Alexander Sutherland, 3rd of Duffus (died 1482) was a Scottish member of the nobility and a cadet of the Clan Sutherland.
Alexander Sutherland, 3rd of Duffus (died 1482) was a Scottish member of the nobility and a cadet of the Clan Sutherland.
He was the son of Henry Sutherland of Torboll and Margaret Mureff or Moray. His uncle was John Sutherland, 2nd of Duffus (1408-1427) and his grandfather was Nicholas Sutherland, 1st of Duffus. He succeeded his father in Torboll and his uncle in Duffus. He married Murial, daughter of John Chisholm of Of that Ilk before 19 March 1433-34. From that marriage he obtained the lands of Quarrelwood and Greschip near Elgin, Moray. [1] The marriage to Murial Chisholm also meant that Sutherland of Duffus incorporated the Chisholm arms of a boar's head into the centre of his own coat of arms. [2]
According to James Balfour Paul's The Scots Peerage , Alexander Sutherland succeeded his father Henry in Torboll and his uncle in Duffus before 13 March 1433–34, when he granted twenty-one oxgangs in Strathbrock or Broxburn in West Lothian to Robert Crichton of Sanquhar. He also held from David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford, the lands of Ledbothy in Forfarshire which he sold in 1455 to Richard Lovell of Balumby. [3]
In 1444, Alexander Sutherland of Duffus paid a visit to his chief, John Sutherland, 7th Earl of Sutherland who was being held hostage at Pontefract Castle in England for the ransom money of James I of Scotland. Alexander Sutherland obtained from the earl confirmation of the lands of Torboll in succession to his father and grandfather. He is referred to as Sir Alexander Sutherland of Duffus in a Crown writ dated 21 July 1541. He was alive in 1469 and 1478. [3] According to George Harvey Johnstone writing in 1910, Alexander Sutherland, 3rd of Duffus died in 1482, [1] but according James Balfour Paul writing in 1906, he had died some time before 1484. [3]
Alexander Sutherland and Murial Chisholm's children were:
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