"The Scottish Nation" - Chalmer of Gadgirth
This quotation was transcribed from "The Scottish Nation - or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland" Vol I, by William Anderson, 1860.
CHALMER, erroneously Chalmers, (Lat. de Camera) a surname derived from the office of 'Camerarius regis,' chamberlain of the king, held by Herbertus, the first on record of the ancient Ayrshire family of Chalmers of Gadgirth, latterly Gaitgirth, but at first spelled Galdgirth, the girth of Galdus. This Herbertus was Camerarius Scotiae, or great chamberlain of Scotland, in the reign of David the First, from 1124 to 1153. [Crawford's Officers of State.]. He is witness to the grant which King David made 'ecclesiae sancti Kentigerni de Glasgow,' of the lands of Govan, which afterwards became an endowment for a prebend in that cathedral church. Besides his lands in Ayrshire, which remained for more than six hundred years in the family, he had also the barony of Kinniel in Linlithgowshire, as appears from the first charter of these lands to Sir David Hamilton, in the reign of David the Second, in which it is expressed that they were to be held as freely as 'quandon Herbertus Camerarius Regis David' held the same. In his old age this Herbertus Camerarius took orders and became abbot of Kelso. [Nisbet's System of Herldry Vol ii App p. 20]. The name de Camera from him was retained by the family down to the reign of James the Fifth.
This quotation was transcribed from "The Scottish Nation - or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland" Vol I, by William Anderson, 1860.
CHALMER, erroneously Chalmers, (Lat. de Camera) a surname derived from the office of 'Camerarius regis,' chamberlain of the king, held by Herbertus, the first on record of the ancient Ayrshire family of Chalmers of Gadgirth, latterly Gaitgirth, but at first spelled Galdgirth, the girth of Galdus. This Herbertus was Camerarius Scotiae, or great chamberlain of Scotland, in the reign of David the First, from 1124 to 1153. [Crawford's Officers of State.]. He is witness to the grant which King David made 'ecclesiae sancti Kentigerni de Glasgow,' of the lands of Govan, which afterwards became an endowment for a prebend in that cathedral church. Besides his lands in Ayrshire, which remained for more than six hundred years in the family, he had also the barony of Kinniel in Linlithgowshire, as appears from the first charter of these lands to Sir David Hamilton, in the reign of David the Second, in which it is expressed that they were to be held as freely as 'quandon Herbertus Camerarius Regis David' held the same. In his old age this Herbertus Camerarius took orders and became abbot of Kelso. [Nisbet's System of Herldry Vol ii App p. 20]. The name de Camera from him was retained by the family down to the reign of James the Fifth.
"The Scottish Nation" - Chalmer of Gadgirth
This quotation was transcribed from "The Scottish Nation - or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland" Vol I, by William Anderson, 1860.
CHALMER, erroneously Chalmers, (Lat. de Camera) a surname derived from the office of 'Camerarius regis,' chamberlain of the king, held by Herbertus, the first on record of the ancient Ayrshire family of Chalmers of Gadgirth, latterly Gaitgirth, but at first spelled Galdgirth, the girth of Galdus. This Herbertus was Camerarius Scotiae, or great chamberlain of Scotland, in the reign of David the First, from 1124 to 1153. [Crawford's Officers of State.]. He is witness to the grant which King David made 'ecclesiae sancti Kentigerni de Glasgow,' of the lands of Govan, which afterwards became an endowment for a prebend in that cathedral church. Besides his lands in Ayrshire, which remained for more than six hundred years in the family, he had also the barony of Kinniel in Linlithgowshire, as appears from the first charter of these lands to Sir David Hamilton, in the reign of David the Second, in which it is expressed that they were to be held as freely as 'quandon Herbertus Camerarius Regis David' held the same. In his old age this Herbertus Camerarius took orders and became abbot of Kelso. [Nisbet's System of Herldry Vol ii App p. 20]. The name de Camera from him was retained by the family down to the reign of James the Fifth.
This quotation was transcribed from "The Scottish Nation - or the Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours and Biographical History of the People of Scotland" Vol I, by William Anderson, 1860.
CHALMER, erroneously Chalmers, (Lat. de Camera) a surname derived from the office of 'Camerarius regis,' chamberlain of the king, held by Herbertus, the first on record of the ancient Ayrshire family of Chalmers of Gadgirth, latterly Gaitgirth, but at first spelled Galdgirth, the girth of Galdus. This Herbertus was Camerarius Scotiae, or great chamberlain of Scotland, in the reign of David the First, from 1124 to 1153. [Crawford's Officers of State.]. He is witness to the grant which King David made 'ecclesiae sancti Kentigerni de Glasgow,' of the lands of Govan, which afterwards became an endowment for a prebend in that cathedral church. Besides his lands in Ayrshire, which remained for more than six hundred years in the family, he had also the barony of Kinniel in Linlithgowshire, as appears from the first charter of these lands to Sir David Hamilton, in the reign of David the Second, in which it is expressed that they were to be held as freely as 'quandon Herbertus Camerarius Regis David' held the same. In his old age this Herbertus Camerarius took orders and became abbot of Kelso. [Nisbet's System of Herldry Vol ii App p. 20]. The name de Camera from him was retained by the family down to the reign of James the Fifth.
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