Thomas Randolph

- Bef 1262

• Name	Thomas Randolph
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 18 May 1262  [1]
  Burial	18 May 1262	Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland   [1]
  Person ID	I27339	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Ranulf
  Mother	Bethoc
  Family ID	F16323	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Juliana   bur. 18 May 1262, Melrose Abbey, Roxburghshire, Scotland
  Children	+ 1. Thomas Randolph,   b. Abt 1255, of Stichill, Roxburghshire, Scotland d. Aft 1293 (Age ~ 39 years)
  Family ID	F16322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Sheriff of Dumfriesshire in 1237. "[In 1222] he was sent by King Alexander II to King Henry III, who bestowed upon the King of Scots the custody of the land and the heir of David Lindsay. The next reference to Thomas is in the year 1225, when he is named among the King's clerks. In 1226 he acted as clerk and attorney of Alexander II in regard to the executry of Hugh le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, which had been purchased by the Scottish King, whose sister had been married to the Earl's son Roger, then a minor. He seems to have conducted all the negotiations relating to the ward's estate, and also executed necessary repairs on the mills belonging thereto. He acted, indeed, as King Alexander's bailiff over the estate, and either as part of his fee or in his own right held lands in Norfolk and Lincoln. He was in Scotland with the King on 18 March 1228-29, when he witnessed a royal charter confirming a grant of Dunscore to the monks of Melrose. He appears also as a witness to other writs in 1231, 1236, and 1237. In this last year also, he is referred to as Sheriff of Dumfriesshire, and on 25 September same year he is named among those magnates of Scotland whom King Alexander caused to swear to keep the treaty between himself and the English King as to his hereditary rights to the three northern English counties. His name occurs again in the confirmation of the same treaty in 1244. He appears as a witness to a royal charter on 28 November 1247. He was one of the group of magnates, supporters of the Comyn faction, who were removed from about the person of the young King Alexander III of Scotland by the influence of King Henry III in 1255, but he is not named as one of those who returned to power in 1257." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [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.