Mariotta Haliburton

Mariotta or Maryon or Marion Haliburton, Lady Home (circa 1500–circa 1563) was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman. She varied the spelling of her forename between Mariotta, Marion, and Mary. She is remembered for her defence and negotiation of the surrender of Hume Castle after the Battle of Pinkie when the castle was surrounded by an English army. Afterwards she continued to struggle for the rights of her people at the village of Hume in the Scottish Borders, writing both to the English commander and the Scottish leader.[1]

  1. ^ Maureen Meikle, in Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall & Siân Reynolds: The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the Earliest Times to 2004 (Edinburgh, 2018), p. 183.