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Personal data Sir Walter Ogilvy of Lintrathen, High Treasurer 

• He was born in the year 1369.
• (Event) .

  High Treasurer of Scotland

• He died in the year 1440, he was 71 years old.
• A child of Walter Ogilvy and Isabel Ramsay
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Sir Walter Ogilvy of Lintrathen, High Treasurer

He is married to Isabel Glen.

They got married about 1420.

Child(ren):

1. John Ogilvy  ± 1420-± 1480 
2. Giles Ogilvy  ± 1418-???? 
3. John Ogilvy  1386-1483 
4. James Ogilvy  1388-????
5. Isabel Ogilvy  1391-1463 
6. John Ogilvy  ± 1410-< 1504 
7. Walter Ogilvy  ± 1405-> 1456 
8. Egidia Ogilvy  ± 1420-???? 

Notes about Sir Walter Ogilvy of Lintrathen, High Treasurer

     In 1403, Henry Duncanson granted Sir Walter a charter of two parts
of the lands of Easter Fingask. In 1406, Robert, Duke of Albany confirmed a grant made by Archibald, Earl of Doulgas of certain lands in the barony of Lintrathen. The Duke issued a charter confirming Archibald Douglas' charter on June 15, 1414. Crawford states that Walter acquired these lands when he married Isabel Durward, the heiress of Linrathen.

On November 6, 1419, Margaret Erskine, lady of Inchmartin, granted Walter a charter of the half lands of Wardropstoun in the Mearns to himself in liferent and to Walter his son by Isabel (Margaret's daughter). Walter and Isabel's sons, David, Alexander, Patrick and George are also named in the charter and in another charter issued by Margaret of the lands of Auchleven on November 20, 1419.

Walter was given a safe conduct to go to Flanders in 1424. In 1425, he was appointed High Treasurer of Scotland. From 1431 - 1437, Walter was in England as a commissioner for negotiating a truce.

On January 28, 1427, Walter founded a chaplaincy in the Church of St. Mary of Auchterhouse and endowed it with ten merks annually out of the lands of Kirkton of Esay and Keillour and another ten merks from his lands of Carcary.

In 1432, he got a license from James I to erect his Tower of Eroly or Airlie in the form of a castle, and it with the castles of Bollischen and Forthar became the chief seats of his successors.

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Believed to have acquired Lintrathen estate from marriage to an heiress of the Durward family.

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