DE BERKELEY, Alexander of Mathers ²

   Another name for Alexander was BARCLAY, Alexander ancestor of Ury.¹

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Alexander married Katherine KEITH, daughter of Sir Edward DE KEITH of Sinton, Marischal of Scotland and Isabella SINTON heiress of Sinton, about 1351.^{1 2} (Katherine KEITH was born about 1327.)

  Marriage Notes:

"3. Catherine (daughter of Edward Keith and Sinton), married to Alexander Barclay, ancestor of Ury."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)




"Alexander de Berkeley was a man of considerable property, having received as his paternal inheritance the lands in the Mearns of Kincardineshire which had been granted to his ancestor Humphrey de Berkeley by King William the Lion. He married, about the year 1351, Katherine, daughter of Sir Edward de Keith of Synton, and had a son, David de Berclay of the 'Mernys' (Mearns)....

....By a charter, now in the possession of the chief of the family, Sir William de Keith, Marischal of Scotland, with the consent of his wife, Margaret, granted to Alexander de Berkeley and his spouse, Katherine, sister of the said William de Keith, the lands of Wester Mathers which had come to him by his wife, Margaret, to be held by them and their heirs on payment of a pair of white spurs yearly at Christmas 'at our chief dwelling house in Strathekyn.' The charter is dated and sealed at Strathekyn, March 10th, 1351, and witnessed by Philip Bishop of Brechin, William Bishop of Arbroath, David Fleming, Sir William de Ledale, John de Berkeley of Gairtoly (Gartley X), Robert de Melville, John de Straton of that Ilk, and many others. "

from History of the Barclay Family ^{1 2}