DAVID BRUCE OF CLACKMANNAN younger

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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2 December 1502: Bruce of Clakmannan. Menteith of Caverea. Contract of marriage. Failure to procure dispensation. Action by David Bruse, younger of Clakmannane, against John Menteith of Caverca “for the wrangas postponing and differing til raise and bring hame ane dispesacione fra the Court of Rome for the completing and solempnyng of lauchfull matrimone betuex sade Jhone and Marione Bruse, dochter to the sade David Bruse, elder, and sister to David Bruse, younger,eftir the forme of the indenturis.” The pursuer compearing by Edward and Robert the Bruse, his procurators, and the defender personally, the Lords ordain the said John to deliver to the said David “the authentic copy under the transsumpt of the sade Marione conjunct feftment of the sadis landis of Caverca, togidder with the rentalling of the takkis of the landis of Dalgrane. The Colzare Raw myln, Petbaithle, with the auchtene part of Maistertoune, for als mony termes and yeris as he has of the sammyn and prodicit before the Lordis; and als decretis and deliveris the sade Jhone til be qwyt of the clame of five hundreith merkis clamyt be umquhile David Bruse, elder of Clakmannan. And David Bruse, yonger, for their costis , dampnage and expensis, because he failyeit til mak resignation of his landis and til bring hame the sade dispensacion, sen that the sade Jhone of Menteith has producit and lauchfull resignacione and conjunct, feftment. Dispensacione and ane sufficient rentaling of the sade Marione in presens of the sadid Lordis.” Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes II: 456

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2 December 1502: Same dept. Action by John Menteith of Kaverky against David Bruse, elder, and David Brus, younger of Clakmannan, for 40 l, Scots. The pursuer compearing personally, and David Bruse, younger, compearing by Edward and Robert the Bruse, his procurators, the Lords ordain the said David Bruse, younger to pay thesaid sum to the pursuer in terms of his obligation produced. Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes II: 456

Printed Evidence

Acta Dominorum Concilii. Acts of the Lords of Council in Civil Causes. Vol. II. A. D. 1406-1501. With some Acta Auditorum et Dominorum Concilii A. D. 1469-1482. Edited by George Neilson, LL.D., and Henry Paton, M.A. )HMSO, Edinburgh, 1918) 588 pp. including index and errata

The Barony of Clackmannan

1473 – 1497 Sir David Bruce - 6th Baron of Clackmannan

Received the charter for the lands of Clackmannan and Rait on the event of his father's death in 1473. Knighted by King James IV.

Gave eldest son Robert and his wife a charter for the lands of Rait in Perthshire in August 1481. Resigned the charter for Clackmannan in favour of his son David on 11th September 1497. Died around 1506.

Barony passed from father to son

1497 – 1550 Sir David Bruce - 7th Baron of Clackmannan

Received the charter for the Lands and Barony of Clackmannan when his father resigned from it in his favour in September 1497. On 1st February 1507 resigned the lands of Rait to his nephew
David, who in turned resigned his rights to the lands of Clackmannan in favour of his Uncle David Bruce and his family. Sir David's eldest son John died before his father therefore the Barony of Clackmannan passed to John's son.

Barony passed from grandfather to grandson

1550 -1609 Sir Robert Bruce - 8th Baron of Clackmannan

Due to his father John dying before his grandfather, the Barony passed on to Robert Bruce. His son Norman served as a Colonel in the Army. His son Walter was a servant to Robert Stewart, Commendator of Holyrood and Earl of Orkney and is believed to have taken part in a confrontation at the Kirk of Kirkwall after which they were charged with the "treasonable taking of the Kirk of Kirkwall".

a1 Sir John Bruce, 5th Baron of Clackmannan & Rait
x Elizabeth Stewart of Rossyth

b1 Sir David Bruce, 6th Baron of Clackmannan & Rate
x Janet Stirling, of Keir

b1c1 Robert Bruce, of Rait d before November 29, 1491
x Elizabeth Lindsay

b1c1d1 David Bruce of Rait (b c 1485 - about 21yrs in 1506)

xx Mariot "Marion" Herries

b1c2 Sir David Bruce, 7th Baron Of Clackmannan x Lady Janet Blackadder, Baroness of O'Lack

DAVID BRUCE OF CLACKMANAN AND RAIT

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

11 September 1497: Charter by which James IV, King of Scots, confirms possession of the baronies of Clackmanan and Rait to David Bruce, son of David Bruce of Clackmanan, and his heirs. David Bruce senior had previously resigned these lands in order to obtain a new grant under the Great Seal of Scotland in favour of his son David. David senior reserved his own liferent and that of his wife Mariote Herriis. RMS 1424-1513: charter number 2372

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Nephew David Bruce of Rate resigned his right to Clackmannan in 1506/7 and the title passed to his uncle David Bruce, son of David 6th Baron, but his 2nd wife Marion Herries.

