Christina Haliburton (-) |
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| Father:1 | Sir Walter Haliburton of Dirleton (-before 10 May 1447), Lord High Treasurer | ||
| Mother:2 | Marjory (Mary) Douglas (-around 1420) | ||
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| Married:3 | 1440 | George Leslie (around 1417-1489 or 1490), 1. Earl of Rothes | |||
| Divorced:4 | 1459 or shortly after | George Leslie (around 1417-1489 or 1490), 1. Earl of Rothes | |||
| In 1459 the Earl raised an action of divorce against his wife, on the plea of relationship within the forbidden degrees. On 16 May 1459 the matter was put to arbitration by the parties concerned, when it was decided, on 22 May, that the divorce should go on, but that, first, the Earl should take action against all having any knowledge of or concealing the papal dispensation, if such had been obtained, and secondly, he should declare on oath that he knew of the impediment within the past year, but before that, for thirteen years after the birth of his youngest child then alive, he was not aware of it. | |||||
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| Children with George Leslie: | ||
| Elizabeth Leslie (-August 1511)5 | ||
| Christian Leslie (-after 22 February 1492-3)6 | ||
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| "Daughter of Walter Halyburton of Dirleton, by Lady Isabel Stewart, daughter of Robert, Duke of Albany."7 | ||
| This does not at all match the information given under Haliburton of Dirleton in Scots Peerage vol. IV. No reference is given, so it's unclear if there really exist any evidence for this or if it's just a mistake. | ||
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