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LAUDER, Alan of that Ilk
- Born: About 1382
- Marriage (1): Unknown
- Died: After October 1474
Another name for Alan was DE LAWEDRE (LAUDER), Alan of that Ilk.
User ID: Q905
General Notes:
"The Registrum Glasguense gives as the fourth son (if in order) as
Alan de Lawedre [of that Ilk] (d. after October 1464), who accompanied his brother William the Bishop on several important embassies. He was also a close confidant of the Douglases, witnessing many of their charters, and in 1424 William, Earl of Douglas, sent Malcolm Fleming of Cumbernauld and this Alan de Lawedre as his ambassadors to Charles VII, King of France, asking for him to grant Douglas's rightful inheritance as Duke of Tourraine upon the death of his father at the battle of Verneuil. He was made a Baillie of Edinburgh before 1433. (Refer: Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh, 1403-1528, Edinburgh, 1869.) Alan's father settled upon him numerous superiorities and feus in and about Lauder, Berwickshire, and he sat with other members of his family on a Retour of Inquest held at Lauder, on Monday 31st October 1440. In 1445 he is given as 'Alan de Lawedir of the Tower of Lawedir' (refer: Hist. MSS Commission - MSS of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, London, 1902, p.262, no.602).
In the National Archives (RH1/2/691) is a Precept by William, Earl of Douglas and Avondale, Lord of Galloway and the Regality of Laweder, to William Cranstoun of Corsby, Knt., where Alan de Laweder of Laweder (i.e: of that Ilk) is amongst the witnesses. On 9th November 1450 he was one of those (includes William Lauder of Haltoun) named in a warrant for safe-conduct for three years to accompany William, Earl of Douglas, to the Marches of Calais and elsewhere in the King of England's dominions. (Bain, p.249.) He appears in many other documents, and Scottish Armorial Seals (by W.R. MacDonald, Edinburgh, 1904, number 1557 p.197) has a seal for him:
"Alan Lauder of that Ilk; a griffin segreant" dated 30th April 1461, appended to a Inquest of Retour for Lawrence Lord Abernethy. (RH6/361)
As Alan de Lawedre of Lawedre, he witnessed a Sasine (RH4/30/II/18) dated 26th October 1464, after which he vanishes from records. He appears to have married late."
from Ancestry & Family of Lauder of Fountainhall
Alan married.
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