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David Bruce, 7th of Clackmannan1
M, #185119, d. after 1556
Last Edited=25 Jan 2016

Sir David Bruce, 7th of Clackmannan was the son of Sir David Bruce, 6th of Clackmannan and Mariot Herries.2 He married Janet Blackadder, daughter of Sir Patrick Blackadder of Tulliallan.2 He died after 1556.3

He lived at Clackmannan, Clackmannanshire, ScotlandG.4 In 1497 Clackmannan was settled on him by his father.2

Children of Sir David Bruce, 7th of Clackmannan and Janet Blackadder

1. Marion Bruce1
2. Alison Bruce+2
3. John Bruce, younger of Clackmannan+2 d. b 14 Feb 1550
4. Robert Bruce+2
5. David Bruce+2
6. Patrick Bruce2
7. Elizabeth Bruce+2
8. Agnes Bruce2
9. Sir Edward Bruce of Blairhall+2 b. 1505, d. 1565

Citations [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 547. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37] [S37] BP2003. [S37] [S6286] Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy, online http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info. Hereinafter cited as Clan MacFarlane. [S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 174. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]

References

• 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 Author Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931 Page 471. Archive.Org

From the Charters of Clackmannan

28th August, 1485— Charter by David Bruce of Clackmannan to Robert Bruce, his son and apparent heir, and Elizabeth Lindsay, his wife, in liferent, and the heirs male, to be procreated between them, in fee of the six oxgates of land pertaining to the said David Bruce of his lands of Rate, on the east side of the burn, and lying in the Barony of Rate and county of Perth. To be holden by the said Robert Bruce and his heirs aforesaid, whom failing his heirs, whatsoever of the King and his successors, for payment of a penny on the ground of the said lands, in manner of blench, if asked. Witnesses : Robert Bruce of Culmaluindie and Thomas Bruce, and others.

14rh Septr., 1497— Crown Charter
of Resignation by King James IV., to David Bruce, son of David Bruce of Clackmannan* of the lands and Barony of Clackmannan, lying in the County thereof, and lands of Rate, lying in the county of Perth, proceeding on the resignation of the said David Bruce, elder. To be holden by the King and his successors, under the burden of the liferent of the said David Bruce, elder, and Margeret Harries, his wife.

3d February, 1506— Crown Charter by King James IV., to David Bruce, grandson and heir of the said deceased David Bruce of Clackmannan, to be holden by the said David Bruce, younger, of the King and his successors, in fee and heritage, for rendering of services used and wont.

3d February, 1506— Charter under the Great Seal, to David Bruce, nepoti, and heir of David Bruce of Clackmannan, of the lands of Rate, &c. (Reg. of Great Seal)

5th February, 1506— Crown Charter by King James IV. to David Bruce, knight, son of the deceased David Bruce of Clackmannan, of the lands of Ilallhill over and nether and Barony of Clackmannan, and others, now erected into a Barony, to be called in all time coming the Barony of Clackmannan. To be holden by the said David Bruce and the heirs male, procreated between him and Janet Blackadder, his wife, whom failing, his nearest and lawful heirs whatsoever, bearing the name and arms of Bruce, whom all failing, to revert to the King and his successors, according to the ancient Charters of Taillie of the said Barony in favour of the said ancestors of the said David Bruce for services used and wont.....

The eldest son of David of Clackmannan was, in 1485, Robert Bruce, to whom apparently, on his marriage, old David Bruce granted part of the Barony of Rate..

Robert Bruce, the eldest son of old David Bruce of Clackmannan (see No. 22), had died before his father, leaving this son David, who must have been at this time very young, and who, in 1506, was probably about twenty-one years of age. In 1497 (see No. 26), this child's uncle, with the consent securingly of the child's grandfather, who was then in possession, got a Charter from King James IV., which was ratified in 1506. (See No. 28.)...

