Grissel (Grant) Grant Lady Ballindalloch (abt. 1542 - bef. 1576)

Born about 1542 in Inverness-shire, Scotland [uncertain]

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Died before 1576 before about age 34 in Ballindalloch, Inverness-shire, Scotland

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Biography

This profile is part of the Grant Name Study.

Grissel (Grant) Grant Lady Ballindalloch is a member of Clan Grant.

Grissel was the daughter of John Grant and Margaret Stewart.^[1]

Research Notes

The Baronage states "John Grant, 4th of Freuchie, married, 1stly, before 19 February 1539/40, Margaret Stewart, daughter of John, 3rd Earl of Atholl. ... He married 2ndly, on or before 8 March 1557-58, Janet, daughter of George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes, ... " and then lists children, males followed by females: Duncan Grant ... Patrick Grant .. Elizabeth, Elspet or Isobel, ... "Grissel, by the 1st marriage, married (contract 17 March1558) Patrick Grant, younger of Ballindalloch. She died before 1576."

Chiefs of grant Vol I, p 152 states:
John Grant, fourth Laird of Freuchie, was twice married. His first wife was Lady Margaret Stewart, daughter of John, third Earl of Athole. The marriage took place before 19th February 1539, ... Lady Margaret Stewart predeceased her husband in the year 1555... the Laird took a second wife, Lady Janet Leslie, daughter of the Earl of Rothes, who was herself widow. The marriage was celebrated before 8th March 1557, ... The daughters were — (note: listed in order by convention in this book)
1. Elizabeth, Elspet, or Isobel... 2. Grissel. She was contracted in marriage, on 30th November 1565, to Patrick Grant, younger of Ballindalloch, and died before 1576.

Grizel Grant was, according to Scots Peerage under Grant of Freuchie, daughter of John Grant, 4th of Freuchie and his wife Margaret Stewart, daughter of John Stewart 3rd of Atholl, descendent of John Stewart, 1st of Atholl , son of Joan Beaufort, granddaughter of John of Gaunt and widow of James I.

The following, presumably from the Grant private document collection, is reproduced in Chiefs of Grant Vol. 3 pp 397-399. It gives data for numerous genealogical connections in the families of Freuchie and Ballindalloch. It appears that the contracts were eventually carried out. It likely is a translation into 19th century English.

