Andrew Fraser, Knight

• Preferred Name: Andrew Fraser, Knight^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25]}
  
• Alternate Name: Andrew Fraser
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: 1245 in Touch, Stirlingshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.1 LONG: E3.9333
  
• FSID: KN46-29S
  
• Lands+bestowed+by+Prince+Edward: 25 JUN 1297 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Burial: 1306 in Scotland
  
• Lands+in+Fife+Restored: 3rd September, 1296 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Sheriff of Stirling: 1293 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 1306 in Touchfraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.1 LONG: E3.9333
  
• Sheriff of Stirling: 1291 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• Dominus de Touch: 1293 in Stirling at LATI: N6.25 LONG: E4.25 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Stirling
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  - In 1291, on17 July, he swore fealty to Edward I.
  - He was Sheriff of Stirling in 1293.
  - He was taken prisoner into England in 1296, where he resided ‘ultra Morpeth.’
  
  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, and went to Scotland to prepare for the expedition; and on 25 June he received a grant of the lands of Ugtrethrestrother, which had belonged to Macduff ‘now in rebellion.’
  
  There is no further mention of Sir Andrew after 1297, and
  
  he was dead before 1306
  
  Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol VII, Edinburgh, 1906, pp. 425-6
  
  My Maternal 19th. Great Scottish Grandfather, Sir Andrew Fraser, Knight
  Name: Sir Andrew Fraser, Knight
  Born: about 1245 in Touch, Stirlingshire, Scotland
  Married: before 1270 in Scotland to Beatrix le Cheyne
  Children: (5)
  Christina Fraser, of Lovat 1270–1302 • GW6S-QK8
  
  My Maternal 19th. Great Scottish Grandmother, Beatrix le Cheyne
  Name: Beatrix le Cheyne
  Born: about 1241 in Caithness, Stirlingshire, Scotland
  Married: before 1270 in Scotland to Sir Andrew Fraser, Knight
  Children: (5)
  Christina Fraser, of Lovat 1270–1302 • GW6S-Q
  
  === 1270 ===
  1270
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MA ===
  !MENTION: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon, MACLEOD CHIEFS OF HARRIS AND DUNVEGAN, Edinburgh, The Clan MacLeod Society, 1969, p. 10.
  
  === Source: History of Frasers of Lovat pg. ===
  Source: History of Frasers of Lovat pg. 38; 929.241f862m. Sheriff of Stirling 1291 and 1293
  
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  Line 77 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Andrew /FRASER/ GIVN Andrew
  Line 78 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Andrew /FRASER/ SURN FRASER
  Line 81 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: SOUR @S01@
  Line 230 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Andrew /FRASER/ GIVN Andrew
  Line 231 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: NAME Andrew /FRASER/ SURN FRASER
  Line 234 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long: SOUR @S01@
  
  === Andrew Fraser. Lord Saltoun shows that t ===
  Andrew Fraser. Lord Saltoun shows that this Andrew is not be 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 was Sir Richard's successor in the lands of Touch Fraser. In 1291, on 17 July, he swore fealty to Edward I. He was Sheriff of Stirling in 1293. He was taken prisoner into England in 1296, where he resided 'ultra Morpeth.' 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, and went to Scotland to prepare for the expedition; and on 25 June he received a grant of the lands of Ugtrethrestrother, which had belonged to Macduff 'now in rebellion.' There is no further mention of Sir Andrew after 1297, and he was dead before 1306, when his son was in possession of Ugtrethrestrother. 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, had property in Caithness; by her he had four sons. [The Scots Peerage VII:425]
  
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  Owing to the failure, in this manner, of the direct male line, the male representationship of the Frasers went of course to the next collateral male, Sir Andrew Fraser, who will be immediately proved to have been a younger son of Sir Gilbert Fraser, Sheriff of Traquair, formerly mentioned, the common ancestor, and the father and grandfather, respectively, of the two Simons whose history and exploits have been narrated.
  
