Sir John de Graham of Dalkeith, Abercorn & Eskdale (1278–1337) was a 13th-14th century
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
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noble.
John, born in 1278, was the son of
Nicholas de Graham of Dalkeith and Abercorn and Mary de Strathearn.
He fought at the
Battle of Bannockburn
The Battle of Bannockburn ( gd, Blàr Allt nam Bànag or ) fought on June 23–24, 1314, was a victory of the army of King of Scots Robert the Bruce over the army of King Edward II of England in the First War of Scottish Independence. It was ...
against the English on 23–24 June 1314 and as a result had his Northumberland estates confiscated. King
Edward II of England denounced John as an enemy and rebel, and granted his Scottish lands to
Hugh le Despenser. He signed the
Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
John died on 25 April 1337.
Family and issue
John married Isabella, and had the following known issue:
*Sir John de Graham, last of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale, died without issue; resigned Dalkeith in favor of William Douglas of Laudonia 6 Jan 1343
*Sybilla de Graham, married
Reginald de Mure
Reginald de Mure, (died 1340) Lord of Cowdams, Cameskan and Abercorn was a Scottish noble. He was the Lord Chamberlain of Scotland between 1329 and 1333 and between 1334 and 1340.
Mure received the Abercorn estate upon his marriage to Sybilla ...
, had issue. Abercorn passed to the
Mure family.
*Isabel de Graham, married
Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland
Walter Stewart (G. W. S. Barrow, ‘Stewart family (per. c.1110–c.1350)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004.9 April 1327) was the 6th Hereditary High Steward of Scotland and was the father of King Rob ...
as his second wife, had issue.
*Margaret de Graham, married
William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale as his 1st wife.
[Balfour, pp. 195-197]
Citations
References
*Balfour, J. "The Scots Peerage", Vol VI, Edinburgh, 1906.
*Calendar of documents relating to Scotland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London
by Great Britain. Public Record Office; Bain, Joseph, 1826-1911; Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland) https://archive.org/details/calendarofdocume02grea/page/476/mode/1up
*Registrum Honoris de Morton. A series of ancient charters of the Earldom of Morton with other original papers by Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland); Thomson, Thomas, 1768-1852; Macdonald, Alexander; Innes, Cosmo; https://archive.org/details/registrumhonoris02bann/page/45/mode/1up
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1278 births
1337 deaths
Medieval Scottish knights
People from South Ayrshire
13th-century Scottish people
14th-century Scottish people
Signatories to the Declaration of Arbroath
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