General Notes

SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestal File #   (familysearch.org)
AWTP:
"Williams/Rose Legacies"  Jane Williams Flank jwflank@@hotmail.com (who has generously provided the following narrative (excerpted) at AWTP):

Alexander de Ogiluill. He was present along with William de Ramsay, Hugh de Anegous, and Duncan the 'Judex' at the court held at Forfar 17 February 1250, to determine the suit and attendance due by the Abbey of Arbroath for the lands of Innerpeffray. [The Scots Peerage I:107]

"Only one member of his (Gilbert) family has survived the ravages of that strenuous age, the son who succeeded on the death of his father - Alexander De Ogiluill; and although authentic history may be said to begin with the reign of Alexander III, under which he lived, even less is known of him that of his father, Gilbert. Beyond the bare mention of the fact that he appeared at an inquest, which met at Forfar on 17th January, 1250, to determine as to the suit due to the Abbot of Arbroath for the lands of Innerpeffray, little else is known of him. It seems that he had not the robust, agressive nature of his sire, nor had he his ardent passion for military conquest. It is true that in his early years, during the reign of Alexander II, beyond occasional punitive measures for quelling disturbances in the provinces, there was not the same resort to the arbitrament of the sword as in William 'the Lion's' time, sinc Richard Cæur de Lion, on his accession to the English throne, had generously restored to that monarch the independence of Scotland, which through matrimonial alliance of his son with the Royal Family of England, there was a more friendly intercourse between the two nations. But apart from this, Sir Alexander Ogilvy was of a retiring disposition, being neither physically strong nor of that aggressive type of mind which forces its way into the centre of the field of action. In the politics of the time he adopted a passive attitude, and lived a quiet and pastoral life at the Castle of Ogilvy, where he died about 1265. [The House of Airlie I:15-16]"