Elizabeth Bruce

[2][3] Her legitimacy was brought into question by Sir David Dalrymple (Lord Hailes) in his work The Annals of Scotland volume 2.

[4] Dalrymple concludes that "To remove all doubt" the charter with the words "dilectae sorori nostrae" (our beloved sister) if still in existence, should be deposited in Register House.

In all, there are similar charters for the lands and baronies of Gask, Dupplin, Ochtertyre, Newtyle, Kynprony (Kinpurnie), Turyngs (Turin) and Dromy (Drimmie).

[10] The reason for the existence of so many charters was that Sir Walter Olifaunt and Elizabeth Bruce his wife had obtained reconfirmation of their landholdings and baronies from her brother King David II in 1364.

[12] Oliphant was the father of Elizabeth's husband Walter, and died in 1329, some thirty years prior to the creation of the Tournai marble slab depicting him.

[13][14] No explanation for their creation is known other than the fact that of the royal connection (in the same way that King David II raised each of Sir Walter and Elizabeth's lands to baronies).

Charter granted by King David II of Scotland to Walter Oliphant and, in the centre of line 5 to: "et Elizabeth spouse sue [his wife] dilecte sorori nostro [our beloved sister]" - one of several similar documents in his family's collection.