MAITLAND, Margaret 1
User ID: Y996. Margaret married Sir Robert KER Lord Roxburghe, then Earl of Roxburghe, son of William KER of Cessford and Janet DOUGLAS, on 5 December 1587 in Newbattlle, Midlothian. Scotland.1 (Sir Robert KER Lord Roxburghe, then Earl of Roxburghe was born about 1570 and died on 18 January 1650 in Kelso parish, Roxburghshire, Scotland 1.) Marriage Notes: "The Earl of Roxburghe married, first, Margaret, only daughter of William Maitland of Lethington, Queen Mary's famous Secretary, by his second marriage to Mary Fleming (' the flower of the Queen's Maries '), daughter of Malcolm, third Lord Fleming. She had a charter of the barony and castle of Cessford in liferent, in terms of her marriage-contract to 'Robert Ker, feuar of Cessford,' registered 27 and 31 October 1587. The marriage took place 'att Newbottle, hys uncle's howse,' 5 December 1587, and the next day 'the Kynge sentt for him and commytted him to Edenburro Castell.' Robert Ker had shortly before, with Buecleuch, made a raid into England of a very outrageous nature." |