Robert de LAWEDRE, of Quarrelwood

Abt 1305 - Abt 1370  (65 years)

• Name	Robert de LAWEDRE
  Suffix	of Quarrelwood
  Nickname	The Good
  Birth	Abt 1305	Lauder, Berkwickshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1370
  Person ID	I22963	Coombs
  Last Modified	9 May 2016

  
  

  Father	Robert de LAWEDRE, of Bass,   b. Abt 1280, Bass Rock, North Berwick, East Lotion, Scotland d. Sep 1337 (Age 57 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1280, Scotland d. Bef 1358 (Age < 77 years)
  Family ID	F8065	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1320, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	1. William de LAWEDRE, of Boroughmuir,   b. Abt 1338, Lothian, Scotland d. 1376 (Age 38 years)   2. Alan de LAWEDRE, of The Bass, Whitslaid, and Haltoun,   b. Abt 1340, Lothian, Scotland d. 20 Mar 1407, Scotland (Age 67 years)   3. Mariotta de LAWEDRE,   b. Abt 1342, Lothian, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown   4. Ann de LAWEDRE,   b. Abt 1344, Lothian, Scotland d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F8064	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Sir Robert de Lawedre, eldest son, designed firstly, in his father’s lifetime,‘of ‘Quarrelwood’ in Moray (part of Macbeth’s lands) and after 1337 ‘of Bass’. He is noted as a page to his father and other Scottish ambassadors sent to negotiate a peace treaty with England in 1323. In 1328 he was appointed Justiciary North of the Forth and was receiving a pension for that post in 1363. He is recorded as being in receipt of the returns for all fishing in the lower reaches of the Whitadder River, below Edrington castle, in 1329 "by right of inheritance". He fought alongside Archibald Douglas at the battle of Halidon Hill following which he hastened north to occupy Urquhart Castle, Loch Ness, for David II, so chronicled by Wyntoun. It stands recorded as one of the four Scottish strongholds which defied the power of Edward III. This monarch confiscated the several properties owned by Sir Robert de Lawedre in and around Berwick-upon-Tweed in 1335. He is recorded amongst the Scottish prisoners taken at the battle of Nevilles’ Cross. This Robert gave a charter of some lands "in and near his burgh of Lauder" to Thomas de Borthwick, which was witnessed by John de Mauteland [Maitland], sixth of the Lauderdale family, Sir Robert’s son Alan, and his grandson "Roberto filio Alani, Ballio de Lawedre." Sir Robert died about 1370