Kinninmont

This name is of territorial origin from the lands of Kinninmonth in Fife. Odo, seneschal to the Bishop of St Andrews, received a charter of confirmation to his lands of Kynninmonth between 1189 and 1199 from William the Lion. A publication in 1841 on the charters of the archbishopric of St Andrews states that the charter granted by John, son of Adam, son of Odo, is not recorded, ‘but his original deed of consent, executed at the same time, and before the same witnesses with the charter of his father, is still extanct; and on his seal we find the family name for the first time: “S’Iohannis de Kinimmund” ’. William de Kynemuthe appears on the Ragman Roll of Scots nobles submitting to Edward I of England in 1296. Alexander de Kynimund was preferred to the bishopric of Aberdeen in 1356. In 1438 James Kynimond of that Ilk, asserted his right to the hereditary offices of baillie, steward and marischal of St Andrews by right through his earlier ancestors. A direct line of the Kininmonts of that Ilk came to an end with the marriage of a sole heiress to Murray of Melgund. Sir William Kininmouth was a distinguished twentieth-century Scottish architect.