Beatrix Cheyne

• Preferred Name: Beatrix Cheyne^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}
  
• Alternate Name: Beatrix Fraser
  
• Alternate Name: Béatrix le Cheyne
  
• Alternate Name: Beatrix Le Chen Of Duffus
  
• Alternate Name: Beatrix le Cheyne
  
• Alternate Name: Beatrix CHEN
  
• Alternate Name: Beatrice Le Cheyne
  
• Alternate Name: Beatrice Frazer
  
• Gender: F
  
• Death: 1300 in Scotland
  
• Birth: AFT 1260 in Stirlingshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.25 LONG: E4.25
  
• Burial: 1306
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Heiress from Caithness with note: probably of the Le Chen of Duffus family
  
• FSID: LZLB-DH6
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Béatrix le Cheyne (also Chen) was the wife of Sir Andrew of Touchfraser, Sheriff of Stirling, and is believed to have been the daughter of Reginald le Chen of Duffus.
  
  No sources identify her birth or death but she is often reported to have been born between 1233 and 1255 in Caithness, Stirlingshire, Scotland, and to have died in 1300.
  
  Many sources identify her as first name unknown but specify that she was an heiress of Caithness.
  
  Beatrix and Sir Andrew are known to be the parents of 4 sons and possibly a daughter:
  - Sir Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie, Lord Chamberlain of Scotland, Sheriff of Stirling, Sheriff of Kincardine; died 11 August 1332 at the Battle of Dupplin Moor; married Mary Bruce, widow of Sir Nigel Campbell, and sister of King Robert I of Scotland.
  - Andrew Fraser, died 19 July 1333 at the Battle of Halidon Hill
  - Simon Fraser, died 19 July 1333 at the Battle of Halidon Hill, married Margaret, a daughter of the Earl of Caithness
  - James Fraser, died 19 July 1333 at the Battle of Halidon Hill; married Margaret, heiress of Frendraught, also known as Mariozita de Ferendraught
  - Christina Fraser (possible daughter), married Tormod MacLeod of Harris, Sheriff of Skye and Harris
  
  === chil known ===
  chil known
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Speculative link to parents ===
  Speculative link to parents
  
  === child Simon b abt 1296 ===
  child Simon b abt 1296
  
  === An heiress from Caithness, probably of t ===
  An heiress from Caithness, probably of the le Chen of Duffus family
  
  === Seal to Parents: Submitted ===
  Seal to Parents: Submitted

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne - Published information: birth-name: Beatrix Le Chen
   Note: Published information: birth-name: Beatrix Le Chen
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2035448008
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
   
3. Title: Scotland, Person Sheet of Heiress Beatrix of Caithness - (death before 1306)
   Author: Fraser of that Ilk - http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-03/fraser01.html
   Publication: Name: http://www.venitap.com/Genealogy/WebCards/ps36/ps36_487.html;
   
4. Title: Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_of_Touchfraser_and_Cowie;
   Note: Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie (died 11 August 1332) was a member of the Scottish nobility who served as the Lord Chamberlain of Scotland and also as the Sheriff of Stirling and Sheriff of Kincardine.[1] He was a descendant of the Clan Fraser members deriving from Oliver Castle. Alexander died at the Battle of Dupplin Moor. Life Alexander was the son of Andrew Fraser of Touchfraser and Beatrix le Chen and the grandson of Richard Fraser of Touchfraser. He was the Lord Chamberlain of Scotland between 1325 and 1329. Lands King Robert the Bruce conferred vast lands including the Barony of Cowie, Barony of Cluny and Barony of Kinnaird upon Alexander Fraser, who was his chamberlain at least as late as 1319.[2] The major transport routes over these lands in the Middle Ages were two ancient trackways known as the Elsick Mounth[3] and Causey Mounth.[4] Family He married in c.1316 Mary, widow of Sir Nigel Campbell, the daughter of Sir Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick and had the following known issue: John of Touchfraser William of Cowie and Durris See also Cowie Castle Muchalls Castle Citations Lineage of Fraser Family R.W.Billings, 1901 C.M.Hogan, 2008 A. Watt, 1985 References Robert William Billings and John Hill Burton (1901) The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland, Oliver and Boyd C. Michael Hogan (2007) Causey Mounth, The Megalithic Portal, editor A. Burnham [1] Lineage of Fraser Family [2] Archibald Watt (1985) Highways and Byways around Kincardineshire, Stonehaven Heritage Society
   Page: Identifies Beatrix le Chen as the wife of Andrew Fraser of Touchfraser and the mother of Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie (died 11 August 1332)
   
