Sophia Hay
Sophia Hay (died 1642) was a Scottish noblewoman.
She was a daughter of Francis Hay, 9th Earl of Erroll and Elizabeth Douglas.[1]
She married John Gordon, Viscount of Melgum. He died in the fire at Frendraught Castle in 1630.[2] They had a daughter, Henrietta Gordon.
Sophia Hay features in Gilbert Blackhall's, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes. Blackhall, a Catholic priest, met her in 1637, and joined her household at Aboyne Castle.[3] Blackhall described the fire at Frendraught according to her account, and laid the blame on James Crichton of Frendraught and his servant John Toash.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Records of Aboyne (Aberdeen, 1894), p. 526.
- ^ Records of Aboyne (Aberdeen, 1894), p. 526.
- ^ John Stuart, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844).
- ^ Gilbert Blackhall, A Breiffe Narration of the Services Done to Three Noble Ladyes (Aberdeen, 1844), pp. 124-5.