LETTERS OF SUMMONS at the instance of John Grant of Frewquhy, oy and heir of the late John Grant of Frewquhy, his guidsire, and of Patrick Grant of Rathymwrcheis, John Grant of Kinveachie, and James Grant of Auchternetettir, his curators, for their interest, complainers, narrating a contract made at Edinburgh, the 17th March 1558, between the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, for himself, and taknig burden upon him for his daughters, on the one part and the deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch, and Patrick Grant, his son, got betwixt him and Barbara, Gordoun, his spouse, on the other part, by virtue whereof it was contracted that the said Patrick Grant, and failing him by decease, John Grant, his youngest brother, should marry Grissel Grant, daughter to the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, got betwixt him and Margaret Stewart, his spouse; whom failing Elizabeth and failing her, Katharine, also his daughters, whom failing, the eldest of his daughters "successive in ordour maist equivalent for thame to marie," and that the said Patrick should solemnise the marriage between the date of the contract and Martinmas 1562; that if the said Patrick deceased unmarried, his brother John should marry one of the said John Grant's daughters nearest to him in age, and solemmise their marriage at their age of twelve years complete; that the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy should purchase dispensations upon his own expenses; that the said Patrick Grant, and failing him, John Grant his brother, with advice of the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch, their father, and then their lawful administrator, tutor, and governor, for his interest, should, immediately after completing the marriage, cause himself and the daughter of the said deceased John Grant, to whom he was married, to be infeft in conjunct-fee, and the heir's- male of their bodies; whom failing, the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch's heirs-male whomsoever, in the lands of Tullochcharrone, to be held of the King, his mother, and the King's successors; that for sure completing of the marriage, the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch should infeft the said Grissell, whom failing by decease, the said Elizabeth, etc., in liferent by charter and sasine, in the lands of Mekill Invernarne, Cowle, Roy Gilliequhaine, Loyneardochy, to he held of the King and his mother, and in the lands of Bogsyde, to be held of the Friars Preachers of the burgh of Elgin, under reversion to be given by them, with advice of their father, to the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch, his heirs and assignees, bearing that whenever the marriage was completed, and infeftment given, as above, in the lands of Tuilochcharrone, or if the marriage failed through default of Grissell, or any other of the late John Grant of Frewquhy's daughters, the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch should have free regress and ingress to the said lands of Mekill Invernairame, etc. And the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy bound himself that none of his daughters should uplift or crave any maills, etc., from. the said lands till Whitsunday 1562; and also that the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch should infeft heritably, by charter and sasine, the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, and his heirs, in the lands of Cardellis and Pitcroy, which pertained to the late Alaster Grant, his brother, and that he should enter heir to his brother, and resign the lands in the hands of the superior and convent of the Friars Preachers of Elgin, for such infeftment to be made between the date of the contract and 20th, May next thereafter, and also the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch should cause Patrick Grant of Dalvey, his brother, and the rest of his brothers, give over all right and claim of right which the said deceased Allester,, or they as cessioners, etc., to him, had or might have against the said deceased John for himself, and as son and heir of the deceased James Grant of Frewquhy, his father, for the violent ejection, if any was, of the said Allester from the said lands of Cardellis and Pitcroy, and violent occupation of the same from him and them, and profits he or they might have had since the ejection, and to give sufficient discharge thereof, as the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch by the said contract gave, and the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch bound himself that if the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy required him to pay to him 1000 merks Scots in his lifetime, such payment should be made, but neither to nor by the heirs of eithwr. For which causes the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, for him and his heirs, discharged to the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch, his sons and brothers above specified, all acts, contracts, bonds, or promises made between them and the said deceased James Grant of Frewquhy, his father, or him the said deceased John Grant of Frewqihy before the date of the contract, and all rancour, hatred, and malice of his heart conceived against them, and all action, plea, or debate he had or might have against them for any manner of action or cause bygone, "and to stand as amiabill guid cheif and maister to thame than in tymes coming," And the said deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch and his son Patrick bound themselves and their heirs-male in time coming not to take in assedation tacks or kirks within the bounds of Strathspey, except so much as they were then in possession of, without special license of the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy and his heirs-male had and obtained; with special provision that the said contract should be inserted and registered in the Books of Council, and decerned to have the strength of an act and decreet of the Lords thereof etc. The contract was subscribed in duplicate by both parties, one copy being delivered to the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, and the other to the deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch. The copy delivered to the deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, grandfather of the complainer, was in the subscriptions either riven by some malicious person, or by negligence and evil keeping almost worn away, nevertheless the said duplicate was subscribed on the margin, after an addition made to it, which subscriptions still stand perfect, and the writers and witnesses are still alive who can verify the contract. Wherefore it became necessary ti have the said duplicate compared with that given to the deceased John Grant of Ballindalloch, now in the hands of Patrick Grant of Ballindalloch, his son and heir, or at least universal successor to him in his lands and heritage, or at least was in his said father's hands, and fraudfully destroyed or put away by him, etc.; and when sufficiently verified before the Lords of Council, to have the said duplicate registered in the Books of Council, etc. nevertheless, the said Patrick Grant, now of Ballindalloch, would in no wise produce or exhibit the said duplicate delivered to his father, nor consent to the registration of the other copy delivered to the complainer's grandfather: Wherefore the said Patrick Grant, now of Ballindalloch, is now summoned to appear at Edinburgh, on _______ and produce the duplicate of the contract delivered to his father to be registered, or show a reasonable cause to the contrary; further that the Lords may receive probation of the tenor and contents of the double delivered to the said deceased John Grant of Frewquhy, and decern the same to have as great force and strength as the principal. Given under the signet, at Edinburgh, 25th July 1586.

Sources

1. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910, Vol. VII, Archive.org, p. 463

See also:

• William Fraser, "The Chiefs of Grant", Edinburgh, 1883