John de Boswell, 2nd of Balgregie

Sir John Boswell, 2nd of Balgregie

• Parents: Roger 1st of Balgregie de BOSVIL b: in Balgregie, Scotland; Miss WEMYSS
• m1. (before 1367) Margaret Melville (dau of Sir Robert Melville of Carnbie)
• m2. Miss Glen (sister of Sir John Glen of Balmuto)
• Death: 1395 in Balgregie, Scotland

Roger de Boswell, second son of Richard of Oxmuir, was the first of the name who settled in Fife. ln the beginning of the reign of King David Bruce, he married Mariota, daughtcr and co-heiress of Sir William Lochore of that ilk, knight, with whom he got the half of the barony of Auchterderran in that county.

His son, John de Boswell, succeeded him in all his lands. In 1365 he obtained a safe conduct to England, from King Edward the Third, and retumed the following year.

John de Boswell married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Melville of Cairnbee. His son, Sir William Boswell, was one of the judges in a perambnlation of the lands of Kirkness and Lochore.

Sources

1. The Scottish Nation: Or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of Scotland, Volume 1 (Google eBook).  William Anderson.  Fullarton, 1867.  Page 344.  "Boswell"