John Maitland (abt. 1573 - 1644)

Born about 1573 in Lethington Tower, nr.Haddington, Haddingtonshire.

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 17 Jan 1644 at about age 71 in Lethington Tower, nr.Haddington.

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His father's only son and heir, there is no record of his place of birth but doubtless it was Lethington Tower near Haddington, the residence of his parents, and where he died (despite inheriting the new Thirlestane Castle from his father). He was interred in St.Mary's Church, Haddington.

Name

Name: John /MAITLAND/

Name Prefix: 1st Earl of Lauderdale

Source: #S84

Source: #S171

Name: John Maitland /Lauderdale/

Given Name: John Maitland

Surname: Lauderdale

Also Known As: First Earl of Lauderdale^[1]

Name: John Maitland /Lauderdale/

Given Name: John Maitland

Surname: Lauderdale^[2][3]

Found multiple versions of NAME. Using John Maitland /Lauderdale/.

Death

Death:

Date: 1645

Source: #S84

Death:

Date: 17 JAN 1644

Place: Lauder, Scotland^[4][5]

Death:

Date: 18 JAN 1644/45

Earl of Lauderdale

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maitland%2C_1st_Earl_of_Lauderdale

John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount of Lauderdale, Viscount Maitland, and Lord Thirlestane and Boltoun, (d. January 1645) was President of the Scottish Parliament as well as the Privy Council, a lawyer and a judge, who sided with the Parliamentarian cause during the Civil War.

The son of Sir John Maitland, 1st Lord Thirlestane by his spouse Jean, only daughter and heiress of the Fourth Lord Fleming (subsequently Countess of Cassillis), he was admitted a member of the Privy Council of Scotland on July 20, 1615.

On April 2, 1616 he was created Viscount of Lauderdale, by Letters Patent, to him and his heirs male and successors in the lordship of Thirlestane.

He was subsequently made President of the Privy Council, and was appointed an Ordinary Lord of Session on June 5, 1618. He was at that time one of the Commissioners for the Plantation of Kirks.

On March 14, 1624, at Whitehall, London, he was created, by patent, Earl of Lauderdale, Viscount Maitland, and Lord Thirlestane and Boltoun.

Lord Lauderdale was removed from his place on the bench, on February 14, 1626, in consequence of a resolution by King Charles I that no nobleman should hold the seat of an ordinary Lord, and instead was on 1st June following appointed one of the Extraordinary Lords of Session, usually reserved by the Crown for either noblemen or dignitaries of The Church. He remained an Extraordinary Lord until November 8, 1628, and in the following year was appointed one of the Lords of the Articles.

Regardless of the honours generously bestowed upon him by his monarch, upon the breaking out of the English Civil War, he joined the side of the parliament and was employed in a great variety of commissions of importance.

On June 4, 1644 he was elected President of the parliament, and reappointed on 7th January following. He died before the 20th of the same month, and was interred in the Maitland family burial vault within St. Mary's Collegiate Church, Haddington.

A poetical epitaph on him by Drummond of Hawthornden, as also the one by King James VI on his father, the Chancellor, can be found in Crawfurd's Peerage.

He married Lady Isabel (d. November 1638), daughter of Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, celebrated by Arthur Johnston in his poems. They had a large family of whom only three sons and one daughter survived their parents.

References

 ? Anderson, William, The Scottish Nation, Edinburgh, 1867, vol.vi, pps:633-634.

Source: #S84

Marriage

Husband: John Maitland

Wife: Isabel Seton

Marriage:

Date: BEF 18 JUN 1610

Source: #S171

Child: John Maitland

Husband: John Maitland Lauderdale

Wife: @I7@

Child: @I15@

Child: Sopia Lauderdale

Child: John Lauderdale

Child: Robert Lauderdale

Marriage:

Date: 18 JUN 1610

Place: Lauder, Scotland^[6]

Sources

Source S171

Type: FHL Film

Text: The Peerage.com - http://www.thepeerage.com/p2607.htm

Source S84

Type: Internet / posting board / e-mail

Text: Burkes Peerage and Landed Gentry from site :

http://www.maximiliangenealogy.co.uk/burke1/Burkeindex.htm

• Source: S1 Record ID Number: MH:S1 User ID: 613290D5-EE54-404E-9292-0759263B2A0E Title: Ratliff Family.FTW Repository: Call Number: Media: Other
• Source: S2 Record ID Number: MH:S2 User ID: A48359A3-5007-43C3-94AA-0C97FB462ED0 Title: Ratliff-Blair2.FTW Repository: Call Number: Media: Other
• Source: S3 Record ID Number: MH:S3 User ID: 0114E752-BE84-4B63-A3FA-C2F9F3FBAD5C Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Title: Ancestral File (R) Publication: Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998 Repository: Note: #N86

Note N86NAME Family History Library

ADDR 35 N West Temple Street

Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA

Record ID Number: MH:N182

• The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, etc., by Messrs, John and John Bernard Burke, London, volume 1 (1848) pedigree XV, and volume 2(1851), pedigree LXXXIV.

• The Complete Peerage by G.E.Cockayne & Hon. Vicary Gibbs, edited by H.A.Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden, London, 1929, volume 7, p.487.

1. ↑ Source: #S3 Record ID Number: MH:SC74
2. ↑ Source: #S2 Record ID Number: MH:SC75 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 7, 2004
3. ↑ Source: #S1 Record ID Number: MH:SC76 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 18, 2004
4. ↑ Source: #S2 Record ID Number: MH:SC79 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 7, 2004
5. ↑ Source: #S1 Record ID Number: MH:SC80 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 18, 2004
6. ↑ Source: #S1 Record ID Number: MH:SC11668 Data: Text: Date of Import: Apr 18, 2004

• https://clanmaitland.scot/history/20-1600s

Acknowledgments

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