The Sterling genealogy

92 THE STERLING GENEALOGY
IX 2 Gilbert de Strivelyn, ancestor of the Stirlings of Craigbernard
and Glorat.
IX GILBERT DE STRIVELYN married the daughter and
heiress of Alicia de Erth, Lady of Cragbernard, and died a young
man before 1434, leaving a minor son and heir:
X JOHN DE STRIVELYN OF CRAGBERNARD. He
was one of the jurors on the service of James Livingstone as heir
to his father, James, Lord Livingstone, in the barony and castle
of Calendar, etc., on Nov. 7, 1467.
He was also one of the jurors on the service of John, Lord
Dernley, in 1473. He resigned in 1486, Cragbernard, Bal-
grochqueris, Corfatrik, Leychedis, and Balglas, in favor of his
eldest son John, reserving his own life rent. On May 29, 1487, he
was one of the jurors who served William de Strivelyn, heir of
Sir William de Strivelyn of Cadder, his father, in the lands of
Letter.
He is said to have married a daughter of Galbraith of Kil-
crench. He died about July 26, 1497, and was succeeded by his
son:
XI SIR JOHN STRIVELING OF CRAGBERNARD.
He was also one of the jurors on the service of William de
Strivelyn of Cadder in 1487. On his father's resignation he re-
ceived from James III, on May 29, 1486, a charter of Crag-
bernard and other lands. He is there styled the King's beloved,
familiar squire. He was a courtier and a man of distinction, and
much about the persons of this unfortunate sovereign and his
son, by the latter of whom he was knighted.
According to documents cited in Chalmer's Caledonia (Vol.
Ill, p. 278), he obtained from James IV a grant of the keeping
of Dumbarton Castle for nineteen years on July 26, 1497. This
honorable and responsible post was filled by his younger son and
his grandson during the greater part of the following half cen-
tury. On May 1, 1502, he was Comptroller to King James IV.
This king visited Sir John at Craigbernard in 1507, as the ac-
counts of the Lord High Treasurer for that year, February 9,
bear : " Item, that nycht in Craigbernard, to the King to play