Michael Wemyss - Lord of Wemyss

• Preferred Name: Michael Wemyss - Lord of Wemyss
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 1319 in Scotland with note: Standardized
  
• FSID: GNK3-VK1
  
• Birth: 1231 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland at LATI: N6.1502 LONG: E3.0908 with note: Standardized
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Wemyss
  
• Notes:

  === Name Suffix: Knight
  Name Prefix: Name Suffix: Knight
  Name Prefix: Sir.
  Name Suffix: Knight
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  === Name Prefix: Sir ===
  Name Prefix: Sir
  
  === Sir Michael Wemyss of Wemyss, who succee ===
  Sir Michael Wemyss of Wemyss, who succeeded his father, Sir John, first appears on record as a witness to a charter by his father in 1231. He probably was then very young, and he does not occur again in history till about 1280, when he is a witness to a charter by Sir Malcolm Moray. He is also, between 1289 and 1296, a witness to various charter by his son David. He was one of the Scottish barons who met at Norham in 1291, and he supported the pretensions of John Baliol to the crown of Scotland. In 1296 he did homage to King Edward I twice, once at Stirling in June and again at Berwick on 28 August. In 1304 King Edward was for a day and night at Wemyss Castle, but in June 1306 he wrote to Sir Aymer de Valence that he was not pleased with Sir Michael's conduct, directing Sir Aymer to destroy his manors and lay waste his property. He also proposed to give Sir Michael's estates to some of his own favourites, but this was frustrated by his own death at Burgh-on-Sands. Other references to Sir Michael Wemyss show him taking an interest in local affairs, the last notice of him being in connection with a dispute between the monks of Dunfermline and the tenants of Leslie as to their marches. Sir Michael was one of the arbiters chosen on behalf of the Abbey, but when the arbiters met at Newbattle, on 13 March 1319-1320, he was not with them, and may have died about that time or a little later, as no further reference to him has been founde. His wife is not certainly known, but she may have been a daughter and co-heiress of Sir David Lochore. [The Scots Peerage VIII:278]

1. David Wemyss - Lord of Wemyss, b. 1265 in Fife, Scotland     d. 1372 in Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland
2. David Wemyss - Lord of Wemyss, b. 1310 in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland     d. 1372 in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland