William Hay, 4th Earl of Erroll (1470 – 9 September 1513), styled as Lord Hay until 1507, was a Scottish peer and soldier. He was killed at the Battle of Flodden.

Biography

William Hay was the son of William Hay, 3rd Earl of Erroll. He had double royal lineage: his grandfather, William Hay, 1st Earl of Erroll was a great-great grandson of King Robert II of Scotland; and his maternal grandfather was James I of Scotland.[1]

He served as the Lord High Constable of Scotland, a hereditary title that was, after the king, the supreme officer of the Scottish army. He was killed on 9 September 1513 in the Battle of Flodden,[2] near Branxton, Northumberland. He died alongside his younger brother Thomas, King James IV of Scotland and more than a dozen dukes and earls in a decisive English victory.[3]

Marriage and issue

He married Christian Lyon, daughter of John Lyon, 3rd Lord Glamis, and had two children:

  1. William Hay, 5th Earl of Erroll (c. 1495, Errol, Perthshire, Scotland – 28 July 1522 in Edinburgh)
  2. Lady Isabel Hay

He married secondly Margaret Kinloch of Cruvie, widow of Sir James Sandilands, 5th feudal baron of Calder.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Mackintosh, John (1898). Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland. W. Jolly.
  2. ^ Guthrie, William (1767). A General History of Scotland. Vol. 4. Paternoster Row, London: A. Hamilton, Robinson and Roberts. pp. 371-372. Retrieved 7 May 2023.
  3. ^ James Balfour Paul (1906). The Scots Peerage: Volume 3. D. Douglas. pp. 565–566.
Military offices
Preceded by Lord High Constable of Scotland
1507–1513 		Succeeded by
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Earl of Erroll
1507–1513 		Succeeded by
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hay,_4th_Earl_of_Erroll
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