History of the Fife Pitcairns

68 THE FIFE PITCAIRNS.
son, David, who died, unmarried, in 1539, when the second
son, Robert Bethune, inherited the family estate. The
latter was early attached to the royal household, and at-
tended the young queen, Mary, to France as a page. On
her return to Scotland in 1561 he was appointed Master
of the Household, heritable Steward of Fife, and Keeper
of Falkland Palace. He married a French lady, Joanna
Renwall or Grysonner, a maid of honour to the queen. By
her he had two sons and eight daughters. His eldest
daughter, Mary Bethune, was one of the Queen's ' four
Maries,' whose extraordinary beauty has been nearly as
celebrated as her own. An original portrait of Mary
Bethune, in full court dress, is still preserved at Balfour
House in Fife, and also one of the Cardinal. She
married, in 1566, Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne, the repre-
sentative of an old and respectable branch of the noble
family of Findlater. Both she and her husband were alive
in 1606. The marriage-contract between Mary Bethune
and Alexander Ogilvy has been published by the Maitland
Club in Part I. of their Miscellany. It is subscribed by
the Queen and Henry Darnley, and by the Earls of Huntly,
Argyle, Bothwell, Murray, and Athole, as cautioners for
the bridegroom ; by Ogilvy himself as Boyne, and by Mary
Bethune. The signatures of the bride's father and Michael
Balfour of Burleigh, his cautioner, are wanting."
Barbara, David Pitcairn of Forthar's fourth daughter,
married Sir William Murray of Letterbannachty, and was
the ancestress of the great Lord Mansfield, Lord Chief
Justice of England.
Her husband was descended from Sir William Murray of
Tullibardine, who died about the year 1511, leaving, with
other issue —
William, ancestor of the Dukes of Atholl ; and
Sir Andrew Murray, who married Margaret, daughter
and heiress of James Barclay of Balvaird, by whom he ac-
quired the estates of Arngask, Balvaird, and Kippo, and
was succeeded by his eldest son —
Sir David Murray, of Balvaird and Arngask, who mar-
ried Janet, sister of John, fifth Lord Lindsay.