5. Title: Lineage of Fraser Family
   Publication: Name: http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ff/fraser01.htm;
   Note: Sir Gilbert Fraser of Oliver Castle, Sheriff of Traquair & Peebles (b before 1200, d c1263) - continued above m. Christian shown on various web sites as a Lascelles Mackenzie (p7) shows Gilbert as father of Sir Simon (shown below as the 2nd son whose line died out), Sir Andrew (shown on p27 as ancestor of the later senior line) & Bishop William. We follow TSP which is supported by BP1934 ('Saltoun'), which starts with this Gilbert. This leads to the implication that Mackenzie has confused the Sir Andrew (m. Beatrice), shown by TSP as Sir Gilbert's 3rd son, with the Sir Andrew (m. Beatrix) shown by TSP as Sir Gilbert's great-grandson. 1. John Fraser (dvp) m. (by 1243) Alicia de Conigburg (dau of William de Conigburg of Stapilgorton) A. Sir Richard Fraser of Touchfraser (a 1276, 1307) As indicated above, TSP leads us to believe that Mackenzie has confused the generations around this point. Mackenzie shows the following Sir Andrew as d c1308, omitting both Sir Richard and his father John. However, TSP shows some uncertainty as (vol 7, p425) it merely reports that Sir Richard "is presumed to have left a son" ... i. Sir Andrew Fraser, younger of Touchfraser, Sheriff of Stirling (dvp by 1306) m. Beatrix (probably dau of Reginald le Chen of Duffus) Mackenzie (p29+) shows Sir Andrew's sons in the order Simon, Sir Alexander, Andrew & James and then follows the line of Simon. We follow the order shown by TSP. a. Sir Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser & Cowie, Sheriff of Stirling, Lord Chamberlain (d Dupplin 1332)§D Mackenzie (p31) reports that "Some peerage writers and genealogists have confounded this Sir Alexander with Alexander Fraser of Cowie and Durris, undoubted progenitor of the Frasers of Philorth, Lord Saltoun, but for this assumption there is no foundation whatever, as will be fully shown when that ancient and highly responsectable family is dealt with in its proper place later on." However, that "dealt with ... later on" does not appear in the 1896 'History of the Frasers'. Consequently, we follow TSP (of which the edition we are using was published in 1908) in treating those alleged 2-people Alexanders as the one and same person. m. (1316) Mary Bruce (d 22.09.1323, sister of King Robert I, widow of Sir Neil Campbell) (1) John Fraser of Touchfraser (b c1317, d young) (A) Margaret Fraser -- m. Sir William Keith, Marischal (d before 1410) -- (2) Sir William Fraser of Cowie & Durris (b c1318, d Durham 1346) m. Margaret Moray (a 1364, dau of Sir Andrew Moray of Bothwell) (A) Sir Alexander Fraser of Cowie & Durris, 1st of Philorth, Sheriff of Aberdeen (d by 1411) m1. (1375) Joanna of Ross (dau of