Beatrice (de Lawedre) Wardlaw

Born [date unknown] in Scotland

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Died about 1500 in Scotland [uncertain]

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Beatrice (de Lawedre) Wardlaw was born in Scotland.

Beatrice was a daughter of John de Lawedre (d.1421). Sir Alexander Home had married Mariota (Marion) de Lawedre, also a daughter of John, and so both were granddaughters of Sir Robert de Lawedre of The Bass (d.1425). The four sisters Mariota, Beatrice, Elizabeth and Christian [and their husbands] received a quarter each of the Crailing, Hownam and Swinside estates. On December 11, 1436 James Rutherford of that Ilk and Alexander Home of that Ilk witnessed the sasine for same at Linlinthgow. Swinside remained a Rutherford holding through the marriage of said James Rutherford and Christian de Lawedre.^[1]

The sisters were:

1. Beatrice who married a Henry Wardlaw.^[2]
2. Elizabeth, (d.before March 1470) married Home of Crowdy, with issue.^[3]
3. Mariotta or Marion, married Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk, later 1st Lord Home, ancestor of the Earls of Home.^[4][5]
4. Christian, married about 1424 James Rutherfurd of that Ilk , ancestor of the Lords Rutherfurd. By this marriage the Rutherfurds gained the Lauder lands of Arbirlot, Newton and Cuthlie near Arbroath in Forfarshire, in feu.^[6][7][8]

Sources

1. ↑ Historical Manuscripts Commission, 12th report, App vii, 78-79, 109, 120-121
2. ↑ Gibson, John C, "The Wardlaws in Scotland: A History of the Wardlaws of Wilton and Torrie and their Cadets", Edinburgh: William Brown, 1912 p. 40
3. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, charter number 1037 dated 6th March 1469 and confirmed 8th August 1471.
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, 1907, Vol. IV, Archive.org, p. 444-8
5. ↑ 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, 1914, Vol. IX, Archive.org, pp. 106-7
6. ↑ Gibson, John C, "The Wardlaws in Scotland: A History of the Wardlaws of Wilton and Torrie and their Cadets", Edinburgh: William Brown, 1912 p. 41
7. ↑ Fraser, William. Douglas-Home, Charles, Stewart-Murray, John, The Manuscripts of the Duke of AThole, K.T., and of the Earl of Home, Historical Manuscripts Commission, 12th Report, Appendix, part viii, London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1891, Archive, 78-9
8. ↑ Davis, Kenneth Rutherford, "The Rutherfords in Britain" Gloucester, UK, Allan Sutton Publishing, 1987, pp. 18-20