ELPHINSTONE, William, Sir ²

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William married Mary DE LESLIE, daughter of Sir Norman DE LESLIE and Unnamed WIFE.^{1 2} (Mary DE LESLIE was born about 1344.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Sir William Elphinstone, Knight, who is named in a charter granted in 1397 by Sir William Lindsay of the Byres. He is supposed to have married Mary Leslie of the house of Rothes. He died before 1397, leaving issue."

from Elphinstone Family Book




"But though the Rothes branch did not come into immediate possession of the estates mentioned in the entail made by Norman de Leslie in 1390, yet we find, by a charter dated at Aberdeen, 24th October 1396, that Andrew de Leslie, miles, Dominus Ejusdem, Norman's father, disponed to his beloved cousin, 'carissimo consanguineo meo,' Sir George Leslie, knight, Dominus de Rothes, all right which he had, or could in any manner have, in the barony of Cairney in the sheriifdom of Perth ; and Sir George Leslie was infefted in the said barony of Cairney between the eighth and fifteenth years of the reign of King Robert III, A.D. 1397-1404.* [*Original Charter in Charter-room of the Earls of Rothes at Leslie House ; and Robertson's Index of Missing Charters, No. 13.]

This Sir George Leslie, styled Dominus de Rothes in the above deed, was the first of the family of the Leslies of Rothes. In Martin of Clermont's Manuscripts, in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, it is stated that George de Leslie is designed Dominus de Rothes in a contract of marriage betwixt his sister Mary and a gentleman of the name of Elphinstone. Others say that the contract of marriage in which George de Leslie is styled Dominus de Rothes is one between his niece, Elizabeth Elphinstone, and one of the name of Kinninmond, dated 26th April 1392. In either case, this is the first occasion that we find him designed as Dominus de Rothes. But how he acquired the barony of Rothes whether by succession, marriage, or purchase has not been ascertained by any record."

from Family of Leslie ^{1 2}