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Personal data Lady Janet Haliburton 

• Alternative name: Lady Janet Halyburton 6th Lady Dirletoun
• She was born on April 19, 1503 in Dirleton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland (Dirleton Castle).

  Attention: Age at marriage (October 30, 1515) below 16 years (12).

• (note1) .Source 1

  Source: Kathie Marie Anderson, V. N. Bentley, Gordon Warder, et al.

• She died on February 27, 1560 in Perthshire, Tayside, Scotland (Castle Gowrie), she was 56 years old.
• She is buried after February 26, 1560 in Scot.
• A child of Patrick Halyburton and Margaret Douglas
• This information was last updated on January 7, 2025.

Household of Lady Janet Haliburton

She is married to William Ruthven.

They got married on October 30, 1515 at Scotland, she was 12 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Alexander Ruthven  1533-1599 

Notes about Lady Janet Haliburton

Janet Halyburton 6th Lady Dirletoun

Sources: Author: Kathie Marie AndersonKathie Marie Anderson; vnbentleyvnbentley; GordonWarderGordonWarder; et al.; Title: "Lady Janet Haliburton," (Publication site: Salt Lk. City UT, Publisher: Family Search, Publication date: viii Dec MMXXIV)

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"... Lady Janet Haliburton Reason: Name spelling is - Haliburton Last Changed: October 22, 2024 Joanne Hamilton Cunningham Sex Female Last Changed: June 11, 2020 Jessica Bernard

Birth 19 April 1503 Dirleton, Haddingtonshire, Scotland Reason: Standard place for Dirleton Castle, Dirleton, East Lothian, Lothian, Scotland Ancestry Last Changed: September 16, 2024 Paul Atchison

Death 27 February 1560 Castle Gowrie, Perthshire, Tayside, Scotland ... Last Changed: August 11, 2024 John Wright

Burial Scotland Reason: FAG # 143998159 Last Changed: September 3, 2022 Scott D. Hill

Alternate Name Married Name Ruthven

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Sir William Ruthven 2nd Lord, Sheriff of Perth Male 1500-1552 L1Q2-CH4 [<-ancestor]
Lady Janet Haliburton Female 1503-1560 L1Q2-N5C [<-ancestress]
Marriage 1515 Perth, Perthshire, Scotland

Children (9)

[1] Patrick Ruthven 3rd Lord, Provost of Perth Male 1520-1566 LRRY-6WV
[2] James Ruthven of Fortevoit Male 1521-1553 L2LV-6KD
[3] Lilias Ruthven Baroness Drummond Female 1526-1579 LBP4-K7X
[4] Lady Katherine Ruthven of Craufurd Female 1530-1580 LVKH-87H
[5] Lady Christina Ruthven of Ballindean Female 1532-1574 LV4Z-SKL
[6] Alexander Ruthven of Freeland Male 1533-1599 LR6M-S94 [<-ancestor]
[7] Barbara Ruthven Female 1535-1594 L19V-TH3
[8] Cecilia Ruthven Lady of Wemyss Female 1540-1589 LXQ1-CC9
[9] Janet Ruthven Female -1593 LB9T-QQL

George Canmore Home, 4th Lord of Home and Warden of the East Marches Male 1503-1549 G1NJ-V3X
Lady Janet Haliburton Female 1503-1560 L1Q2-N5C [<-ancestress]
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Children (1)

Sir Alexander Canmore Home, 5th Lord of Home Male 1535-1575 G1NJ-42Y

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Patrick Halyburton Male 1475-1505 LRPM-KXZ [<-ancestor]
Margaret Douglas Female 1483-1505 L857-ML4
Marriage 1499 Pompherstoun, East Lothian, Scotland

Children (6)

[1] Lady Janet Haliburton Female 1503-1560 L1Q2-N5C [<-ancestress]
[2] Mariëtte Halyburton of Dirlton - Baroness of Ruthven Female 1503-1563 LT7L-LMP
[3] James Halliburton Male 1504-1560 G5MR-ZQP
[4] Margaret-vic-Patrick Haliburton of Dirleton Female 1504-1560 G5MR-S18
[5] David Halyburton Male 1505-Deceased G5M5-J34
[6] Walter Haliburton Male -1547 G5M5-PSZ

