CUMINE, Alexander of Coulter, Sir ¹

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  General Notes:

"Alexander Comyn's father (ie William Cumynof Inverallochy and Culter) died soon after this bond was entered into (ie after the bond of 1478 with Alexander Irvine of Drum)), but had, in his lifetime, succeeded, in despite of Drum, in alienating Inverallochy to his younger son. Christian Burnett's husband, however, got Tilliboy and Culter, and transmitted them to his son, another Alexander Comyn, who was served heir to him on 1st February, 1504-5
(Antiq. Ab. Banff, III., 340). On 5th July following, this younger Alexander Comyn made a formal protest before Alexander Bannerman of Waterton, Sheriff-Depute of Aberdeen, that his charter of the baronies of Culter and
Tilliboy, under the seal of Alexander II,, had been deposited for security in the custody of his lately deceased grandfather, Alexander Burnet of Leys, and had, when in his possession, the seal abstracted, to his serious
prejudice, a fact of which the Bishop of Aberdeen (Elphinstone) had made him aware.

Following a little further the fortunes of this Alexander Comyn, he resigned Culter and Tilliboy into the hands of James IV. just before Flodden, for a new charter incorporating them into the barony of Culter Cumyn, the precept being directed to the then lairds of Leys and Drum and their respective sons - and we hear of no more assertion of right to Culter by the Burnetts."

from Family of Burnett ²

Alexander married Elizabeth BLINSEILE, daughter of Robert BLINSEILE Provost of Aberdeen and Isabella WOOD.¹ (Elizabeth BLINSEILE was born about 1475.)

  Marriage Notes:

"From this deed (charter dated on the 2nd May 1504) we learn that the Provost was the son of Robert Blinseile, by his wife Elizabeth Rutherford, and that he had married Isabella Wood, by whom he had at least one son, Ninian, and two daughters. Of the daughters, Elizabeth was married to Sir Alexander Cumine of Culter ..... "

from Aldermen and Provosts ¹