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'''Clan Leslie''' is a [[Scottish Lowlands|Lowland]] [[Scottish clan]]. The progenitor of the Clan, [[Bartolf Leslie|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==
From 1457 the Clan Chief of Clan Leslie also held the position of [[Earl of Rothes]]. The Chief is currently the Hon. Alexander Leslie,<ref name="ScotClans"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Clan Leslie Society |url=https://www.clanlesliesociety.org/ |publisher=Clan Leslie Society International |
==History==
[[File:Leslie tartan (Vestiarium Scoticum).svg | thumb | 220x124px | right | alt= Leslie tartan |
Leslie tartan ]]
===Origins===
[[File:Arms of Leslie.svg|thumb|right|200px|Coat of arms of Lords of Leslie]]
The first Leslie in Aberdeenshire was Alexander who was appointed Constable of
Australia & New Zealand.</ref>
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
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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===14th to 15th centuries: Rothes and Balquhain===
The family sided with [[Robert the Bruce]] against firstly The Comyn in the Buchan and secondly [[Edward I of England|King Edward I]] and as a result were awarded further tracts of [[Aberdeenshire]].<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> They fought at the [[Battle of Bannockburn]] in 1314. Sir [[Sir Andrew de Leslie|Andrew de Lesly]] was one of the signatories of [[Declaration of Arbroath]], was sent to the Pope in 1320 asserting Scotland's independence.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> His grandson, Walter died at the
The chiefly line of the Clan Leslie passed to a junior branch of the family, from whom the present [[Earl of Rothes]] descends.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> In 1391, Sir Norman Lesley believed that his only son, David, had been killed in the [[Crusades]],<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> and therefore passed over his estates to his cousin, Sir George Lesley.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> Then in 1398, after George Lesley had taken possession of the castle and lands, David returned from the Crusades and claimed possession of his estate.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> The family managed to resolve the matter peacefully and in 1445 Sir George Lesley's grandson, also called George, was created a [[Lord of Parliament]] as Lord Lesley of Leven, and all of his lands were united into the barony of Ballinbreich.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> At some point before 1458, he was then advanced to the title of Earl of Rothes.<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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====Wars of the Three Kingdoms====
Commanding the Covenanters [[Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven]], and General [[Robert Monro]] captured Edinburgh Castle with a thousand men.<ref name="Clan.Encyclopedia.Leslie"/> {{unreliable source|date=July 2021}}
With the Scots, Leven went into England in 1640 and defeated the King's soldiers at the [[Battle of Newburn]]. For this, he was created Earl of Lewis by King Charles I. General Alexander Leslie of Balgonie fought for [[Gustavus Adolphus]], the King of Sweden. He achieved great fame across Europe for his skills in war and returned to Scotland a Field Marshal.<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
*[[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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