FRASER, Hugh 1st Lord Fraser of Lovat ³

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  General Notes:

"HUGH FRASER

1st Lord Lovat

a peer before 1464 as Lord Lovat or Lord Fraser of Lovat, MacShimi, made a mutual entail with Philorth 1464, died before 14 October 1501"

from Clan Fraser in Scottish History




MACSHIMI

"It was from the tower and plain of Lovat, on the south shore of the Beauly estuary, that the chief of the Inverness-shire Frasers took the peerage title granted to him about 1460 \endash the precise date is not known. By then, as since, Gaelic speakers accorded him the not inferior honour of the patronymic MacShimi (Son of Simon)."

from Early Frasers ^{3 4}

Hugh married Violetta LYON, daughter of John LYON 3rd Lord Glamis and Elizabeth SCRIMGEOUR, before 1464.^{1 2} (Violetta LYON was born about 1450.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Hugh Fraser 1st Lord Lovat) married, before 1464, Violetta Lyon, daughter of Lord Glamis, whose terce he reserved in a deed of entail made in favour of his cousin Alexander Fraser de Philorth."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ¹

Hugh had a relationship with Partner UNKNOWN. (Partner UNKNOWN was born about 1439.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lord Hugh (Fraser) had also two illegitimate sons, Hugh (error for Thomas - see below) Fraser, called 'Thomas Roy Mac a Mhaighistir,' which designation indicates that he was begotten while his lordship was Master of Lovat. He is said to have left 'a numerous progeny.' The other illegitimate son was Hugh Fraser, progenitor of the Frasers of Foyers, and 'eighteen others in Stratherrick,' where his father gave him 'a good patrimony.' " (page 68)


"The Frasers of Fairfield are descended from,

I. Thomas Roy Fraser a natural son of Hugh, third Lord Lovat (see Note), who succeeded in 1450 (see Note), and who had another and younger illegitimate son named Hugh, progenitor of the Frasers of Foyers. This Thomas is by a slip of the pen called 'Hugh' at page 68 (as quoted above), but the Gaelic name given in the same line, 'Tomas Roy Mac a Mhaighistir,' is quite correct, and it shows that Thomas was born while his father was Master of Lovat. He appears to have had a son, Donald Fraser" (page 682)

from Frasers of Lovat

Note:

The designations of the Fraser lairds of Lovat has changed since this book was published, as modern scholars review the material. Similarly Hugh Fraser is deemed to have been born about 1440 and inherited, according to this older narrative, about 1450, but the assertion that he fathered Thomas illegitimately while still Master of Lovat creates some doubt about these dates. ⁵