Background
Menteith was the son of Alan, Earl of Menteith, and is first noted in an order dated at Carlisle in 1307 to provide foodstuffs " to the two sons of the Earl of Menteith, and the son of the Earl of Stratherne".
Menteith was the son of Alan, Earl of Menteith, and is first noted in an order dated at Carlisle in 1307 to provide foodstuffs " to the two sons of the Earl of Menteith, and the son of the Earl of Stratherne".
He evidently was an English prisoner, but he either escaped to the Scottish camp or was exchanged for an English nobleman held by the Scots.