Robert KEITH, Marischal of Scotland

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• Affiliation: ; Chief of Clan Keith
• FamilySearch ID: L78N-5RC
• TitleOfNobility: ; Marischal of Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: ; Marischal of Scotland, Lord Of Dunnottar, Lord of Troup, Sheriff of Kincardineshire, Baron of Keith, Lord of Colbanyston, Baron of Aldene (now Aden)
• Name: Robert DE KEITH
• Name: Robert KEITH
• Occupation: ; Marischal of Scotland

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Robert Keith was the 2nd son of Sir William Keith, 12th Marischal of Scotland, and his wife Margaret Fraser Keith of Touchfraser. His parents married about 1347 (certainly before 1351). Robert's date of birth is not recorded, he was likely born about 1350 at Dunotter Castle, seat of Clan Keith, in Kincardineshire, Scotland.
Robert's older brother John died in 1374. When his father died between 1407 and 1413, Robert succeeded him as Marischal of Scotland, and his Chief of Clan Keith.
According to the Peerage Robert was knighted between 1383 and 1390.
Robert died sometime before 20 Jul 1430.
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SIR ROBERT De KEITH, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir, succeeded his father. After the death of his elder brother he had received from his parents the barony of Strathkyn; and, after the decease of his nephew Robert, the hereditary sheriffdom of Kincardine and a settlement in reversion of all the lands of Keith, with the office of the Marshalcy of Scotland, to hold to him and his heirs male, according to the charter of entail made by Robert I to Sir Robert De Keith, Marshal of Scotland, his father's great-uncle, by the ordinance of Parliament. He was knighted between February 1383 and September 1390. In May 1421 he was one of the Scottish hostages suggested by England as acceptable for the deliverance of James I [SCT]; in December 1423 and February 1424 he had licence to meet the returning King at Durham, with a retinue of 16 persons; and in July 1425, being then a hostage in York Castle, received permission, with others, to return to Scotland, on providing equivalent hostages. He married the heiress of the barony of Troup, who predeceased him. He seems to have been living 2, but was dead before 20 July 1430, when his son, William De Keith, as Marshal of Scotland, witnessed a charter of the Constable.
[Complete Peerage VIII:474]

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Sir Robert, the eldest surviving son, succeeded his father before the end of 1410. In two charters of the year 1407, Robert De Keth, son of William the Marischal, appears as a substitute after John Stewart, Lord of Buchan, and his two brothers Andrew and Robert. In 1375 he had a charter of confirmation from Robert II of the forest of Cowie, the forest of the Mounth, and other lands. In March 1406-7, Robert, Duke Of Albany, confirmed two charters by his father-in-law, Sir William De Keth, Marischal of Scotland, to his son and heir Sir Robert De Keth, Lord of Troup, one of the office of Sheriff of Kincardineshire, the other of the barony of Keith, office of Marischal of Scotland, lands of Colbanyston, barony of Aldene (now Aden), and forest of Kintore in Aberdeenshire, and other lands in Banffshire. He was one of the commissioners to treat for the liberation of King James I in 1423-24, and was a hostage for his ransom 28 March 1424, his estate being at this time valued at 800 merks. On 16 June 1425, he was handed over to Sir John Langeton, Warden of the Castle of York, but on the same day leave was given him to return to Scotland until the following Martinmas.

He was dead before 20 July 1430, when his son William witnesses as 'marescallus ScotiA?' a charter by Sir William Hay of Erroll, Constable of Scotland. On 24 January 1446-47 King James II issued a brieve to the Sheriffs of Aberdeen and Banff ordaining them to pay the bishops the teind penny due from the profits of Aden, Kintore, and Skene, through the decease of 'our cosynge umquhile the Lord of Kethe.' He married the heiress of Troup, whose hame has not been ascertained, with whom he got that barony. He is also but on doubtful authority, said to have married Elizabeth daughter of Sir David Lindsay, first Earl of Crawford.
[The Scots Peerage VI:38-39]

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Robert married Lady Matilda TROUP, Baroness of Dunottar in 1379 in St Andrews, Orkney, Scotland. Matilda (daughter of William URQUHART DE URCHARD and Lillias DE ROSS) was born in 1355 in Banffshire, Scotland; died on 2 Jun 1413 in 1685825, Kincardineshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Earl Marischal of Scotland Sir William KEITH
• Name: William Keith 2 nd Lord
• Name: William Keith KT.
• Title of Nobility: 1458, Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: 7 Oct 1458, Kincardineshire, Scotland; Earl Marischal & 1st Lord Keith

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Sir William Keith, succeeded his father [Lord Robert de Keith] between 2 July 1430 and 20 May 1431.

