William (Hay) de Haya Ist Laird of Errol (bef. 1160 - 1240)

Born before 1160 in Perthshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 1240 after age 80 in Pitmilly, Fifeshire, Scotland

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Scotland Project WikiTree [send private message]

William (Hay) de Haya Ist Laird of Errol was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland. Join: Scotland Project Discuss: Scotland

Biography

William (Hay) de Haya Ist Laird of Errol is Notable.

William (Hay) de Haya Ist Laird of Errol is a member of Clan Hay.

William de Haye/Haya [English/Latin] was born by 1160 in Perthshire, Scotland.

Several peerage accounts describe Sir William de Haya as the progenitor of the line of de Hays who were Marquisses of Tweeddale and state also that he was the father of Sir John de Hay or Haya.^[1][2][3]

Two accounts claim that Sir William was settled in Lothian about the reigns of David I and Malcolm IV.^[1][2] The reigns of David I and Malcolm IV span the years 1124-1165, with David’s ending in 1153. Lothian is a region that surrounds Edinburgh and encompasses what once were known as the shires or counties of West Lothian, Midlothian, and East Lothian. However, another account relates that Sir William witnessed a charter of King Alexander II to Kelso Abbey in 1240. If he were alive even for the last year of David’s reign, he would have been 87 at the very least when he witnessed Alexander’s charter, but probably considerably older.

Also, however, the same two peerage accounts relate that Sir William’s son and successor, Sir John de Hay, was married about 1200. Sir John thus would have been born by 1180, pushing Sir William’s birth back to about 1160 at the latest.

Extract from Wikipedia : Sources?

Clan Hay descends from the Norman family of de la Haye (de Haya). The progenitors of the Scottish clan were William II de Haya and his wife, Eva of Pitmilly[32] William II de Haya was the son of William I de Haya and his Norman wife, Juliana de Soulis, sister to Ranulf I de Soules. He was the first recorded Hay in Scotland, is known to have been in the Scottish court in 1160, was cup-bearer to Malcolm IV of Scotland and William I of Scotland, and was made the first Baron of Erroll by William I. He died soon after 1201 and was succeeded by his eldest son, David.

Note, however, that none of the half dozen or so peerage accounts of the 18th to early 20th centuries includes a David de Hay during this early period.

William de Hay was alive in 1201, as appears from a charter in the Benholm Charter-chest probably of that date, but died soon afterwards. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "The Peerage of Scotland : A Genealogical and Historical Account of all the Peers of the Kingdom", London: J. Almon, 1767, Archive.org, p. 48
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Kimber, Edward, "The Peerage of Scotland : a complete view of the several orders of nobility, of that ancient kingdom; their descents, marriages, issue, and relations; their creations, armorial bearings, crests, supporters, mottos, chief seats, and the high offices they possess ... together with a list of the sixteen peers, from the union to 1767", London, H. Woodfal, 1767, Archive.org, p. 16
3. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/peerageofscotlan02douguoft#page/602/mode/1up : Wood, John Philip, Esq., “The Peerage of Scotland: Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom”, 2nd Ed., 2nd Vol., Edinburgh and London (1813), p. 602
4. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1906, Vol. III, Archive.org, p. 555

See also:

• Wikipedia: William II de Haya

• Wikidata: Item Q8012785, en:Wikipedia

• The Peerage: William Hay Died 1201.

• Clan Hay History.