William_Hay,_10th_Earl_of_Erroll
William Hay, 10th Earl of Erroll
Scottish nobleman
William Hay, 10th Earl of Erroll PC (before 1597 – 7 December 1636) was a Scottish nobleman.
The Earl of Erroll | |
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Arms of the Earl of Erroll | |
| 14th Lord High Constable of Scotland | |
| In office 1631 – 7 December 1636 | |
| Preceded by | Francis Hay |
| Succeeded by | Gilbert Hay |
| Personal details | |
| Born | before 1597 |
| Died | 7 December 1636 Errol, Scotland |
| Spouse |
Anne Lyon (m. 1618) |
| Children | Gilbert Hay, 11th Earl of Erroll Margaret Kennedy, Countess of Cassilis |
| Parent(s) | Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll Lady Elizabeth Douglas |
He was the eldest son of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll by his third wife, Lady Elizabeth, daughter of William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton.[1]
He was known as "Lord Hay". In January 1611, with the Earl of Pembroke and Lord Windsor, he escorted a French diplomat, the Marshal de Laverdin, from Croydon to Lambeth.[2]
He succeeded to the earldom after his father's death in 1631. He became a member of the Privy Council on 28 May 1633. He also succeeded to the title of Lord High Constable of Scotland, and took part in the Scottish coronation of King Charles I of Holyrood Abbey on 18 June 1633.
The earl lived such an extravagant lifestyle that he was forced to sell off the family's namesake lands in Errol, which had been granted to his forebears by King William the Lion in the 12th century.[3]
In September 1618, he married Anne Lyon, daughter of Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Kinghorne and Anne Murray. They had issue:
- Gilbert Hay (13 June 1631 – 1674)
- Lady Margaret, married 1638 Lord Henry Ker (died 1643), son of Robert Ker, 1st Earl of Roxburghe;[4] secondly in 1644; John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis[5]
- Thomas Birch & Folkestone Williams, The Court and Times of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1848), p. 132.
- David Laing, Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his son William, third Earl of Lothian, vol. 1 (Roxburghe Club: Edinburgh, 1875), pp. 145-6.
- Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2. Debrett's. 1831. p. 551. Retrieved 29 April 2015.
- Paul, James Balfour (1906). The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Vol. 3. Edinburgh: David Douglas.
| Military offices | ||
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| Preceded by | Lord High Constable of Scotland 1631–1636 |
Succeeded by |
| Peerage of Scotland | ||
| Preceded by |  Earl of Erroll 1631–1636 |
Succeeded by |