LUDE, Marjory 'Lady of half the Barony of Freuchie' ¹

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Marjory had a relationship with Sir John GRANT 'Ian Ruadh', Sheriff-Principal of Inverness, son of Patrick GRANT and Unknown. (Sir John GRANT 'Ian Ruadh', Sheriff-Principal of Inverness was born about 1388.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Ian Roy married around 1410 and his father was murdered by the Comyns around that time - so he was born shortly before 1390. It was indeed Ian Roy who sired a boy with either the daughter or the wife of Baron Lamb in Tullochcarn in Stratha'an. This boy was Patrick (named after Ian Roy's father) the progenitor of Tullochgorm and widely referred to as Patrick mac Ian Roy."

from The Grants of Gartinberg




The Scots Peerage suggests in volume 7, page 455, that Matilda of Glencarnie may have been the mother of Patrick Mac Ian Roy, but acknowledges the strong possibility of his illegitimacy:

"John Grant (Ian Ruadh), said to have been a knight and Sheriff of Inverness in 1434. He was most probably the husband of Matilda of Glencarnie, the daughter of Gilbert of Glencarnie. The date of Ian Ruadh Grant's death is uncertain, but Matilda of Glencarnie died before 31 January 1434, leaving issue :

1. Duncan Grant, afterwards Sir Duncan Grant of Freuchie.

2. Patrick Mac Ian Roy, who is said by the Kinrara MS. to have married Janet, third daughter of Malcolm, tenth Chief of Mackintosh. To him, by some, is attributed the position of ancestor to the Clan Phadruig or House of Tulloch Gorm, while others say he was illegitimate. On 28 July 1473, Marjory Lude, a widow, styling herself 'Lady of half the Barony of Freuchie,' alienated her lands of Auchnarrows, Downan, Port and Dalfour (Dellifure), to her carnal son Patrick Grant. He is also called Reoch. He died before 2 December 1508, leaving a son Reoch, who probably is the Patrick Reoch said to have died in 1513 in a charter of apprising of 1 May 1585."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7) ¹