Thomas Somerville 1st. Lord of Somerville

• Preferred Name: Thomas Somerville 1st. Lord of Somerville^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: G9M6-J1D
  
• Death: DEC 1444 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.6833 LONG: E3.6333
  
• Birth: JAN 1370 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.6833 LONG: E3.6333
  
• Bio: with note: Description: wife Janet brought Cambusnethan
  
• Bio: in Scotland with note: Description: gfa gained Cowthally Castle
  
• CREATED+AS+1ST+LORD+SOMERVILLE: ABT 1435 with note: Description: The title of 'Lord Somerville' was created about 1435 for Thomas Somerville, who was 1st of that title. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Somerville
  
• Burial: DEC 1444 in Carnwath Churchyard, Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.6833 LONG: E3.6333 with note: Thomas Somerville I BIRTH 1370 Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, Scotland DEATH Dec 1444 (aged 73–74) Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, Scotland BURIAL Carnwath Churchyard Carnwath, South Lanarkshire, Scotland PLOT St Mary's, Somerville Aisle MEMORIAL ID 144406861
  
• Justiciar+of+Scotia: ABT 1435 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Somerville
  
• Residence: in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.6833 LONG: E3.6333
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Thomas Somerville, Baron of Somerville, was a Lord of the Parliament of Scotland. In 1423 Thomas Somerville, as Baron of Carnwath, came to London as an ambassador to treat for the release of James I of Scotland, who had been captive in England for many years. Somerville was also recorded as a Warden of the Scottish Borders in 1424. As Somerville of that Ilk, he sat on the assize at Stirling Castle in May 1425 that condemned Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany. Thomas Somerville probably founded the Collegiate Church at Carnwath with his family burial aisle around 1425-1430, and repaired the church at Linton, Roxburghshire.
  According to James, 11th Baron of Somerville, author of the history of the Somerville family, it was during the life of Thomas, 1st Baron of Somerville, that "the fortunes of the Somerville family . . . reached their zenith in territorial possessions in power and influence." He had four baronies: Carnwath in Lanarkshire and Cambusnethan in North Lanarkshire; Linton in Roxburgh; and Plean in Stirlingshire. In addition, upon the death of his uncle, Thomas Somerville, in 1412, he succeeded to the estates of Gilmerton, Drum, and Goodtrees in the Edinburgh vicinity. He also held lands in Quothquan and Newbigging in Lanarkshire; and Broughton in Peebleshire. Cambusnethan was brought to him by his wife, Janet, daughter of Alexander Stewart of Darnley (d.1404).[3]
  Thomas Somerville, 1st Baron Somerville, was twelfth in the direct male line from Sir Gualter de Somerville, 1st Baron of Whichenour (in Staffordshire), who arrived with William the Conqueror in 1066.[4] Thomas married Janet Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart of Darnley, before July 1392. Their eldest daughter Mary married Sir William Hay of Yester, another daughter Geillis married Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, and Margaret married Roger Kirkpatrick of Closeburn in Niddsdale. His heir William Somerville, 2nd Lord Somerville, married Janet Mowat of Stenness. The first Lord Somerville died in December 1434.
  Sources
  Scott, Walter, ed., James Somerville, The Memorie of the Somervilles by James, 11th Lord Somerville, vol. 1, Ballantyne, Edinburgh (1815)
  Scott, Walter, ed., The Memorie of the Somervilles by James, 11th Lord Somerville, vol. 2, Ballantyne, Edinburgh (1815)
  References
  Rhymer, Thomas, ed., Foedera, vol. 10, p. 301: Memorie of the Somervilles,vol. 1 (1815), 159 footnote, 164 footnote, 166-7.
  Somerville, James (1920). The Baronial House of Somerville. Glasgow: Maclehose. pp. 25–26. Retrieved 19 Aug 2016.
  Douglas, Robert (1764). The Peerage of Scotland. Edinburgh. p. 627. Retrieved 19 Aug 2016.
  Somerville. Baronial House. p. 25.
  Memorie of the Somervilles, vol. 1 (1815), 168-170 & footnote, 171 & footnote, 175, 176.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Somerville,_1st_Lord_Somerville
  
  My Maternal 16th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Baron Thomas Somerville, 1st. Lord of Somerville
  Name: Baron Thomas Somerville, 1st. Lord of Somerville
  Born: January 1370, in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  
  First spouse
  Married: January 1391 in Lanarkshire, Scotland to Lady Janet Stewart, of Dar
  
  Lady Elizabeth Keith, of Aboyne and Cluny
  Name: Lady Elizabeth Keith, of Aboyne and Cluny, daughter of Sir William Keith, 12th. Marischal of Scotland, and Margaret Fraser, Heiress of Touchfraser
  Birth: about 1361 in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, Sc
  
  My Maternal 16th. Great Grandmother, Lady Janet Stewart of Darnley
  Name: Lady Janet Stewart, Heiress of Darnley
  Born: 1372, in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
  Married: July 1391 in Lanarkshire, Scotland to Sir Thomas Somerville, 1st. Baron of Somerville
  Children: (
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Name Suffix: Lord of Cowthally ===
  Name Suffix: Lord of Cowthally
  
