William Keith of Galston
20th great grandfather
William Keith
Janet Keith-1340
John Hamilton-1371
James Hamilton-1398
Marjorie Hamilton-1417
William Keith-1451
Robert Keith-1483
Janet Keith-1528
Margaret Lyon-1547
Hugh Kennedy-1576
John Kennedy-1602
Catherine Kennedy-1637
Helen Cochrane-1665
Jean Sutherland Gordon-1694
Margaret Maitland Lauderdale-1738
Peter Grancer Looney-1759
James Robert Luna-1785
Malinda Luna-1813
James William Sanders-1832
Elisha Kane Sanders-1861
Frona Elizabeth Sanders-1890
Elisha Kane Brown-1921
Kathleen Elizabeth Brown Hill - 1947
William Keith was the son of Robert de Keth, and grandson of John de Keth, the King's Marischal. He was in command of troops under Sir James Douglas at the Capture of Berwick in 1318.
Upon the death of Robert I of Scotland in 1329 he accompanied Sir James Douglas on crusade in Spain, with the King's embalmed heart. He was one of the few survivors of Douglas's party of knights and men-at-arms who survived the Battle of Teba. He was responsible for returning the King's heart and Douglas' bones and heart to Scotland, where the King's heart was buried at Melrose, and Douglas's remains solemnly interred in the kirk of St Bride in Douglas.
He was in command at Berwick again in 1333 when the disastrous English victory at Halidon Hill took place.
In 1335 Keith was an ambassador to England, and in 1336 he was fighting at the Siege of Stirling Castle where he was killed.