Michael Balfour, 9th Baron Strathur

SIR MICHAEL BALFOUR OF STRATHORE

Sir Michael Balfour, Baron Strathore1
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Father: Sir John Balfour, Sheriff of Fife d. 1460
Sir Michael Balfour, Baron Strathore was born at of Munquhanny, Scotland. He married Janet Ogilvy, daughter of Sir Andrew Ogilvy and Margaret Glen.
Spouse: Janet Ogilvy
Children
1. Sir Michael Balfour+ d. 9 Sep 1513
2. John Balfour
Citation: Unknown author, Burke's Commoners, Vol. III, p. 134.
From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p145.htm#i...

GEORGE BALFOUR, of Munquhanny, had two sons, John (Sir), his heir, and James of Ballo. The elder
SIR JOHN BALFOUR, sheriff of Fife in 1449, predeceased his father, being at the siege of Roxburgh, 1460, leaving three sons:
1. MICHAEL
2. John, bishop of Brechin, lord chancellor of Scotland
3. James, sub-dean of Brechin
MICHAEL BALFOUR, of Munquhanny, succeeded his grandfather, and wedded the daughter of Sir andrew Ogilvy of Inchmartin, by whom he had two sons and a daughter:
1. Michael (Sir), his heir.
2. John, of Baledimond.
3. Margaret, m. to William, third Earl of Rothes.
SOURCE: A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland..., Vol. 3.

In the parliament held at Ayr in 1315 were Sir Michael de Balfour, Sheriff of Fife, and David de Balfour; their seals are appended to the act of that parliament for settling the crown.
Sir Michael died in 1344, and in 1375, the fifth year of the reign of Robert the Second, his eldest son and successor, Sir John Balfour of Balfour died, leaving an only daughter, Margaret, who married Sir Robert de Bethune, "familiaris reigs Roberti," as he is styled.
From them the present proprietor of Balfour, J.E. Drinkwater Betune, Esq., is descended.... Sir John Balfour of Balfour, already mentioned as the father of Margaret the wife of Sir Robert de Bethune, had an only brother, Adam, who married the grand-daughter of Macduff, brother of Colbane, earl of Fife, and obtained with her the lands of Pittenrieff. He died of wounds received at the battle of Durham in 1346, and was buried in Melrose Abbey. His son, Sir Michael Balfour, was brought up by his kinsman Duncan, twelfth Earl of Fife, who in 1353 gave in exchange for Pittencrieff the much more valuable lands of Mountwhanney.
The Countess Isabela, daughter of Earl Duncan, also bestowed many grants of land upon her "cousin," Sir Michael, who, at her death without issue, should have succeeded as her nearest heir, but the Regent Albany, the brother of her second husband, obtained the earldom in virtue of a disposition in his favour by the Countess.
Sir Michael died about 1385. His eldest son, Sir Michael Balfour of Mountwhanney, had a son, Sir Lawrence, of Strathor and Mountwhanney, who, by his wife Margaret, had three sons:—George, his heir; John of Balgarvie, progenitor, by his son James, of the Balfours of Denmylne, Forret, Randerston, Torry and Boghall, Kinloch, &c,; and David Balfour of Carraldston or Carriston.
The latter family terminated in an heiress, Isabel Balfour, who married a younger son of the fourth Lord Seton, ancestor of the Setons of Carriston. James Balfour, son of Sir John Balfour of Balgarvy, in 1451 obtained from King James the Second the lands of Denmylne, in the parish of Abdie, and county of Fife, originally belonging to the Earls of Fife, and by which fell to the crown at the forfeiture of Murdoch Duke of Albany. This James Balfour was slain at the siege of Roxburgh, soon after the death of James the Second, in 1460, as appears from a charter, granted by James the Third, in favour of John Balfour his son, who married Christian Sibbald, daughter of Peter Sibbald of Rankeillor, and fell with his sovereign, James the Fourth, at the battle of Flodden, in 1513.
Patrick his son was the father of Alexander Balfour, whose son was the father of Alexander Balfour, whose son, Sir Michael Balfour, was knighted at Holyrood House, 26th March 1630, by George Viscount Dupplin, Chancellor of Scotland, under a special warrant from Charles the First, and the same year in which his son Sir James received a similar honour..."
SOURCE: Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Men of Fife...

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9th Baron of Strathor
BLG Vol 1 P49 - TPD 6/2/2023
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