HAY, Gilbert of Dronlaw, Sir ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

"Sir Gilbert Hay of Dronlaw was Baillie of the Barony of Slains, 5 October 1436 (Collections of the Shires of Aberdeen and Banff, 393/4)."

from Transactions ¹

Gilbert married Elizabeth REID 1416 (papal dispensation).^{1 2} (Elizabeth REID was born about 1390.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir Gilbert Hay of Dronlaw, second son of Sir Thomas Hay of Erroll, Constable of Scotland, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Robert II. Sir Gilbert married in virtue of a Papal Dispensation, dated 1416, Elizabeth Reid, by whom he had 3 sons..."

from Transactions




"Sir Gilbert of Dronlaw, a witness to the charter by his brother William to his son William of the lands of Urie after mentioned. He married (papal dispensation 1416) Elizabeth Reid, and left two sons : (1) Alexander of Dronlaw, who married Marjory or Margaret Fraser, heiress of Ardendraught and Dalgaty, and founded the family designed by these titles ; his line came to an end on the death of his great-great-grandson William Hay of Dalgaty in 1548. (2) Gilbert of Carmuck, whose descendants succeeded to the Dalgaty estates."

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)

Note:
The fifth laird who died in the 1540s when the line ended was Alexander, not William. ^{1 2}