Alexander
"3rd Baron of Menstrie"
Alexander
Born about in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Son of Andrew Alexander
and Catherine (Graham) Alexander
Brother of
Unknown (Alexander) Hamilton
Husband of
Elizabeth Douglas
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Marion (Alexander) Murray, William Alexander, Janet (Alexander) Muschet and Andrew Alexander
Died about
at about age 55
in Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland
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Biography
Married Elizabeth Douglas of Lochleven.
"It is the general opinion of our antiquaries, that those of the surname of Alexander, MacAlaster, Robertson, &c. are descended of the MacDonalds. That Alexander MacDonald, a younger son of the lord of the Isles, having acquired some lands in Stirling and Clackmannanshires, fixed his residence at Menstric, and that his posterity assumed the surname of Alexander from their predecessor's christian name."[1]
ALEXANDER ALEXANDER, third baron of Menstrie, who made a considerable figure in the reign of King James V. Amongst the writs of the family of Argyle, there is an instrument of sasine, wherein Alexander Alexander, son of the deceased Andrew Alexander of Menstrie, transfers all right he had to the lands of Menstrie in favors of Colin, Earl of Argyle, his superior, dated 12 of February 1527. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Douglas of Lochleven, ancestor of the Earls of Morton, by whom he had two sons and one daughter.
- 1. Andrew, his heir.
- 2. William Alexander, who was proprietor of the lands of Clow in Perth-shire and married Janet Marshal.
- Isabel, married to James Mushet younger of Torrie, in the county of Stirling.
Alexander died anno 1545, and was succeeded by his eldest son:
- IV. ANDREW ALEXANDER, fourth baron of Menstrie, who, in the said charter of Colin earl of Argyle, 26th August 1529, is designed son and apparent heir of Alexander, &c. as before noticed. He died soon after his father, leaving issue three sons. He was succeeded by his eldest son,
- 1. Alexander, his heir.
- 2. John, designed promiscuously in Middleton and in Gogar, of whom more hereafter.
- 3. James, who got a charter under the great seal,*Jacobo Alexander in Menstrie, of some lands in that neighbourhood, anno 1584.
- V. ALEXANDER ALEXANDER, fifth baron of Menstrie, who is witness, with his grandfather, to a sasine of the lands of Men∣strie, in favours of Archibald earl of Argyle, the superior, proceeding upon a charter from king James V. wherein the lands of Men∣strie, Duslater, Pannols, Little-Saline, &c. are erected into one barony, called the barony of Menstrie,* and wherein he is designed Alexander Alscinder junior, &c. The sasine is dated 19th April 1541. This Alexander junior, is also attorney for the earl of Argyle to another sasine of the barony of Menstrie,* dated 31st of October 1542.
- After the death of his father and grandfather, he was designed Alexander Alscinder of mains of Menstrie, and is particularly mentioned, with his brother John, in a sasine in favours of Colin earl of Argyle,* dated 7th October 1572. He died in an advanced age, anno 1594, leaving issue a son and successor,
- VI. Sir WILLIAM ALEXANDER, sixth baron of Menstrie, afterwards earl of Stirling, who got a precept of clare constat from the earl of Argyle,* for insefting him in the mains of Menstrie, as heir to his father, dated 18th March 1596. He afterwards got a charter,* under the great seal, of the lands and barony of Menstrie, mill thereof, &c. dated anno 1603.
Time Capsule
Alexander, Alexander (d. c.1555). Only recorded son of Andrew Alexander (d. c.1527). He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert (or Thomas) Douglas of Lochleven and had issue: (1) Andrew Alexander (d. c.1555) (q.v.); (2) William Alexander (d. 1574) of Clow; married Janet Marshall and had issue; (3) Marion Alexander (d. 1595); married Alexander Murray of Woodend (Perths) and had issue two sons and one daughter; died January 1595; (4) Isobel Alexander; married James Muschet of Burnbank (Stirlings) and had issue. He inherited Menstrie from his father. He died c.1555 (not 1545 as recorded in Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage).
Sources
- ↑ Peerage of Scotland
See also:
- William Alexander ThePeerage.com
- Source: http://landedfamilies.blogspot.ca/2013/10/80-alexander-of-menstrie-earls-of.html
- Source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p64986.htm#i649858 (Has wrong date of death; uses Burke's Dormant and Extinct Peerage as the reference.)
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Categories: Barons of Menstrie
http://www.thepeerage.com/p64986.htm#i649858has the incorrect death date of about 1545 from Burke's Peerage. Actual death date is about 1555.
See http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/10/80-alexander-of-menstrie-earls-of.html
Alexander, Andrew (d. c.1527). Only recorded son of Thomas Alexander (fl. c.1505). He married Katherine Graham and had issue including:
(1) Alexander Alexander (d. c.1555) (q.v.); (2) Rev. Andrew Alexander (fl. 1529).
He inherited some lands at Menstrie from his father and had a charter of the estate from the Earl of Argyll in 1526.
He died about 1527. See http://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2013/10/80-alexander-of-menstrie-earls-of.html