  This Sir Andrew, consequently the younger brother of Sir Simon 'pater', was a distinguished character in his day, and is often mentioned in the annals of the period. The first notice we have of him is in June 1291, when he swore allegiance to Edward I at Dunfermline, being designed as noblis vir Dominus Andreas Fraser. (Remarks on Ragman's Roll, 13 Prynne, III. 510) Baliol nominated Sir Andrew one of the umpires to decide the contest for the Crown, 5th June 1291; he was present when that pusillanimous prince did homage to Edward on the 26th December 1292. He was sheriff of Stirling in 1291 and 1293, and dominus de Touch in the same county. By a mandate of Edward I on 3d September 1296, Andrew Fraser's lands in Fife, which he held of Ada de Valoynes, were ordered to be restored to him. On the 25th of June 1297, the same Prince bestowed upon him the manor of Ughtrethrestrother (hodierne Struthers) in Fife.
  
  Animated with the ardent zeall which distinguished the Scottish nobles, Sir Andrew Fraser and his son are deservdly eulogised for their valorour exploits, in defending against and cruel and vindictive enemy the liberties of their native country. Sir Andrew soes not appear to have long survived Sir Simon, his gallant nephew. We learn from the Chartulary of Kelso, that he executed a mortification, with consent of Beatrix his wife, to that religious house, under the appellation of Andreas Fraser, filius quondam Gilberti Fraser militis, of a caracute of land in Wester Gordon. Both Chalmers and Crawford explicitly state, that Sir Andrew was the son of Gilbert Fraser, who was vicecomes of Traquair: But the previous authority is conclusive of the fact; because there was no other Gilbert, except the Sheriff who figured at the time. Sir Andrew, obviously as a relative, is a witness also to the deeds by Sir Simon, the grandson of Gilbert. AS, in subsequent document to the above, in the cartulary of Kelso, and relative to it, in 1308, Sir Andrew is styled 'of good memory, now deceased,' he may have died about the latter period.
  
  The latest writer on the subject seems to have had Andrew in view, when he says that he was the father of Simon, who obtained the lands of Lovat; but, by a chronological error, he calls him Adam, and says, he was a donator to the Abbey of Kelso. This will be pretty evident, when we consider that no Adam Fraser ever appears as a benefactor of that institution.
  
  Though those fables, which migle with genealogical enquiry, when framed in opposition to fact, we occasionally catch climpses of the truth. Thus in a MS of the Saltoun family, the son of the preceding Andrew Fraser of Touch is allowed to have laid the foundation of the noble family of Lovat, by marrying a great heiress, though the writer, by a strange and unaccountable anachronism, has made the estate descend from Sir Alexander the son, to Sir Andrew the father. The perusal of what follows, will clearly expose a misrepresentation so gross as to assume a man, dead in 1308, to be the successor of another, whose career did not terminate till 1322 and who did not marry, moreover, till 1316.
  
  Equally to be reprehended is the looseness of expression, of which Crawford is sometimes guilty. By an inattention to that minuteness of detail, on which the accuracy of genealogical enquiry is mainly built, he confounds the pedigree of Sir Andrew with that of Sir Simon the patriot; forgetting that the former outlived his great relative, and transmitted his estates, not to him, but to another Simon. In saying, however, that Sir Andrew succeeded to his father Sir Gilbert, he says no more than is the fact; since, upon the failure of his elder brother's issue, he became the male representative of his father, and of the illustrious house of which he had been the head.
  
  Independently of the figure which Sir Andrew Fraser made in history, he claims our special attention and regard as the first of the name of Fraser, who established an interest for himself and his descendants in the northern part of Scotland, and more especially in Inverness-shire, where they have ever since figured with such renown and distinction. Previous to his time, the Frasers had no connection with Inverness-shire; and he himself appears originally to have only a comparatively small appenage in the south of Scotland - (part of which he gave, as we have seen, to the Abbey of Kelso) - and such as might have befitted a younger son, during an age when the bulk of the family estate usually went to the elder. An advantageous alliance afforded him the means of adding to his patrimony. He sought and obtained in marriage a wealthy heiress in the county of Caithness - a district which was then, and for many centuries afterwards, comprehended within the Sheriffdom of Inverness. This is fully proved by the following letter or mandate of Edward I, in the year 1296, addressed to John de Warren, Count of Surrey, in his favour. R. di et fi suo Johi de Warrena comiti Surr custodi regni et terre sue Scotie salt. Quia de gra- n-ra- speciali concessimus Andree Fresel qui p p-ceptu n-rm in Anglia p-fturus- est ulto Trentam et ibidem ad voluntatem n-ram p-ut ordinavimus morturus centum marcas p-cipiendas de exitibus terras et ten que sunt de dote uxoris sue in Catania ad sustentato-em suam uxoris et familie sue donec aliud inde duximus ordinand' ita quod si terre et ten' p-dta valorem annua centum marcas non attingant de eo q-d inde defuerit p vos suppleatr vobis mandamus q-d p-fato Andr- p-dtas centu marcas h-ere faciatis in forma p-dta. T. R. apud Morpath primo die Octobr."
  
