Title: Notes
Text:
James, 2nd Lord Forbes, of Drumminor, Aberdeenshire,
born about 1400, died
30 July 1462 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; married in 1438 Egidia Keith.
He declined to join with Earl Douglas against King James
II in 1451. Earl
Douglas was killed by the King in Stirling on 7 February 1452. John and son
William participated in the battle of Brechin on 18 May 1452 with the King
against the Earl of Crawford (principal confidant of the Douglasses). Success of
the battle was credited in no small part to the Forbesses and their associates.
A knight in 1444, before he ascended, he obtained a charter
of the lands of
Corsindae from Alexander Seton of Gordon, and subscribed a bond of manrent
to him in October 1444.
James may have accompaned Earl Douglas to Rome in 1450
to celebrate the
Jubilee. He had a retour of Whitefield, 2 August 1452, to be held from the Earl of
Angus for L5 yearly; instrument of sasine from Walter Stewart of Kinedward for
the Earl of Ross and the isles, on the lands of Fintray; a charter of the lands of
Tullyreoch in the Barony of Cluny, 20 September 1460, from Alexander, Earl of
Huntly; and was appointed to Parliament in 1457, where he also sat as a Lord of
Session for the Court of Justice.
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