DE LAVEDRE (LAUDER), Joannes 2nd son of Laudertown ¹

  General Notes:

"In 1057 Malcolm Canmore gave Sir Robert de Lavedre extensive lands in East Lothian and Berwickshire for assisting him recover his crown from Macbeth. Included in these lands was the lower part of the Bass, and Tyninghame. Numerous sources, including The Bass Rock (1847) state that the Lauders are the earliest recorded proprietors of the island. However, that is not entirely true, as The Church owned the upper half of the Bass owing to the fact that an obscure pious Scottish saint, Baldred, died there in 606 A.D. The Church would not grant this part of the Bass to the Lauders until 1316.

In Famous Scottish Houses (1928) Thomas Hannan relates how Tyninghame Manor existed in 1094 'when it was owned by the Lairds of the Bass.' We also know that as early as the 13th century Sir Robert de Lawedre of Bass invited the Bishops of St.Andrews to use it as a summer residence, in return for which they subsidised additions to the house. The Lauders were still working on the manor as late as 1617 when the dowager Lady Bass, Isabella (nee Hepburn), relict of Sir George Lauder of Bass (d.1611) carried out further additions."

from The Lauders of Bass


"On Malcolm's (Malcolm III of Scotland 1058-1093) efforts to recover his kingdom being crowned with success, he gave grants of land to the leaders of the enterprise; and, for the important services which De Lavedre had rendered, he obtained various grants of lands, particularly in Berwickshire, to which, as stated on a previous page, he gave his own name, according to the custom of the time, and, there is authority for saying, in obedience to a direct royal command to that effect. This baron was also invested with the hereditary bailieship of Lauderdale. No particular record seems to have been found respecting the three immediate successors of this De Lavedre; but there can be no doubt that the family had settled down on the estate granted by Malcolm to the first baron..."

from Family of Lauder ^{1 2}

Joannes married.