BURNET, Christian 1
- Born: About 1462
- Marriage (1): CUMYN, Alexander 5th (6th per Nisbet) of Culter by 11 January 1480(1481)(papal dispensation)
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Christian married Alexander CUMYN 5th (6th per Nisbet) of Culter, son of William CUMYN of Inverallochy, 4th (5th per Nisbet) of Culter and Elizabeth MELDRUM, by 11 January 1480(1481)(papal dispensation). (Alexander CUMYN 5th (6th per Nisbet) of Culter was born about 1445 and died Before 1 February 1504(1505) 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Alexander Burnet died shortly before 15th July, 1505 (Antiq. Ab. Banff, III., 341), leaving issue, besides his heir Alexander, a son Andrew, witness to a sasine in 1507, and a daughter, Christian, who in 1480 or 1481 married, in terms of a papal dispensation on the ground of propinquity, Alexander Cumyn, eldest son of William Cumyn of Culter.** Notwithstanding this marriage, and the previous propinquity alluded to in the dispensation, the relations between the two families seem to have been by no means friendly. It has been seen that Tilliboy and Little Culter are described in the charter of 1324-5, conveying them to Alexander Bumard, as formerly the property of John of Walchop. It is rather left to be understood, than distinctly specified, that they had come into the King's hands by forfeiture, and it is not specified by whose forfeiture."
" **Nisbet gives the following account of this marriage, Appendix, p. 57. Cumin of Coulter:
'V. William Cumin, who married Elizabeth Meldrum, daughter to Sir William Meldrum of Fyvie, Knight, and with her begot Alexander, his eldest son, and William Cumin his second; the eldest married Christian Burnet, daughter to the Laird of Leys, his near kinswoman, and for the consanguinity procured a dispensation from the Pope, dated 11th January, 1480, now in the hands of Cumin of Coulter. His father, William, disliking the marriage, did dispose to his second son, William, the lands of Inverallachie and others he then had in Buchan, and reserved only the barony of Coulter with the pertinents to his eldest son.' "
from Family of Burnett of Leys
"VI. Which Alexander Cumin of Coulter, with his above-mentioned spouse, begot his successor
VII. Alexander, who married Elizabeth Blinshall"
from A System of Heraldry
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