Alexander Fraser, 4th Lord Lovat (1527 – 1557/1558) was a Scottish peer and

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from 1544 until 1557. He succeeded to the chiefship in July 1544, aged seventeen, after his father Hugh Fraser, 3rd Lord Lovat and elder brother Simon were killed in the battle of

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. He was made the legal ward of Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney (d. 1558), who was a relative of his mother's. In 1555 he waited on

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when she came to

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to hold assizes. He died of rheumatism in 1557/1558.

Marriage and family

Lovat married Janet Campbell (died 1592), daughter of Sir John Campbell of

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, a son of

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. Their children included:John Anderson, ''Historical account of the family of Frisel or Fraser, particularly Fraser of Lovat'' (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 83. * Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat * Thomas Fraser of Knockie and Strichen * James Fraser of Ardochy * Anna Fraser, who married John Fraser of Dalcrosa, also called John Mor MacVaister When Janet Campbell died in 1592 she left her two silver goblets, a bed with "Scottish green" curtains, and the high table of Dalcross Castle to her grandson Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat.

References

1527 births 1550s deaths Year of death uncertain Nobility from Highland (council area) 16th-century Scottish people Lords of Parliament (pre-1707) Lords Lovat Clan Fraser Chiefs {{Lord-of-Parliament-stub