Donald of Lennox

- 1364

• Name	Donald of Lennox  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between May 1361 and Nov 1364  [2]
  Alternate death	Bef 1364  [3]
  Person ID	I28936	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Malcolm of Lennox   d. 19 Jul 1333, Halidon Hill, Northumberland, England
  Family ID	F17248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Margaret of Lennox   d. Bef 17 Feb 1392
  Family ID	F17247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "DONALD, sixth Earl of Lennox, succeeded his father in 1333. Very little is recorded regarding him. He adhered to the cause of King David Bruce, and some of his lands in Lothian, including Easter Glencorse and others, were forfeited. His name, however, chiefly occurs in connection with charters granted by him, but these need not be specially enumerated, the rather as they are all without date. One charter may be noted, the granting to Maurice Buchanan the lands of Buchanan and Sallechy, giving him jurisdiction over life and limb on these lands, provided those condemned were put to death on the Earl's own gallows at the Cathir. The reddendo of the lands was one cheese from each house where cheese was made, to be furnished to the King's common army when occasion required, and also six pennies of silver in name of blench farm, if asked, at Whitsunday and Martinmas. The Earl also had a charter from King David II, of date 2 May 1361, confirming the extensive grant of free forestry made by Alexander III. Earl Donald was present in Parliament at Edinburgh 26 September 1357, and with other magnates appointed certain plenipotentiaries to treat as to the ransom of King David. He died between May 1361 and November 1364, when his successor is styled Earl of Lennox. His wife is not known." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012. [S800] 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. Ed. James Balfour Paul. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904-1914. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.