Robert
"8th Laird of Weem"
Menzies
Born [date unknown] in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of Robert Menzies
and Margaret (Lindsay) Menzies
Husband of
Christian (Gordon) Menzies
— married
22 Nov 1503 in Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Husband of
Marion (Campbell) Menzies
— married
8 Dec 1526 [location unknown]
Husband of
Dorothea (Stewart) Crichton
— married
before 1557 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
William of Glassie Menzies, Alexander (Menzies) Menzies IXth of Weem, Marjory (Menzies) Campbell and John Menzies
Died about
[location unknown]
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Biography
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Robert Menzies is a member of Clan Menzies.
Robert Menzies was born in Scotland.
ROBERT MENZIES, 8TH OF WEEM, was infeft in 1523 of the barony of Weem, including Enoch.[1] He was the son of Robert Menzies and Margaret Lindsay. He had married, (1) the contract being dated 22 November 1503, CHRISTINA GORDON, daughter of Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly, by Janet Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl.[2], who died 17 February 1525 and was buried at Weem.[3] By 8 December 1526 he had already arranged a marriage contract between himself and (2) MARION CAMPBELL, daughter of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll, by Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox.[4] On 10 November 1528 he received a crown grant of the 10 merklands of Dalpeddar and Glenmyn and the 2 merklands of Dalgonar from James Douglas of Drumlanrig, which lands were redeemed in 1540 and he appears to have attempted to regain the lands of Fothergill for his family from the Stewarts but without any lasting success.[5] He was dead by 1557 when his only son (by his first marriage) and successor was retoured his heir.[6]
Sources
- ↑ R. C. Reid. The Baron[ie]s of Enoch and Durisdeer. Transactions of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History & Antiquarian Society, 3rd series, VIII (1920-21): 142-183 at 159.
- ↑ Alexander Nisbet. A System of Heraldry, Speculative and Practical, 2 vols. Edinburgh: printed for J. Mackeuen, 1722-1742. ii.246; Complete Peerage, vi.677.
- ↑ The Chronicle of Fortingall, in The Black Book of Taymouth, With Other Papers from the Breadalbane Charter Room, ed. Cosmo Innes. Edinburgh: [T. Constable], 1855. 107-148 at 119.
- ↑ Scots Peerage i.335-337.
- ↑ Reid, "Enoch and Durisdeer", 160.
- ↑ Nisbet, ii. 246.
- Gifts and Deposits, National Archives of Scotland, GD50/186/4/31.
- Gifts and Deposits, National Archives of Scotland, GD90/1/156.
- Gifts and Deposits, National Archives of Scotland, GD50/186/6/17.
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