Douglas, in his history of the Bruces, says that David Bruce, son of Robert,, and grandson and heir-male of old David Bruce of Clackmannan, who was alive in 1497, resigned all his right to Clackmannan in favour of his uncle David, brother of Robert Bruce, and younger son of old David Bruce. This statement is quite consistent with the Charters Nos. 26, 27, and 28, because David Bruce, the uncle, would not have any right to the estate as heir, so long as male-heirs of Robert existed, and the fact that the Charter No. 27 was granted to Robert's son David, as heir to his grandfather, on 3d February, 1506, shows that he was living when the King consented to grant this Charter, No. 28, to his uncle, and that he must have acquiesced in his uncle's obtaining the grant. Douglas adds, that the male line is extinct, but he gives no authority for this, and it is clear that if any descendants of David Bruce, the son of Robert, exist (probably in Perthshire), as suggested in the " History of the Bruces," (" History of Noble British Families, Part III.,") they are the representatives of the original Bruces of Clackmannan. The Barony of Rate, in Perthshire, does not appear to have been conveyed along with the Barony of Clackmannan, and David, the younger, may have settled there. But Rate soon afterwards was possessed by the Bruces of Clackmannan.

BRUCE, EARLS OF ELGIN AND AILESBURY Balfour Paul, James, ed. (1906). The Scots Peerage, Vol. III. Edinburgh: David Douglas. pp. 467–468. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.

Sir David Bruce, eldest son of the second marriage, succeeded his father in Clackmannan, to the exclusion of his elder half-brother Robert and his son David. On 11 September 1497 he had a Crown charter of Clackmannan, subject to his father's liferent and that of his mother Mariota Herries. On 3 February 1506-7 he had a Crown charter erecting Clackmannan, with other lands, into a barony, when he is styled ' David Bruis de Clackmannan miles, Alius quondam David Bruce de Clackmannan,' his nephew, David Bruce of Rait, having resigned any interest he might have in it. The estate must have been a very large one, from the enumeration of the lands incorporated in the barony. He had a licence to hold a fair at Clack- mannan on the Feast of St. Bartholomew annually, 18 April 1517, which was confirmed 18 September 1542. Sir David was on an assize 1 December 1554, On 21 January 1550-51 he gave a charter to Robert Bruce, his grandson and apparent heir, and Janet Levingstone, his wife, of an annualrent of forty merks, and was alive 12 June 1556, when he gave a precept of sasine for infefting Robert Bruce, brother- german of the deceased Mr. John Bruce, in the lands of Wester Kennet. Sir David married Jean, daughter of Sir Patrick Blacadder of Tulliallan, by whom he had issue five sons and four daughters, viz. : —

1.John, died vita patris before 14 February 1550-51, but carried on the line of the Clackmannan family, which became extinct in the male line on the death, 8 July 1772, of Henry Bruce, fifteenth and last Baron.
2. Edward, of Blairhall born 1505, had a charter of the lands of Easter Kennet, 1537, on the resignation of Robert Brady. This charter was confirmed11 by James v. 24 April 1537. He had also a charter 12 from the Abbot of Culross 7 June 1540, confirmed 15 February 1542-43, of the lands of Bergady and two parts of the Shire mills
3. David, of Green. He was ancestor of the Bruces of Kennet, Lords Balfour of Burleigh. (See vol. i. p. 547.)
4. Robert, of Lynmylne. The Swedish Bruces ennobled in 1668 were probably descended from him.
5. Patrick, of Valleyfield. He had a charter of Valley-field from the Commendator of Culross, 8 June 1540, to himself and Margaret Falconer, his wife, which was confirmed7 15 February 1542-43. In this confirmation charter he is called son of Sir David Bruce of Clackmannan, Knight. He is said to have resigned the lands and barony of Valleyfield to James Preston of Craigmillar, and to have died s. p., leaving the estate of Green to his brother David ; but, on the other hand, David appears as a witness to a charter under the designation 'of ' de Greyne,' 30 January 1536-37. He is also a witness to a precept of sasine 6 November 1536, and in an ancient MS. pedigree, endorsed 1640, Patrick is styled of Valleyfield,' and David is called ' of Greyne.' It would, on the whole, seem that Patrick never possessed Green, but only Valleyfield.
6. Elizabeth, married, first, to Alexander Dundas of Fingask ; they had a charter of Cottis, 8 August 1542. She was married, secondly, to Robert Oolless of Bonneymoon.
7. Marion, married, first, about 1500, to John Menteith of Caverkay ; secondly, to Robert Bruce of Airth ; and thirdly, to Magnus Sinclair of Kynninmonth, second son 7 of William, Lord Sinclair. She died July 1575; will dated at Dysart 18 June 1575, confirmed 11 August 1575.8
8. Agnes, married to John Elphinstone, parson of Invernochty, with issue.
9. Alison, married to Sir James Oolville of Ochiltree, circa 1530. They had a charter of East Wemyss 20 August 1533.