DE LA HAY, Robert ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"Robert, parson of Erroll, 10 who granted along with his brother Malcolm a tithe of the fishing of Glasbanyn to the Abbey of Lindores."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"According to old writers he was father of two sons, William, ancestor of the Earls of Erroll, and Robert, ancestor of the Marquesses of Tweeddale. In the Erroll article some doubt is thrown on the statement that there were two successive Williams, and of the exact relationship between the founders of the two branches no contemporary documentary evidence has so far been discovered. A common origin, however, may be assumed from the fact that in the entail of the lands and lordship of Erroll under the first Earl of Erroll, 31 July 1452, David Hay of Yester and Edmund Hay of Talla appear in the remainder immediately after the Earl and the cadets, then numerous, of the Erroll house.

A Robert de Hay, son of William Hay of Erroll, appears frequently as a witness in various writs between 1200 and 1220 but tliere is no evidence to connect him with the family of Yester, and the first authentic ancestor of that family is Sir John...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"The great border branch of Yester is a cadet of the House of Erroll, but there is some doubt as to the exact relationship. Certainly, there seems to be little to support the notion that they are descended from Robert de la Haye, younger brother of the first Chief, although the connection was recalled in the remainder to the earldom of Erroll on its creation in 1452, and at the time when the earldom was re-granted in favour of the 11th Earl in 1666.

The first reliably recorded Chieftain of this branch is John de la Haye, who married the daughter and heiress of Robert de Lyne. With her he acquired the lands and barony of Locherworth, from which the family took its territorial designation in its early generations."

from Clan Hay website ^{1 2 3}

Robert married.