DE GOURLAY, Christian ¹

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Christian married Sir Patrick HEPBURN younger, of Hailes, 'Miles magnanimus et athleta bellicosus', son of Sir Patrick HEPBURN of Hailes and Agnes.¹ (Sir Patrick HEPBURN younger, of Hailes, 'Miles magnanimus et athleta bellicosus' was born about 1345 and died 22 June 1402(dvp) in Battle of Nisbet, Berwickshire, Scotland ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Christian Keith died, without issue, before 1402, and in that event, in accordance with the terms of Sir William Mure's charter [confirmed by King Robert II in 1381-82] the property named was to revert to his lawful daughters, unless Sir William Lindsay married again and had lawful issue by his second wife.

.... his second wife was Dame Christian, lady of Wauchton, the mother of Sir Patrick and Alexander Hepburn [who are named in charters as brothers of Sir John Lindsay], and there is evidence in the charters of the Earls of Haddington and the 'Registrum Honoris de Morton' to justify the assumption that Patrick Hepburn younger of Hailes, who was slain in 1402, was their father, by his second wife Dame Christian."

from Hepburn Family ¹

Christian next married Sir William LINDSAY of the Byres, son of Sir William LINDSAY of the Byres and Christiana MURE, after 22 June 1402.¹ (Sir William LINDSAY of the Byres was born about 1351.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The New Scots Peerage version of the Lindsay genealogy has it that Sir John Lindsay of the Byres was the son of Sir William Lindsay by his wife Christian Keith, and that Sir John's paternal grandmother was Christian Mure the daughter and heir of Sir William Mure; a careful study of the charters on which these assumptions may be said to be based however, leads to the conclusion that Christian Keith died, without issue, before 1402, and in that event, in accordance with the terms of Sir William Mure's charter [confirmed by King Robert II in 1381-82] the property named was to revert to his lawful daughters, unless Sir William Lindsay married again and had lawful issue by his second wife.

As we have already shown, his second wife was Dame Christian, lady of Wauchton, the mother of Sir Patrick and Alexander Hepburn [who are named in charters as brothers of Sir John Lindsay], and there is evidence in the charters of the Earls of Haddington and the 'Registrum Honoris de Morton' to justify the assumption that Patrick Hepburn younger of Hailes, who was slain in 1402, was their father, by his second wife Dame Christian. It is evident, therefore, that their mother must have married Sir William Lindsay as her second husband some time after the battle of Nisbet-Moor in 1402. This is borne out by the fact that Sir John Lindsay was alive in 1482."

from Hepburn Family ¹