unknown de Keith

(unknown) de Keith

“Sir Robert Maitland married a sister of Sir Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, who fell in the same battle as her husband.”

Marriage

1. Robert Maitland Sir b: ABT 1283 in Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scottish Borders, Scotland

Children

• John Maitland Sir b: 1340 in Thirlestane Castle, Lauder, Scottish Borders, Scotland
• William Maitland

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Marrote was born about 1280. According to Forbes Leslie, the family historian, she was likely a daughter or granddaughter, of Sir Robert de Keith, the Marischal, who was killed at the battle of Dupplin in 1332. [1] In his notes, [2]Forbes Leslie suggests "The eldest son of this Sir Robert Keith, Sir John Keith, died in his father's lifetime, leaving a family of one son (Sir Robert, who succeeded as Marischal, and was killed at the battle of Durham in 1346) and two daughters. Sir Robert left no issue, and the office of Marischal and the entailed lands passed to his grand-uncle, Sir Edward Keith. It was probably a claim for property by the sisters of the deceased Sir Robert Keith (one of whom was married to Sir Robert Maitland of Thirlestane, and the other to the laird of Drum) that led to the "cruel feud" which raged in the latter part of the fourteenth century between the Keiths Marischal and the Irvines of Drum. This feud was finally settled in 1411 by the marriage of Elizabeth de Keth, daughter of the Marischal, to Alexander de Irvin of Drum, and by a grant of the estates of Strachan as a dower with the bride. The feud is alluded to in the marriage contract. It is not possible to say whether the sister of Sir Robert Keith, Marischal, was the wife of William de Irvin or the first wife of his son and successor, Thomas de Irvin."

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Disputed Origins

• Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 : The Scots Peerage : Founded On Wood's Ed. Of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage Of Scotland; Containing An Historical And Genealogical Account Of The Nobility Of That Kingdom : Free Download, Borrow, And Streaming : Internet Archive". 2021. Internet Archive.>Robert Maitland, Vol V, pps 280-4 < Archive.Org >. Sister of Robert de Keith, Marischal
• Balfour Paul, James. (1909). The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom (Vol. VI, p. 33). Edinburgh: D. Douglas. < Archive.Org > daughter of John de Keith (son of Robert de Keith)
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=john%5Fd%...