Alexander Sutherland, of Dunbeath

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Leo van de Pas

Alexander Sutherland, of Dunbeath

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 24 jul 2005 10:06:01

In Arthur Addington's magnificent work on the Royal House of Stuart, in volume three he has an ancestor list which misses only one person, the wife of Alexander Sutherland, of Dunbeath.

Robert, 6th Earl of Sutherland married in 1389 Margaret Stewart and they had certainly one son, John the next Earl of Sutherland and possibly two more sons, which I believe to include Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath. SP Volume VIII page 330 questions whether Alexander is placed in the wrong generation. And gives no more about him.

It is possible that Alexander is the son of John, 7th Earl of Sutherland, but I doubt it.
The 7th Earl married about 1432 and Alexander married in 1429.

Sir Iain Moncreiffe of That Ilk quotes Lord Hailes's _Additional Case for Elizabeth, Countess of Sutherland, the original grant of Dunbeath itself to Alexander Sutherland on 24 October 1429 on the occasion of his marriage to Mariotta Macdonald of the Isles, daughter of Donald, Lord of the Isles, the mighty Macdonald of the battle of Harlaw.

I have two questions. Can anyone establish who really are the parents of this Alexander Sutherland, of Dunbeath. And I know about his daughter Marjory but Sir Iain Moncreiffe tells that Marjory is_another_ daughter of Alexander Sutherland. Who are/is the other daughter(s)?

I have a reference for Alexander Sutherland "Acts of the Lords of the Isles,1336-1493" by J & R. W. Munro puiblished in Edinburgh in 1986. Does anyone have access to this?

Burke's Extinct Peerage, 1866 page 493 also confirms Mariotta Macdonald as the wife of Alexander Sutherland, of Dunbeath.

With many thanks.
Leo van de Pas

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Re: Alexander Sutherland, of Dunbeath

Legg inn av gryphon801@aol.com » 24 jul 2005 16:20:56

You will want to seek out the excellent article by Andrew MacEwen in TG
3:131-53 (1982) which discusses the parentage, marriage and children,
legitimate and illegitimate, of this man.

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