DE LAVEDRE (LAUDER), Robert 3rd of that Ilk ¹

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  General Notes:

"No particular record seems to have been found respecting the three immediate successors of this De Lavedre ; but there can be no doubt that the family had settled down on the estate granted by Malcolm to the first baron, as, a few generations later, mention is made of Joanni Lauder, filio secundo de Laudertown, who was succeeded by Robertus de Lavedre, a soldier of the Cross in 1188"

from Family of Lauder

Note:

Since Robertus de Lavedre, the crusader, was designated as fifth baron, it follows that there were three barons between him and the 1st baron of Lauder. And since John was a second son of Laudertown, it follows he had an elder brother. It is not outlandish to suggest the elder brother and the father of John were likely named Robert.




" ...... all the Scottish houses of Cistercian nuns were priories; and although the nunnery at Haddington, one of the largest of these foundations, is frequently called an abbey, it never had that status.

The date of the foundation of Haddington nunnery is determined by two references: (1) According to the Scotichronicon, Ada, after the death of her husband (in 1152), at the instigation of Waltheof, abbot of Melrose (who died in August, 1159), founded a monastery of nuns of the Cistercian order at Haddington; (2) there is a mention in a St. Andrews charter of a donation made to the nuns of Haddington by Robert, bishop of St. Andrews (who died in 1158 or 1159), on the day when he blessed the burial-ground of the nunnery. If we may rely on the statement of the Scotichronicon, the foundation took place not earlier than 1152; on the evidence of the St. Andrews charter, the nunnery was in being between that year and 1158 or 1159. [....]

William the Lion is said to have confirmed all his mother's gifts to the nunnery and he is credited with the grant to it of three pounds sterling from the burgh of Haddington. Other benefactors are mentioned as having granted lands and privileges. [....]

From Godfrey de Cumbircolstourie they received ten acres in Segrestoune, with twelve perches of peat-moss in Wynden. Lands in Garvald-East Grange, Snawdon, Fawlis, Glenterf, Carfrae, Newlands, Nunhopes, Newton, Grostre, Slade-with a portion of the land of Bara, with the mills and teinds and the church of Garvald, as well as a carrucate of land beside it, accrued to the nuns from various donors, the Countess Ada, King William and King Alexander, Richard, William, David and Gamelin, bishops of St. Andrews, Hugh Gifford, David de Lindsay, Robert de Lawder and other benefactors. "

from The Cistercian Nunnery of St Mary Haddington

Note:

Since the birth and death years of this Robert de Lawder are not known, it may be that it was this Robert's father, towards the end of his life, who was a benefactor of the nunnery. ^{1 2}