William, 5th Earl of Ross, Lord of Skye) (i) Sir William Fraser of Cowie, 2nd of Philorth (d before 1441) m. (c1404) Elinor Douglas (probably dau of James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas) (a) Sir Alexander Fraser of Cowie, 3rd of Philorth (b before 1410, d 07.04.1482) m. (before 1430) Marjorie Menzies (dau of Gilbert Menzies of Findon) (b) Agnes Fraser m. (24.07.1423) Sir William Forbes of Kinaldie, 1st of Pitsligo (d 13/23.01.1445-6) (c) Isabel Fraser m. Gilbert Menzies m2. (before 1400) Elizabeth Hamilton (dau of Sir David Hamilton, 3rd of Cadzow) partner unknown (probably Helen, dau of _ Straiton of Lauriston) (ii) Alexander Fraser of Durris (Dores) (B) John Fraser of Auchinschogill m. Marjory (dau of Sir John of Monymusk) (i) John Fraser (dsp) partner(s) unknown (ii)+ other issue - Andrew, William b. Andrew Fraser (d Halidon Hill 19.07.1333) c. (Sir) Simon Fraser of Brotherton, Sheriff of Kincardine (d Halidon Hill 19.07.1333) m. Margaret (dau of John, Earl of Orkney & Caithness) d. James Fraser (d Halidon Hill 19.07.1333) m. (1321) Margaret, heiress of Frendraught (1) Sir James Fraser (d c1395) (A) James Fraser of Frendraught (i) Matilda Fraser -- m. Alexander Dunbar (son of John, Earl of Moray) -- e. Christina Fraser probably of this generation m. Tormod MacLeod of Harris, Sheriff of Skye and Harris B. Sir Alexander Fraser of Cornton (a 1296) TSP ('Saltoun', vol 7, p424) shows Alexander of Cornton ("See Title Fraser") as of this generation, and is supported thereon by BP1934, but TSP ('Fraser', vol 4, p107) merely reports that he "may have been a younger brother of Sir Richard of Touch-Fraser". 2. Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver Castle, Sheriff of Traquair & Peebles (d c1280) Mackenzie (p7) shows Sir Simon as the eldest son but reports that it was he who d 1291 having m1. Grizzle, dau of the Thane of Galloway (or Anne Flava), with 2 daughters and m2. Maria, mother of the Sir Simon who was executed in 1306. TSP (vol 7, p421+) suggests that there were 3 successive Sir Simons, not 2. A. Sir Simon Fraser of Oliver Castle, Sheriff of Traquair & Peebles (d 1291)
   Page: Identifies Beatrix as probably the daughter of Reginald le Chen of Duffus As the wife of Sir Andrew Fraser of Touchfraser, Sheriff of Stirling And the mother of: Sir Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser & Cowie, Sheriff of Stirling, Lord Chamberlain; Andrew Fraser; Sir Simon Fraser of Brotherton, Sheriff of Kincardine; and James Fraser. ALSO names a possible daughter Christina Fraser.
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne - birth: about 1232; Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom
   Author: IGI
   Note: birth: about 1232; Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2044620706
   
