Elizabeth (Cunningham) Hay (abt. 1445 - bef. 1529)

Ancestors

Wife of John (Hay) Hay First Lord Hay of Yester — married before 17 Dec 1458 in (Post-marriage contract)

Descendants

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Biography

Elizabeth (Cunningham) Hay is a member of Clan Cunningham.

Lord Hay's second wife. This marriage contract appears in the Yester Writs and is dated 17th December 1458, with guarantor being George Cunningham then son and heir-apparent of Sir William Cunningham of Belton. The bride was served heir to her father, George, on 10th October 1483. By Lord Hay she had five known children; she is mentioned in a charter as the mother of Nicholas Hay, Prebendary of the Collegiate Kirk of Bothans [St. Bathans], diocese of St,. Andrews.

Sources

• Calendar of Writs preserved at Yester House 1166-1625 compiled by Charles C.H.Harvey and John MacLeod, SRS, Edinburgh, 1930 no.229, p.86.

• The Magna Charta Sureties 1215 by Fredk.Lewis Weis, et al, 5th edition, Baltimore, 2002, p.51.

• The Complete Peerage by G.E.Cockayne & the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, edited by H. Arthur Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.vi, London, 1926, p.421-2 and notes.

• Hay of Yester, Lord (S, 1488) Cracroft's Peerage