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MENTEITH, Christian heiress of the Earldom of Mar
(About 1324-About 1387) |
MENTEITH, Christian heiress of the Earldom of Mar 1 3
Another name for Christian was DE MENTEITH, Christiana.4 User ID: Z280. Christian married Sir Edward DE KEITH of Sinton, Marischal of Scotland, son of Sir William DE KEITH Great Marischal of Scotland and Barbara DE SETON, by 1343.1 2 (Sir Edward DE KEITH of Sinton, Marischal of Scotland was born about 1280 and died Before or about 1351 1.) Marriage Notes: "She (Ellen of Mar) also had a daughter Christian, married, first, to Sir Edward Keith of Synton, and secondly, some time after his death in 1350, to Sir Robert Erskine of that Ilk, with issue." (vol 5) Christian next married Sir Robert ERSKINE of that Ilk, High Chamberlain of Scotland, son of Sir William ERSKINE and Unknown, after 1351.3 (Sir Robert ERSKINE of that Ilk, High Chamberlain of Scotland was born about 1302 and died in 1385 3.) Marriage Notes: "She (Ellen of Mar) also had a daughter Christian, married, first, to Sir Edward Keith of Synton, and secondly, some time after his death in 1350, to Sir Robert Erskine of that Ilk, with issue. The latter marriage is proved by more than one writ, the most important being a charter quoted by Sir Robert Douglas, though not now known to exist, by which Sir John Menteith, Lord of Arran, granted to his daughter Christian Menteith and Sir Edward Keith her husband, the lands of Pirchock and others. The other writ is a charter by Thomas, Earl of Mar, nephew of Ellen, where he styles Christian Keith wife of Sir Robert Erskine his cousin." (page 580) |
1 e-books, Politics and protestant Lordship in North East Scotland during the reign of James VI: The life of George Keith, fourth Earl Marischal, 1554-1623 by Miles Kerr-Peterson (2016) PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
2 e-books, The Keiths of Inverugie by Mike Wade (2021 https://www.patrickspeople.scot/).
3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 5 (1908).
4 e-books, The Earldom of Mar: Letters by Crawford, Lindsay etc (1882).
5 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 6 (1909).
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