Andrew de Leslie
Male 1290 - before 28 Nov 1324
Born, Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Died, Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Married to Mary of Abernethy. Father of John Leslie and Walter de Leslie and Margaret Leslie and Andrew Leslie and Norman Leslie. Son of Elizabeth Leith and Norman de Leslie.
e and Cairnie, Forfar, and died by 1324. [Burke's Peerage]ned 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's great-grandson was in 1437 created Earl of Rothes.y an Abernethy heiress."f Scotland, signed the letter to Pope John XXII. dated from Arbroath, declaring the Independence of Scotland. Nothing of public interest is recorded of him, but on 19 June 1317, he, with consent of his wife, obliged himself to infeft Sir William Lindsay, Rector of Ayr, in twenty-four merks of land in his tenement of Cairney, co. Forfar.(1-269) Sir Andrew died sometime between April 1320 and 28 November 1324, when his widow received a dispensation for a second marriage. Sir Andrew married Mary Abernethy, daughter and coheiress with her sister Margaret, Countess of Angus, of Sir Alexander Abernethy."
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