Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath

THE FAMILY OF FDMONSTONE. 25
he married the Lady Isabel, daughter of King Robert II., by his second
wife Eufemia Ross, relict of Randolf, Earl of Moray. This lady had
married, in 137 1, James II. Earl of Douglas and Mar, who was killed at the
battle of Otterburn in 1388, by whom she had no children, and secondly,
Sir John Edmonstone. 1
By this marriage Sir John had one son, David. The family pedigree
makes out William, from whom the Duntreath family are descended, to
have been a second son, but this will be shown to be erroneous/'
There seems reason to believe that Sir John married, secondly,
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Henry Sinclair Earl of Orkney, for among
the lists of the missing Royal Charters now lost, though preserved through
the century before the last, there is one to John Edmond, knight, the King's
brother, and Elizabeth Sinclair his spouse, daughter to the Earl of Orkney
of the lands of Murtache, vicecom. Bamff, by resignation of the Earl of
Orkney. Douglas, in his Peerage, says Edmond is a mistake for Drummond,
but it is more likely to have been Edmondstone, the last syllable being
accidentally omitted, and who was the King's brother-in-law, as well as Sir
John Drummond. The circumstance of Sir John Edmonstone having
stood cautioner for the Earl of Orkney, as mentioned above, who would
thus be his father-in-law, makes this connexion more probable ; besides
which, this Sir John's predecessor had had a grant of the Barony of Boyne
in this identical vicecomitatus of Bamff.
At what time Sir John Edmonstone died does not appear, but it must
have been after 1410, probably 1412, or 141 3, for there is an 'agreement
by way of indenture,' dated Perth, April 7th, ,1410, between Sir John
Edmonstone of that ilk and Davy Edmonstone, his son and heir, with
Patrick (Graham) Earl of Strathern, in the right of his wife, and with her
consent, relating to a charter of confirmation they had procured from the
Regent Duke of Albany, to Sir John Edmonstone and his son, of the
lands and barony of Tillyallan in Clackmannanshire. 3
There is, moreover, a charter granted by the same Regent to his son
John Earl of Buchan in 141 3, in which Sir David is styled 'nepos noster,' 4
as son to his (Robert, Duke of Albany's) sister, the Countess of Douglas.
1 Note 30, Appendix. * Note 32, Appendix.
* Note 31, Appendix. 4 Register of the Great Seal.
D