Katherine Bellenden

[1] Katherine married Adam Hopper (d. 1529)[2] in 1527 receiving a royal gift of £300 as a dowry or "tochter" in thanks for her mother's service,[3] then Francis Bothwell, who were both merchants and Provosts of Edinburgh.

[4] Her third husband was Oliver Sinclair, the King's favourite, who was reputed to have caused the Scottish defeat at the battle of Solway Moss.

[8] In July 1537 Katherine, described as "Master Francis Bothuilis wyfe" delivered 10 ells of purple velvet for use at the funeral of the Queen, Madeleine of Valois.

[12] In the 1590s, Elizabeth Gibb, a lady in waiting, had a similar role sewing and embroidering shirts and ruffs and making hats for Anne of Denmark and James VI.

[14] In 1541, Oliver and Katherine with their kinsfolk and their royal wardrobe colleagues, John Tennent and his wife the royal laundress, Mause Acheson, made a contract "mortifyng" property, including the rents of part of a property on Edinburgh's Netherbow to the west of Moubray House for priests to say Mass for their souls in St Giles, Edinburgh.

A ship they had invested in had been impounded by Guise's lawyer Thomas McCalzean for sums of money they owed for lands in Orkney and Shetland.