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[[File:Willem Key (c.1520-1568) (attributed to) - Portrait of a Lady, called Lady Helen Leslie, Wife of Mark Ker - NG 1939 - National Galleries of Scotland.jpg|thumb|right|Helen Leslie, by [[Willem Key]], [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]]]]
'''Helen Leslie, Lady Newbattle''' (1520-1594) was a Scottish aristocrat and supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
She was a daughter of [[George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes]] and Agnes Somerville, a daughter of John Somerville of [[Cambusnethan House|Cambusnethan]] (d. 1513) and widow of [[John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming]]. The surname is sometimes spelled "Lesley".
During the "Lang Siege" of [[Edinburgh Castle]], in January 1572 she loaned money to [[William Kirkcaldy of Grange]] to pay the wages of soldiers fighting for the cause of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]]. She took a packet of gold buttons from the [[jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots]] as a pledge. After the castle fell in June 1573, she brought the queen's buttons to the English commander [[William Drury]] at his lodging in [[Leith]]. He took the buttons and paid her back.<ref>[[Joseph Robertson (historian)|Joseph Robertson]], ''Inventaires de la Royne Descosse'' (Edinburgh, 1863), p. cl.</ref>
[[File:Prestongrange ceiling in Merchiston Tower (detail).jpg|thumb|right|Figure from the [[Prestongrange House|Prestongrange]] [[Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings|painted ceiling dated 1581]]]]
[[Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox|Esmé Stewart]], the favourite of [[James VI of Scotland|James VI]], gave Helen Leslie and her husband Mark Kerr a "buffet" or cupboard for their hall at [[Prestongrange House]].<ref>Margararet H. B. Sanderson, ''A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland'' (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2002), p. 93.</ref> The [[Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings|ceiling of the hall was painted]] in 1581 with vivid [[emblem|emblems]], ornament copied from the prints of [[Cornelis Bos]], and comic figures copied from a French illustrated book [[Richard Breton|Richard Breton's]] ''Songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel''. The ceiling was removed and installed in [[Merchiston Tower]] for [[Edinburgh Napier University|Napier Technical College]] in 1964.<ref>Michael Bath, ''Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 236-8.</ref>
She died on 26 October 1594.<ref>[[David Laing (antiquary)|David Laing]], ''Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his son William, first Earl of Lothian'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1875), table III.</ref>
==Marriages and children==
She married [[Mark Kerr (abbot)|Mark Kerr]], [[Abbot of Newbattle|Commendator]] of [[Newbattle Abbey|Newbattle]]. In [[Early Modern Scotland|early modern Scotland]] married [[Women in early modern Scotland|women]] did not change their surnames.<ref>Jenny Wormald, ''Court, Kirk, and Community'' (London, 1981), p. 30.</ref>
Their children included:
* [[Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian]];
* Andrew Kerr of Fenton
* George Kerr, who was involved in the "[[Spanish blanks]]" controversy
* William Kerr
* Catherine Kerr, who married William Maxwell, [[Lord Herries of Terregles|Lord Herries]].
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2EouPN0 Portrait called Helen Leslie, National Galleries of Scotland]
==References==
[[Category:People from Fife]]
[[Category:16th-century Scottish women]]
[[Category:1520 births]]
[[Category:1594 deaths]]
'''Helen Leslie, Lady Newbattle''' (1520-1594) was a Scottish aristocrat and supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots.
She was a daughter of [[George Leslie, 4th Earl of Rothes]] and Agnes Somerville, a daughter of John Somerville of [[Cambusnethan House|Cambusnethan]] (d. 1513) and widow of [[John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming]]. The surname is sometimes spelled "Lesley".
During the "Lang Siege" of [[Edinburgh Castle]], in January 1572 she loaned money to [[William Kirkcaldy of Grange]] to pay the wages of soldiers fighting for the cause of [[Mary, Queen of Scots]]. She took a packet of gold buttons from the [[jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots]] as a pledge. After the castle fell in June 1573, she brought the queen's buttons to the English commander [[William Drury]] at his lodging in [[Leith]]. He took the buttons and paid her back.<ref>[[Joseph Robertson (historian)|Joseph Robertson]], ''Inventaires de la Royne Descosse'' (Edinburgh, 1863), p. cl.</ref>
[[File:Prestongrange ceiling in Merchiston Tower (detail).jpg|thumb|right|Figure from the [[Prestongrange House|Prestongrange]] [[Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings|painted ceiling dated 1581]]]]
[[Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox|Esmé Stewart]], the favourite of [[James VI of Scotland|James VI]], gave Helen Leslie and her husband Mark Kerr a "buffet" or cupboard for their hall at [[Prestongrange House]].<ref>Margararet H. B. Sanderson, ''A Kindly Place? Living in Sixteenth-Century Scotland'' (Tuckwell: East Linton, 2002), p. 93.</ref> The [[Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings|ceiling of the hall was painted]] in 1581 with vivid [[emblem|emblems]], ornament copied from the prints of [[Cornelis Bos]], and comic figures copied from a French illustrated book [[Richard Breton|Richard Breton's]] ''Songes drôlatiques de Pantagruel''. The ceiling was removed and installed in [[Merchiston Tower]] for [[Edinburgh Napier University|Napier Technical College]] in 1964.<ref>Michael Bath, ''Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland'' (Edinburgh, 2003), pp. 236-8.</ref>
She died on 26 October 1594.<ref>[[David Laing (antiquary)|David Laing]], ''Correspondence of Sir Robert Kerr, first Earl of Ancram, and his son William, first Earl of Lothian'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1875), table III.</ref>
==Marriages and children==
She married [[Mark Kerr (abbot)|Mark Kerr]], [[Abbot of Newbattle|Commendator]] of [[Newbattle Abbey|Newbattle]]. In [[Early Modern Scotland|early modern Scotland]] married [[Women in early modern Scotland|women]] did not change their surnames.<ref>Jenny Wormald, ''Court, Kirk, and Community'' (London, 1981), p. 30.</ref>
Their children included:
* [[Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian]];
* Andrew Kerr of Fenton
* George Kerr, who was involved in the "[[Spanish blanks]]" controversy
* William Kerr
* Catherine Kerr, who married William Maxwell, [[Lord Herries of Terregles|Lord Herries]].
==External links==
* [https://ift.tt/2EouPN0 Portrait called Helen Leslie, National Galleries of Scotland]
==References==
[[Category:People from Fife]]
[[Category:16th-century Scottish women]]
[[Category:1520 births]]
[[Category:1594 deaths]]
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