Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home

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Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk, 1st Lord Home, (b. circa 1403) was in 1448 Sheriff Deputy for Berwickshire, and was made a Lord of Parliament on 2 August 1473. He is ancestor of the Earls of Home.

Sir Alexander Home succeeded his father in 1424 and in April 1425 made an agreement with his uncle David Home of Wedderburn, to halve the profits of the bailiary of Coldingham whichever of them should acquire it by purchase orotherwise. He is therein designed Alexander of Home of that Ilk.

Sir Alexander Home had a safe-conduct abroad with William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas on 9 November 1450, and was probably one of the "brilliant retinue" that accompanied the Earl to Rome for the Papal Jubilee. On the 23 April 1451 he had another safe-conduct with the Earl. Sir Alexander was one of the envoys sent by King James II, on the 27 July 1451, to treat with England, and with his fellow commissioners he signed a truce for three years on the 14 August 1451, in the Church of St Nicholas, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

His first wife, Mariotta (or Marion) was the daughter and co-heiress of John (d.1421), son of Sir Robert de Lawedre of Edrington and The Bass (d. before June 1425). A Papal Dispensation by Pope Martin V was issued on 11 April 1426 at St.Peters, Rome, for Alexander de Home and Marion de Lawedre to marry, notwithstanding that they are related doubly in the fourth degree of consanguinity. Subsequent to that Dispensation, Robert, Bishop of Caithness, issued 'Letters' declaring all their offspring legitimate, signed at Edinburgh 1 April 1428, and witnessed by (the next) Sir Robert Lauder, knight, Lord of Edrington, amongst others.

They had at least five children:

Alexander Home, Master of Home (d.1456, v.p.) John Home, Prior of Coldingham (d. before 1505) Nicholas Home Sir Patrick Home of Fast Castle, & Balwoolsy (d. after 1507) George Home of Ayton (d. after February 1490) Elyne or Helen Home (d.after 1480) who married Sir Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes (d.1479), with issue.

Before July 1467 Sir Alexander Home married his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Alexander, Master of Montgomerie by his spouse Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes. They had a further three boys:

Sir Thomas Home of Langshaw, Ayrshire. Nicholas Home David Home.

The 1st Lord Home lived to a very great age, dying, it is said, in 1490. He was succeeded by his grandson Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home.


[edit] References

  • Historic Manuscripts Commission, MSS of the Duke of Athole, and the Earl of Home, 12th report, London, 1891, p.122.
  • Historic Manuscripts Commmission, MSS of Colonel Milne Home, p19.
  • The Scots' Peerage, by Sir James Balfour Paul, under 'Home' (volume 4, Edinburgh, 1905) pps: 448-451; and also pages 106-107 of the Adenda volume 9 (Edinburgh 1914), where he corrects relationship errors he had made in volume 4 for the 1st Lord Home and his spouses. Robert Douglas and Balfour Paul differ on the 1st Lord's death. Both are wrong.
  • Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, edited by Peter Townend, 105th edition, London, 1970, p.1362.
  • The Rutherfords in Britain, by K.Rutherford Davis, U.K.,1987, pps: 18 - 20.
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