Alicia Mure

ALICIA MURE (aka ALICIA MORE)

Alicia More is the daughter of Reginald More, Stewart Genealogy: pp. 431-2 Her father has been identified as Sir Reginald Mure of Abercorn. Stirnet: Mure 01

Marriage

Alicia More married William de Herch. Her husband died before 6 July 1340. Stewart Genealogy: pp. 431-2

Proposed Second Marriage

Alicia More is reported to have married Sir John Stewart of Railston. According to the late George Burnett, Lord Lyon King of Arms, writing in the appendix to the preface of volume four of the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Sir John Stewart of Railstoun: "has been wrongly identified with the John Stewart who was with David II. (king of Scots) at Chateau Gaillard, and there contracted a marriage with Alice, daughter of Reginald More the Chamberlain, and widow of William de Herch (Airth?), in ignorance of canonical impediment, and in 1340 and 1341 received two papal dispensations removing that impediment." Exchequer Rolls IV, 1406-1436: p. clxxxix

Evidence from Stewart Genealogy

                   1

6 July 1340: Dispensation in favour of John Stuart and Alice More, [daughter of] Reginald More, and widow of William de Herch. Stewart Genealogy: p. 431

                   2

15 March 1341: Dispensation in favour of John Stuart and Alice More, [daughter of] Reginald More and widow of William de Herch. Stewart Genealogy: p. 432

Printed Evidence

Genealogical history of the Stewarts, etc. By Andrew Stuart, Esq., M. P. (Printed for A. Strahan; and T. Cadell, jun. and W. Davies, in the Strand, London, 1798), 468 pp.

Genealogy

1. Stirnet: Mure 01
2. Stirnet: Stewart 01