BAILLIE, Andrew of Lamington 2
- Born: About 1486
- Marriage (1): LINDSAY, Elizabeth 1
User ID: M579.
General Notes:
"On examination of the Inventory of the Titles of Lamington I find two Sasines in favour of Andrew Baillie as heir to Sir William Baillie, his Grandfather ...."
from Lives of the Baillies 2
Andrew married Elizabeth LINDSAY, daughter of David LINDSAY 5th Earl of Crawford, then Duke of Montrose and Elizabeth HAMILTON.1 (Elizabeth LINDSAY was born about 1482.)
Marriage Notes:
"ANDREW BAILLIE, grandson of the before-mentioned Sir William Baillie, passed Infeftment in the lands and barony of Lamington as his heir on 3d March 1521. This Andrew married Elizabeth Lindsay, eldest daughter of David Earl of Crawford, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Lord Hamilton ........
A battle was fought at Melrose on 25th July 1526 between the Scots and Douglases, which ended in the defeat of the Scots, and the death of Ker of Cessford, Ancestor of the Roxburgh family, who was killed by Elliot of Stobs, a retainer of Buccleuch, which caused a deadly feud between those two illustrious houses. In the year before the battle of Melrose, Mr. Andrew Baillie obtained a Charter of Resignation in favour of himself and Elizabeth Lindsay his wife, and William Baillie their son and apparent heir, of the lands and barony of Lamington, with the patronage of the kirk and chapels thereunto belonging, with the lands of Hoprig and Penston, on 2d, and Precept from Chancery followed 3d, and Sasine on the Precept 9th, and on the Charter 12th, August 1525."
from Lives of the Baillies 1
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