Re: Caldecotis

Tuesday, 20 June, 2006

Dear Alex,

Thanks for that extremely interesting post.

This has the potential of dovetailing with what little else I've
found re: the Caldcote (de Caldcotis) family to date. The first
individual given in Scottish Heraldic Seals of the family is John
de Caldecotis, called 'of Grayden and Sympryne (Berwickshire)' who
fl. ca. 1387/8, and appears to be quite likely the same individual
as 'John de Caldicotis, lord of Hutton under the Moor' identified
in your post.

If this is true, and the Caldicote pedigree given
below were to make Mariota/Marion de Crawford the mother of William
de Caldecotis, this would probably link this family with the
Crawfords of Auchinames. The name of Thomas Crawford of Auchinames
appears in a charter of John de Montgomery dated 8 October 1392
(W. Metcalfe, A History of the County of Renfrew, p. 119), which
was probably late in the life of that Thomas Crawford: he may have
been the father of Mariota Crawford, and grandfather of Elena de
Caldecotis (and I presume, of her brother William).

Cheers,

John *

P.S. - As to the matter of Airth, that also is a complicated matter.
The evidence published by Major William Bruce Armstrong in
The Bruces of Airth and Their Cadets (Edinburgh: privately
published, 1892) makes it apparent that the old version of
a Bruce inheritance of Airth is flawed. There was a royal
grant of Airth (or a moiety thereof) to the Bruces (of
Stenhouse as I recall), without evidence of any inheritance.

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1 John de Caldcotis