LAUDER, Mariota co-heiress ²

   Another name for Mariota was LAUDER, Marion heiress of Landells in Berwickshire.³

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Mariota married Sir Alexander HOME 1st Lord Home, son of Sir Alexander HOME of Home and Dunglas and Jean HAY, before 1424.¹ (Sir Alexander HOME 1st Lord Home was born about 1405 and died by 1492 ³.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Lord Home married, first, before 1424, Marion, daughter of John Lauder and his wife, Katherine, daughter of William de Landells and his wife Jonet. In 1425 she got sasine of the lands of Swynset, as heir of her mother, Katherine, who must have succeeded to them through her father, who, along with his wife, had a royal charter of these and other lands 4 January 1390-91 (Reg. Mag. Sig., vol. i. new ed. No. 813). Sir Alexander and Marion were related in the fourth degree of consanguinity.. "

from Scots Peerage (vol 9 Addenda et Corrigenda)




The other sisters were Mariota, probably the eldest daughter, who was married to Sir Alexander Home of that ilk"

from The Wardlaws of Scotland




"Lord Home married twice: (1) Mariotta (or Marion), the daughter and co-heiress of John Lauder (d.v.p.1421),(son of Sir Robert de Lawedre of Edrington and The Bass (d. 1425)), by John's spouse Katherine, heiress to her father William de Landells and his wife Jonet. A Papal dispensation by Pope Martin V was issued on 11 April 1426 at St Peter's, Rome, for Alexander de Home and Marion Lauder (de Lawedre) to marry, notwithstanding that they are related doubly in the fourth degree of consanguinity. Subsequent to that Dispensation, Robert, Bishop of Caithness, issued 'Letters' declaring all their offspring legitimate, signed at Edinburgh on 1 April 1428, and witnessed by (the next) Sir Robert Lauder, knight, Lord of Edrington, amongst others. They had at least seven children ...."

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