Margaret Douglas Female 1483-1505 L857-ML4 [<-ancestress]

Children (1)

[1] Lady Janet Haliburton Female 1503-1560 L1Q2-N5C [<-ancestress]

Brief Life History

Janet, Baroness Haliburton of Dirleton, married William second Lord Ruthven, and when she died around 1560 the titles fell to her son Patrick, the third Lord Ruthven. Patrick was implicated in the murder of David Rizzio, the favourite of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1566.
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Janet Haliburt, heretrix of Dirleston - 7th Lady of Dirleton,
- father, Patrick Haliburton 6th Lord Haliburton of Dirleton (dies without male issue)
- mother, Lady Margaret Douglas

She married
George Home, 4th Baron about 1528, in Haddington, Haddingtonshire, Scotland.

She died in 1560, in Gowrie, Perthshire, Scotland, at the age of 57, and was buried in Scotland.

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Contents
1 Family
2 At war
3 Legacy
4 References
5 Further reading

Family
Mariotta was the daughter of Patrick Haliburton of Dirleton Castle and Christine Wawane. She and her sisters Janet and Margaret were Patrick's heirs when he died in 1515.[2]

She married George, Lord Home before 7 April 1529. Their children included;

Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home.
Andrew Home, Commendator of Jedburgh and Restenneth.

John Home of Coldenknowes (Cowdenknowes).
Margaret Home, who married Alexander Erskine of Gogar, mother of Thomas Erskine, 1st Earl of Kellie.
two other daughters.[3]
Mariotta's eldest sister, Janet, married William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven. Margaret married George Ker of Faldonside. On 22 June 1535, James V of Scotland confirmed Mariotta and George's ownership of lands forfeited by Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home in return for their good service against the English enemy.[4]

At war

Hume Castle where Mariotta faced the English army.
As the war of the Rough Wooing escalated, Regent Arran sent soldiers and guns to help defend their Castle at Hume. The English defeated the Scottish army at Pinkie near Musselburgh on Saturday 10 September 1547. Alexander Home was taken prisoner, and George was injured, and while he lay sick in Edinburgh, the English army arrived at Hume on 20 September. Mariotta herself negotiated the surrender of Hume Castle with the Earl of Somerset. Her instructions were brought to the castle by Somerset Herald and her sons Andrew and John agreed to surrender. The 78 Scottish soldiers within were allowed to leave, and Andrew handed the keys to the new English captain, Sir Edward Dudley.[5]

George and her eldest son, Alexander, were taken to England and the Tower of London. Mariotta continued to write to the Earl of Somerset seeking a better deal for her own family and the border people. She complained that people in Scotland said she had given up Hume Castle for money, and marvelled that they thought she could the keep the sober barmkin of Hume against the whole English army, while the whole Scottish nobility could not keep the field. Mariotta told the Earl that she dared not show her husband his letter and the pledges her people had made to England, and asked him to make new agreements that risked only their possessions, not their loyalty to Scotland.[6]

Eventually Alexander was allowed back to Scotland, and soon on Boxing Day 1548, Hume Castle was taken from the English by a night raid. On 28 December Mariotta sent the news from Edinburgh to Mary of Guise, who had left Holyroodhouse for New Year at Stirling Castle. She wrote that her son Andrew Home had taken part in the successful assault, with John Home of Coldenknowes and John Haitlie of Mellerstain. She claimed that if more men had joined her son they could have expelled the English from Kelso.[7]

By March 1549, Mariotta was back at Hume with a garrison of French and Spanish troops. Now she wrote to Mary of Guise that the troops were disturbing the villagers because they would not pay for their groceries; Mariotta insisted Guise pay the soldiers so they would not trouble the poor folk of Hume.
In another letter she advised Guise to maintain discipline amongst the soldiers at this crucial time for the Auld Alliance;

