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Ancestors
Gilbert
John de Gray
Anchitel de Gray
Columbanus
Robert
Roger of Wiador
Hector
Robert
Walter
Richard
William
Sir Hugh de Gray
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" I can march up to a fortress and
summon the place to surrender."
SIR ANDREW GRAY was one 'of those who in 1306 joined king
Robert Bruce in the War of Independence.
In consideration of his services he received from that monarch grant of
all the lands and tenements which belonged to Edmund de Hastings, knight,
within the barony of Longforgund, the third part of the lands of Craigie,
of the mill of Petarach, the third part of the lands of Waristen and
Miltown in Forfarshire, dated at Arbroath 13 February 1314-15
He further had charters under the great seal of of the twenty-merk land of
Broxmouth, and the
mill in which Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, infeft Alexander Fraser,
knight, and of the twenty merk land of Broxmouth given him by the Earl.
Sir Andrew Gray of Browfield took a prominent part in the capture of
Edinburgh Castle on March 14, 1312. His guide, Francis, ascended first,
then came
Sir Andrew Gray, and Randolph himself followed.
He had a charter from Alexander Fraser confirming to him those twenty
merks of land in the tenement of Broxmouth about 1321. On 2 October 1332
he was forfeited by Edward Baliol and his lands of Broxmouth given to Sir
Ivo de Aldeburgh. He is said to have married Ada Gifford of the house of
Yester, and to have had two sons,
Sir David and
Thomas de Gray who was taken prisoner at the battle of Durham 1346,
and not released till 1356.'
"A braver
knicht than Andrew Gray Neer belted on a sword."
Templar Knights
Lords of Gray
Grays of
Skibo Grays of Lairg
Grays of
Edinburgh & Newcastle
Foulis Dornoch Dunrobin Skibo Culmaly
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Descendants Sir David
Thomas de Gray Sir John Gray John Gray
Sir Patrick Gray Sir Andrew gray
Alexander Gray Patrick Gray George Gray
John Gray
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