John "Mor" Grant of Freuchie

Grant of Freuchie, John Mor Younger of Freuchie, 2cd Master John Mor GRANT Of Freuchie , M Birth Dateabt 1438 Birth PlaceFreuchie, Moray, Scotland Death DateAug 1482 Death PlaceFreuchie, Moray, Scotland Death MemoDied before his father Burial Date30 Aug 1482 Burial PlaceMoray, Morayshire, Scotland Burial MemoMoray Cathedral FatherSir Knight Duncan GRANT 1st Of Fruechie , M (<1413-1485) MotherLady Murial MACKINTOSH Of Mackintosh , F (~1419-) Marr Dateabt 1459 ChildrenJohn “The Red Bard” , M (~1460-1528) Patrick , M (~1462->1532) William , M (~1464-) Notes for John Mor (Spouse 1) He [Duncan] married Murial, daughter of Malcolm, tenth chief of Mackintosh,

and had issue:

1. John.

2. Catherine, married Lachlan Mackintosh, called “Badenoch,” and had issue. She is also said to have married Alexander Baillie of Duncan and Sheuglie, and had issue. 3. Muriel, married Patrick Leslie of Balquhain, and had issue. She died in 1472.

Source: THE GRANTS OF CORRIMONY, by Francis J. Grant, W.S., Berwick, 1895, pp. 7-8. ——————————————

II. John Grant, [heir] apparent of Freuchie, the only son of Sir Duncan Grant, is first mentioned as a consenter in a precept of sasine by his father for infefting Sir James Douglas of Pittendreich in the lands of Sheriffston, in 1475.

He was an arbiter along with his father in the dispute between the Lairds of Mackintosh and Kilravoch in 1479.

He predeceased his father, dying at Kindrochat, in Mar, on 30th August, 1484, and was buried in Elgin Catheral.

By his wife, whose name had not been preserved,

he had issue:

1. John. 2. William, mentioned in a Royal Remission on 13th February, 1527, said to be ancestor of the Grants of Blairfindy. 3. A son (? Patrick) said to be the ancestor of Ballindalloch family.

Source: THE GRANTS OF CORRIMONY, by Francis J. Grant, W.S., Berwick, 1895, p. 8. ———————————————

JOHN GRANT, younger of Freuchie, who was a consenting party to a precept of his father in 1475, and an arbitrator in a dispute between the Mackintoshes and Rose of Kilravock in 1479.

On 8th September 1478 he received a grant in liferent from George, Earl of Huntly, of the Earl's lands of Hermestoun, Kinrara, Gergask and others, and is there described as son and apparent heir of Duncan Grant of Freuchie. He was infeft in the lands of Inverallan in a precept dated 9 May 1482, from the superior, William Crawford of Federeth, on the resignation of Patrick Seres. It seems most probable that he is the John Mór Grant of Freuchie who is stated by the Kinrara Ms to have married Muriel Mackintosh, daughter of Malcolm, 10th Chief of the Mackintoshes.

He died vitâ patris before 16 September 1483, and, according to the above-mentioned chronicle, at Kindrochat in Mar on 30 August 1482, and was buried in the cathedral church of Moray.

He left issue three sons:-

1 JOHN, who succeeded his grandfather as Laird of Freuchie.

2 Patrick, stated to have been a twin brother of John Grant, second of Freuchie, and is claimed as the ancestor of the first family of Grants of Ballindalloch and also of the first Grants of Dalvey, afterwards of Dunlugas. Patrick Grant in Ballindalloch appears about 1520 as a prominent member of the Grant family. He acquired and held Ballindalloch from the Grants of Freuchie. On 17 February 1529-30 he bought from Robert Stewart de Clawauch the lands of half the town (ville) of Urquhart and the lands of Cantraydown in the barony of Clawauch (Clava) in the sheriffdom of Nairn. He was still alive after 8 June 1555. It is not known whom he married. He left issue.

3 William, apparently the 3rd son of John Grant, younger of Freuchie, is named in a royal remission dated 13 February 1527, and is said to be an ancestor of the Grants of Blairfindy. He may be the same as the William Grant who witnessed a charter 6 November 1534.

Source: Grant of Freuchie and of Grant - http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/grant-02.html#Anchor-JOHN

Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol II, Edinburgh, 1906, pp. 456-57.
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Margaret Ogilvie (of Deskford), his wife, 1485-1528 The PEDIGREE of John (younger of Freuchie) GRANT Born: ? Died: 1482 (Am Bard Ruadh); Margaret Ogilvie (of Deskford), his wife, 1485-1528 The son, JOHN GRANT, younger of Freuchie, who was a consenting party to a precept of his father in 1475, and an arbitrator in a dispute between the Mackintoshes and Rose of Kilravock in 1479. On 8th September 1478 he received a grant in liferent from George, Earl of Huntly, of the Earl's lands of Hermestoun, Kinrara, Gergask and others, and is there described as son and apparent heir of Duncan Grant of Freuchie. He was infeft in the lands of Inverallan in a precept dated 9 May 1482, from the superior, William Crawford of Federeth, on the resignation of Patrick Seres. It seems most probable that he is the John Mór Grant of Freuchie who is stated by the Kinrara Ms to have married Muriel Mackintosh, daughter of Malcolm, 10th Chief of the Mackintoshes. He died vitâ patris before 16 September 1483, and, according to the above-mentioned chronicle, at Kindrochat in Mar on 30 August 1482, and was buried in the cathedral church of Moray. He left issue three sons:- A1 JOHN, who succeeded his grandfather as Laird of Freuchie. A2 Patrick, stated to have been a twin brother of John Grant, second of Freuchie, and is claimed as the ancestor of the first family of Grants of Ballindalloch and also of the first Grants of Dalvey, afterwards of Dunlugas. Patrick Grant in Ballindalloch appears about 1520 as a prominent member of the Grant family. He acquired and held Ballindalloch from the Grants of Freuchie. On 17 February 1529-30 he bought from Robert Stewart de Clawauch the lands of half the town (ville) of Urquhart and the lands of Cantraydown in the barony of Clawauch (Clava) in the sheriffdom of Nairn. He was still alive after 8 June 1555. It is not known whom he married. He left issue. A3 William, apparently the 3rd son of John Grant, younger of Freuchie, is named in a royal remission dated 13 February 1527, and is said to be an ancestor of the Grants of Blairfindy. He may be the same as the William Grant who witnessed a charter 6 November 1534.

   b. ABT 1438

       consenting party precept of father/arbitrator dispute Mackintoshes & Rose Kilravock/Freuchie, Moray

   d. BEF Aug 30 1482

       vitâ patris/Kindrochat, Mar or Freuchie, Moray, Scotland

   e. Burial

       BEF Sep 16 1483

       Cathedral Church of Moray/Freuchie, Moray, Scotland

   m. Ogilvie of Deskford, Margaret

       d. 1528