Sir Thomas of Somerville of Linton and Carnwath

SIR THOMAS OF SOMERVILLE OF LINTON AND CARNWATH

Sir Thomas of Somerville, here treated, is the son of Sir Thomas of Somerville of Linton and Carnwath. George William Campbell did not identify the name of his mother in his account of the family. The Scots Peerage VIII: 3-4

Sir Thomas of Somerville, here treated, is the younger brother and heir of William of Somerville of Linton and Carnwath, to whose barony of Linton in Roxburghshire he succeeded before 29 September 1346. CDS III: 374

First Marriage

Sir Thomas of Somerville, here treated, is said to have married Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Sir James Douglas of Laudonia. The Scots Peerage VIII: 5

Second Marriage

Sir Thomas of Somerville, here treated, married Maria de Waus or Wans. The Scots Peerage VIII: 5 In order to be allowed to marry they required a papal dispensation, and one was issued in June 1354. Stewart Genealogy: 435

Evidence from English Documents Relating to Scotland

15 October 1336: Compotus Willelmi de Feltone vicecomitis de Roxburghe a xv die Octobris anno Regis E. tercii post conquestum decimo usque festum Sancti Michaelis proximo sequentem . . . . . De baronia de Lyntone, que suit Willelmi de Somervylle, remanente in manu Regis nominee custodie, a dicto festo Sancti Michaelis anno x, usque ix diem Marcii proximo sequentem, antequam liberaret predictam baroniam Thome fratri et heredi redicti Willelmi per breve Regis, respondet lxix s. xj d. receptis de exitibus eiusdem baonie per manus Thome de Hetone. . . . . . CDS III: 374

Evidence from Stewart History

June 1354: DISPENSATIO Nobili Viro Thomae de Somirvile Domino Castro de Carneswych, Militi, et Nobili Mulieri Mariae de Wans, Domicellae Glasguen. Diocese. INOCENTIUS Epusm Servus Servor. Dei Venerabili Fratri ….. Episcopo Glasguen. Salut. etc. . . . . . Datum apud Villamnovam Avivionen. Dioc. iiii kalendas Junii Potifiicatus nostril anno secondo. Stewart Genealogy: 435

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

Secondary Source Evidence

1. Calendar of Documents Relating to Scotland preserved in Her Majesty's Public Record Office, London. Edited by Joseph Bain. Vol. III. A.D. 1307-1357. (H.M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1887), 608 pp. including index plus Corrigenda and Addenda
2. Genealogical History of the Stewarts, from the earliest period of their authentic history to the present time. Containing a particular account of the origin and successive generations of the Stuarts of Darnley, Lennox, and Aubigny, and of the Stuarts of Castelmilk; with proofs and references; an appendix of relative papers; and a supplement .. By Andrew Stuart, Esq., M.P. (London, 1798), 468 pp.

Genealogy

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. Edited Sir James Balfour Paul. Volume VIII (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1911), 606 pp. For the family of Somerville, Lord Somerville, see pp. 1-45