Mariota (Lauder) Home (bef. 1410 - aft. 1443)

Born before 1410 in Haddingtonshire, Scotland

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Died after 20 Jun 1443 after age 33 in Dunglass, Berwickshire, Scotland

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Marion [sic] was co-heiress with two of her sisters in the Lauder lands of Aldcathy in Linlithgowshire, to which lands they had a retour as [part] lawful heirs of their grandfather, the late Sir Robert de Lawedre of The Bass (d.1425) dated 11th December 1436. Sir Robert had gifted the feus of these lands to them. Balfour Paul also mentions that Marion was co-heiress with her three sisters in the lands of Crailing, Hownam, Swinside, and others; that Sir Alexander Home and Marion Lauder [sic] were related in the fourth degrees of consanguinity, and had to apply for a Papal Dispensation to marry, which was granted 11th April 1426. But as they had married before it arrived, they had to undergo a formal divorce, and be reunited by a second dispensation from Rome dated 4th January 1428.^[1]

Mariota de Lawedre, spouse of Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk, knight, granted a feu charter of her mains lands of Hownam, Roxburghshire, to Andrew Ker of Altonburn, the same lands having previously been feued to sisters Marjorie, Isabella, Jonet & Ellen Roule and resigned by them. Feu payment due to Mariota, was one silver penny to be paid annually at Pentecost, if asked for. Dated at Dunglas 20th June 1443. Witnesses were: Adam Hepburn Lord of Hailes, Sir Patrick Hepburn Lord of Wauchtoun, Sir David Home Lord of Wedderburn, knights; William Setoun, son of the late Sir Alexander Setoun, Lord of Gordon, Robert de Lawedre of Edrington, William Hepburn, David Home son and heir of the said Sir David Home, George Home and Thomas Home.^[2]

She was Alexander Home's first wife. Her maiden surname was 'de Lawedre'.

Sources

1. ↑ The Scots' Peerage by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, Edinburgh,1905, under 'Home' p.447; and vol.ix, 1914, p.107.
2. ↑ Historical Manuscripts Commission, Fourteenth Report, MSS of the Duke of Roxburghe, &c., 1894, p.18.

• The Rutherfords in Britain by K. Rutherford Davis, U.K.,1987, pps: 18 - 20.

• The Peerage of Scotland by Sir Robert Douglas, Bt., Edinburgh 1813, which has Mariota incorrectly as daughter, instead of granddaughter, of Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass.

• The Manuscripts of The Duke of Athole, K.T., and of The Earl of Home, Historical Manuscripts Commission, Twelfth Report, Appendix, Part VIII, London, 1891, pps: 78-9.

• The Complete Peerage by G.E.Cockayne, revised by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, and edited by H. Arthur Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.VI, London, 1926, p.552.

• Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970, p.1362.