John de Graham

• Preferred Name: John de Graham^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GJ4T-J1J
  
• Death: 25 APR 1337 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.9969 LONG: E3.4727
  
• Birth: ABT 1270 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.9969 LONG: E3.4727
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Lord of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  John de Graham, only known child of Nicholas de Graham of Dalkeith (died after 1303) and his wife Mary of Strathearn, daughter of Malise Earl of Strathearn & his first wife Marjory de Muschamp of Wooler.
  
  In an inquest at Bamborough with regard to his mother's half of Muschamp, 19 May 1306, he is said to be twenty-eight years of age, this places his date of birth as before 19 May 1278.
  
  John married a Lady named Isabella whose parentage is not known.
  Sources conflict on their children. The foundation for Medieval Genealogy states John and Isabella had only 2 children John and Isabel. However, Scots Peerage Volume 6 (pages 195-197) identifies Isabel as John's SISTER not his daughter and names their children as John, Sybilla and Margaret.
  
  Children of John and Isabella:
  - Sir John de Graham, last of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale; who died after 6 January 1342, without issue. Resigned Dalkeith to the husband of his sister Margaret; while Aber
  - Sybilla de Graham, married Sir William More/Mure, succeeded to the barony of Abercorn.
  - Margaret de Graham, married Sir William Douglas of Laudonia, the Knight of Liddesdale
  - **Isabel Graham, who married Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, as his 2nd wife. **Isabel has been identified by conflicting sources as either John's daughter or his sister, if one considers her marriage circa 1317 then she is more likely to be his daughter.
  
  John succeeded his father as Lord of Dalkeith about 1303. John was identified as a supporter of John Baliol in 1303-4, and his mother did homage to King Edward as the widow of Sir Nicholas de Graham on 14 June 1306. By 1314 John had changed his allegiance for twelve days before the battle of Bannockburn (23-24 June 1314) John joined the forces of Robert the Bruce and fought against the English in the landmark battle. Because of his participation he was declared a rebel and an enemy of the English Crown and his lands were confiscated.
  
  John was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Arbroath, addressed to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, in which 39 Scottish earls and barons declared the Kingdom of Scotland a independent kingdom and denounced English attempts to subjugate it.
  
  The foundation for Medieval Genealogy gives John's date of death as -25 Apr 1337, the source of this date of death is not given..
  
  === Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
  Twentieth Great Grandfather : Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Grandfather

• m. ABT 1288 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland

1. Agnes Graham - Heiress of Dalkeith, b. 1308 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland     d. 1 AUG 1377 in Castle Lockleven, Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland
2. Isabel de Graham, b. 1289 in Linlithgow, Linlithgowshire, Scotland     d. 2 MAR 1337 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
3. Sibilla Graham, b. 1298 in Dunure, Ayrshire, Scotland     d. ABT 1333 in Cornmarty, Ross Cromatry, Scotland

1. Agnes Graham - Heiress of Dalkeith, b. 1308 in Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland     d. 1 AUG 1377 in Castle Lockleven, Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland

1. Title: John Graham, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FKQ-4L5N : 2 June 2022), John Graham, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 239137985, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FKQ-4L5N;
   
