Individual Details
Johanna Giffard
(Abt 1350 - Abt 1410)
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Morham Family Worklist]]
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== Biography == }Eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Gifford of Yester and his wife Johanna Douglas. While a child became heiress of one fourth of her father's estate.
Joanna married Sir Thomas Hay of Locherworth, Sheriff of Peebles. That family then quartered the arms of Gifford with their own. Balfour Paul states that their son William was a Sheriff of Peeblesshire in 1387. This would presumably mean he was at least 30 at that point indicating a marriage before 1367 and giving Johanna (or Jonet) a birth year of maybe 1350.https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun08paul/page/422/mode/2up
She was living as "domina Jonete de Giffart domina de Zester" on 5th Feb 1397/8, and appears again as such in 1400. (Yester Writs.) She is recorded in the ''Scots' Peerage'' (vol.viii, p.422) in a document of confirmation as "spouse of the deceased Sir Thomas Hay of Louchquarwart" dated 1st December 1399.
An Act of Parliament in 1661 narrates various ancient Writs, amongst which the following: "A confirmation granted by Johanna Hay, of Louchquerant, eldest daughter and one of the airs of umquhill Hew Giffart, Domini de Yester, to William Hay, of Louchquerwart [sic] (Locherworth) her son and heir etc., of certain infeftments, etc.
Also, sasine granted 1st December 1399, by Johanna Gifford in her lawful viductie [right] to Sir Robert Maitland, Knt., of the lands of Lettington [Lethington], conforming to the charter granted by the said Hew Gifford (d.1366) to the said umquhill Sir Robert Maitland, etc., dated at Haddington."''History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' etc., by John Burke, London, 1836, vol. 3, p.434/5. A look at the Acts of Parliament shows Burke has transcribed this wrongly. She is described as " Joanna Hay, Lady of Yester, spouse of the deceased Sir Thomas Hay, of Louchquerwart," in a charter of reconfirmation dated 1 December 1399 to John Maitland of the lands of Lethington originally granted to his grandfather Sir Robert Maitland by Hugh Gifford of Yester.Acts of Parliament of Scotland, vol. vii, p.136
== Sources ==
* ''The Complete Peerage'' by G.E.Cockayne & the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, edited by H.A.Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.vi, London, 1926, p.421n.
* Roots Web's WorldConnect Project:Our Kingdom Come ID:I28473
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== Biography == }Eldest daughter of Sir Hugh Gifford of Yester and his wife Johanna Douglas. While a child became heiress of one fourth of her father's estate.
Joanna married Sir Thomas Hay of Locherworth, Sheriff of Peebles. That family then quartered the arms of Gifford with their own. Balfour Paul states that their son William was a Sheriff of Peeblesshire in 1387. This would presumably mean he was at least 30 at that point indicating a marriage before 1367 and giving Johanna (or Jonet) a birth year of maybe 1350.https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun08paul/page/422/mode/2up
She was living as "domina Jonete de Giffart domina de Zester" on 5th Feb 1397/8, and appears again as such in 1400. (Yester Writs.) She is recorded in the ''Scots' Peerage'' (vol.viii, p.422) in a document of confirmation as "spouse of the deceased Sir Thomas Hay of Louchquarwart" dated 1st December 1399.
An Act of Parliament in 1661 narrates various ancient Writs, amongst which the following: "A confirmation granted by Johanna Hay, of Louchquerant, eldest daughter and one of the airs of umquhill Hew Giffart, Domini de Yester, to William Hay, of Louchquerwart [sic] (Locherworth) her son and heir etc., of certain infeftments, etc.
Also, sasine granted 1st December 1399, by Johanna Gifford in her lawful viductie [right] to Sir Robert Maitland, Knt., of the lands of Lettington [Lethington], conforming to the charter granted by the said Hew Gifford (d.1366) to the said umquhill Sir Robert Maitland, etc., dated at Haddington."''History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' etc., by John Burke, London, 1836, vol. 3, p.434/5. A look at the Acts of Parliament shows Burke has transcribed this wrongly. She is described as " Joanna Hay, Lady of Yester, spouse of the deceased Sir Thomas Hay, of Louchquerwart," in a charter of reconfirmation dated 1 December 1399 to John Maitland of the lands of Lethington originally granted to his grandfather Sir Robert Maitland by Hugh Gifford of Yester.Acts of Parliament of Scotland, vol. vii, p.136
== Sources ==
* ''The Complete Peerage'' by G.E.Cockayne & the Hon. Vicary Gibbs, edited by H.A.Doubleday, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, vol.vi, London, 1926, p.421n.
* Roots Web's WorldConnect Project:Our Kingdom Come ID:I28473
Events
| Birth | Abt 1350 | Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland | |||
| Marriage | 1367 | Sir Thomas Hay | |||
| Death | Abt 1410 | Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland. | |||
| Alt name | Cunningham | ||||
| Reference No | 25462079 | ||||
| Reference No | 27915314 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Sir Thomas Hay (1354 - 1399) |
| Child | Sir William "of Locherworth" Hay (1375 - 1421) |
| Child | Janet Hay (1375 - 1435) |
| Child | Unknown Hay (1384 - ) |
| Spouse | William de La Hay of Lockarwart ( - 1421) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | Living |
| Father | Hugh Giffard Knt. (1320 - 1366) |
| Mother | Johanna Douglas (1320 - 1402) |
| Sibling | Lady Alice "Baroness Boyd" Gifford (1360 - 1410) |