  === Thomas de Somerville of Linton and Carnw ===
  Thomas de Somerville of Linton and Carnwath, was born about 1370. In 1392 he had a charter from Robert III to himself and Janet Stewart, his wife, of the barony of Cambusnethan, in Lanarkshire, together with the corn rent due of old to the King, on the resignation of Sir Alexander Stewart of Darnley and Johanna his wife. The holding was blench for a pair of gilt spurs. On 26 Februray 1400-1 his charter of the lands of Newbigging, in favour of his cousin William de Newbigging, was confirmed by Robert III. He was served heir to his father on 1 March 1406. On 31 March 1421 he was bailie to Archibald, Earl of Douglas. On 7 August 1421 he granted to the priory of St Machutus, at Lesmahagow, a dependency of the Abbey of Kelso, certain lands lying in his towns of Lindon and HOslaw, in the barony of Linton 'in puram elemosinam.' On 13 December 1423 he had a safe-conduct to England to meet James I, and was one of the guarantors of the treaty for his release, 28 March 1424. On 20 April of the same year he granted a charter in favour of S Michael;s chapel of Cambusnethan. In the same year he, with consent of William, his son and heir, founded the Collegiate Church of Carnwath for a provost and six prebendaries. Of the churhc then build by his, the north transept, called St Mary's or College aisle, alone remains, and is now used as the mortuary chapel of the family of Lockhart or Lee and Carnwath. In June 1424 he granted, also with consent of William his son, an annualrent of ten merks from his lands of Manuel to a chaplain to say perpetual masses for the soul of Randolph Weir at the altar of St Mary, in Lesmahagow, the patronage to be exercised by himself and Thomas Weir of Blackwood alternately. On 13 January 1424-25 he granted to Robert Maxwell, son and heir of Herbert Maxwell, Knight, Lord of Carlaverock, and his wife Janet, daughter of John Forester of Corstorphine, a charter of the lands of Liberton in Carnwath, on the resignation of Herbert Maxwell, being therein described as cousin of Robert Maxwell. On the return of James I from captivity he was one of the few admitted to the King;s confidence. He was one of the consenters on the King's behalf to the partition of Hassington by Patrick of Dunbar, Lord of Beill, between the Abbot of Melrose and Walter of Haliburton on the Wednesday in Whitsun week 1428, being described as 'noblis vir Thomas de Somervile Dominus de Carnwath ac Justiciarius Domini nostri Regis ex parte australi de Forth.' As 'Thomas Dominus Sovervile' he appears as one of the conservators of a truce with the English 15 December 1430. He is, however, styled Thomas Dominus de Somervyle when he was one of the conservators of another truce 20 March 1438, and on 13 October 1434, when he presided at the perambulation and definition of the marches of the lands belonging to the nuns of North Berwick, he is described as Thomans Symmeruell, Lord of Carnebeith, Justiciary of the King south of the Forht. He is also called Thomas de Somervile, dominus de Carnewithe, in a charter of 22 December 1439. He attended the Parliament held at Perth on 10 January 1434-35 when he was elected and sworn one of the Lords Auditors. He died December 1444, and was buried at Carnwath. Before July 1391, during his father's lifetime, he married Janet Stewart, above-mentioned. He married again, in terms of a dispensation dated 2 November 1411, Elizabeth Keith widow, successively of Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly and Sir Nicholas Ersking of Kinnoull. She died about 1436. He is also said to have married Mary, daughter of Henry Sinclair, first Earl of Orkney. [The Scots Peerage VIII:7-9]
  
  === Line in Record @I40639@ (RIN 40632) from ===
  Line in Record @I40639@ (RIN 40632) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _UID E33728CA9ECCD61193C3973FD6E9BB5E6195 Line in Record @I40683@ (RIN 40639) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _UID 4AFF322446A2D61193C3E88C9393015FBED3 !#21-v12pt1-p92,92fn(d); & Linton,Roxburgh;
  
  === Clan Somerville
  
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  Clan Somerville
  
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  He added the lands of Gilmerton, Drum and Goodtrees in Midlothian through marriage and before 1430 Thomas Somerville was created Lord of Carnwath and Linton who, also by marriage, acquired the Barony of Cambusnethan
  
  === Elizabeth/Keith 2 Nov 1411 ===
  Elizabeth/Keith 2 Nov 1411
  
  === --Other Fields Ref Number : Quality: 0 D ===
  --Other Fields Ref Number : Quality: 0 Death: Quality: 0
  
  === 2 Nov 1411 Elizabeth/Keith ===
  2 Nov 1411 Elizabeth/Keith
  
  === First Lord of Somerville ===
  First Lord of Somerville
  
  === !#21-v12pt1-p92,92fn(d); & Linton,Roxbur ===
  !#21-v12pt1-p92,92fn(d); & Linton,Roxburgh;
  
