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FRASER, Hugh 1st Lord Fraser of Lovat
(About 1440-1501)
LYON, Violetta
(About 1450-)
GORDON, Alexander of Midmar, then of Abergeldie, Sir
(About 1443-Before 1504)
HAY, Beatrice
(About 1454-)
FRASER, Thomas 2nd Lord Fraser of Lovat
(About 1465-1524)
GORDON, Janet
(About 1474-About 1510)
FRASER, Hugh 3rd Lord Fraser of Lovat
(About 1489-1544)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. GRANT, Anne

2. ROSS, Janet

FRASER, Hugh 3rd Lord Fraser of Lovat 1 3 4

  • Born: About 1489 5
  • Marriage (1): GRANT, Anne about 1512 1
  • Marriage (2): ROSS, Janet 2
  • Died: 15 July 1544, Battle of Kinloch-Lochy, Moray, Scotland 2 5

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Hugh married Anne GRANT, daughter of John GRANT 2nd of Freuchie, 'Am Bard Ruadh', 'The Red Bard' and Margaret OGILVY, about 1512.1 (Anne GRANT was born about 1486, died before July 1536 in Eilean Ulrich, Inverness-shire, Scotland 3 5 and was buried before July 1536 in Beauly Priory, Inverness-shire, Scotland 5.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Anne (Grant), married, about 1512, to Hugh Fraser, Master of Lovat, afterwards third Lord Fraser of Lovat, and died before 1536."

from Scots Peerage (vol 7)




"His lordship (Hugh Fraser), who was born in 1489, was fifty-five years of age when he died. He married, first, Anne, daughter of John Grant of Grant, with issue [....]

The first Lady Lovat only lived for a few years. She is described as a lady of singular piety, well acquainted with the Word of God, which made her openly profess the Reformed religion when the Reformation was but dawning and the few who professed it were violently persecuted through the nation. She died at 'Eilean Uirich,' and was interred in the Priory of Beauly."

from History of the Frasers of Lovat 1 5

Hugh next married Janet ROSS, daughter of Walter ROSS 8th of Balnagowan and Marion GRANT.2 (Janet ROSS was born about 1514.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Janet (Ross), married, as second wife, Hugh Fraser, fifth (see Note below) Lord Lovat, slain at Lochlochy 1545 (see Note below) - 'Hugh Lord Lovat and Janet Ross his wife,' 19 July 1536 (Great Seal)."

from Rossiana

Note:

1

Janet's husband Hugh Fraser was 3rd Lord Fraser of Lovat.

2

The Battle of Loch Lochy, also known as Blàr na Léine or Battle of the Shirts, took place in July 1544.
2

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 7 (1910).

2 e-books, Rossiana; papers and documents relating to the history and genealogy of the ancient and noble house of Ross by Harmon P Read (1908).

3 e-books, The Rulers of Strathspey: A History of the Lairds of Grant and Earls of Seafield by the Earl of Cassillis (1911).

4 e-books, Chronicles of the Frasers 916-1674: The Wardlaw Manuscript by James Fraser ed. William MacKay (1905).

5 e-books, History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy by Alexander Mackenzie (1896).

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