Alexander Bruce of Stanehous and Airth (after 1394-before 1487)

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Parents
Father:1Sir Robert de Brus (-before 1406), Laird of Clackmannan
Spouses and relationship events
Married:2Jonet (Livingston?) (-)
Married:3Margaret Forrester (-)
Children
Children with Margaret Forrester:
John Bruce of Stanehous (-1483)4
Sir Alexander Bruce of Brigham and Earlshall (-)5
Edward Bruce of Kinnaird (-)6
Lucas Bruce of Cultmalundie (-)7
Robert Bruce of Auchenbowie and Bynning (-)8
David Bruce (-)9
Attributes
Events
Born:10after 1394
Died:11before 1487
Personal Info
In an original birthbrief from Charles I, dated 23 July 1633, to Adam Bruce, ancestor of the Comtes de Bruce in France, he is styled 'legitimate son of Sir Robert Bruce of Clackmannan, Knight.' It is evident from the charter of 1394 to his father, Sir Robert Bruce of Clackmannan, that at that date Alexander was not born, as the remainder was, after David his lawful son, to Thomas his [natural] son, there being no mention of Alexander. Alexander was the founder of the baronial house of Bruce of Airth, and was ancestor of the following cadet branches, viz. Earlshall, Kinnaird, Auchenbowie, Powfoullis, Lethbertshiells, Waltoun, Comtes de Bruce in France, Kincavel, Bangour, Stenhouse, Newtoun, Benburb, and Downhill.12
He had numerous charters from the Abbots of Holyrood and from James II and III and others, from 1451 to 1468; the charter of James II to him and his wife Janet, was confirmed to his grandson in 1489.13
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1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume III: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), Elgin and Ailesbury, p. 468-69, Robert de Brus.
2 William Bruce Armstrong, The Bruces of Airth and their Cadets: (Edinburgh: , 1892), Bruces of Airth. p. 12-22.
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9 Ibid
10 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume III: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), Elgin and Ailesbury, p. 468-69, Robert de Brus.
11 William Bruce Armstrong, The Bruces of Airth and their Cadets: (Edinburgh: , 1892), Bruces of Airth. p. 12-22.
12 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume III: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906), Elgin and Ailesbury, p. 468-69, Robert de Brus.
13 William Bruce Armstrong, The Bruces of Airth and their Cadets: (Edinburgh: , 1892), Bruces of Airth. p. 12-22.
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