Formartine

Formartine (Scottish Gaelic: Fearann Mhàrtainn meaning "Martin's land")[1] is a committee area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Formartine has experienced rapid population growth, particularly around Ellon and Oldmeldrum, and in the south east where development has spread outwith the city of Aberdeen.

Formartine is first documented as a thanage in 1266, when Reginald Cheyne is recorded holding it in feu-ferm and liable for 141⁄2 merks as 2nd teinds payable to the Diocese of Aberdeen.

[8] This effectively extended the bounds of the Earldom southward,[9] though the burgh and castle of Fyvie remained in crown hands.

[10] The thanage must later have been escheated and returned to crown hands, as between 1341 and 1346 David II granted half of Formartine to his sister Margaret and her husband William de Moravia, 5th Earl of Sutherland, and the other half to another of his sisters Matilda and her husband Thomas Isaac.