Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond

20 Genealogical Memoir sect. ii.
IX. SIR MALCOLM DRUMMOND,
LORD OF THAT ILK, THE Qih. THANE OR SENESCAL OF
LENNOX,
Succeeded about 1301. — Died about 1325.
From the 15 ,h John Baliol, to 19 ,h Robert Bruce.
Sir Malcolm Drummond succeeded to his father, as
ninth chief of the house of Drummond. He flourished
in the reign of king Robert Bruce, and was firmly at-
tached to the interests of that great prince. At the battle
ofBannockburn, in 1314, he exerted in a most conspi-
cuous manner his great talents, undaunted bravery, and
military skill. Immediately after that battle in 1315,
king Robert, as a reward of his good and faithful services,
conferred upon him a grant of several lands in Perth-
shire ; and it is not unlikely that the caltrops were then
added, for the first time, by way of compartment to his
coat of arms, as in that memorable battle they were used
with great success against the English horse, and very pos-
sibly by the advice, or under the direction of SirMalcolm.
In the following year, in a full parliament, where he
sat as one of the barones mujores regni, he resigned into
the king's hands, in favour of Sir Malcolm Fleming, fa-
ther of the first earl of Wigton, his lands and barony of
Auchindon, in Dunbartonshire, upon which Lord Fle-
ming got a chrter under the great seal, in .confirmation of
the same, in 1316.
He married a daughter of Sir Patrick Graham of Kin-
cardine, ancestor of the duke of Montrose, by whom he
had a son, Sir Malcolm, who succeeded at his death
about the year 1325 .