32768. Lord Alexander ERSKINE was born in 1436. He died on 10 May 1509. Alexander married Christian CRICHTON in 1457. [Parents]
3rd Baron, 8th Lord Garioch, de jure 15th Earl of Mar (from Burke's)
Guardian of James IV.
On 9 Oct. 1466 Alexander won a dispute concerning the office of bailiary of the barony of Ochiltree against Lord Cathcart who renounced his claim to the office.
Alexander was granted a charter of the lands of Balhagirdy and the mill of Inveramsay on 26 Aug. 1485. He also received a Crown Charter to Alloa, the forest of Clackmannan, Pittarrow in Forfarshire, and Kellie in Aberdeenshire upon his father's resignation 12 Aug. 1489.
He succeeded his father before 1493 as in that year as Lord Erskine he had a sasine of Sintoun.
On 21 Oct. 1497 he founded a chaplainry at the high altar of St. Mungo in the Alloa kirk for the souls of his father, mother, the late James III and Queen Margaret and for the welfare of himself, his two wives and King James IV.Second marriage, before 1480, with Ellen, daughter of Alexander, Lord Home (married first to Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes (living in 1513)).
"Alexander Erskine of that Ilk, 2nd Lord Erskine, guardian of James IV, founder of the chapel of Alloa; + ante 1510" (from the Earls of Mar pedigree)
Issue- first two children by first wife, last two by ?
32769. Christian CRICHTON was born in 1439. She died in 1509.
"daughter of Sir Robert Crichton, 2nd Lord Crichton, of Sanquhar" (from the Earls of Mar pedigree)
First married to Sir Robert Colville of Ochiltree
49216. John SUTTON Baron Dudley died in 1487 and was buried in 1487 in Dudley Priory. He married Cicely WILLOUGHBY. [Parents]
first son, sum. to Parl. as Baron Dudley, from 1483 to 1487.