Magnus Mowat of Balquholly (-after 8 August 1526)

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Additional names
Magni Mowat de Buchquhelly11526
Magnus Mowate of Loscragy21526
Maunes Mowait3
Magnus Moalt4
Parents
Father:5John Mowat of Loscragy (-after 2 January 1513)
Mother:(Unknown) Forbes (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Children
Children with :
Patrick Mowat of Balquholly (-before 30 March 1565)
Gilbert Mowat in Turriff (-after 1559)6
Based on the list of jury members 10 January 1558-9 in Aberdeen, of which most can be identified as significant landowners in Aberdeenshire, it seems probable that Gilbert was the younger son of a laird of Balquholly.
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Events
Died:7after 8 August 1526
Died:8before 1 December 1526
Personal Info
3 August 1524 he gave half the lands of Dryne and Culteleod in Inverness to John McKenzie of Kintail and his wife Elizabeth Grant.9
Why did he do this? Was it the same half that had been given to his uncle Alexander Mowat in 1507 and 1508?
He had a sasine 14 November 1523 of the lands of Balquholly with East Colp, Westir Colp including the mill, Balquholly, Darauch, Loscragy, Lundrumkern, Brounhill, Wodend, and Forestarseat ("Forestarseat le Smedy seit").10
He had a sasine 14 November 1521 of the lands of Freswick with the mill, Auckingill Toftis Skirsare, Strubustir, Sonsaquhy, Blabirquhoy with their lands of Harpsdale, all in Caithness.11
In 1518 he was fined together with Alexander Hay of Ardenrach (probably his brother-in-law) and David Lyon for the murder of Alexander Bannerman of Walterton.12
He witnessed a discharge from William Hay, Earl of Erroll, to Walter Hay of "Mekil Atroquhy" 2 January 1513, at Delgaty, as "Munes Mowait son and apparent heir to the laird of Bawquhallie". Other witnesses were Alexander Hay of Ardendrocht and Aalexander Hay, canon and commissary of Aberdeen and tutor testamentar to the Earl a minor.13
8 August 1526 James, Earl of Moray, Magnus Mowat of Balquholly, William Cumyn, Patrick Cumyn, James Bruce, Norman Leslie, James Forbes, Archibald Hay, William Hay in Auchzery, William Douglas, and Nicholas Ross, son of John Ross of Auchlossan, was released for having previously invaded and captured the king's lieutenant at Perth Castle, Alexander Gordon, Earl of Huntly. (He died 1524.) Also guilty of the crime was the late William Hay, Earl of Erroll.14
16 August 1512 he witnessed a charter by John Crechtoun of Strathurd Knight, with consent of his uncle and curator John Crechtoun of Blackburn, in favour of John Sandelandis son of the deceased James Sandelandis of Caldair Knight, of the lands of Scheilhille lying in the barony of Caldare, but excepting a six mark land of the saids lands alienated to Patrick Barroun; to be held in fee and heritage for yearly rendering of two pennies Scots in name of blench farm. Witnesses were William Earl of Eroll, Mr Alexander Hay canon of Moray, John Hay Provost of Guthry, Magnus Moalt son and apparent heir of John Moalt of Loscragy.15
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1 M. Livingstone, The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland vol I 1488-1529: Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1908), No. 3469, p. 525.
2 M. Livingstone, The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland vol I 1488-1529: Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1908), No. 3561, p. 540.
3 , Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff vol III: (Aberdeen: The Spalding Club, 1857), p. 91.
4 "National Records of Scotland", National Records of Scotland, National Records of Scotland (http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/ : accessed 16 Aug 1512), Summary, GD119/177, ; .
5 M. Livingstone, The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland vol I 1488-1529: Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1908), No. 2781, p. 432.
6 David Littlejohn, Records of the Sheriff Court of Aberdeenshire, vol. I.: Records prior to 1600 (Aberdeen: New Spalding Club, 1904), p. 132.
7 M. Livingstone, The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland vol I 1488-1529: Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1908), No. 3469, p. 525.
8 M. Livingstone, The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland vol I 1488-1529: Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1908), No. 3561, p. 540.
9 "National Records of Scotland", National Records of Scotland, National Records of Scotland (http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/ : accessed ), Summary, , GD305/1/19/5; .
10 George Powell McNeill, The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland vol XV: Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1895), p. 612.
11 George Powell McNeill, The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland vol XV: Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1895), p. 594.
12 Æ. J. G. Mackay, The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland vol XIV: Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1893), p. 346.
13 , Illustrations of the Topography and Antiquities of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff vol III: (Aberdeen: The Spalding Club, 1857), p. 91.
14 M. Livingstone, The Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland vol I 1488-1529: Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (Edinburgh: H. M. General Register House, 1908), No. 3469, p. 525.
15 "National Records of Scotland", National Records of Scotland, National Records of Scotland (http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/ : accessed 16 Aug 1512), Summary, GD119/177, ; .
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