John (Halyburton) Haliburton (abt. 1408 - bef. 1454)

Note: Douglas's 1764 edition of The Peerage of Scotland styled John as 2nd Lord Haliburton, counting the creation from Walter Halyburton. The 1907 edition of The Scots' Peerage counts the creation of the title from c.1450 and styled John Halyburton, the son of Walter as 1st Lord Halyburton.

Biography

John (Halyburton) Haliburton is a member of Haliburton Clan.

His parents married in 1407.

On 3rd January 1447/8 John, Lord de [of] Haliburton sold a feu to Alexander, Lord Home, "all and sundry of my lands of Lamden" [near Greenlaw, Berwickshire]. That was immediately followed by an appendixed charter dated January 4th, where he describes himself as"I, John, Lord of Haliburton and Sheriff of Berwick[shire]" when he appointed Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk [the same person as Alexander, Lord Home] one of his Sheriff-Deputies in Berwickshire. Both charters signed at Dirletoun.^[1]

In a charter of John de Haliburton, Lord of that Ilk, signed at Edinburgh 17th October 1449, mention is made of Walter de Haliburton, father of the said John, receiving annual-rents out of the feudal barony of Tranent.^[2]

The Crown confirmed a feu charter of John, Lord de Haliburton and Sheriff-Deputy of Berwickshire, to Patrick Hepburn, Lord of Hailes, etc., of the lands of Little Lamberton in Berwickshire, with numerous interesting witnesses, signed at Dirletoun 10th December 1450.^[3]

The first clear mention of John, Lord Haliburton is in his feu charter to William, Earl of Douglas, of the lands of Birgham and Birghamschielles, Westmains, Hausingtoun, and the Pleulands in the [former] Earldom of March, in Berwickshire. Signed at Dirletoun 11th April 1450.^[4]

The above charter led both the editors of The Scots' Peerage as well as The Complete Peerage to conclude that in fact it was this John Haliburton who was the first Lord of Parliament. George Haliburton (d.c1488/90) and each successor sat in Parliament as Lord Dirletoun.^[5]

The Crown confirmed a charter on 28th March 1450/1 to Patrick de Haliburton, son and heir-apparent of John, Lord Haliburton of the lands and barony of Dirletoun, Sheriffdom of Edinburgh, the [superiorities of] lands of Halsyntoun, Birgham and Mellerstain in Berwickshire, which the said John resigns.^[6]

The Crown confirmed a charter on 28th March 1450/1 to Patrick de Haliburton, son and heir-apparent of John, Lord Haliburton and Margaret Hepburn, daughter of Patrick de Hepburn of Hailes, of the lands of Lambden, Berwickshire, resigned by the said John.^[7]

The Crown confirmed a charter on 24th March 1451/2 to Patrick de Haliburton, son and heir-apparent of John, Lord Haliburton, of the demesne lands in the barony of Dirletoun, with the castle, in Haddingtonshire.^[8]

He married Janet, daughter of William Seton of Seton, and sister of George, 1st Lord Seton, by whom he had two sons.

1. Patrick, his successor.

2. George, who succeeded his brother.

Sources

1. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.305, confirmed at Edinburgh, 22nd January 1449/50.
2. ↑ The Great seal of Scotland no.401.
3. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.558, confirmed at Edinburgh, 20th May 1452.
4. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.355, confirmed at Edinburgh 17th May, 1450.
5. ↑ The Complete Peerage by G. E. Cockayne, edited by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs & H. Arthur Doubleday, vol.iv, London, 1916, p.383-4 and footnotes.
6. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.436.
7. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.437.
8. ↑ The Great Seal of Scotland, no.532.

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