MAITLAND, Margaret 1
- Born: About 1570
- Marriage (1): KER, Robert Lord Roxburghe, then Earl of Roxburghe, Sir 27 and 31 October 1587 (contract) married 5 December 1587 in Newbattlle, Midlothian. Scotland 1 2
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Margaret married Sir Robert KER Lord Roxburghe, then Earl of Roxburghe, son of William KER of Cessford and Janet DOUGLAS, 27 and 31 October 1587 (contract) married 5 December 1587 in Newbattlle, Midlothian. Scotland.1 2 (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:
"Margaret (Maitland), was married to Robert Ker, younger of Cessford,(contract, to which her uncle Sir John was a party, dated 27 and 31 October 1587), and received a charter of Cessford in liferent, confirmed 8 April 1588. Her husband was in 1616 created Earl of Roxburghe."
from Scots Peerage (vol 5)
"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."
from Scots Peerage (vol 7) 1
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