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X 1st.Elizabeth,
daughter of Sir Alexander Livingston, of Callender,
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the following children were born of this union: |
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Alexander Dundas o |
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James Dundas |
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Elizabeth Dundas, married Sir David
Guthrie, Lord treasurer to James the 3rd. |
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Margaret
Dundas, married to Alexander Cockburn,of Langton.
From The
house of Cockburn of that ilk and the cadets thereof."Confirmation
of the settlement made
upon her and himself conjointly of the barony of Carriden on his own resignation
was dated 15th March 1472. Provision was made therein that it was to descend to
his heirs by his first wife, Elizabeth de Crechton. It does not appear that
Margaret
Dundas had any children".
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It is possible that James Dundas was
married twice. From Dundas of Dundas: royal
letters and family papers
"The only wife of James Dundas of whom there is
authentic notice was Euphemia Oliphant, to whom, as spouse of James de Dundas,
the King, of his special favour, granted, in 1451, the sum of twenty merks out
of the customs of Perth". |
James succeeded to the estates of his father
on the 6th November 1437.
James' wife was the daughter of Sir Alexander Livingston, governor
of Scotland and subsequently during the troubled times which followed the
murder of James 1 in 1437, and the succession of the boy king James 11,
the name of James Dundas occurs along with Sir Alexander Livingston in
the holding of the young King and the Queen mother in Stirling Castle. The
rough treatment experienced by the young King, was not forgotten when he assumed
the reins of government in January, 1449. At his first parliament, Sir Alexander
Livingston and James Dundas were forfeit of their estates and imprisoned in
Dumbarton Castle.. The estate of Fingask, which was held by the Sovereign,
remained in the Sovereign's hands, but the estate of Dundas was given to
the Earl of Douglas. James' brother, Archibald Dundas,
attempted to resist by holding the tower at Dundas, which he retained until
April 1449.
From The Historie of Scotland; "In the
year 1447, there was a parliament holden at Edinburgh, in which Sir Alexander
Livingstone of Kalendar, James Dundas and
Robert
Dundas knights, at the pursuit of the Earl of Douglas, were forfeited
and condemned to perpetual prison in Dumbarton".
In 1451, James Dundas was released from Dumbarton castle. In
the same year, Henry V1, King of England granted to James Dundas and Duncan
Dundas his brother, a safe conduct to Scotland and a return to England
to then proceed to the court of Rome via Calais and finally to return to
Scotland via England. In these troubled times there were many
uprisings against the Crown and the Earl of Douglas who had taken the confiscated
lands of Dundas, is the same Earl discovered two years later plotting against
the Crown. Having incurred the King's suspicion he had taken himself to
Rome and it is most likely that James and Duncan Dundas joined him in Rome
to join in the plot against James 11. The planned insurrection broke out
in the north of Scotland and James Dundas returned in time to join in the
rebellion. The battle of Brechin was fought on the 18/5/1452 and James Dundas was slain
by the Earl of Huntly.
The Earl of Douglas was slain by the King's own hand in 1451 at
Stirling Castle.
James Dundas was pardoned after his death and on the 26/8/1452 the
attainder against him and Duncan his brother was removed. The part of his
estates remaining in the King's hand, namely Fingask was returned and a
new charter was granted to James Dundas and his heirs male. The lands of
Dundas being in the possession of the Earl of Douglas at the time of his
decease fell to his brother James, Earl of Douglas and remained with him
till they came to the crown by his forfeiture in 1452.
In 1465 a charter shows Archibald Dundas, (who was a favourite of King
James 11 and 111) in possession of the lands
of Dundas, and he assumed the designation of Dundas of that Ilk ever afterwards.
It is at this point in the family history that the two lands are never
held by the same hand again.
Duncan Dundas was the ancestor of the Dundas families of
Newliston
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Philipstoun |
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National Archives of Scotland GD150/163.
Retour of inquest held at Perth before Robert Dunyne, depute of the sheriff of
Perth, by Silvester Rettre of that ilk, Alexander Blare of Balthiok, David
Hering, of Leithindy, John Muncreff of that ilk, Walter Stewart of Cardynny,
James Dundas of Fingask,
David Skrymgeoure of Fardille, David Chawmer of Straithy, William Blare of
Ardblare, Richard Eviot of Ballowsy, John Ross of Ouchtyrgavin, Thomas Blare,
John Ross, Laurence Creichtoune, Henry Petcarne of Petloure and James Muncreff,
who found Robert Douglass heir of his father, deceased Sir Henry Douglass of
Louchlevin, in the lands of Kelore, in the sheriffdom of Perth, which were in
the king's hands, on account of the death of said Sir Henry, for four months or
thereby. 27 May 1476 |
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