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23 de ago. de 2023 · Maitland married Mary Fleming, one of the "Four Maries" who accompanied Mary Queen of Scots to France in 1548 as her principal attendants. The Great Seal (charter number 1519, confirmed at Holyroodhouse on 8 April 1588), gives James Maitland of Lethington (b.1568) as "son and heir of William Maitland of Lethington, Royal Secretary".
When William Maitland of Lethington, was born in 1525, in Lauder, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Richard Maitland of Lethington and Thirlestane, was 29 and his mother, Mary Margaret Mariotta Cranston, was 25. He married Janet Menteith in 1553, in Scotland. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
28 de sept. de 2021 · Sir William Maitland of Lethington lived from 1525 to 9 June 1573. He was a politician who rose to become Secretary of State to Mary, Queen of Scots. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline. Sir William Maitland was the eldest son of Sir Richard Maitland of Thirlestane and Lethington, a judge and a noted ...
William Maitland of Lethington had been educated on the continent and was one of Scotland's most civilised men, but one suspects that he did not match the elegance of Rizzio. The Scottish nobility did not aspire to this level of culture. By 1563, Rizzio was acting as the Queen’s advisor mainly engaged in handling the foreign correspondence ...
father John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland. Sir Richard Maitland, Lord Lethington (born 1496—died March 20, 1586) was a Scottish poet, lawyer, statesman, and compiler of one of the earliest and most important collections of Scottish poetry. “Manly Maitland,” as he was called in an epitaph, was the son of Sir William Maitland of Lethington.
8 de mar. de 2024 · William Maitland of Lethington. Birthdate: circa 1477. Death: Flodden field, near Branxton, Northumberland, Kingdom of England (not yet part of the United Kingdom) (Killed in action, fighting under the banner of James IV, King of Scots) Immediate Family: Son of Sir John Maitland of Thirlestane and Levington, Kt. and Agnes Dundas.
MAITLAND, William (1528?-73). A Scotch statesman, better known as ‘Secretary Lethington.’ He was the eldest son of Sir Richard Maitland (q.v.), of Lethington. He was educated at Saint Andrews and on the Continent, and quickly displayed great aptitude for a political career.
