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| gaelic names = Lesselyn<ref>[http://clanleslietrust.org Clan Lelslie Trust]</ref>
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| captionimage_arms_alt = [[Coat of arms|Arms]] of James, Earl of Rothes, Chief of Clan Leslie: [[Quartering (heraldry)|Quarterly]] 1st and 4th ''Argent, on a bend azure three buckles or'' (Leslie) 2nd and 3rd ''Or, a lion rampant gules over all a ribbon sable'' (Abernethy)
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'''Clan Leslie''' is a [[Scottish Lowlands|Lowland]] [[Scottish clan]]. The progenitor of the Clan, [[Bartolf Leslie|Bartolf]]''Bartolf,'' was a nobleman from [[Hungary]], who came to [[Scotland]] in 1067. He built a castle at Lesselyn, from which the clan name derives.
 
==Clan Chief, the Earl of Rothes==
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==History==
[[File:Leslie tartan (Vestiarium Scoticum).svg | thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= Leslie tartan |
 
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===Origins===
[[File:Arms of Leslie.svg|thumb|right|200px|Coat of arms of Lords of Leslie]]
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The progenitor of the Clan Leslie is a man named ''Bartolf'' who was a nobleman from [[Hungary]], who came to [[Scotland]] in 1067.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie">{{cite book |last1=Way, |first1=George andof Plean |last2=Squire, Romily.|first2=Romilly (1994).of ''CollinsRubislaw Scottish|author-link2=Romilly ClanSquire &of FamilyRubislaw Encyclopedia''.|author-link1=George (ForewordWay byof ThePlean Rt|year=1994 Hon.|title=Collins TheScottish EarlClan of& ElginFamily KT,Encyclopedia Convenor,|location=[[Glasgow]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] (for Thethe [[Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs]]). pp. 194 –|isbn=0-00-470547-5 195.|pages=194–195}}</ref> Bartolf was in the [[retinue]] of [[Edgar the Ætheling]], brother of [[Saint Margaret of Scotland]], who was later the queen of [[Malcolm III of Scotland]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> Bartholf later married Malcolm III's sister, Princess Beatrix of Scotland.<ref name="ClanLeslie"/>
 
Bartolf was said to be a man of intellect and bravery and as a result Malcolm III made him governor of the royal [[Edinburgh Castle]] and gave him estates in [[Fife]], [[Angus, Scotland|Angus]], [[the Mearns]] and [[Aberdeenshire]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> It is said that Bartolf helped the queen across a dangerous river on a horse and that Bartolf told her to "grip fast", which is where the Leslie family motto originates.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/>
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====Rothes====
 
During the [[Anglo-Scottish Wars]], George de Lesly was the Leslys' first Earl. His son George Leslie, the 2nd Earl, and his grandson were killed at the [[Battle of Flodden]] in 1513.<ref>{{cite book |last=Guthrie |first=William |author-link=William Guthrie (historian) |year=1767 |title=A General History of Scotland |url=https://archive.org/details/ageneralhistory14guthgoog/page/n6/mode/2up |volume=4 |location=[[Paternoster Row]], London |publisher=A. Hamilton, Robinson and Roberts |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ageneralhistory14guthgoog/page/n366/mode/2up 371]-372 |access-date=May 7, 2023}}</ref> The third Earl, also George, carried out a private family vendetta on the life of David Beaton, cardinal Archbishop of St Andrews. At the trial he was acquitted.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/>
 
[[George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes]], was one of the Scottish commissioners at the marriage of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], as heir to the throne of [[France]] in 1558.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> George, along with the Earl of Cascillus and two others, died in mysterious circumstances, believed to be poisoning for refusing to allow the crown of Scotland to be settled on the [[Dauphin of France]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/>
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[[File:Leslie Castle, Geograph.jpg|right|thumb|[[Leslie Castle]] in 1989]]
*The Bass, the original Clan Leslie wooden castle built in 1080–1085. The remains can still be seen down by the [[River Ury]] in [[Inverurie]] next to the Celtic burial mounds.
*[[Leslie Castle]] in Aberdeenshire is a 17th-century tower house but stands on the site of an earlier fortification.<ref name="Coventry">{{cite book |last=Coventry, |first=Martin. (|year=2008). ''|title=Castles of the Clans: The Strongholds and Seats of 750 Scottish Families and Clans''. pp.|location=[[Musselburgh]] 328|publisher=Goblinshead –|pages=328–330 330. {{ISBN|isbn=978-1-899874-36-1}}.</ref> The Leslies held the lands from at least the eleventh or twelfth century and there was once a courtyard and moat which have now gone.<ref name="Coventry"/>
*[[Castle Leslie]] in [[County Monaghan]], [[Ulster]], Ireland. Built in the 17th century, the castle and surrounding {{convert|1000|acre|km2|adj=on}} estate is still a Leslie residence, and an exclusive guest house, spa and school for cuisine. In 2002 Sir [[Paul McCartney]] married [[Heather Mills]] in the Family Church just adjacent to the castle.
*[[Fetternear Palace]] in Aberdeenshire, the Leslies built a tower house here in the 1560s.<ref name="Coventry"/> The castle passed to the Abercrombies in 1627 but later returned to the Leslies who kept there the ''Fetternear Banner'', which was a pre-Reformation banner of the fraternity of the Holy Blood.<ref name="Coventry"/>
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[[Category:Scottish clans|Leslie]]
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