Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores
Patrick Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores 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.
Leslie had a role in devising the entertainments at the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle in August 1594 and rode in the tournament dressed as Penthesilea Queen of the Amazons.
In November 1591 the rebel Earl of Bothwell told his wife that he planned to visit her father in Orkney, and it was thought for a time that Bothwell planned to invade the island.
Anne of Denmark and the Earl of Orkney stayed with him at Lindores in August 1595.
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.Family
Leslie married Jean Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney a son of James V, King of Scots by Euphemia Elphinstone, and his wife Jean Kennedy. Their children were:
- Patrick Leslie, 2nd Lord Lindores
- James Leslie, 3rd Lord Lindores
- Robert Leslie of Kinclaven, Perthshire, and of Westminster, London, married first Frances, widow of Sir John Pakington and daughter of John and Dorothy Ferrers, and married second, at St Giles in the Fields, London, on 4 November 1633, Catherine, daughter of Edward and Elizabeth Bassett
- Ludovick Leslie
- David Leslie, 1st Lord Newark
- George Leslie
- Henry Leslie
- Margaret Leslie, married John Drummond, 2nd Lord Maderty
- Elizabeth Leslie, married Sir James Sinclair
- Anna Leslie, married John Forbes
- Janet Leslie, married Sir John Cunningham
- Euphemia Leslie, married c. 1616 Sir David Barclay
