Individual Details
Silvester Rattray 6th Earl of Rattray, of that Ilk
(1426 - 4 Oct 1491)
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Sir Silvester Rattray, of that ilk, who was appointed one of the ambassadors extraordinary to treat with the court of England, for which he obtained a safe conduct, dated 12 June, 1463, and is then designed 41 Dominus Silvester de Rattray miles." He was a person of great influence at the Scottish court, possessed an ample inheritance, and sat in the parliament of 1481. He m. Alison Hepburn, and had a son and successor,
Slr John Rattray, of that ilk...
Source: Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 2
By John Burke, p. 1100
Patrick's son Sir Silvester Rattray (1426-1491), a man of parts and merits. He sat in the Parliament and was one of the assize on the trial of Robert Lord Lyle, anno 1481, and is then designed dominus Sylvester Rattry, dominus de eodem etc. He was possessed of an opulent fortune which appears by the charters hereafter narrated: (1) from John, lord of Dirleton, of the half-lands of Daicollo and Granoc in the Earldom of Athole, dated 3 Dec 1466; (2) under the Great Seal from James III, dom Silvestro Rattray de eod. terrarum baron, de balveny, dated 18 May 1481; (3) from the same prince, of the lands and barony of Balmakerder, dated 17 Jan 1487.
Silvester Rattray of that Ilk married Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of David Ogilvy of Balmuto. He was one of the Scottish Ambassadors who negotiated a peace with England in 1463.
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Sir Silvester Rattray, of that ilk, who was appointed one of the ambassadors extraordinary to treat with the court of England, for which he obtained a safe conduct, dated 12 June, 1463, and is then designed 41 Dominus Silvester de Rattray miles." He was a person of great influence at the Scottish court, possessed an ample inheritance, and sat in the parliament of 1481. He m. Alison Hepburn, and had a son and successor,
Slr John Rattray, of that ilk...
Source: Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry, Volume 2
By John Burke, p. 1100
Patrick's son Sir Silvester Rattray (1426-1491), a man of parts and merits. He sat in the Parliament and was one of the assize on the trial of Robert Lord Lyle, anno 1481, and is then designed dominus Sylvester Rattry, dominus de eodem etc. He was possessed of an opulent fortune which appears by the charters hereafter narrated: (1) from John, lord of Dirleton, of the half-lands of Daicollo and Granoc in the Earldom of Athole, dated 3 Dec 1466; (2) under the Great Seal from James III, dom Silvestro Rattray de eod. terrarum baron, de balveny, dated 18 May 1481; (3) from the same prince, of the lands and barony of Balmakerder, dated 17 Jan 1487.
Silvester Rattray of that Ilk married Margaret Ogilvy, daughter of David Ogilvy of Balmuto. He was one of the Scottish Ambassadors who negotiated a peace with England in 1463.
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Events
| Birth | 1426 | ||||
| Death | 4 Oct 1491 | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Sir |
Families
| Spouse | Alison Hepburn of Dunsyre (1454 - ) |
| Child | John Rattray (1459 - 1513) |
| Father | Patrick Rattray 5th Earl of Rattray, of that Ilk (1400 - 1461) |
| Mother | Janet Stewart Countess of Rattray (1408 - ) |