  Sir Andrew Fraser is hence clearly proved, by this document, to have acquired, in right of his wife, a very large estate in the north of Scotland; for it is uncessary here to instruct what the extent and value of a property in those days, and int he county of Caithness, must have been, that yielded any thing amounting to the yearly revenue here granted. He was also, as we have see, 'Dominus de Touch,' in the county of Stirling, according to the author of critical remarks upon Ragman's Roll; the truth and accuracy of whose observations, often derived from authentic sources, is well known. This property was, in all probability, first conferred on him when he attained to the dignity of the Sheriff of the county of Stirling; and afterwards possessed, apparently as his appanage, by Sir Alexander Fraser, his younger son.
  
  Sir Andrew Fraser left issue four sons:
  1. Simon
  2. Sir Alexander
  3. Andrew
  4. James
  [Historical Account of the Family of Frisel or Fraser pp33-36]

• m. BEF 1270 in Scotland

1. Simon Fraser of Brotherton, 1st Lord of Lovat, b. ABT 1280     d. 19 JUL 1333 in Battle of Halidon Hill, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England
2. Alexander Fraser Of Touchfraser And Cowie, b. ABT 1276 in Touch Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland     d. 11 AUG 1332 in Battle Of Dupplin Moor, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland

1. Title: The History of Frasers of Lovat
   Publication: Name: https://deriv.nls.uk/dcn23/9657/96579203.23.pdf;
   
2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
   Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
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3. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
   Author: Ancestry Family Tree
   
4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
   Author: Stirnet.com, Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Name: http://www.stirnet.com;, Page number: Fraser01, Cheyne02
   Note: Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com).
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246398939
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser - Published information: death:
   Note: Published information: death:
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2035448008
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
   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
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
   Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: VII:425
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741135
   
8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
   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
   
9. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
   Author: History of the Frasers of Lovat; Alexander Mackenzie {1896}, Page number: 27-29
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10. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 1769, 2538
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
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11. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser - death:
    Author: IGI
    Note: death: birth: about 1228; Touch, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom christening: ; Touch, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2044620706
    
12. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser - Published information: death:
    Note: Published information: death:
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2035448008
    
13. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: Stirnet.com, Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Name: http://www.stirnet.com;, Page number: Fraser01, Cheyne02
    Note: Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com).
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246398939
    
14. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: History of the Frasers of Lovat; Alexander Mackenzie {1896}, Page number: 27-29
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222588
    
15. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: VII:425
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741135
    
16. 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;
    
17. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser - death:
    Author: IGI
    Note: death: birth: about 1228; Touch, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom christening: ; Touch, Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2044620706
    
18. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    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
    
19. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: Historical Account of the Family of Frisel or Fraser; John Anderson {1825}, Page number: 33-36
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222604
    
20. Title: Ancestry Family Trees
    Author: Ancestry Family Tree
    
21. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    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
    
22. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: Historical Account of the Family of Frisel or Fraser; John Anderson {1825}, Page number: 33-36
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222604
    
23. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    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
    
24. Title: Scotland, Sir Andrew Fraser of Touchfraser, Sheriff of Stirling - (about 1270- before 1306)
    Publication: Name: http://www.venitap.com/Genealogy/WebCards/ps36/ps36_486.html;
    
25. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Sherrif of Sterling Andrew Fraser -
    Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 1769, 2538
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742367