LAUDER, Robert of the Bass, Captain and Keeper of Berwick Castle ¹

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  General Notes:

"Second but eldest surviving son, as his brother John is described as their father's son and heir in a Supplication to Rome in 1419. John predeceased his father. Robert was styled Robert de Lawedre of Edrington until after his father's death in 1451[1] and occasionally often still referred to as that afterwards, especially locally. Edrington Castle lies in the parish of Mordington, 4 miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Lauders held that estate & its mill from the 13th until the 17th centuries. This Robert was never knighted."

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Robert married Jonette HOME, daughter of Sir Alexander HOME 1st Lord Home and Mariota LAUDER co-heiress, about 21 July 1442 (dispensation).¹ (Jonette HOME was born about 1427 and died before 1490 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Robert's first wife was his cousin Jonette, daughter of Alexander Home of that Ilk, Knt., later 1st Lord Home. Robert de Lawedre de Bas [sic] and Joneta Home had a Papal Dispensation, signed at Florence, to marry dated 21 July 1442. [¹⁷Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1433-1447, edited by Annie I. Dunlop, David MacLauchlan, and Ian B. Cowan, vol.iv, University of Glasgow Press, 1983, no.885, p.219.] Jonette is mentioned (Christian name only) in a Great Seal charter in 1471 as wife of Robert Lauder of The Bass. She died some time after this year (but before 1490). Known issue, a son and three daughters.

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Robert next married Agnes FALLOW before 1490. (Agnes FALLOW was born about 1445.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Robert (Lauder) married secondly, Agnes, daughter of George Fallow, Burgess of Edinburgh, before 1490.[¹⁸Calendar of Scottish Supplications to Rome 1471-1492 edited by Alan Macquarrie, Roland J. Tanner, and Annie I. Dunlop, Scottish Record Society, Edinburgh, 2017, no.1694, p.604.] A mortification charter signed on The Bass on 20th October and confirmed at Edinburgh on the 8th November, 1491, of Agnes Faulaw spouse of Robert Lauder of Bass, for the souls of King James III and her previous husband, William Carreboris, a Burgess of Edinburgh, which King James IV (reigned 1488 - 1513) confirmed to St. Andrew's Church in North Berwick. Robert Lauder of Bass had signed the original charter.[¹⁹The Great Seal of Scotland, no. 2068]"

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