David (Beaton) Beaton Ist of Creich (abt. 1456 - 1505)

Born about 1456 in Fife, Scotland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1505 at about age 49 in Creich, Fife, Scotland

Biography

David, 1st Laird of Creich, Comptroller of Scotland, was the son of John Beaton, 5th Lord Balfour and Boswell-606|Margaret Boswell.^[1]

He was Comptroller of Scotland ^[2][3]

He married Janet Duddingston, daughter of Stephen Duddingston, 1st Laird of Sandfurd, from whom many of the chief nobility and gentry of Scotland are descended, was married first to Sir Thomas Livingstone of Easter Wemyss, and after his death she became the third wife of James the first Earl of Arran of the Hamiltons, and nephew of King James III. ^[4]. They had issue:

1. Sir John Beaton, 2nd Laird of Creich ^[5]
2. Janet Beaton b. c 1486, d. c 1522

In the reign of James IV (of Scotland, 1488 - 1513), the estate of Creich, in the parish of that name in Fife, was acquired by Sir David Bethune, second son of Sir John Beaton and Marjory Boswell.^[6]Sir David was brought up in his youth with King James IV., who held him in great favour. He was first appointed Comptroller of the Exchequer, and subsequently Lord High Treasurer of Scotland,^[7] which office he held until his death.

At Ballinbreich on 26 Jun 1504 , David Beaton of Creich the Treasurer purchased the lands of Dalbog and Contrahills in the Barony of Ballinbreich. ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ MacFarlane, Walter, Genealogical Collections concerning Families in Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane 1750-1751, Edited by James Toshach Clark, Edinburgh: University Press, 1900, Vol. I, Archive.org, p. 25
2. ↑ NRS E21/5 see [1]
3. ↑ MacFarlane, Walter, Genealogical Collections concerning Families in Scotland made by Walter Macfarlane 1750-1751, Edited by James Toshach Clark, Edinburgh: University Press, 1900, Vol. I, Archive.org, p. 26
4. ↑ from pp 98 and 102-3 of "The History and Genealogical Tables of the Boswells" Pt1, by Jasper John Boswell, privately published 1906, held by Alan Boswell, and Yale University Library
5. ↑ RMS Vol.ii 3519 see [2]
6. ↑ RMS Vol.ii 2672 see [3]
7. ↑ NRS E21/6 see [4]
8. ↑ RMS Vol.ii 2793 see [5]

See also:

• Unknown author, The Lineage and Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, by Gerald R. Paget, Vol. II, p. 271, 454.

• Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 403.

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 323.