Sir Edward Keith (d. 1351) was a Scottish nobleman and hereditary 11th
Marischal of Scotland.
Biography
Sir Edward Keith was the son of
William de Keith (d. ), 8th Marischal of Scotland, and Barbara de Seaton, daughter of Adam de Seaton. In 1328 he received a charter to the lands of Kelly from King
Robert the Bruce
Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (), was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert led Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against Kingdom of Eng ...
, witnessed by his brother
Robert II Keith, Marischal of Scotland.
[George Edward Cokayne, ''The complete Peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times'', Volume VIII, Ed. H. A. Doubleday & Howard de Walden (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1932), p. 471] Neither he nor his brother Robert were at the
Battle of Halidon Hill
The Battle of Halidon Hill took place on 19 July 1333 when a Scottish army under Sir Archibald Douglas attacked an English army commanded by King Edward III of England () and was heavily defeated. The year before, Edward Balliol had seized ...
but his son William, fighting under
Sir Archibald Douglas was taken prisoner there.
He inherited the hereditary
Sheriffdom of Selkirk through his first wife, Isabella de Synton.
Sir Edward Keith died before 1351 and succeeded by his son William.
[''The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland'', Vol. VI, Ed. James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 33]
Family
Sir Edward Keith married first, before July 1305, Isabella de Synton,
daughter of Alexander de Synton.
Together they had:
* Sir
William Keith, Marischal of Scotland, succeeded his father as 12th Marischal of Scotland.
* John Keith, who married (with a dispensation dated 12 March 1368/9) Mariota de Cheyne, daughter of Reginald de Cheyne.
* Catherine Keith, who married Alexander Barclay and were the ancestors of the Barclays of Ury.
[''The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland'', Vol. VI, Ed. James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 35]
He married secondly, Christian Menteith, daughter of Sir
John de Menteith, Lord of Arran and his wife Ellen of Mar. They had one daughter:
* Janet Keith, who married first, Sir David Barclay of Brechin.
[''The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland'', Vol. V, Ed. James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908), p. 598] She married secondly, before 13 April 1370, Sir Thomas Erskine of Erskine.
[It was through this marriage that the son of Janet and Thomas, Robert Erskine, 1st Lord Erskine, claimed the Earldom of Mar making Janet the link between the ancient Earls of Mar and the modern Earls of Mar. See: Complete Peerage, Vol. VIII, p. 400-401; Scots Peerage, Vol V. pp. 598-602; Scots Peerage, Vol VI, p. 35.]
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See also
*
Clan Keith
Clan Keith is a Highland and Lowland Scottish clan, whose chief historically held the hereditary title of Marischal, then Great Marischal, then Earl Marischal of Scotland.Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family ...
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Year of birth unknown
1351 deaths
14th-century Scottish nobility