8. Title: Andrew Fraser - Scots Peerage Vol 7
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/DouglasRScotsPeerageVol71910/page/n446/mode/1up;
   Note: FRASERS OF PHILORTH, LORD SALTOUN Page 425 His seals, two specimens of which are extant, hear on a triangular shield six rosettes or cinquefoils 3, 2 and 1. There is no record of his death, hut he was alive in 1307, when he was declared to have been, and to he still, a rebel. 1 It is not known who Sir Richard Fraser married, but he is presumed to have left a son, Andrew Fraser. Lord Saltoun shows that this Andrew is not to he confounded with Sir Andrew Fraser, son of Sir Gilbert, as some genealogists have supposed, and though there is no documentary proof of his parentage, there is no doubt that he was a very close relation of Sir Richard’s, as his son Alexander w r as Sir Richard’s successor in the lands of Touch Fraser. 2 In 1291, on 17 July, he swore fealty to Edward i. 3 He was Sheriff of Stirling in 1293/ He was taken prisoner into England in 1296, where he resided 4 ultra Morpeth.’ 5 He continued in the south till the middle of 1297, when on 23 June he entered into an agreement to attend King Edward on the Continent, 6 and went to Scot- land to prepare for the expedition ; 7 and on 25 June he received a grant of the lands of Ugtrethrestrother, 8 which had belonged to Macduff 4 now in rebellion .’ 9 There is no further mention of Sir Andrew after 1297, and he was dead before 1306, when his son was in possession of Ugtrethres- trother. 10 Sir Andrew’s seal attached to his obligation to serve King Edward i. against France, bears six rosettes or cinquefoils, 3, 2, 1. His wife, whose name is not known, though it is probable that she belonged to the family of le Chen of Duffus, 11 had property in Caithness ; 12 by her he had four sons : — 1. Alexander, who succeeded. 2. Andrew. Little is known of him except that he was killed at the battle of Halidon Hill in 1333. 3. Simon. He took a prominent part in the battle of Bannockburn when ‘Sir Simon Freser . . . chased the Englishmen three days.’ 13 He had a charter of Page 426 Brotherton in the Mearns, and some lands of Inverbervie. 1 He was Sheriff of Kincardine in 1317 and also in 1332. 2 He was one of the commanders at the recapture of Perth by David n. in 1332, and on 25 November of that year he, with Archibald Douglas, routed Edward Baliol in Annandale. 3 On 19 July 1333 he was killed at Halidon Hill. 4 He married Margaret, a daughter of the Earl of Caithness, and by her is said to have had two sons : — (1) Simon . (2) Hugh or Alexander , 6 He may possibly have been the ancestor of the Frasers of Lovat. 4. James . Was killed with his two brothers at Halidon Hill in 1333. He got on 20 July 1321, and again on 22 September 1329, dispensations from Pope John xxii. to marry Margaret, called in the dispensation Mariozita de Ferendraught, heiress of Frendraught, in 1321. He left a son James , whose seal is attached to the Act of Succession of March 1371, showing on a triangular shield a fess chequy between 6 rosettes or cinquefoils, 3 in chief, 2 and 1 in base, with a wolf’s head as crest. 7 He was knighted before 1371. 8 He witnessed several charters down to 1395, about which year he is presumed to have left a son James Fraser of Frendraught , whose arms bore a bend sinister indented between three rosettes or cinque- foils, 2 and 1. He made grants of lands of Cambe- stone to the Abbey of Melrose, 9 and of Little Glensauche, in the Mearns, to the White Friars of Aberdeen. 10 He left a daughter Matilda , who married Alexander Dunbar, second son of John, Earl of Moray. 11
   Page: Identifies the wife of Sir Andrew Fraser as belonging to the family of le Chen of Duffus. States her 1st name is not known but she held property in Caithness ; Andrew and his wife had 4 sons : Alexander (who succeeded), Andrew, Simon, and James.
   
9. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne -
   Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 1769
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742367
   
10. Title: History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy by Mackenzie, Alexander
    Author: https://archive.org/details/historyoffrasers00mackuoft/page/29/mode/1up pages 29-31 History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy by Mackenzie, Alexander, 1838-1898 Publication date 1896 Topics Fraser family, genealogy Publisher Inverness A. & W. Mackenzie Collection robarts; toronto Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English 26 Addeddate 2007-05-09 18:55:38 Bookplateleaf 4 Call number ABA-1315 Camera 1Ds Copyright-evidence Evidence reported by scanner-liz-ridolfo for item historyoffrasers00mackuoft on May 9, 2007: no visible notice of copyright; stated date is 1896. Copyright-evidence-date 20070509185530 Copyright-evidence-operator scanner-liz-ridolfo Copyright-region US External-identifier urn:oclc:record:1046587721[WorldCat (this item)] Foldoutcount 0 Identifier historyoffrasers00mackuoft Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t9w08zs08
    Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/historyoffrasers00mackuoft/page/29/mode/1up;
    Note: Page 29 Sir Andrew must thus have become the male representative and head of the house of Fraser on the death of Sir Simon Fraser in 1306. As has been already shown he married Beatrix, a wealthy Caithness heiress, with issue — Page 30 3O HISTORY OF THE FRASERs. 1. Simon, his heir and successor, and first of the Frasers of Lovat. 2. Sir Alexander, a knight of " high reputation and great natural endowments." He was Chamberlain of Scotland, and along with his brother, Simon, was among the chief men who repaired to the Royal Standard and took a distinguished part in the battle of Inverurie in 1308. After the sieges of Forfar and Brechin, he accompanied King Robert the Bruce to Argyleshire, with the view of recovering that part -of the West Highlands from his inveterate enemies, the Cummings of Badenoch, and as a reward for his distinguished services the King gave him his sister, the Princess Mary, widow of Sir Nigel Campbell of Lochow, in marriage. This must have occurred before 1316, for the first charter to Sir Alexander and Mary his spouse, "our beloved sister," appears to have been granted in that year, the tenth of her brother's reign, and there is a sub- sequent entry of a charter in Robertson's Index to Sir Neil Campbell, to Mary his wife, sister to the King, and to their son John, apparently in the same year. Mary Bruce died before the 22nd of September, 1324, for the King granted to Sir Alexander a charter of six acres of arable land in Achincairny, adjacent to "our manor of Kincardine," to be held by him and his " heirs legitimately procreated betwixt him and the deceased Mary Bruce, his wife, our beloved sister." Sir Alexander was appointed Chamberlain of Scotland in 1325, in which year he is found issuing a precept in that capacity to the Aldermen and Bailies of Roxburgh to pay twenty shillings per annum to the canons of Dryburgh out of the farms of that town. He is on record as one of the " Barones " in the second deed for the settlement of the Crown in 1318, and his name- appears in the famous letter addressed to the Pope by the Scottish nobility, dated the 6th of April, 1320. He was appointed to the Sheriffdom of Kincardine, an office which must have been conferred upon him from his having acquired a large estate in that county, the only property which he seems to have inherited from his father as his Page 31 appanage being that of Touch, subsequently confirmed to him by the King. He was killed at the battle of Duplin on the 3rd of August, 1332, without male issue, but he left a daughter Margaret, who married William Keith, and had issue — John Keith, who married a daughter of King Robert II. by whom he had one son, Robert, whose daughter married Alexander, first Earl of Huntly, on account of which the Dukes of Gordon quartered the Fraser arms with their own. In the 26th year of his reign, David II. con- firmed a charter by William Keith and Margaret Fraser, his wife, " neptis et heres bone memorie quondam Domini Alexandri Fraser, milit" Sir Alexander's daughter inherited all his estates and thus carried them into other families of distinction. Some peerage writers and genealogists have confounded this Sir Alexander with Alexander Fraser of Cowie and Durris, undoubted progenitor of the Frasers of Philorth, Lord Saltoun, but for this assumption there is no foundation whatever, as will be fully shown when that ancient and highly respectable family is dealt with in its proper place later on. 3. Andrew, killed, apparently unmarried, with his brothers Simon and James at the battle of Halidonhill on the 22nd of July, 1333. 4. James, who married Margaret, the heiress of Fendraught. In a list of dispensations of marriage in favour of persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity by Pope John, XXII., found by M. de Marini in the Archives of the Vatican, is one — " Dispensatio Jacobo Fraser, Aberdonen, ct Margareta: de Ferendraught," dated 1322. James was also killed, along with his two brothers, at the battle of Halidonhill, without issue.
    Page: Identifies "Beatrix, a wealthy Caithness heiress" as the wife of Sir Andrew Fraser. Parents of: Simon, Sir Alexander, Andrew, James
    
11. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne -
    Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: VII:425, no first name
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741135
    
12. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne -
    Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222799
    
13. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Béatrix le Cheyne -
    Author: History of the Frasers of Lovat; Alexander Mackenzie {1896}, Page number: 29
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222588