LAUDER, Isabella heiress of Balcomie, Fife ¹

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Isabella married Alexander LESLIE of Wardis, son of Sir William LESLIE 4th of Balquhain and Agnes IRVINE.¹ (Alexander LESLIE of Wardis was born about 1445 ¹ and died in 1500 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"King James III granted a charter of the lands of Balcomy in Fife to his familiar Esquire, Alexander de Leslie, and Isabella de Lauder, his spouse, which lands belonged in heritage to the said Isabella, and which in her virginity she had resigned into the hands of the king; dated at Stirling, 27th September 1465."

"Alexander Leslie, first Baron of Wardis, was Quaestor or Eeceiver-General under King James III. ; he was also king's shield-bearer. He married Isabella Lauder, heiress of Balcomie in Fife, with whom he got the lands of Balcomie. By her he had issue.... John, his heir, Walter, Elizabeth,married, first, to William Seton, Baron of Meldrum, and secondly, to John Collison, in Aberdeen, and had issue by both."

"Alexander Leslie had four other daughters by his wife Isabella Lauder, married respectively to Spence of Boddam, Robert Livingston, provost of Dysart, John Sinclair, and Robert Keith, who was killed at Flodden in 1513."

from Family of Leslie ¹