2. Title: JOHN Graham of Abercorn son of NICHOLAS de Graham of Dalkeith - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20UNTITLED.htm#HenryGrahamdiedafter1233A;
   Note: HENRY [II] de Graham, son of HENRY [I] de Graham & his wife --- (-after 1233). "Henricus de Graham filius Henrici de Graham" confirmed the donation of "terram de Balnebuth" to Newbattle abbey, made by "avus meus et pater meus P. et H. de Graham", by undated charter[689]. m ---. The name of Henry’s wife is not known. Henry [II] & his wife had children: 1. HENRY [III] de Graham (-after 1283). "…Willo de Lindes…Walt de Berk, Rob de Berk, Henrico de Graham" witnessed the undated charter under which William King of Scotland confirmed a donation to Melrose abbey by "Alanus filius Walteri dapifer eisdem monarch"[690]. "Robto de Ros, David de Graham…Willelmo filio comitis, Henrico de Graham, Nicholao Corbeth, Waltero filio Walterii senescalli, Roberto filio comitis…" witnessed the undated charter, dated to before 1232, under which "Patricius comes de Dunbar" reached agreement with Melrose abbey about "terra sita in territorio de Halsingtune"[691]. "Henricus de Grahame" donated land by undated charter witnessed by "…Nich de Grahame Henrico de Grahame…"[692]. m --- Avenell, daughter of ROGER Avenell & his wife ---. Balfour Paul names “the daughter and heiress of Roger Avenel (who died 1243)” as the wife of Henry [III] de Graham, adding that she brought “the lordships of Abercorn in Linlithgowshire, Kilbucho and Newlands in Peeblesshire, and Eskdale in Dumfriesshire” to her husband, but he does not cite the primary source on which the information is based[693]. Henry [III] & his wife had two children: a) NICHOLAS de Graham of Dalkeith (-after 20 Jan 1292). "Nicholaus de Grham miles primogenitus dñi Henrici de Grham" confirmed the donation of "terra…in villa et territorio de Halsington" to Melrose abbey made by "Willelmus de Alewentona" by undated charter[694]. "Henricus de Grahame" donated land by undated charter witnessed by "…Nich de Grahame Henrico de Grahame filio Radulpho de Corry"[695]. A charter dated 20 Jan 1292 records the homage sworn to King Edward I by "Nicholai de Graham (qui Mariam sororem et heredem Muriellæ quondam comitissæ de Mar defunctæ, duxit in uxorem)" for the lands held from the king by "eadem Muriella soror ipsius Mariæ" when she died[696]. m MARY of Strathearn, daughter of MALISE Earl of Strathearn & his first wife Marjory de Muschamp of Wooler ([1250/51]-after 1306). The Inquisitions on the death of "Muriella quondam comitissa de Mar" are dated 23 Nov 1291 and name "Maria uxor Nicholai de Graham [soror] dictæ Muriellæ…propinquor heres" aged 40[697]. Nicholas & his wife had one child: i) JOHN Graham of Abercorn (-25 Apr 1337). "Johannes de Graham miles filius et heres Dñi Nicholai de Graham" donated "totam terram de Eskedal" to Melrose abbey by undated charter, dated to the early 14th century[698]. "Johannes de Graham dñs de Abrecorn" confirmed "terram…in tenemento de Dalketh" to "Roberto de Lauuedre" by charter dated 4 Mar 1315 witnessed by "…dño Jacobo de Douglas…"[699]. m ISABELLA, daughter of --- (-after Apr 1337). John & his wife had two children: (a) JOHN Graham (-after 6 Jan 1342). Balfour Paul states that, as the last of the direct male line, he resigned Dalkeith in favour of William Douglas of Laudonia 6 Jan 1343[700]. (b) ISABEL de Graham . The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified. m as his second wife, WALTER Stewart, son of JAMES 5th High Steward of Scotland & his [third] wife Egidia de Burgh ([1292]-9 Apr [1326/29]). b) HENRY de Graham . "Henricus de Grahame" donated land by undated charter witnessed by "…Nich de Grahame Henrico de Grahame filio Radulpho de Corry"[701]. 2. NICHOLAS de Graham . According to Balfour Paul, he was ancestor of the Graham families of Tarbolton and Waiston in Ayrshire[702].
   
3. Title: 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)
   Author: Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/calendarofdocume02grea/page/476/mode/1up
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/calendarofdocume02grea/page/476/mode/1up;
   Note: 476 CALENDAR OF DOCUMENTS Edwaed I 1306 May 13 1768. Walter bishop of Chester, treasurer, to Sir James de Dalilegh the K.'s escheator south of the Forth. Having spoken with Sir Robert de Leybourn(?) sheriff and constable of the castle of Are, as to repairing the castle gate and covering the four 'turelles' to store the provisions coming there, commands him to pay Sir Robert 40 marks out of his readiest issues, to do said work. Written at Both- well, 13th of May. [^Exchequer, Q. B. Miscellanea {Army), No. ^.] 1306 May 16 1769. The K. commands the Justiciar, Treasurer, and Barons of the Exchequer in Ireland, that as Gascon wines are not shipped for England, in such abundance as usual this year on account of the Pope's stay in these parts, they are to forward with all haste, 200 casks of wine to Skynburness, along with the victuals ordered for his Scottish army. Farnham. {^Patent, SJf. Edw. I. m. 24-] 1306 May 19 1770. Inquisition [under writ dated Winton, 4th of the same month, commanding an error in a previous inquisition of 18th April to be amended], made at Bamburgh, on Thursday next before Pentecost, in the K.'s 34th year, by Alexander de Bradeford [and 11 other jurors] ; who find that the deceased Nicholas de Graham held the moiety of the barony of Muscamp of the heritage of Maria his wife ; that Robert de Muscamp her ancestor held the whole barony of the K. in capite ; from whom it descended to Margery and Isabella his daughters, and to said Maria as Margery's daughter and heir in the moiety. That Nicholas and Maria held it in conjunct seisin, not in marriage. It is worth 921. 4s. Sd. John de Graham their son is the heir of Maria, and is 28 years of age. They append their seals. [Seals lost] [Inq. p. m. 3Jp Edw. L No. 38.]
   
