DOUGLAS, Helen ¹

Helen married George LAUDER of Haltoun, Burgess and Provost of Edinburgh, son of Alan DE LAWEDRE (LAUDER) of that Ilk, 1st of Haltoun, Bailie of Lauder, Constable of Tantallon Castle and Elizabeth DE HALTOUN.¹ (George LAUDER of Haltoun, Burgess and Provost of Edinburgh was born about 1373 and died in 1426 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"George de Lawedre married Helen, daughter of Archibald, 3rd Earl of Douglas, 'The Grim', by his wife Joanna, daughter of Maurice de Moray, 9th Earl of Strathearn.[⁵ George Crawfurd The Peerage of Scotland, p. 91.][⁶ Stewart-Smith, The Grange of St. Giles, Edinburgh, 1898, p.251.] They had four daughters[⁷ Special Retour in the National Records of Scotland GD430/13.] who had life-rents in his Lanarkshire lands. Haltoun and all the entails passed to his brother:

Sir Alexander Lauder of Haltoun, Knt., (d. before June 1434[⁸ Chamberlain Rolls 5 June 1434] who married before 1408, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Forrester of Corstophine.[⁹ The Great Seal of Scotland, signed at Dundee on 16th December 1408, no.915, when already married] with issue."

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