In a charter dated 20 May 1442, he conveyed to Robert de Keth, Knight, his eldest son, whom failing, to William, John, or Alexander, brothers of the said Robert, the lands of Keith, Garvock, Dunottar, Fetteresso, Strathechin, Culpersow, Kintore, and Aden, together with the offices of Marischal of Scotland and Sheriff of Kincardine.

Between 1446 and July 1451 he was made a Lord of Parliament as LORD KEITH. The date of creation can only be approximately ascertained. In an official report of evidence regarding a dispute between the family of Skene of Skene and that of the Marischal, held before a Court in the Cathedral of Aberdeen on 22 September 1446, he is styled Sir William Keith, Marischal.

In a series of charters granted by King James II on 6 July 1451, he is styled Lord Keith, and appears as the latest on the list of Peers after William, Lord Hay, the constable, who was created before 10 april 1450. His creation, therefore was then probably of recent date.

He was one of the guarantors of a treaty of peace with the English in 1457, and on 6 August of that year he witnesses the confirmation of a treaty by King James II as Lord Keith. Later he was raised a step in the Peerage, as in a royal charter dated 7 October of the following year (1458), he is designed 'dilectus consanguineus noster' EARL of MARISCHAL and 1ST LORD KEITH.

He died probably before Witsunday 1463, and certainly before 16 March 1463-64.

He married a lady named Mary who is usually said to have been the daughter of Sir James Hamilton of Cadzow, but there is no evidence of this, and the dates make it doubtful.

On 26 April 1414, Pope Benedict XIII issued a commission to grant dispensation for the marriage of 'William de Ketht' of St. Andrews diocese and Marjorie Fraser, daughter of Alexander Fraser of Moray diocese. This is probably the wife of Sir William Keith, and the daughter of Alexander Fraser of Kinnell and Lovat, who, as stated above, appears to have married about the same time Sir William's youngest sister, Marion.

She was dead before August 1442.

Thy had issue:

1. Sir Robert, in whose favour his father resigned his estates and offices in 1442. He is said to have died v.p. in 1446, ...
2. William, who succeeded as second Earl Marischal.
3. John, mentioned in a charter by his father dated 20 May May 1442.
4. Alexander, mentioned in the same charter with his elder brother John.
5. Janet, married, first to John Leslie, Master of Rothes; secondly, to Thomas, second Lord Innermeath. Based on the ages of her husbands, this Janet is most likely to be the daughter of William, Second Earl, and she has been moved to his family.
6. Egidia, married to James, second Lord Forbes, and was still a widow 14 August 1473.

Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol IV, Edinburgh, 1906, pp. 39-41.
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I also found reference to his wife as the above Marjorie Fraser, dau of Alexander Fraser and Elizabeth Keith, The marriage date is correct, 26 April 1414, but to Marjorie Fraser.

William married Lady Mary Marjorie HAMILTON on 26 Apr 1414 in Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, Scotland. Mary (daughter of Sir John HAMILTON, 4th Laird of Cadzow and Jacoba DOUGLAS) was born in 1395 in Lovat Castle, Kilmorack, Iverness-shire, Scotland; died on 1 Aug 1442 in Picardie, France; was buried in Jul 1442 in Dunotter Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: 2nd Earl MARISCHAL

Family/Spouse: Lady Mary Mariot ERSKINE, COUNTESS MARISCHAL. Mary (daughter of Thomas ERSKINE and Janet Elisabeth DOUGLAS) was born in 1440 in Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland; died in 1482 in Dunnotar Castle, Kincardineshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Baronet of Alnwick
• Name: Sir William Lord de Marischal KEITH

William married Lady Elizabeth GORDON on 11 Jan 1482 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Sir George GORDON, Of Huntly and Lady Annabella Beaufort STEWART, Princess of Scotland) was born in 1462 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died on 22 Apr 1525 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]