Patrick (Hepburn) Hepburn First Lord Hailes (abt. 1412 - aft. 1482)

Born about 1412 in Hailes Castle, Midlothian, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Elene (Wallace) Hepburn — married 1426 in Prestonkirk, East Lothian, , Scotland

Descendants

Died after 6 Dec 1482 after about age 70 in Hailes Castle, Haddingtonshire, Scotland

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Biography

Patrick Hepburn was the son of Adam Hepburn and Janet Borthwick. He was created a Peer of Parliament as Lord Hailes between 31 Oct 1452 and 14 June 1453. He is recorded as sitting in Parliament on 6 March 1457/8. Ellen Wallace is given as "apparently his second wife". He was living 13 October 1475 and apparently 6 December 1482 but died soon after.^[1][2]

He married Ellen Wallace d. a 6 Dec 1482 They had issue:

• John, Prior of St. Andrews d. a 20 Jul 1525
• George, Dean of Dunkeld d. a 26 Jun 1509
• Patrick II,, Rector of Church of Lyntoun d. a 11 Feb 1463
• Margaret, d. a 1 Feb 1480
• Euphemia
• Elizabeth
• Alexander, d. a 4 Nov 1508
• Patrick, b 19 Nov 1518
• Adam, Master of Hailes, Sheriff of Berwickshire, b 2 Feb 1448, d. c 1479

Sir Patrick Hepburn had charters of large estates in Scotland. Dunsyre in Lanarkshire; Little Lambertoun and Prendergast in Berwickshire as well as reconfirmations of Hailes etc. He was one of the conservators of truces with England in 1449, 1451, 1453, 1457 and 1459. He was created a Peer of Parliament by the title of Lord Hailes before June 1453 and died about 1483.

Before his father's death he took possession of Dunbar castle, without authority; Joan Beaufort, the Queen-Dowager, resided there, while he held it, for some time. But after her death there on 15th July 1445 he evacuated the place. On 10th December 1450 he had a charter of the lands of Little Lambertoun, commonly called Sherfbygyn (?Sheriffbigging); and of the office of Sheriff of Berwick, confirmed on 20th May 1452. On 20th December 1451 he had a Crown charter of the Lordship of Hailes and other lordships and lands, which his predecessors formerly held in heritage of the Earls of Dunbar & March, who now held them of the Crown in chief; also the lands of Prendergast (above Ayton to the south) and others in the sheriffdom of Berwick, with all rights in the lands formerly held by George Dunbar, Earl of March, and forfeited by him:- the whole erected into a free barony to be called the barony of Hailes. He was one of the conservators of truces with England in 1449, 1451 - 7 and 1459.^[2]

Patrick Hepburn, Lord Hailes, was one of the illustrious witnesses to a confirmation of King James II of George Fullarton of that Ilk's donation of annualrents from numerous of his lands to the Carmwelite Friars at Irvine, original charter dated 16 Nov 1439, and confirmed much later in October 1456.^[3]

Sir Patrick Hepburn (later 1st Lord Hailes), had a charter dated 29th June 1444 from William, Earl of Douglas, of certain lands in the lordship of Dunsyre, Lanarkshire.^[4]

Patrick Hepburn, Lord Hailes made a charter to his younger son Alexander Hepburn, and the lawful heirs male of his body, of his lands of Whitsome with pertinents, in Berwickshire, to be held of the granter blench; dated at Hailes Castle 11th February 1462.^[5]

Research Notes

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p483.htm#i4824

• Livingston, Lord (S, 1458 - forfeited 1716) Cracroft's Peerage

• Pedigree Chart of James Irvine

Sources

1. ↑ Cockayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, revised & enlarged by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, edited by H. Arthur Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.vi, London, 1926, p.239-240 .
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1905, Vol. II, Archive.org, pp. 141-42
3. ↑ MacFarlane, Walter, Genealogical Collections of Families in Scotland 1750-1751, edited by James T. Clark, Keeper of the Advocates' Library, Scottish History Society, Edinburgh, 1900, vol.ii, p.340.
4. ↑ ' 'The Great Seal of Scotland, confirmed 20 May 1452.
5. ↑ Historic MSS Commission, The Manuscripts of Colonel David Milne Home of Wedderburn Castle, N.B., HMSO., London, 1902, p.254, number 572.