Alexander Sinclair of Stemster and Dunbeath (-before 1541)

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Parents
Father:1William Sinclair (-9 September 1513), 2. Earl of Caithness
Mother:2Mary Keith (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3Elizabeth Innes (-before 1557)
Children
Children with Elizabeth Innes:
William Sinclair of Dunbeath (-)4
Oliver Sinclair (-)5
Isabel Sinclair (-)6
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Events
Died:7before 1541
Personal Info
He was ancestor of the Sinclairs of Dunbeath.8
In 1507 Alexander Sinclair obtained a Crown charter of Stemster. He married Elizabeth Innes, evidently from what follows, of the family of Innes of Innes, whose chief had possession of Dunbeath in 1507, but on the resignation of Alexander Innes in 1529 a Crown charter was granted in favour of Alexander Sinclair of Stemster erecting Dunbeath, Reay and Sandside into a barony.9
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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 II: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1905), Caithness, p. 337, II William Sinclair.
2 Ibid
3 Ibid
4 Roland William Saint-Clair, The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: Being a History of the Sea-Kings of Orkney and their Scottish Successors of the Sirname of Sinclair (Auckland: H. Brett, General Printer and Publihsher, 1898), The Sinclairs of Stemster and Dunbeath, p. 220-22.
5 Ibid
6 Ibid
7 Ibid
8 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 II: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1905), Caithness, p. 337, II William Sinclair.
9 Roland William Saint-Clair, The Saint-Clairs of the Isles: Being a History of the Sea-Kings of Orkney and their Scottish Successors of the Sirname of Sinclair (Auckland: H. Brett, General Printer and Publihsher, 1898), The Sinclairs of Stemster and Dunbeath, p. 220-22.
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