4. Title: Sir John [de Graham] of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale in GRAHAM, DUKE OF MONTROSE - The Scots peerage Volume 6, pages 194-197
   Author: The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom by Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 Publication date 1904-1914 Topics Nobility -- Scotland, Scotland -- Peerage Publisher Edinburgh : D. Douglas Collection robarts; toronto Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor Robarts - University of Toronto Language English Volume 6 PAGES 194 TO 197
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06pauluoft/page/195/mode/1up;
   Note: PAGES 194 TO 197 GRAHAM, DUKE OF MONTROSE Sir Nicholas of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale, who, in a charter to the monks of Melrose of their lands of Halsington, is styled ' primo genitus Domini Henrici de Graham.'... He married, before 1269, Maria, younger daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, by his wife Marjory de Muschamp, co-heiress of the barony of Muschamp (including Wooler, Belford, and Lowick) in Northumberland.7 By the death of her sister Muriel, Countess of Mar, in 1291 s.p. she became vested in the whole of her mother's moiety of the barony.8 On 14 June 1306, as widow of Sir Nicholas, she did homage to King Edward upon his restoration of her seisin of the half-barony of Muschamp, and she died between 1314 and 1318.9 The children of Sir Nicholas were : — (a) Sir John of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale. In an inquest at Bamborough with regard to his mother's half of Muschamp, 19 May 1306, he is said to be twenty-eight years of age.10 He was one of the sup-porters of Baliol included in the capitulation of Sir John Comyn at Strathord 1303-4. l Having joined the fortunes of Bruce, Edward n., twelve days before the battle of Bannockburn, granted to his favourite, Hugh le Dispenser, and Alianora his wife, a charter of all the lands and tenements in Scot- land forfeited by John de Graham, the King's enemy and rebel.2 At first at feud with the monks of Melrose, he eventually granted to them full confirmation and an enlargement of the original grants by the Avenel family of their lands in Eskdale, which confirmation was ratified by King Robert, by charter dated 25 December 1316. 3 Sir John made a donation to the Abbey of Dunfermline of the patronage of the church of Newlands in Peeblesshire, 1317.4 Along with his kinsmen, Sir David de Graham and Sir Patrick de Graham, he affixed his seal to the celebrated letter of the Scots Barons to the Pope, asserting the independence of their country, 6 April 1320. His estates were forfeited to Edward in., and he died 25 April 1337, leaving a widow, Isabella, who had a terce of his lands in Crichton, apparently exempted from the forfeiture, and a lease of the other two-thirds. Their children were : — A. Sir John de Graham, filius, last of Dalkeith, Abercorn, and Eskdale, who parted with those estates, finally resigning Dalkeith in favour of Sir William Douglas de Laudonia 6 January 1341- 42.7 On his death the direct male line of the elder branch of the family of Graham ended. B. Sybilla (?), married to Sir William More, and, on the resignation of her father or brother, succeeded to the barony of Abercorn.1 C. Margaret, said to have been married to Sir William Douglas de Laudonia, the ' Knight of Liddesdale, ' though his only known wife was named Elizabeth. (See title Morton.) It may, however, have been a marriage with a Graham which carried to the family of Douglas Dalkeith, Kilbucho, and Newlands in Peeblesshire, and the lands of Eskdale.2 (6) Isabella, married (as his second wife) to Walter, High Steward of Scotland, sometime husband of Marjory Bruce, daughter of Robert I., and by him, who died 1326, had a son, Sir John Stewart of Ralston, and other children.
   
5. Title: John de Graham (died 1337) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Graham_(died_1337);
   Note: John de Graham (died 1337) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sir John de Graham of Dalkeith, Abercorn & Eskdale (1278–1337) was a 13th-14th century Scottish noble. John, born in 1278[1], was the son of Nicholas de Graham of Dalkeith and Abercorn and Mary de Strathearn. He fought at the Battle of Bannockburn 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,[2] 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 [3] Sybilla de Graham, married Reginald de Mure, had issue. Abercorn passed to the Mure family. Isabel de Graham, married Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland as his second wife, had issue.[4] Margaret de Graham, married William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale as his 1st wife.[5] Citations Calendar, p.476, https://archive.org/details/calendarofdocume02grea/page/476/mode/1up Balfour, pp. 195-197 Registrum, pp. 44-45 Balfour, pp. 195-197 Balfour, pp. 195-197 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