Troup is recorded in this Index as a Scottish barony in the county of Banff. The earliest record identified so far is dated 1494. It also appears in the sources as Troupe and Troupt.
The historical record
References identified
Register of the Great Seal
RMS ii, no.2208, pp.466–467: royal confirmation of the Earl Marischal’s grant of Troup barony in Banff to William Keith. .
Retours and Lyon records
Inquisitionum ad Capellam Domini Regis Retornatarum Abbreviatio, vol. III (1816), county index Banff: baronia, nos. 30, 41, 56, 192.
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