BRAIDFOOT, Marion of Lamington ¹

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  General Notes:

"The next mention of Lamington was in the hands of a person of the name of Braidfoot, who, along with his son, was killed in a siege of Lamington Tower by the English, and whose daughter after his death was taken prisoner and carried to Lanark Castle, and brought up as a ward of the Crown, by Lady Haselrig, wife of Sir William Haselrig, the English Governor of Lanark.
Haselrig designed Marion Braidfoot as wife for his son Arthur, but she escaped from Lanark Castle, and is said to have been married at Lanark church to the celebrated Sir William Wallace, son and heir of Sir Malcolm Wallace of Elderslie. Of this marriage Crawford, the author of the Peerage of Renfrewshire, says there was only one daughter (of that marriage), who became wife of this Sir William Baillie, and so brought the lands of Lamington into the family, at which they have resided ever since. Haselrig was so enraged at the marriage between Marion Braidfoot and Wallace, that he attacked the house in Lanark in which Wallace was living, and Wallace managed to escape by the back door, and hid himself in a cleft of the rock at Cartland Crags, and thus eluded the pursuit of Haselrig's soldiers."

from Lives of the Baillies ²

Marion married Sir William WALLACE the 'Patriot' Guardian of Scotland, son of Alan WALLACE tenant in Ayrshire and Unknown.¹ (Sir William WALLACE the 'Patriot' Guardian of Scotland was born in 1276 ³ and died on 23 August 1305 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The next mention of Lamington was in the hands of a person of the name of Braidfoot, who, along with his son, was killed in a siege of Lamington Tower by the
English, and whose daughter after his death was taken prisoner and carried to Lanark Castle, and brought up as a ward of the Crown, by Lady Haselrig, wife of Sir William Haselrig, the English Governor of Lanark. Haselrig designed Marion Braidfoot as wife for his son Arthur, but she escaped from Lanark Castle, and is said to have been married at Lanark church to the celebrated Sir William Wallace, son and heir of Sir Malcolm"

from Lives of the Baillies ¹