Alexander Cockburn, of Langton

Extract from The House of Cockburn of that Ilk, and their cadets. by Thomas H. Cockburn-Hood (Edinburgh 1888) pages 60 (http://archive.org/details/houseofcockburno00cock)

Alexander, eldest son and heir-apparent of Langton married Mariota Hepburne, daughter of Archibald, the grandson of Sir Patrick Hepburne, Dominus de Dunsyar and Sheriff of Berwickshire, where he held large estates. His wife was Mariota Normanville, heiress of Gargunnock, County Stirling, whose large properties were inherited by their son Alexander Hepburne. Mariota appears to have been, like her husband's sister, Margaret Cockburn, an especial favourite of Queen Margaret and of King James the Fourth, who, on 16th July 1510, granted confirmation of the new investitures taken out on their marriage :—" Familiaro suo Alexandre filio et heredi apparent! famiharis sui Willelmi Cokburn de Langtoune militis et Mariote Hepburne sponse dicti Alexandri," — of the joint tenure of Carrydin, and the church lands thereof, in the county of Linlithgow, resigned in their favour by his father and himself for this purpose. Mariota had as her dower lands in Quhitsun [Whitsome], in the Merse, held by her father from Adam Hepburn, Lord of Halis. They had, with three daughters, a son James, who succeeded his grandfather as eleventh Baron.