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MEMOIR OF 
published under the title of Analecta Scotica ; — 
this affords the principal authority for his life up 
to that date. 
The family of Sibbald is of great antiquity, 
and the name frequently occurs in charters of 
the thirteenth century. George Douglas, Earl 
of Angus, who died in 1461, married Elizabeth, 
daughter of Sir Andrew Sibbald of Balgony, in 
the county of Fife. Of this marriage was born 
Archibald, Earl of Angus, father of the learned 
Gavin Douglas, bishop of Dunkeld, the translator 
of Virgil. In the reign, however, of King James 
the Fourth, Sir Andrew Sibbald of Balgony, 
sheriff of Fife, dying without sons, Robert 
de Lundin, a younger son of the Laird of 
Lundin, married Helena, his daughter and heiress, 
and got the estate, still retaining the name of Lun- 
din. In King Charles the First’s reign, the estate 
again passed into a new family, being purchased 
by the celebrated General Alexander Leslie, 
afterwards created Earl of Leven, by whose de- 
scendants it is at present possessed. * 
From the younger branches of the Balgony 
family was Sir Robert descended, being the fifth 
child of David Sibbald, “ third brother to Sir 
James Sibbald of Rankeilor, knight baronet, by 
Margaret Boyd, eldest daughter of Mr Robert 
Boyd of Kipps, advocate. His father was 
* Sibbald’s Fife and Kinross, 8vo. edition, p. 368. 
