Thomas (or Alexander) de Crichton

https://www.electricscotland.com/history/sanquhar/chapter04.htm Has:

THE FAMILY OF CRICHTON.

According to Holingshed, the first Crichton came over from Hungary with Agatha, widow of the Saxon Prince Edward, when her daughter married Malcolm III., in 1067. Thurstanus de Crichton was a witness to the foundation charter of the Abbey of Holyrood House in 1128, and Thomas de Crichton swore fealty to Edward 1. for lands in Midlothian in 1296.

His two sons founded the families of Sanquhar (now represented in the female line by the Marquis of Bute, who is also Earl of Dumfries) and of Frendraught.

The elder son became possessed of half the barony of Sanquhar through his wife, Isabelle de Ros, and subsequently purchased the remainder.

From Robert Simpson, History of Sanquhar (Edinburgh: Johnstone and Hunter, 1853), p. 31, GoogleBooks

We may here give a brief sketch of the genealogy of this family, which has occupied so important a niche in the history of the country.

William de Crichton, second son of Thomas, Lord Crichton, married Isabel de Ross, daughter of Robert de Ross, the last of the Rosses of Ryehill, in N ithsdale. Isabel and her sister were colieiresses of their ancient seat in this locality. The marriage took place in the earlier part of the four-teenth century, in the time of Robert Bruce, probably about 525 years ago, or it might be earlier. Robert Bruce divided the barony of Sanquhar between this William Crichton and Richard Edgar, whose ancestors had held it for many generations. In process of time, however, the Crichtons acquired the whole of the barony.

Notes for Thomas De Crichton:

In 1296, all Scots nobility were required to swear an oath of fealty to King Edward (allegiance to their Scot king who would then be subject to King Edward). Thomas de Crichton, along with hundreds of others, did so.

Thomas De Crichton and Edna Crichton: Marriage: 1258, Crichton Castle, Pathhead, East Lothian, Scotland.

1296, Thomas de Chrichton is recorded in the Ragman Rolls of Edward I, of England..

Added by HRH Prince Kieren de Muire Von Drakenberg

From https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004896980.0001.000/1:86?rgn=div1;...

WILLIELMUS dominus CRICHTON,* is particularly mentioned in a charter of Mald∣win earl of Lennox, in the reign of king A∣lexander II. who succeeded to the crown of Scotland, anno 1214, and died in 1249.

William was succeeded by his son,

I. THOMAS dominus de CRICHTON, who was one of the great barons of Scotland, that were forced to swear fealty to king Edward 1st of England,* for his lands lying in Mid-Lothian, anno 1296.

From The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas ..., Volume 3 edited by James Balfour Paul page 53. GoogleBooks

Various Crichtons appear during the troubled times with which that century closed and the next began. In particular, Thomas de Crechtoun, rector of the Church of Halis, is witness to a mortification to the Hospital of Soltre by Robert de Keth—the Marischal of Scotland— which is not dated, but is placed by Macfarlane circa 1292.2 The Ragman Roll contains the names of Thomas de Creghtone del Counte de Berewyke and Alisaundre de Creightone del Counte de Edneburk.' 1

On 20 February 1311-12, Nicholas de Creyghton was one of an inquest, appointed by writ of Edward n., to determine the value of certain lands in the Lothians belonging to adherents of King Robert i.4 The same person also appears to have formed one of the garrison of Edinburgh Castle in the same year,5 and to have been possessed of a horse described as badium cum stella.5

Among the witnesses to a grant of the town and lands of Easter Cranston to the Abbey of Kelso by Hugo Riddell dominus de Cranston, undated, but supposed to be circa 1320, are Magister John de Keth, rector ecclesise de Creithon, and Thomas de Creihton.'

From a charter by King Robert i. to Richard Edgar, also supposed to be dated circa 1320, of the manor place and one-half of the barony of Sanchar, it appears that the other half of the barony pertained to William de Crechton and Isabella, his wife, as heirs-portioners with Richard Edgar of the said barony.8 This lady is generally said to have been one of the two daughters of the last Ros or de Ros of Sanquhar, while the family of Edgar claim descent from her elder sister.5

References

• https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/95510...
• https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun03paul#page/218/mode/1up
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Crichton