Andrew Laird De , Sir Leslie^[1]

Abt 1290 - Bef 1324  (34 years)

• Name	Andrew Laird De , Sir Leslie
  Birth	Abt 1290	Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 28 Nov 1324	Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland   [2]
  Person ID	I70106	Cecilie Family
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2009

  
  

  Father	Sir Norman Leslie
  Family ID	F30486	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Abernethy,   b. Abt 1298, Abernethy, Fifeshire, Scotland d. Bef 19 Nov 1355, Lindores Abbey, Fifeshire, Scotland (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	1313  [2]
  Children	1. N. N. Leslie
  Family ID	F30482	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Mar 2009

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1290 - Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland Death - Bef 28 Nov 1324 - Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Andrew de Leslie; married 1313 Mary, daughter of Alexander Abernethy of that Ilk, thus acquiring Ballinbreich, Fife and Cairnie, Forfar, and died by 1324. [Burke's Peerage] ------------------------------------------------------------ Sir Andrew Leslie, who married the Abernethy heiress, was one of the Scottish barons that in 1320 signed the famous letter to the Pope asserting Scottish independence. His younger son Walter married the daughter of the Earl of Ross and was given the earldom by the King, who seized it from the male-line of the House of Ross. The earldom soon passed deviously from the family by another heiress, into the hands of the Stewarts. Sir Andrew

  
  

• Sources

  [S1769] Leslie, Charles Joseph, Leslie (1869), (Edinburg, UK: 1869), 1:xxii (Reliability: 3). [S1629] Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charl, 2456 (Reliability: 3).