wood of Bonyton."
from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1 3
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