Norman de Leslie
Male 1246 - before 2 Jan 1317
Born, Lesslyn, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Died, Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland.
Married to Elizabeth Leith. Father of Andrew de Leslie. Son of Norman of Leslie and Katherine More.
, Sheriff of Aberdeen; married Elizabeth Leith and died by 1317. [Burke's Peerage]ut he is styled Sir Norman of Leslie, knight, as a witness to a charter in the Register of Arbroath, of uncertain date, but not later than 1269. There is no other mention of Sir Norman until 1296, when he did homage to King Edward I. at Aberdeen on 15 July in that year, and again on 28 August. He appears in the earlier part of the struggle for independence to have joined the English party, as Edward I. appointed him Sheriff of Aberdeen, and he was summoned to the English Parliament as such in 1305. He is said, however, to have joined Bruce before December 1314. He was apparently alive on 19 June 1317, and died between that date and 1320, when his son was Lord of Leslie. His wife is not certainly known. One authority asserts that he married Elizabeth Leith, heiress of Edengarioch, while another alleges that he married the heiress of Rothes. He had issue, so far as recorded, one son, Sir Andrew, who succeeded. According to the family historians, Sir Norman had two daughters, Margaret, married to Sir John Innes of Innes, and Ann, married to Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield, but dates will not admit of this."
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