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From: William A. Reitwiesner< >
Subject: Re: Scottish royalty
Date: 2 Jul 1995 09:07:55 -0500


(Martin Skj!ldebrand) said:

>I have got a problem with our familly ancestry. My ancestor, Erik
>Skj!ldebrand was knighted in the late 18'th centuary. So far, so good :).
>Familly tradition, however, has it that his wife - Johanna Logie, belonged to a
>medieval scottish noble familly married into the royal house of Scotland.
>
>Is the Logie familly known in Scotland? Was it married into the royal house?
>Is there any Logies still living in Scotland?

The Skj"oldebrand family is treated in Elgenstierna's *Den Introducerade
Svenska Adelns "Attartavlor*, volume VII, pp. 301-309. Your father appears
on page 307, column 1.

Your great(4)-grandparents, Erik Brander (ennobled under the name
Skj"oldebrand in 1767) and Johanna Logie appear on pp. 301-302. She is
described as a daughter of Georg Logie, Swedish consul in Algier (is this
Algiers in Algeria now?) by his second wife Johanna Elioth of England.
Elgenstierna says, about Georg Logie, "av en gammal skotsk adl. "att, varav
ett fruntimmer var gift med konung David II i Skottland".

This is not quite correct. While Logie is quite an old family in Scotland,
no person named Logie has ever been granted a peerage title, so they're not
"noble" in the strict modern sense. Also, King David II's second wife,
whom he married in 1363, was actually Margaret Drummond, widow of John
Logie of that Ilk. See Balfour Paul's *Scots Peerage*, VII:32-34.

As for where to go to find information on the Logie family, I'm stumped.
There doesn't seem to be anything in print -- Logie isn't even mentioned in
Stewart's bibliography of Scottish families or Marshall's or Whitmore's
bibliographies of British families.

Hope this helps.

William Addams Reitwiesner

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