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- 1 2 3 George Edward Cokayne, The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol. VIII (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1932), p. 662
- 1 2 The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland , ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol VI (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 133
- ↑ Augustin Theiner, Vetera monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum historiam illustrantia, (Rome: Vatican, 1864), p. 258
- ↑ Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, A, Parts 1147-1535 (Edinburgh, 1872), p. cxxix
- ↑ Instrumenta publica sive processus super fidelitatibus et Homagiis Scotorum; Domino Regi Angliae Factis, A.D. MCCCXCI–MCCXCVI [Ragman Roll, Parts 1291-1296] (Edinburgh: 1834), pp. 103, 119
- ↑ The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol VI (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), pp. 133–34
- ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol. VIII (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1932), p. 664
- 1 2 3 J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Murdoch, Earl of Menteith and the Ferrers family of Groby, The Scottish Genealogist (March 2013), Vol. LX, No. 1, pp. 12-25
- ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The complete peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times, Vol. VIII (London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., 1932), p. 665
- 1 2 3 The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol VI (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 134
- ↑ J. Ravilious, The Earls of Menteith: Alexander, Earl of Menteith and Sir Alexander de Abernethy, The Scottish Genealogist (September 2010), Vol. LVII, No. 3, pp. 130–139
This article incorporates text from The Scots Peerage (1904-1914), a publication now in the public domain.