Laird Andrew Leslie 
Andrew was born in 1290 in Leslie,Fifeshire,Scotland. Andrew's father was Laird Norman Leslie and his mother was Elizabeth Leith. His paternal grandparents were Laird Norino De Leslie and Katherine More. He was an only child. He died before November 28th, 1324 in Leslie,Fifeshire,Scotland.1 General Notes
Sir Andrew de Leslie; married 1313 Mary, daughter of Alexander Abernethy of that Ilk, thus acquiring Ballinbreich, Fife and Cairnie, Forfar, and died by 1324. [Burke's Peerage]
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Sir Andrew Leslie, who married the Abernethy heiress, was one of the Scottish barons that in 1320 signed the famous letter to the Pope asserting Scottish independence. His younger son Walter married the daughter of the Earl of Ross and was given the earldom by the King, who seized it from the male-line of the House of Ross. The earldom soon passed deviously from the family by another heiress, into the hands of the Stewarts. Sir Andrew’s great-grandson was in 1437 created Earl of Rothes.
They [the Leslie family] also acquired lands in central Fife and on the south side of the Firth of Tay, the latter by an Abernethy heiress.
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Andrew and Mary were married in a religious ceremony in 1313.2 They had a son and a daughter, named Walter and Margaret.
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Children
Earl Walter Leslie Of Ross
Walter was born about 1321 in Leslie,Fifeshire,Scotland. He died in Perth,Perthshire,Scotland.2
1 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 2456
2 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 2456
2 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 2456
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