Sir Sir Duncan Grant (Knight)

• General Notes
  • Duncan GRANT Sir, I of Freuchie
    [6125]
    ABT 1424 - ABT 1485
    BIRTH: ABT 1424, Freuchie, Inverness, Scotland
    DEATH: ABT 1485, Freuchie, Inverness, Scotland
    BAPTISM:
    Status: SUBMITTED
    ENDOWMENT:
    Status: SUBMITTED
    SEALING TO PARENTS:
    Status: SUBMITTED
    Father: John GRANT Knight
    Mother: Matilda COMYN
    
    Family 1 : Muriel
    MARRIAGE: 1447,
    SEALING TO SPOUSE:
    Status: SUBMITTED
    +John GRANT
    Catherine GRANT
    Muriel GRANT
    
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                           _Robert GRANT Squire_+
                          | (1379 - ....)      
    _John GRANT Knight___|
    | (1434 - ....) m 1434|
    |                     |_____________________
    |                                          
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    |--Duncan GRANT Sir, I of Freuchie
    |  (1424 - 1485)
    |                      _Gilbert COMYN ______
    |                     |                    
    |_Matilda COMYN ______|
      (1434 - ....) m 1434|
                          |_____________________
                                               
    
    
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    INDEX
    
    [6125] !FHL BRITISH BOOK AREA 929.241 G767f THE CHIEFS OF GRANT / by William Fraser.
    Page 500.
    Sir Duncan Grant, Knight, First called of FREUCHIE, he received a precept of
    sasine from King James the First, dated 31 January 1434, for infefting him as
    lawful heir of his deceased mother Matilda of Glencarnie, in certain lands in
    the sheriffdom of Elgin. He was designed of Freuchie in 1453. He was
    retoured, first on 25 Feb 1464, and finally on 7 Feb 1468, as heir in the lands of Congash, of his granfather Gilbert of Glencarnie, who is said to have died about thirty years before. In 1475, with consent of John Grant his son and apparent heir, he granted a precept for infefting James Douglas of Pittendriech in the lands of Sheriffston. He was alive on 15 September 1484, and died in the following year. He was succeeded by his grandson. He had issue one son and two daughters.
    From "Major Alpin's Ancestors": Sir Duncan Grant, I of Freuchie, knighted between 1457 and 1464. Freuchie was a barony, and for generations after Sir Duncan's time was the family designation. He died in 1485 having married Muriel, daughter of Malcolm X. of Macintosh, by whom he had a son John Grant.
    
    
    
    
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