History of the earldoms of Strathern, Monteith, and Airth

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HISTORY OF THE EARLDOMS
Alexander
Master of
monteith.
1453.
Alexander
SECOND Earl
OF MoNTEITH.
1493—1540.
was called Marion, and that she had remarried
John Drummond before May 1491. He had
issue three sons, Alexander, John, and Walter.
Of Alexander Graham, Master of Mon-
TEiTH, his son and heir, no other facts are known
than that he became an hostage in England,
instead of his father, in June 14^53 ; that he died
in his father's lifetime ; and that he is said to
have left issue, by Matilda, daughter of Thomas
Lord Erskine, a son, ^
Alexander Graham, second Earl of Mon-
teith, who was described as " Alexander
Grahame, are to umquhile Malise Earle of Men-
teth," on the 24th of June and 5th of July 1492';
and was served heir to his grandfather on the 6th
of May 1493.^ He was present in the King's
Council, being described as *' Alexander Earl of
Monteith," on the 25th of August 1495'; and
1 Carta penes D. Montrose, cited in Wood's Douglas'
Peerage, vol. ii. p. 228. The proceedings before the Council
in June and July 1492, which shew that John Graham, by
the description of " so7i and heir " of Malise Earl of Monteitli,
had obtained a Royal Charter, on the 6th of April 1469, of
the lands of Kilbride, on his father's resignation ; and that
Alexander Graham, as heir of the late Earl Malise, had a
direct interest in those lands, render it more likely that Alex-
ander Graham, the eldest son of Earl Malise, died ivithout
issue; that Johii Graham, the second son, also died in his
father's lifetime, and that Alexander, the second Earl, was
the son of the said John Graham.
2 Acts of Lords of the Council in Civil Causes, 24th June
and 5th July 1492.
3 Ibid. 25th Aug. 1495.