John Hay, 1st Lord Hay of Yester (c. 1450 – after October 1508) is the ancestor of the
Marquesses of Tweeddale. He was created a
Lord of Parliament on 29 January 1488 by
James III of Scotland
James III (10 July 1451/May 1452 – 11 June 1488) was King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburg ...
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He was born in
Peebleshire, the son of Sir David Hay of Locherworth, Peebleshire, and later Yester in
East Lothian
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In ...
(d. c. 1478) by his wife Elizabeth (b. c. 1400), daughter of
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus (1370–1402) by Princess Mary (d. before 1458), daughter of
Robert III, King of Scots.
John Hay married (1) Mary (d. c. 1467), daughter of
John Lindsay, 1st Lord Lindsay of the Byres, and (2) by contract before 17 December 1468, Elizabeth (d. 1529), daughter of George Cunningham of Belton. There were children by both marriages:
* (1) Sir Thomas Hay, Master of Yester (d. 1491), who married Elizabeth (c. 1477–1544), daughter of
Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home, who later married
James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran
* (1) Isabel, who married Sir
Walter Ker of Cessford, & Caverton (d. c. 1601)
* (2) Sir
John Hay, 2nd Lord Hay of Yester (killed at the
Battle of Flodden
The Battle of Flodden, Flodden Field, or occasionally Branxton or Brainston Moor was fought on 9 September 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland and resulted in an English victory ...
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* (2) George Hay of
Menzion
* (2) Isabella, who married Sir
Robert Lauder of The Bass, Knt
* (2) Margaret (d. c. 1525), married in 1491 to
William Borthwick, 3rd Lord Borthwick (1460s – c. 1507)
References
*''
The Scots Peerage'', by Sir
James Balfour Paul
Sir James Balfour Paul (16 November 1846 – 15 September 1931) was the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the officer responsible for heraldry in Scotland, from 1890 until the end of 1926.
Life
James Balfour Paul was educated at Royal High School, Edinbur ...
, Edinburgh, 1905, under 'Tweeddale'.
*''The New Extinct Peerage, 1884-1971'', by L.G. Pine, London, 1972, p. 33.
*''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970, p. 2697.
*''The Magna Charta Sureties 1215'', by Frederick Lewis Weis, et al., 5th edition, Baltimore, 2002, p. 51.
1450s births
1500s deaths
Nobility from East Lothian
John
Lords of Parliament (pre-1707)
Hay of Yester
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