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The Right Honourable
The Earl of Erroll
PC
Arms of the Earl of Erroll
7th Lord High Constable of Scotland
Preceded byNicholas Hay
Succeeded byWilliam Hay
Personal details
Bornc. 1449
Died14 January 1507 (age 70 or 71)
Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Spouse(s)
Isabel Gordon
​
(date missing)​

Elizabeth Leslie
​
(date missing)​

William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll PC (c. 1436 – 14 January 1507) was a Scottish peer. He was the second Earl of Erroll and the third Lord Hay of Erroll.

Biography

William Hay was the son of William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll and his wife, Beatrix, daughter of James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas. He was the great-great grandson of King Robert II of Scotland and his first wife, Elizabeth Mure.[1][2][3]

He inherited the earldom after the death of his older brother, Nicholas, in 1470.

He was a member of the King James III's Privy Council and a commissioner for the 1482 peace treaty with England.[3]

Marriage and issue

He married first Lady Isabel Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly and Princess Annabella of Scotland, daughter of King James I of Scotland. They had three sons and one daughter:[3]

  1. William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll, killed with his brother at the Battle of Flodden, 9 September 1513
  2. Thomas Hay of Logie, killed at Flodden. He married Margaret Logie, daughter of Lyon Logie of that Ilk, and had issue
  1. John Jay
  2. Lady Beatrix Hay, contracted to marry eldest son of Sir William Keith of Inverugie

He married secondly Lady Elizabeth Leslie, daughter of George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes. They had two sons and one daughter:

  1. John II Hay
  2. William Hay of Lesk
  3. Lady Elizabeth Hay, married David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford

References

  1. ^ Burke, John (1845). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. p. 374.
  2. ^ Mackintosh, John (1898). Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland.
  3. ^ a b c James Balfour Paul (1906). The Scots Peerage: Volume 3. D. Douglas. pp. 565–566.
Military offices
Preceded by Lord High Constable of Scotland
1470-1470 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Earl of Erroll
1470-1470 		Succeeded by

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