John Hay, 1st Lord Hay of Yester (c. 1450 – after October 1508) is the ancestor of the

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. He was created a

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on 29 January 1488 by

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. He was born in

Peebleshire Peeblesshire ( gd, Siorrachd nam Pùballan), the County of Peebles or Tweeddale is a historic county of Scotland. Its county town is Peebles, and it borders Midlothian to the north, Selkirkshire to the east, Dumfriesshire to the south, and Lana ...

, the son of Sir David Hay of Locherworth, Peebleshire, and later Yester in East Lothian (d. c. 1478) by his wife Elizabeth (b. c. 1400), daughter of

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(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 Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home (c.1450s – 5 September 1506) was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, Lord Chamberlain of Scotland and Warden of the Eastern March. Life Lord Home was the son of Alexander Home, Master of Home and Agnes Hepburn, ...

, 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, (Brainston Moor) was a battle fought on 9 September 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, resulting in an English ...

) * (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 Sir William Borthwick, 3rd Lord Borthwick (died 20 May 1503) was a Scottish nobleman, ambassador, and Master of the King's Household in 1485. The son of William Borthwick, 2nd Lord Borthwick (died c. 1483), the 3rd Lord Borthwick was knighted b ...

(1460s – c. 1503)

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The Scots Peerage ''The Scots Peerage'' is a nine-volume book series of the Scottish nobility compiled and edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, published in Edinburgh from 1904 to 1914. The full title is ''The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Rober ...

'', by Sir James Balfour Paul, 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

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ...

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