DE LESLIE, Norman Constable of Inverurie Castle ¹

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Norman married Daughter OF LORD OF LORN?, daughter of Dugall (Dubhghall) of Lorn, Mull and Jura and Unknown.¹ (Daughter OF LORD OF LORN? was born about 1158.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Norman (de Leslie) succeeded his father Malcolm, also authenticated by a charter now extant : viz. - John Earl of Huntingdon and Lord of the Garioch granted a charter of Coskieben and other lands to Norman, the son of Malcolm, the son of Bartolf, about 1219. Norman was constable or keeper of the castle of Inverury, the stronghold of the lordship of the Garioch. He married a daughter of Stewart Earl of Lorn (See Note below), by whom he had

I. Norino, who succeeded him.

II. Leonard, who some say succeeded his brother.

III. Bartholomew, who died young."

from Leslie of Balquhain

Note:

We must surely be in the realm of legend here, to a large degree at least.

The first Stewart Lord of Lorne was Robert Stewart of Durisdeer (died 1403). His father was John Stewart of Innermeath (died 1421) and his mother, Isabel, was a daughter of John MacDougal, Lord of Lorne, who died before 1377. So the Stewart claim derives from the MacDougal marriage and that wife's ancestors, and was a not a Stewart designation until the 14th century.

Going further back in MacDougal history, Dubgall mac Somairle was the son, probably the eldest son, of the great Lord of the Isles, Somerled or Somhairlidh, and, like his father, was known as 'of Lorn'.

There is a reference in the 1999 edition of Burke's Peerage & Baronetage (as yet unchecked by this researcher), which suggests, it seems, as presented here as a possibility, that Norman de Lesie's wife may have been a daughter of a feudal lord of Lorn named Dougall. ^{1 2}