Alexander Alexander of Menstrie

ALEXANDER ALEXANDER OF MENSTRIE

Alexandro Alsynder (1529)

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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15 January 1529: Charter by which Archibald, Earl of Argyll, Lord Campbell of Lorn, confirms that he has sold the five merk land of Dufletter in the Sheriffdom of Perth to Alexandro Alsynder of Mentstrie and his heirs. This land had previously been resigned by his deceased father Andrew Alsider and his mother, Katherina Grahame. RMS 1513-46: charter number 932

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26 August 1529: Charter by which Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll, Lord Campbell of Lord, and his father Colin Campbell, confirm that they have given, for good service and a certain sum of money, a feu charter for the five pound lands of old extent of the Mains of Menstrie, in the barony of Menstrie and sheriffdom of Clackmannan, to Alexandro Alsynder and his wife Elizabethe Douglas, and their son Andree Alsander. This charter was confirmed under the Great Seal of Scotland on 9 April 1530. RMS 1513-46: charter number 932

Printed Evidence

Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1513-1546. Edited by James Balfour Paul, FSA. Scot., and John Maitland Thomson, MA., Advocates. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1883), 1067 pp. including indices and errata

Biographical Summary by Robert Douglas

ALEXANDER ALEXANDER, third baron of Menstrie, who made a considerable figure in the reign of king James V. Amongst the writs of the family of Argyle, there is an instrument of sasine, wherein Alexander Alexander, son of the deceast Andrew Alexander of Menstrie, transfers all right he had to the lands of Menstrie,* in favours of Co∣lin earl of Argyle, his superior, dated 12th of February 1527. In a sasine of Colin earl of Argyle, this A∣lexander was appointed the earl's bailie, and is designed honorabilis vir Alexander Alscin∣der de Menstrie,etc. anno 1529. There is a charter by Colin earl of Argyle, to Alexander Alscinder of Menstrie, of the lands of Duslater, in the shire of Stirling, of which Andrew Alexander his father and Ca∣tharine Graham his mother,* were proprietors, dated 15th January 1529. Also a charter by the same earl, of the lands of mains of Menstrie, and mill thereof, to and in favours of Alexander Alscinder, and Eliza∣beth Douglas his spouse, in liferent, and An∣drew Alscinder their son and heir apparent in fee,* dated 26th August 1529, both which charters are confirmed by king James V. by a charter under the great seal,* dated 20th April 1530. He married Elizabeth, daughter of sir Ro∣bert Douglas of Lochleven, ancestor of the earl of Morton, by whom he had two sons, and one daughter. 1. Andrew, his heir. 2. William Alexander, who was proprie∣tor of the lands of Clow in Perth-shire, and married Janet Marishal,* which appears by two charters under the great seal, to him and Ja∣net Marishal his spouse, of the lands of Clow, with the pertinents, &c. dated anno 1553. His daughter, Isabel, married to James Mushet younger of Torrie, in the county of Stirling. He died anno 1545, and was succeeded by his eldest son. Biographical Summary by Robert Douglas

Genealogy

1. Memorials of the Earl of Sterling and of the house of Alexanderr. By the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D. Published 1877 by W. Paterson in Edinburgh. Page 8
2. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1887. Page 3
3. Montgomery and Rowantree Families