FRASER, Thomas 2nd Lord Fraser of Lovat 2 3 4
- Born: About 1465
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Janet by 11 January 1493(contract) 1
- Marriage (2): GRAY, Jonet 2
- Died: 21 October 1524 2
Other names for Thomas were FRASER, Hugh 3rd Lord Fraser 5 and FRASER, Hugh 4th Lord Lovat.5
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Thomas married Janet GORDON, daughter of Sir Alexander GORDON of Midmar, then of Abergeldie and Beatrice HAY, by 11 January 1493(contract).1 (Janet GORDON was born about 1474 and died about 1510 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"This Lord Hugh (Fraser) kept peace afterward in this country. George, Earl of Huntly, resolving to setle at Invernes, makes his friendship with him, knowing how usefull such a nighbourhood as the Lord Lovat and the Frasers would be to him; and meantime Lord Hugh contracted with the Earle for his daughter to his sone Thomas, Master of Lovat, that afterwards their allyance might be the stronger; and in this contract a renunciation of the lands of Stratharick, which verbatim yow see here
'Be it kent till all men by thir present letter us George Gordoun, Earle of Huntly and Lord Badenoch, forasraickle as we delivered two hundered marks Scots siller to an noble Lord, Hugh Lord Fraser of the Lovet, for marriage that should have been compleited between Thomas Fraser, apearand heir to the said Hugh Lord Fraser of Lovet, and Margret Gordon, our daughter, and now, for the great love we have to the said Lord Lovat, and the great favour we have till our brother, Alexander Gordon of Achindown, and the compleiting of marriage betuixt the said Thomas Fraser, Master of Lovat, and Janet Gordoun, daughter to the said Alexander Gordoun, our brother forsaid, we quitclaim and discharge the said Hugh, Lord Fraser, his eires and executors, and assignayes, of the said two hundered marks, together with all right and title of right we the said George Gordoun had, has, or may have, or our heires, to the land of Stratharick, with their pertinents, lying within the shirreffdome of Inverness; and especially we the said George, Earl of Huntly, discharges and renounces all right and title of rights we had or has or may get fra Pitflures, or his eires, of the saids lands of Stratharick, for now and ever, together with the two hundered marks, as said is ; and to thir our acquittance of the two hundered marks, and renounciation of the lands of Stratharick, with the pertinents of the same, we have affixed our proper seal at Newwark uppon Spey, together with the subscription of our hands the XI day of January, the yeare of God an thousand four hundred nintieth and three yeares, before thir wittnesses Alexander Cults of Wauchtoune, Laurence Cults his father brother, John Ogilvy, sone to Walter of the Boyn, and Peter Gordon, our servant, writer hereof, and divers others. - George, Earl of Huntly.' "
from Chronicles of the Frasers 1
Thomas next married Jonet GRAY, daughter of Patrick GRAY Master of Gray and Annabella FORBES.2 (Jonet GRAY was born about 1464 and died about 1550 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"The Earl (David Crawford 9th Earl) married, first, Jonet, daughter of Lord Gray and widow of Thomas, Lord Fraser of Lovat, who had died 21 October 1524."
from Scots Peerage (vol 3)
"p. 28, 1. 16 delete 'Lord,' before Gray, and insert ' Patrick, Master of.' "
from Scots Peerage (vol 9)
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