3. Ivone, son of William, married Eufemia daughter of Robert Brus, Lord of
Annandale and Cleveland (Family tree of the Bruces of Clackmannan, in the pos-
session of the Earl of Elgin). Among the writings carried away from Edinburgh
Castle by Edward the First, a.d. 1296, was Una litera patens, &c. ad firmam Domino
Galtero Mowbray per Eufemiam Kirkpatrick. The Mowbrays originally possessed
the estate of Kirkmichael in Nithsdale, which in 1484 was granted by the King to
Alexander Kirkpatrick, as hereafter stated. Ivone made a settlement of the lands of
Kilosbern, by surrender to King Alexander the Second, and Grant of Confirmation
or Settlement Charter, dated at Edinburgh, August 15, 1232. Shortly before this he
made large additions to the old Castle of Closeburn; but it seems probable that the
Keep or Tower which still exists, with walls twelve feet thick, was built three or four
centuries earlier. In the 17th century Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick pulled down every-
thing except the Keep, and used the materials in rebuilding the mansion.
In the reign of Alexander the Second, Humphrey Kirkpatrick, second son of William,
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