LUNDIN, SIR ALAN, of Lundin, or Lundie, in tho shire of Forfar, was sou and heir of Thomas de Lundio, who held the office of king's hostiariue, or door ward, and was one of the magnates Scotiae who ratified the marriage of King Alexander II. with Joanna of England. Sir Alan early married the bastard daughter of this King Alexander, and before the year 1233 he had succeeded his father in the office of Dos-ward. Before this time also be had imitated his father's munificence to the church, and in the spirit of the age had founded a Dominican convent at Montrose. He was a forward impetuous character, and for twelve years assumed without any authority the title of Earl of AthoL In 1243 he was appointed lord-justiciar of Scotland, and so con tinued for about six years, when he was removed under circum stances which strongly mark his audacity and ambition. In 1249 he endeavoured to obstruct the coronation of the infant son of King Alexander II.; and the next year he prevailed on Robert, abbot of
Dunfermline, then ohancellor of the kingdom, to make a motion in council to legitimate his wife, so that on failure of issue of the king's body she and her heirs might succeed to the throne. For this act the king conceived so great a displeasure that he immediately turned the chancellor out of office, and soon after the justiciar likewise. The latter joined King Henry III. in France, and served in his army ; and nt length, in 1255, by the influence of the English king, he was re-instated in his office of loreljuaticiar, and so continued till 1257, when he was again removed for the powerful Comyn. He died in 1275, leaving three daughters, who carried his great possessions with his blood into other families.