"Your grace maun be very scherp batht on the Franch men and on the Scottis men, or it will nocht be weill; yet ader (either) to do as aferis to tham or lat it be, they mecht never getin sa gud ane tym. Pardon me that writtis sa hamly to your grace for in gud feth it cumis of gud hart as [any] that loifis bath the honour of Scotland and Frans."[9]

In a letter to Guise written at Home Castle on 28 March 1549 she mentions a Spanish captain called the "Mour", "as sharp a man as rides", and hopes the Spanish soldiers will come back to garrison her castle. The man called the "Mour" is understood to be of African origin, and has been identified with a soldier name Pedro de Negro.[10]

Mariotta's original letters to Somerset and Guise are kept in the National Library of Scotland and the Public Record Office at Kew. An English eyewitness, William Patten, described the bloodless siege after Pinkie and Mariotta's role. Patten cited a French proverb, that the siege was ended by a 'talking castle, and a woman who listens.'[11] Jean de Beaugué, who later joined the French army at the Siege of Haddington, also gave an account of the siege, which praises Lady Home's resolve and emphasises the role her fears for her eldest son may have played in the negotiation.[12]

Legacy
Mariotta's grandson, Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home married Mary (Dudley) Sutton a granddaughter of Edward Dudley the English captain of Hume. In 1617 this Anglo-Scottish marital union was celebrated by her kinsman and poet David Hume of Godscroft in the Muses Welcome to the High and Mighty Prince James. Godscroft pictured the marriage as an epitome of the union of the kingdoms of England and Scotland, writing that Mary Dudley's hand now restored the houses and castles formerly destroyed in border warfare.[13]

References
Maureen Meikle, in Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall & Siân Reynolds: The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004 (Edinburgh, 2018), p. 183.
Ewan, Elizabeth, & Meikle, Maureen M., ed., Women in Scotland(Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999), p. 169 & fn. 25.
HMC 12th report part 8: Athole & Home (London, 1891), p. 100.
John Hill Burton, Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, 1513-1546 (Edinburgh, 1883), nos. 772, 1480, 1552.
Patten, William, The Expedition in Scotland 1547 (London, 1548), unfoliated.
Bain, Joseph, ed., Calendar of State Papers relating to Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 36 no. 75.
Annie I. Cameron, Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine (SHS: Edinburgh, 1927), pp. 280-281.
Cameron, Annie I., (1927), 296-297.
Cameron, Annie I., (1927), 291-292, Hume, 8 March 1548/9.
Imtiaz Habib, Black Lives in the English Archives (London, 2008), pp. 36, 41-2: Cameron (1927), pp. 296-7.
Patten, in Tudor Tracts (London, 1903), p. 143.
Beaugué, Jean de, History of the Campaigns of 1548 and 1549 (Edinburgh, 1707), 77-82, see external links, French text (1830) available.
Muses Welcome, (Edinburgh 1617), p. 14: See Dana Sutton, ed., and trans., Lusus Poetici, (1639)
Further reading
Bain, Joseph, ed., Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898)
Beaugué, Jean de, History of the Campaigns of 1548 and 1549, (1707) 77-82. Beaugué's account differs from William Patten's, envisaging a scene at Hume.
Beaugué, Jean de, Histoire de la guerre d'Écosse pendant les campagnes 1548 et 1549, Maitland Club, Edinburgh (1830)
Cameron, Annie I., ed., The Scottish Correspondence of Mary of Lorraine, Scottish History Society (1927)
Historical Manuscripts Commission, 12th report part 8; Duke of Athole & Earl of Home, London (1891)
Meikle, Maureen, A British Frontier? Lairds and Gentlemen in the Eastern Borders, Tuckwell (2004), 65-66.
Patten, William, The Expedition into Scotland 1547, London (1548); various reprints, digitised by EEBO.
Patten, William, edited text of The Expedition in Scotland, 1547, London (1548), in Tudor Tracts, (1903), pp.53-157

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