Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores (died 1608) was a member of the Scottish nobility.
Biography He was the second son of Andrew Leslie, 5th Earl of Rothes, and his first wife, Grizel Hamilton. He was Commendator of Lindores as early as 1569 and until 1600. In July 1585, he was in charge of the former favourite, James Stewart, Earl of Arran, who was held at St Andrews Castle.William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1914), p. 42 no. 42.
His wife, Jean Stewart, was invited to attend the coronation of Anne of Denmark.Maureen Meikle, "Edinburgh and the Court of James VI", Julian Goodare & Alasdair A. MacDonald, Sixteenth-Century Scotland (Brill, 2008), p. 284. In November 1591, the rebel Earl of Bothwell told his wife that he planned to visit her father Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, in Orkney, and it was thought for a time that Bothwell planned to invade the island.Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1589-1593, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 590-1.
Leslie and Jean Stewart witnessed the will of Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, at the Palace of Yards in Kirkwall on 2 February 1593.Peter D. Anderson, Robert Stewart, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1982), p. 129, 131–132.
Leslie had a role in devising the entertainments at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle in August 1594.Allison L. Steenson, The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler (Routledge, 2021), 158. John Colville called him "the great Master of Ceremonies at this baptism".Annie Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 395 no. 307. Lindores rode in the tournament of running at the ring dressed as Penthesilea Queen of the Amazons.Michael Bath, "Rare shewes and singular inventions: The Stirling Baptism of Prince Henry", Journal of the Northern Renaissance, Issue 4 (2012)Clare McManus, Women on the Renaissance stage: Anna of Denmark and Female Masquing in the Stuart Court (Manchester, 2002), p. 79.
Anne of Denmark and the Earl of Orkney stayed with him at Lindores in August 1595.Annie I. Cameron, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595, vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 683.
In September 1598 James VI came to Abdie to arrest John Arnot, Goodman of Woodmill, for the murder of John Murray, a servant of Lord Lindores.John Duncan Mackie, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 13 part 1 (Edinburgh, 1969), pp. 297, 323. Patrick was created Lord Lindores at the baptism of Prince Charles in 1600.Amy L. Juhala, "For the King Favours Them Very Strangely", p. 165.
In July 1607 Lindores wrote a letter of petition to the Earl of Salisbury. He said he had served King James since 1579, 14 years in his bedchamber. The petition followed expenses made to get his brother-in-law, Sir Robert Stewart, out of the Counter Prison, helped by Lord Roxburghe and the Master of Orkney.HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 19 (London, 1965), p. 193.
He died between 22 May and 5 October 1608.James Balfour Paul, ed., The Scots Peerage, 9 vols. (Edinburgh, 1904–14), 5:382-84, 9:127.
Family Leslie married Jean Stewart (c. 1563 – ?), daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney and Jean Kennedy. Robert Stewart was a natural son of King James V of Scotland by Euphemia Elphinstone.G.E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs et al., 14 vols. in 15 (London, 1910–59; Stroud, 1998), 8:2, 10:100-04.
The children of Patrick Leslie and Jean Stewart included: Patrick Leslie, 2nd Lord Lindores (d. 1649) James Leslie, 3rd Lord Lindores, who married Elizabeth Yorke, a daughter of John Yorke of Goulthwaite Hall.H. W. Forsyth Harwood, The Genealogist, 20 (London, 1904), p. 25. Robert Leslie of Kinclaven, Perthshire, and of Westminster, London (c. 1598 – c. 1675), married first Frances, widow of Sir John Pakington and daughter of John and Dorothy (Puckering) Ferrers, and married second, at St Giles in the Fields, London, on 4 November 1633, Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth (Pigott) BassettEdward J. Davies, "A Descent of Tony Blair from James V, King of Scots", The Genealogist, 22 (2008), pp. 247–55. Ludovick Leslie David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark (c. 1601 – 1682), who married Jane Yorke, a daughter of John Yorke of Goulthwaite.H. W. Forsyth Harwood, The Genealogist, 20 (London, 1904), p. 25. George Leslie Henry Leslie Margaret Leslie, married (contract 1609) John Drummond, 2nd Lord Maderty Elizabeth Leslie, married (contract 1628) Sir James Sinclair Anna Leslie, married John Forbes Janet Leslie, married Sir John Cunningham Euphemia Leslie, married c. 1616 Sir David Barclay After the death of Patrick Leslie, Jean Stewart wrote to James VI and I hoping for financial support to help the marriages of her daughters.
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