  === O'Hart Irish Pedigrees; Anglo-Irish and ===
  O'Hart Irish Pedigrees; Anglo-Irish and Other Genealogies, (941.5 D2oha 1976 Vol. 2) pp 234-5
  
  === TITLE: Baron Carnwath ===
  TITLE: Baron Carnwath
  
  === PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE, VOL 6, LDS GENEA ===
  PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE, VOL 6, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
  
  === Sir ===
  Sir
  
  === Some say his 1st wife was Janet, daughte ===
  Some say his 1st wife was Janet, daughter of Sir Alexander Stewart ofDarnley was mother of his children. From Doug Hickling (Sources etc. to follow) "Janet, daughter of Sir Alexander Stewart of Darnley by his first wife____ Turnbull, daughter of Sir Turnbull of Minto. Sir Alexander wasdescended (in the male line) from Sir Alan Stewart, the second son of SirJohn Stewart of Bonkyl and (in a female line) from Sir Walter Stewart,the fourth son of Sir Alan. The Somerville article in CP12:92, which waspublished in 1953 and is therefore one of the newer CP volumes, statesthat William Somerville of Carnwath was the son and heir of Sir ThomasSomerville and his first wife, Janet, daughter of Sir Alexander Stewartof Darnley and was born in or before 1400. At footnote d, the articlesays that Sir Thomas married Janet Stewart before July 1391, thusobtaining the barony of Cambusnethan. The same note says that he marriedMary Sinclair in 1407 and tht it is unlikely that she was the mother ofhis son William. Sir Thomas' third wife, whom he married pursuant to a 2November 1411 dispensation, was Elizabeth Keith, 4th daughter of Sir William Keith, who was the widow of Sir Nicholas Erskine of Kinnoull andof Sir Adam Gordon of Huntly."
  
  === Somerville Coat of Arms
  http://trees.anc ===
  Somerville Coat of Arms
  http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=5ec0f260-778b-4c3e-80ed-95f067646f7c&tid=42217376&pid=677
  
  === somerville-scotland
  http://trees.ancestr ===
  somerville-scotland
  http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=ede69ad1-2063-438c-aeca-bd0903615e15&tid=42217376&pid=677
  
  === Son of William de Somerville; m. 1411 El ===
  Son of William de Somerville; m. 1411 Elizabeth Keith, widow of AdamGordon. [Richard Hodgson Son of Baron Somerville and Margaret Edmonston;m. Elizabeth Keith. [Eileen McKinnon-Suggs m. Janet Stewart of Darnley;father of William, 1st Lord Somerville of Carnwath who m. Janet Mowat ofStonehouse. [Hamish Maclaren BURR LINE Son of John, 3rd Baron Somerville,and Margaret Edmonston; m. Janet Stewart; father of William who m. JanetMowat. [Eileen McKinnon-Suggs m. Janett Stewart; father of: 1. Elizabethwho m. Archibald Gillespic Campbell 2. William who m. Janet Mowat [
  
  === Thomas De Somerville, of Linton and Carn ===
  Thomas De Somerville, of Linton and Carnwarth, was one of the ambassadors deputed, in 1423, to the court of London, to treat for the ransom of King James I. He was created 15 Dec 1430, Lord Somerville, in the peerage of Scotland.

• m. 2 NOV 1411 in Scotland

1. Title: establishing thier marriage year
   Author: Stewart Family Genealogy. 11.[S35] #242 [1883 edition] A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New edition, 1883, reprint 1962), Burke, Sir John Bernard, (New edition. 1883. Reprint, London: Harrison and Sons, 1962), FHL book 942 D22bug 1883., p. 511.
   Publication: Name: http://www.genealogy.kirkpatrickaustralian.com/archives/getperson.php?personID=I19397/http://genealogy.stewart-clan.com/getperson.php?personID=I60918#cite11;
   Note: these web pages show their marriage year. The Kirkpatrick family archives Stewart Family Genealogy
   Page: this is to show thioer marriage year.
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Somerville -
   Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: V:346, VIII:7-9
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741135
   
3. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/6764295;
   
4. Title: parentage link
   Author: taken from geni web site/ancestry/my heritage
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-William-Somerville/6000000002188089150(http://person.ancestry.com/tree/51981418/person/13281596853/facts;
   Note: between these three web pages they give enough information to establish that these are his parents
   
5. Title: Thomas Somerville, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1V-BJQM : 6 March 2021), Thomas Somerville, ; Burial, Carnwath, , South Lanarkshire, Scotland, Carnwath Churchyard; citing record ID 144406861, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK1V-BJQM;
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Thomas Somerville -
   Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: XII/1:92
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741118
   
7. Title: England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
   Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9841/records/135023865;
   
8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Thomas de Somerville - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Thomas de Somerville
   Note: Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Thomas de Somerville Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: birth: about 1374; Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland Individual or family possessions: death: about 1434; Scotland
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3247548703