Christian Menteith (-around 1387)

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Parents
Father:1Sir John Menteith (-before 1344), Lord of Arran, Skipnish, Knapdale, and Strathgartney
Mother:2Ellen of Mar (-after 1342)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3Sir Edward Keith of Sinton (-before 1351), Marischal of Scotland
Married:4after 1350Sir Robert Erskine of that Ilk (-)
The circumstances of the marriage are briefly recounted in a dispensation for their marriage dated 6 March 1355. In some private quarrel, then so prevalent in Scotland, Sir Robert had wounded and imprisoned Walter Menteith and his brother, cousins of Christian, while some of their party were slain. To appease the feud thus engendered, a marriage was, with King David's consent, arranged between Sir Robert and Christian, for which they asked a dispensation from Rome, as she and Beatrix Lindsay were related in the fourth degree. The dispensation was applied for in the time of Pope Clement VI, who died (6 December 1352) before issuing it, and they were deceived by the clerk who was intrusted with the application, and who wrote that he had finished his business. The parties taking this to mean the dispensation was obtained, married, and had issue, but discovering their error, they renewed their petition, which was now granted, the marriage being declared valid and the children legitimate. It would thus appear that Sir Robert had issue by his second wife, but they apparently did not survive, as she is usually said to have had no issue by him.
Children
Children with Sir Edward Keith of Sinton:
Janet Keith (-after Whitsunday 1413)5
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Died:6around 1387
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Sources

1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume V: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908), Mar, p. 578-81, Gratney.
2 Ibid
3 Ibid
4 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume V: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908), Mar, p. 592-96, Robert Erskine.
5 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume V: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908), Mar, p. 578-81, Gratney.
6 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, volume V: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1908), Mar, p. 592-96, Robert Erskine.
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