# Marie MacLeod

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'''Marie MacLeod''' was a Scottish aristocrat at the court of [Mary, Queen of Scots](/source/Mary%2C_Queen_of_Scots).<ref>[Rosalind K. Marshall](/source/Rosalind_K._Marshall), ''Queen Mary's Women: Female Relatives, Servants, Friends and Enemies of Mary Queen of Scots'' (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2006), p. 171.</ref>
[[File:St clements church rodel 100609 - 02.jpg|thumb|right|The tomb of Marie's grandfather at [St Clement's Church, Rodel](/source/St_Clement's_Church%2C_Rodel)]]
Marie MacLeod was the daughter and heir of William MacLeod of [Harris](/source/Harris%2C_Outer_Hebrides), and a granddaughter of [Alasdair Crotach MacLeod](/source/Alasdair_Crotach_MacLeod). Her name was sometimes spelled "McCloyde" or "McCloid", or "Marie Clawde". She is regarded as a Chief of the [Clan McLeod](/source/Clan_McLeod).

After her father died, in 1562 Queen Mary sent orders to Kenyeouth MacKenzie of [Kintail](/source/Kintail) that he should bring Marie MacLeod to her in Edinburgh. Another man, James McConeill, claimed her custody, but MacKenzie brought her to the queen. Marie joined the queen's household as a lady of her chamber.<ref>John Hill Burton, ''Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1545-1569'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 207.</ref>

On Christmas Eve 1562, Queen Mary bought clothes for Marie MacLeod, including black velvet for a riding hood and veil, and silk chamlet for a petticoat, bodice, and sleeves.<ref>[James Balfour Paul](/source/James_Balfour_Paul), ''Accounts of the Treasurer, 1559-1566'' (Edinburgh, 1916), p. 227.</ref> In February 1563 she was a given a length of plaiding and a [farthingale](/source/farthingale).<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer, 1559-1566'' (Edinburgh, 1916), p. 246.</ref> In March 1565, Queen Mary ordered an outfit for Marie made of scarlet stemming for a cloak and a skirt front, known as a "devanter", possibly a [riding costume](/source/safeguard_(costume)).<ref>John M. Gilbert, ''Elite Hunting Culture and Mary, Queen of Scots'' (Boydell, 2024), p. 7.</ref> Marie and another young woman, Margaret Fame, were bought clothes made of black stemming as maidens in the queen's chamber and were provided with sheets and a mattress to sleep near the queen.<ref>James Balfour Paul, ''Accounts of the Treasurer, 1559-1566'' (Edinburgh, 1916), pp. 249, 349-350, 358-359.</ref> Stemming was a woollen cloth.<ref>[https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/stemming_n Stemming,  Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue]</ref>

== Lands of Trotternish ==
According to the lawyer and exchequer official [John Skene](/source/John_Skene%2C_Lord_Curriehill), who made a note of crown lands in 1595, the [Lords of Session](/source/Senator_of_the_College_of_Justice) transferred the lands of [Trotternish](/source/Trotternish), [Uist](/source/North_Uist), and [Sleat](/source/Sleat) from Marie Macleod to the crown. [James V](/source/James_V) had granted these lands to her grandfather Alasdair Crotach MacLeod in November 1542.<ref>[Athol Murray](/source/Athol_Murray), "Sir John Skene and the exchequer, 1594-1612', ''Stair Society Miscellany'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1971), p. 139: [David Hay Fleming](/source/David_Hay_Fleming), ''Register of the Privy Seal, 1529–1542'', 2 (Edinburgh, 1921), p. 757 no. 4995.</ref>

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