The Outlandish Companion - Diana Gabaldon [128]
Hugh Fraser, Lord of Lovat, High Sheriff of Inverness-shire, was born ca. 1376, and married in 1425 as his first wife Janet (who died before December 1429), the sister of William de Fenton of Beaufort. (This is the marriage, mentioned earlier, that brought to the Frasers the other Bysset lands they had not received from the Grahame Lords of Lovat.) Hugh married as his second wife Isobel, the daughter of Sir John Wemyss of Wemyss and died before July 1440 having had issue by his first wife: Thomas Fraser of Lovat and Hugh Sanctus, his eventual heir.
Hugh Sanctus Fraser, Lord of Lovat, was born in 1417 and married Janet, the daughter of Thomas Dunbar, 2nd Dunbar Earl of Moray. He died ca. 1450, leaving issue Hugh Fraser, Lord of Lovat, who was created before 1464 Lord Fraser of Lovat in the Peerage of Scotland, and in 1464 married Violet, the daughter of John Lyon, 3rd Lord Glamis by Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir John Scrimgeour of Dudhope. Hugh Sanctus Fraser, 1st Lord Fraser of Lovat, died ca. 1500, leaving issue:
A1 Thomas, his heir (see below)
A2 Hugh Fraser, killed 1513 at the battle of Flodden
A3 John Fraser, Rector of Dingwall, a member of the King’s Council
a1. Margaret Fraser of Lovat, who married Hector de Kilmalew
a2. Agnes Fraser of Lovat, who married Sir Kenneth Mackenzie of Kintail
a3. Egidia (sometimes known as Marjory) Fraser of Lovat, who married Ferquherd Mackintosh of Mackintosh
Thomas Fraser, 2nd Lord Fraser of Lovat, Justiciary of the North, was born ca. 1461, and married in 1493 as his first wife Janet, the daughter of Sir Alexander Gordon of Abergeldie by Beatrice, the daughter of Sir William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll, and had issue:
A1 Hugh, his heir (see p. 214)
A2 William Fraser of Teachers
A3 James Fraser of Foyness, who was killed at the battle of Loch Lochy, and was ancestor of the Frasers of Culbokie
a1. Margaret Fraser of Lovat
a2. Isobel Fraser of Lovat
a3. Janet Fraser of Lovat, who married ca. 1527 John Crichton of Ruthven, son of James Crichton of Ruthven by his wife, Janet Ogston. Thomas Fraser, 2nd Lord Fraser of Lovat married 1506 as his second wife, Janet (who married thirdly, as his first wife, David Lindsay of Edzell, later 9th Earl of Crawford), the widow of Alexander Blair of Balthayock and the daughter of Andrew, 2nd Lord Gray, and died 21 October 1524, having by her had further issue:
A4 Robert Fraser, who married Janet Gelly and was the ancestor of the Frasers of Kinnell
A5 Andrew Fraser, reported to have married a daughter of the Laird of Grant, but nothing else is known of him
A6 Thomas Fraser, reported to have married Anna, a daughter of Macleod of Harris
Hugh Fraser, 3rd Lord Fraser of Lovat, Justiciary of the North for Queen Mary, was born in 1494. He married as his first wife Anne, widow of John Haliburton of Pitcur and the daughter of John Grant of Grant and Freuchie by Margaret, the daughter of Sir James Ogilvy of Deskford, and had issue:
A1 Hugh, Master of Lovat, killed with his father at Loch Lochy in 1544 without offspring, after his stepmother, Janet Ross of Balnagowan, had taunted him to make him disobey his father’s orders and join the battle (and thus to allow her own son to inherit if he died).
Hugh Fraser, 3rd Lord Fraser of Lovat married secondly Janet, the daughter of Walter Ross of Balnagowan, and with his eldest son was killed fighting the Macdonalds at Loch Lochy on 15 July 1544, having by her had issue:
A2 Alexander, his heir, the beneficiary of his wife’s treachery (see below)
A3 William Fraser of Struy, born 1537, married to Janet, a daughter of the Laird of Grant
A4