Katherine (de Lawedre) Swinton (bef. 1460 - 1515)

Born before 1460 in Haddingtonshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of John Swinton — married Jun 1475 in (Papal Dispensation)

Descendants

Died 1515 after age 55 in Swinton, Berwickshire, Scotland.

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Biography

Letters and an Act of Dispensation, dated 27th November 1475, by John, Bishop of Glasgow on the mandate of Philip, Bishop of Porto and penitentiary of Pope Sixtus IV (dated 3rd June in the 4th year of the pontificate of the said Pope [1475]) dispensing with the impediment to the marriage of John Swynton and Catherine Lauder who were related to each other in the fourth degree of consanguinity, declaring their issue to be legitimate. Done in Edinburgh.^[1]

Marriage and death details from Douglas, who gives her as "a daughter of the family of Bass".^[2]

There is a Precept of sasine by John Swyntoune of that Ilk, Kt, [the father] in favour of [this] John Swyntone, his son, and Catherine Lawedre, his son's wife, in 13 husband lands and a third part of a husband land (347 acres all told) in the Elbalk quarter in the town of Mekill Swyntone, in the sheriffdom of Berwick, dated at Haddington, 15th December, 1475.^[3]

In the archives is a Precept of Sasine under The Great Seal for infefting John Swyntoun of that ilk and his spouse, Katrine [sic] Lawder, in the lands of Cranschawis [Cranshaws, in Berwickshire] following on GD12/75, dated 5th November, 1510.^[4]

Reid examined the Testament and Inventory of Catherine Lauder, wife of John Swinton of that ilk, dated 8th October 1515 and concluded that she was the sister of the laird of Bass.^[5]

"Catherine Lauder, wife of Sir John Swinton, in her Will of October 1515, directed that her body was to be buried before the altar of St.Ninian in the Parish Church of Cranshaws."^[6][7]

There is extant a seal of "Katrine Lauder, spouse of John Swinton of that Ilk: a griffin segreant" dated 25th October, 1514.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ National Records of Scotland, GD12/56.
2. ↑ The Baronage of Scotland by Sir Robert Douglas, Bt., et al, Edinburgh, 1798, p.130i.
3. ↑ National Records of Scotland, GD12/57.
4. ↑ National Records of Scotland, GD12/76.
5. ↑ Early Notices of the Bass Rock and its Owners by John J. Reid, BA., FSA Scot., in "Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland", 14th December, 1885.
6. ↑ Notes on the Parish and Church of Cranshaws by the Revd., Crichton Eddy, FSA Scot., Berwick-upon-Tweed, no date but presumed 1970s.
7. ↑ The Swintons of that Ilk and Their Cadets, Edinburgh 1882, p,39.
8. ↑ Scottish Armorial Seals, by W.R. Macdonald, Edinburgh, 1904, no.1564, p.197.