DE LAWEDRE, Robert 'qui vocatus est bonus', Justiciary of the North, Sir

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  General Notes:

"Halidon Hill, situated to the west of the town of Berwick. [....] Many of the principal Scottish nobles and barons of high rank were slain, and with them fell no fewer than fourteen thousand men. This disastrous defeat took place on the 20th of July, 1333. The consequences were the immediate delivery of the town and castle of Berwick to the English, and the subsequent submission of almost the whole kingdom to Baliol. An M.S. Chronicle of England describing this battle says: -

'Ande the Scottes come in this araye in iiii bateilles ageste the ii Kingges of Englond and Skottelond, as it is schewed herafter plenely by the names of the Lordes, as ye mough se in this nexte writingge. .... In the iiii. warde of the bateilles of Skotelond were these Lordes whose names folowe: Archibald Douglas .... Roberte Laweder '

This 'Roberte Laweder' is Sir Robert de Lavedre, son and successor to the Sir Robert referred to at the conclusion of the preceding chapter. Immediately after the fatal event just delineated in outline, Sir Robert, being Justiciary of the North, hastened to occupy Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, for David II. It is on record that this castle was one of the four Scottish strongholds which defied the power of Edward III.; the others were : Dumbarton, held by Malcolm Fleming ; Lochleven, by Allan de Vipont ; Kildrumrnie, by Christian Bruce, sister of Robert the First. [....]

It is supposed that about this time Sir Robert acquired the lands of Quarrelwood, Grieshop, Brightmoney, and Kinsteary, which continued to be possessed by his descendants, in the female line, for many generations. He designates himself as 'Robertus de Lavadre, Dominus de Quarrelwood, in Moravia,' and by that title gives a charter of lands in and near his burgh of Lauder to Thomas de Borthwick, which is witnessed by John de Mauteland (Maitland), the sixth of the Lauderdale family. [....]

Like his grandfather, this Sir Robert seems also to have been called 'the good,' as Fordun's Scotichronicon alludes to him as 'Thomas (Robertus) de Lavedir, qui vocatus est bonus'; whilst in the Extracta ex variis Cronicis Scocie he is denominated ''Robertus Lawdyr, vocatur bonus' (See Appendix, p. xxvi.). This Sir Robert is said to have been not only alive when his greatgranddaughter was married in January, 1365, but able to enter into a deed with his grandson in 1366."

from Family of Lauder

Robert married.