Sir John Erskine

SIR JOHN OF ERSKINE knight

Johanne de Irskyne; Johanne de Irschyn, militibus; domino Johanne de Herchyn, milite

The ancestry of Sir John of Erskine is not known, although it would appear that he is the successor of Henry of Erskine. Stirnet: Erskine 01

Evidence from the Register of the Monastery of Paisley

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c. 1260: Johanne de Irskyne, militibus Registrum Monasterii de Passelet Cartas Privilegia Conventiones Aliaque Munimenta Complectens A Domo Fundata MCLXIII Usque AD A.D. MDXXIX Ad Fidem Codicis M.S., in Bibliotheca Facultatis Juridicae Edinensis Servati Nunc Primum Typis Mandatum (Edinburgi MDCCCXXXII), p. 58

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1262: Johanne de Irschyn, militibus Registrum Monasterii de Passelet Cartas Privilegia Conventiones Aliaque Munimenta Complectens A Domo Fundata MCLXIII Usque AD A.D. MDXXIX Ad Fidem Codicis M.S., in Bibliotheca Facultatis Juridicae Edinensis Servati Nunc Primum Typis Mandatum (Edinburgi MDCCCXXXII), pp. 121-22

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18 May 1271: Domino Johanne de Herchyn, milite Registrum Monasterii de Passelet Cartas Privilegia Conventiones Aliaque Munimenta Complectens A Domo Fundata MCLXIII Usque AD A.D. MDXXIX Ad Fidem Codicis M.S., in Bibliotheca Facultatis Juridicae Edinensis Servati Nunc Primum Typis Mandatum (Edinburgi MDCCCXXXII), pp. 191-92

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

c. 1312: Charter by James, Steward of Scotland, to John de Yrskyn [Erskine], son of John, son and heir of Sir John de Yrskyn, Kt, for his homage and service, of all land which the granter holds in tenement of the (le) Larges, saving to granter 2 merks of land which Walter, son of Richard, held, and also right of patronage of the Larges, and saving to William, son of Sir John de Yrskyn, 2 merks of land in said tenement which said Sir John resigned to granter by staff and baton, and in which he infefted said William; under provision that grantee shall perform forinsec service from said land, namely as much as pertains to 1/10 part of service of one Kt; with permission to grantee and his heirs to have 6 brewhouses in said land; and with clause of warrandice. Witnesses - Sir Robert, Bishop of Glasgow, Sir Reginald de Crauford [Crawford], Sir John de Yrskyn, Walter Logan, John Wyscard [Wishart], Gilbert de Coningisburg. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Erskine Family, Earls of Mar and Kellie, reference GD124/1/1112

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1260-1309: Sir John Erskine in favour of John, his son, by Eva, daughter of Gilronane, of lands between Gogo and Kelburne; National Records of Scotland, Miscellaneous Transcripts Etc., Individual Documents, reference RH1/2/58

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage etc. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, LL.D., Lord Lyon King of Arms, Volume V (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1908), pp. 590-630
2. Stirnet: Erskine 01