Thomas Erskine

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• Name	Thomas Erskine
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 11 Nov 1403 and 18 May 1404  [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I27357	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2020

  
  

  Father	Robert Erskine of that Ilk   d. Between 14 May 1385 and 11 Nov 1385
  Mother	Beatrice Lindsay,   b. Abt 1286   d. Bef 6 Dec 1352 (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	Aft Jul 1335  [3, 4]
  Family ID	F16378	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Janet Keith   d. Aft 11 Jun 1413
  Marriage	Bef 13 Apr 1370  [1, 3]
  Children	1. Jean Erskine   d. Bef 23 Apr 1411   2. Robert Erskine   d. Between 7 Sep 1451 and 6 Nov 1452
  Family ID	F16333	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Mar 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "[K]nighted by 1370 in order to enter the lists against Sir James Douglas over an inheritance dispute, keeper of Edinburgh Castle and sheriff of Edinburgh by 1371, had a charter to the barony of Dun in 1371, resigned to him by his father, a frequent witness to royal charters, captured at the battle of Homildon Hill 14 September 1402 and may have been held a prisoner in England until his death." [The Ancestry of Charles II, 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. [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. [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. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler.