Alexander B/Abt 1262 1st Laird of Mangerton D/1320 Hermitage Castle, Scot.

Children:

1. Richard B/Abt 1281 Scot.

2. William B/Abt 1282 Scot.

3. Alexander B/Abt 1284 2nd Laird of Mangerton D/1320

Notes:

Mangerton Castle, is understood to have been originally built by a Knight of Norman descent. Mangerton castle, the fortress along the Border were repaired in 1244 by King Alexander II of Scotland, who also built in Liddesdale the Castle of Hermitage, and was employed as a place of strength by King Robert Bruce, whom the Armstrongs followed.

In a Deed of resignation, November 2, 1482, to the Earl of Angus, friend of Thomas Armstrong, in favor of David Scott of Branxhelme, Mangerton is there stated to have belonged to Thomas Armstrong "heritably".

In 1569 the Regent Murray, spending a Sunday night at Mangerton, ordered the Castle in the morning to be destroyed by gunpower, but it withstood the shock and must soon have been repaired, for in its northerly wall is a remarkable stone upon which is carved a shield bearing the charges of Merieton and the emblem of Siward. Outside of the shield are carved the numeral 1583 with the letters S A and E F, standing it is said for Symon Armstrong, one of the later chiefs and Elizabeth Foster.

Source-Chronicles of the Armstrongs p. 86 & 87

Alerander Armstrong, 1st Laird of Mangerton, Chief of the Armstrongs lived here in 1320 and his descendants remained until the Union of the Crowns in 1612, when the the Castle was finally destroyed by the forces of King James VI & I. Only portions of the west & south walls of the fortalice remain visible.

King of Scotland- John of Baliol(1292-1306)

King of England-Edward I(1272-1307)