Mariota, Countess of Ross
Mariota, Countess of Ross( Mairead, also called Mary and Margaret; died 1440) was the daughter of Euphemia I, Countess of Ross and her husband, the crusading war- hero Walter Leslie, Lord of Ross.
Upon the death of her brother, Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross, she became the heir- presumptive of her niece Euphemia II, Countess of Ross although her husband Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles pressed Mariota's superior claim to the earldom.
Domhnall attempted to gain control of the earldom, and sometime after 1405 but before 1411, Domhnall gained control of Dingwall Castle.
In the year after the death of the nominal king Robert III of Scotland( 1406), in August 1407, Domhnall sent emissaries to England to the heir of the throne, the captive James Stewart.
King Henry IV of England sent his own emissaries the following year to negotiate an alliance against Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, the Guardian of Scotland who was controlling Euphemia and the earldom.
With control over the principal seat of the earldom of Ross and support of the exiled heir to the Scottish throne, in 1411 Domhnall felt strong enough to march against Albany's main northern ally, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar.
At the Battle of Harlaw Domhnall failed to inflict a decisive victory, and withdrew back to the western highlands.
In the aftermath, Albany was able to retake Dingwall and seize control of Easter Ross.
In 1415, Euphemia was persuaded by Albany to resign the earldom to his own second son, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan.
This action was challenged by Domhnall of Islay, who continued to claim the earldom on behalf of Mariota.
After the return of King James the latter destroyed the power of the Albany Stewarts, executing the Albany's son and successor Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany.
Domhnall had died in 1423, but Mariota continued to enjoy the support of his successor and her own son, Alexander.
Alexander took over her claims, and in 1437 her son was recognized as earl by the king.
She died in 1440.
She had two known children, Alexander and Mariota.
William III, Earl of Ross
William( or Uilleam) III, 5th Earl of Ross( d. 1372) was a fourteenth- century Scottish nobleman.
He was the fifth O’ Beolan earl of Ross, descending from the founder of the line, Fearchar of Ross( or Fearchar MacTaggart).
Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross
Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross (died 1402) was a Scottish nobleman.
Born between 1367 and 1382, he was the son of Walter Leslie, Lord of Ross and Euphemia I, Countess of Ross.
In around 1394 he became Earl of Ross and sometime before 1398 he married Isabel Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany.
They had one child, Euphemia.
He died at Dingwall, Scotland on 8 May 1402.
Euphemia II, Countess of Ross
Euphemia II, Countess of Ross( also Euphemia Leslie) was the daughter of Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross and his wife Isabella Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany.
She was the only child and heir of Earl Alexander, and succeeded to the earldom" de jure" upon his death in 1402.
She became a ward of her grandfather Albany, and never seems to have exercised much power in the province of Ross.
There was a failed attempt to marry her to Thomas Dunbar, the son of Thomas Dunbar, Earl of Moray.
Governor Albany persuaded her to resign the earldom to his own second son, John Stewart, Earl of Buchan.
This action was challenged by Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, who claimed the earldom on behalf of his wife Mariota and who became an enemy of the Albany Stewarts.
Euphemia thereafter disappears from the record, retiring to the nunnery of North Berwick.
Some of the histories report that she was deformed, seemingly a hunchback.
Leslie Renton
Alexander Leslie Renton (6 July 1868 – 6 May 1947) was a British Liberal Party and then Liberal Unionist politician.
Alexander Leslie-Melville, 7th Earl of Leven
Alexander Leslie-Melville, 7th Earl of Leven (7 November 1749 – 22 February 1820) was a Scottish Whig politician and peer.
As the eldest son of David Melville, 6th Earl of Leven, he succeeded his father as Earl of Leven and Earl of Melville on 9 June 1802.
Between 1806 and 1807 he sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish representative peer.
Walter Leslie
Sir Walter Leslie (died 1382) was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and crusader, one of the foremost knights of his time.
Leslie was a younger son, probably the third son, of Sir Andrew Leslie of Leslie Castle sixth in line from Bartholomew, founder of the name Leslie in Aberdeenshire, by his wife Mary Abernethy, daughter and coheiress of Sir Alexander Abernethy.
Along with his elder brother Norman, he obtained safe conduct through England on his way to Prussia to participate in a crusade against the pagans of that region.
He had returned by 1356.
He is then said to have gone to France, to aid the French in their wars with the English.
He must have gone there more than once, for he was present at the Battle of Pontvallain in 1370, where he proved instrumental in the English defeat, and was rewarded by King Charles with a yearly pension of two hundred gold francs.
He was present in Scotland in 1363, when King David granted him a pension of forty pounds sterling.
Later that year, David obtained from Edward III of England a safe passage for Walter and Norman to travel to the Holy Land.
They traveled via Italy; they appear as witnesses to a deal signed by the authorities of Florence with the notorious "White Band", a group of English mercenaries who had fought in the Hundred Years' War and were then plying their trade in Italy.
