John Grant, 1st Laird of Corrimony

GRANT, John 1st Laird of Corriemony

• (About 1496-About 1593)

John Grant, first of Corrimony, was the younger son of John Grant, of Freuchie, and his wife Margaret, daughter of Sir James Ogilvie, of Deskford. There is no record of when he was born, but from the circumstance that his father and mother were married in 1484, the date may approximately be fixed as between the years 1487 and 1490.

John, who received, on 8th December 1509, a charter from King James the Fourth of the lands and barony of Corriemony. In that charter he is designed younger son of John Grant of Freuchie. From him the Grants of Sheuglie are descended..."

Parents: GRANT, John 2nd Laird of Freuchie 'Am Bard Ruadh' & Margaret Ogilvy

Spouses/Children:

• 1. Unknown
  • GRANT, John 2nd Laird of Corriemony+
• 2. DE INNES, Elizabeth
  • GRANT, Alexander 1st of Sheuglie+

Origins

On 8th December, 1509, he received a Charter under the Great Seal of the Barony of Corrimony, from King James IV. The charter proceeds on this narrative, " know ye that for the increase of our rental, and the profit of the patrimony of our Crown, and also with a view to the advancement of order and manners, and the promotion of good government, in the lands underwritten, among the inhabitants thereof, and for making those obedient to our laws, who in times past have been unruly and disobedient to our said laws, we have given, granted, and in feu-ferme disponed, and by this our pre- sent charter, confirmed to our lovite John Grant, younger son of John Grant, of Freuchie, and his heirs male, All and Sundry the lands underwritten, viz., the £\ lands of Corrimony, the £^ lands of Morull, the £% lands of Four Meikles, the 40 shilling lands of Lochletter, the 40 On 4th January, 1493, when in attendance at Court at Holyrood, he received a Crown charter from King James IV., erecting his lands of Freuchie, Culquheiches, Dailfoure, Auchynnegale, Connygais, and Glenlochy, in Inverness-shire, and other lands in Elginshire, into a free barony, to be called the Barony of Freuchie, for render- ing yearly three suits at the three head Courts of the shires in which the lands lie. Further, on 4th February, 1498, he received a charter granting him the lands of Freuchie and Ballindalloch in feu, the lease in favour of his grandfather having terminated.

By Crown charter, dated 8th December, 1509, he was granted the lands and barony of Urquhart, lying on the west side of Loch Ness. Of these lands he had been Crown chamberlain for some years previous, as the rent rolls still preserved at Castle Grant shew. His last pub- lic act appears to have been the execution of Letters of Skins, drawn up at Delmorar, in the parish of Strath- awin, on 8th October, 1527, between the Clan Grant, on the one hand, and the Farquharsons on the other, resolv- ing to live and die in concord in future.

He died on 1st May, 1528, leaving issue by his wife, Margaret Ogilvie,

1. James Grant, third Laird of Freuchie, called " Shemas nan Creagh," or James of the Forays, married (first) Elizabeth, daughter of John, Lord Forbes, and (second) Christian Barclay. From him descended the family of Grant of Grant, now Earls of Seafield. He died 26th August, 1553.

2. John of Corrimony, see No. IV.

3. Margaret, married, 1508, Thomas Cumming, younger of Erneside.

4. Anne, married, 15(2, Hugh Fraser, Master of Lovat.

5. Agnes, married (contract dated 22nd October, 1520) Donald Cameron, chief of that clan.

6. Elizabeth, married John Mackenzie, ninth of Kintail.

7. Christian.

He had a natural son, John mor Grant, who, on 8th December, 1509, received a charter of the barony of Glenmorriston, and was the ancestor of that family.

(Above text courtesy of "The Grants of Corrimony", by F. S. Grant, c. 1895)

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