DE LAWEDRE (LAUDER), Robert of Congalton and The Bass, 'The Good', Sir ¹

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  General Notes:

"...one of Sir William Wallace's foremost supporters (says Blind Harry) was Sir Robert Lauder of Bass and we subsequently find him at the battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. Sir Robert and his son were both present at the disastrous battle of Falkirk following year, and Sir Robert senior died in 1311.

Upon a stone originally within the floor of the Old Kirk at North Berwick was written, in latin, 'here lies the good Robert Lauder, great Laird of Congaltoun and Bass who died May 1311.' (Nisbet)."

from The Lauders of the Bass




"According to The Grange of St.Giles, (p.155) Abercromby's Martial Atchievements of the Scottish Nation(Edinburgh 1711, volume 1,p.529, folio) and Blind Harry's Wallace, book VIII, Sir Robert de Lawedre, Laird of Congalton and The Bass, was the 'inseperable associate of Sir William Wallace', was at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 and died in May 1311.(Refer also Nisbet, p.443,folio 1722). Part of his tombstone survives, and is in the care of the East Lothian County Council."

from Clan Lauder




"Sir Robert de Lawedre of the Bass, who fought at the battle of Stirling Bridge, which occurred on the 12th of September, 1297. This engagement took place between Wallace, on the one part, and the English army, under John Warenne, Earl of Surrey, Edward's governor of Scotland, and Hugh de Cressingham, the treasurer, on the other. The latter, with thousands of his devoted followers, fell on the field, or perished in the Forth. This Sir Robert died in 1311. According to Nisbet there was a tombstone in the aisle of the lairds of Bass, in the old church of North Berwick, their burying-place, whereupon were cut in Saxon letters : Hic jacet bonus Robertus Lauder magnus Dominus de Congleton et Ie Bass, qui obiit mense Maii; mcccxi. (see Appendix, p. viii.). On this subject, The Bass Rock states that the tombstone bore the inscription : 'Here lies the good Robert Lauder, the great laird of Congalton and the Bass, who died May, 1311.' This is evidently a translation of the original, as the contractions quoted by Nisbet point pretty clearly to the authenticity of his version. The burialplace in the 'Auld Kirk' was much encroached on by the sea; the tombstone has disappeared ; not a vestige now remains of the former grave-yard; and of the 'Auld Kirk,' which hallowed it, nothing is left but a small dilapidated ruin, only its arched main doorway and font being entire."

from Family of Lauder ^{1 2 3}

Robert married.