Walter and Norman eventually joined the crusade of Peter King of Cyprus, as the latter attacked the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
The city was captured, but King Peter was unable to hold it, and abandoned the city after looting it.
Walter returned to Scotland in 1366, and was warmly welcomed by King David.
The king was fascinated by the cult of the crusader, and Walter's previous exploits had already made him one of the royal favorites.
As a reward for his latest exploits, David gave him permission to marry Euphemia, the daughter and heiress of the Earl of Ross, whom David coerced into allowing the marriage.
The marriage took place on 13 September of the same year.
After this, he appears to have remained in Scotland for a time, taking a prominent part in public affairs and frequently witnessing royal charters.
When King David died in 1371, Walter may have been worried that the new king, Robert Stewart, who was an ally of the Earl of Ross, may have rescinded the patronage.
However, the new king did not, and when Ross died in 1372, Euphemia inherited the title, and Walter became "jure uxoris" earl or lord of Ross.
Walter died at Perth on 27 February 1382.
He left two children, Alexander (the future Earl of Ross) and Mariota, who would marry Donald Lord of the Isles.
Although Alexander did eventually inherit the earldom, "de facto" control of Ross passed into the hands of the Earl of Buchan, aka the "Wolf of Badenoch", who was Countess Euphemia's second husband before she divorced him in 1392.
Alexander Leslie-Melville, 10th Earl of Leven
Alexander Leslie- Melville, 10th Earl of Leven, 9th Earl of Melville( 1817 – 1889)
He was the son of John Leslie- Melville, 9th Earl of Leven.
He was a partner in Williams.
Deacon& Co, and was a Representative Peer for Scotland( Conservative) from 1880 to 1889.
He was succeeded by his half- brother Ronald Ruthven Leslie- Melville, 11th Earl of Leven, 10th Earl of Melville( 1835 – 1906).
Les Barnhart
Leslie Earl Barnhart (February 23, 1905 – October 7, 1971) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for 2 seasons.
He played for the Cleveland Indians in 1928 and 1930.
Alexander de Waghorn
Alexander de Waghorn( d. 1416 × 1418), Bishop of Ross, bears a surname that may suggest an origin in the Glasgow area of southern Scotland, though there are other possibilities.
His pre-episcopal life is not very well documented, but when he was provided to the bishopric of Ross in 1398, he already possessed a Bachelorate in Decrees( i.e. canon law) and bore the title Archdeacon of Ross.
It is not known for how long he had held the latter title, but it could have been as early as August 1376, when the last known archdeacon Alexander Man was made Bishop of Caithness.
It was on 17 August 1398, that Avignon Pope Benedict XIII provided Waghorn to the vacant diocese of Ross; the papal mandate of provision informs us that Alexander had been elected by the cathedral chapter to the vacant see, but that because the Pope had previously reserved the see for his own appointment, declared the election invalid.
However," to prevent a long and harmful vacancy" he nevertheless provided Waghorn as bishop.
There is a papal mandate, dated 4 May 1404, in which three churchmen are told to confirm one clerk named William" de Taynof Tain") as Chancellor of Ross because William de Tayn" doubted the validity of his presentation and institution by Alexander, bishop of Ross".
A similar mandate for confirmation, this time issued to the Bishop of Moray( Henry de Lichton) and dated 16 August 1417, was as a result of similar concerns, this time in relation to one John de Kylwos, regarding Kylwos' exchange of the Ross subdeanery for the treasurership, an exchange authorised by Bishop Alexander.
On 30 June 1407, a papal mandate was issued to the Bishop of Dunkeld and the Bishop of Caithness to receive Alexander's oath of fealty to the papal see, and to ensure that a copy of the oath was sent to the papal court by letters patent under Alexander's seal.
This is somewhat of a long period since his provision, and may be explained if some of the secular authorities were opposing his provision.
At this time, there was a power struggle over the province of Ross, the notable participants being Alexander Leslie, Earl of Ross, and ally to the Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany; Domhnall of Islay, Lord of the Isles, a magnate based on the western coast who was pressing his own claim to the earldom; and Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, husband of the deceased Countess of Ross, Euphemia I.
It is possible that Waghorn was a protégé of one of these men and, if he was, the most likely candidate is the Earl of Buchan, namely because he is found witnessing a number of charters of Isabella, Countess of Mar, wife of Buchan's illegitimate son, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar.
Bishop Alexander witnessed, at Kildrummy Castle in 1404, Isabella's deed handing over her rights to Buchan's son.
He was at Perth on 18 July 1408, where he attended an ecclesiastical council and witnessed a deed.
He can be found at St Andrews on 4 and 6 February 1414, attending the ceremonies celebrating the receipt of the papal bull which authorised the founding of the University of St Andrews; Bishop Alexander made a sermon on 6 February.
He is found for the last time at Perth on 17 March 1416, witnessing a transumpt made by an ecclesiastical council.
It is not known when he died, but the earliest secure date is 14 February 1418.

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