Patrick Hepburn - Laird of Hailes

• Preferred Name: Patrick Hepburn - Laird of Hailes
  
• Alternate Name: Patrick Hepburn I
  
• Alternate Name: Patrick the Elder Knight
  
• Gender: M
  
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• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Sir Knight
  
• Fact: with note: Description: See Burke's Peerage under "Buchan-Hepburn"
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Berwick
  
• Life Sketch: with note: Description: Adam’s eldest son, Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hailes, knight, was born circa 1321. On 26th April 1363 he obtained a safe-conduct to visit the shrine of St.Thomas of Canterbury; with another dated 4th December 1381 from King Richard II to pass into England with 12 men and horses on the allegation that he was about to proceed to the Holy Land. He and his son Patrick fought in the battle of Otterburn on 19th August 1388. Sir Patrick senior was still alive on 22nd June 1402 aged over 80. His first wife’s Christian name was Agnes. His second wife was Lady Eleanor Bruce, Countess of Carrick, only daughter of Sir Archibald Douglas.
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Laird of Hailes
  
• Birth: 1322 in Hailes Castle, Prestonkirk, Haddingtonshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.9833 LONG: E2.6833 with note: Standardized location a bit more, my apologies. East Lothian was Haddingtonshire at the time, and of course United Kingdom did not exist at all either. [Location standardized to reflect the times. Not United Kingdom. GEDCOM data]
  
• FSID: 99QR-565
  
• Death: 22 JUN 1402 in Nisbet Moor, Northumberlandshire, England at LATI: N5.3341 LONG: E1.9835 with note: Standardized location, United Kingdom did not exist until 1801.
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Baron of Hailes
  
• Burial: AFT 22 JUN 1402 in Scotland with note: Standardized location for the time period.
  
• Notes:

  === John was educated in the family of Patri ===
  John was educated in the family of Patrick, Earl of Dunbar. John as "foster-brother" to the Earl of March and Moray ...is supposed to have been ancestor of the Hepburns of Waughton, long a family of the first consequence in the County of Haddington. Crawford, however, in his notes on Buchanan, says that the Hepburns of Waughton are more ancient than the Hepburns, Earls of Bothwell." (Douglas's Peerage.) John received a Charter of Lands, having a charter of donation dated 9 June 1363, granted by Patrick of Dunbar, Earl of March and Moray, over the lands of Over and Nether Merkill. This was confirmed by King David the Second of Scotland in 1363.
  
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  === Sir Patrick Hepburn was born about 1321 ===
  Sir Patrick Hepburn was born about 1321 and succeeded to the barony of Hailes. He lived during the reigns of David II, Robert II, and Robert III. Douglas's peerage tells that: "he went on the fashionable pilgrimage to Canterbury in May 1363 and on the 26th of March 1371 he acted conspicuously at the coronation of Robert II.," his seal, bearing on a chevron two lions pulling at a rose, being appended to the Act of Settlement. Patrick was granted safe conduct from King Richard the third of England in 1381 to pass through to the Holy land via England. Nisbet gives the Hepburn coat of arms as "Gules, on a chevron Argent, two Lions pulling at a Rose of the first. I have seen these Arms on the seal of Patrick Hepburn, as one of the Members of Parliament, Anno 1372, being the third year of the reign of King Robert II, appended to the Act of Recognition, passed in that Parliament, in favour of John, Earl of Carrick, eldest son of the said King, by name of Robert III, so that the Hepburns carried these arms before the battle of Otterburn, which was the year 1388, and had not them from the battle." This statement disposes of the tradition that the above device was adopted after the fight at Otterburn, "when Sir Patrick Hepburn of Hales, with his son Patrick, ...displayed their valour in saving the pennon of Douglas from the indelible disgrace of falling into hostile hands." (Chalmers, vol ii p441as quoted in Pinkerton's History from Froissart.) In this battle, John Swinton, who will be mentioned later, distinguished himself by his prowess. In February 1401, when the Earl of Dunbar with Henry Percy penetrated through the Merse into East Lothian, they ravaged the lands and assaulted the castle of Hailes; but the aged knight with his son repulsed two of the best generals in Britain. (Chalmer's Caledonia). Patrick first married Agnes and they had a son Patrick. Sir Patrick's second wife was Eleanor Bruce, Countess of Carrick, who had already been married four times.
  
  === Death ===
  Sir Patrick was killed fighting the Percy’s by the Earl of March

• m. 15 APR 1376 in Badenoch, Inverness-shire, Scotland