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de Lastalricke, de Lasalrics, de Lascalrickes, de Lastakic, de Lastakyks, de Lastalrichs, de Lestalrchs, de Lestalriks, de Lestalrikes, de Lastalryks, de Lascalerikes, de Lascalrics.
de Lestalric.
That's just some of the spellings of de Lestalric (Restalrig) I've come across.

As a placename, Lastalric, Lastalrik, Lastalrich, Lastalrig, Lestalryk/rich/rig can be found. As can versions starting with R after the 15th century, e.g. Restarycke, Restalrigh, e.g. as written in the Petworth Map of the 1560 seige. and Blaeu's atlas of 1654

The accepted toponymy for Restalrig is that it's an evolution of Lestalric, from Lestal Hrycg, which in a northern dialect of Old English would be "ridge of the miry land"; lestal / laystall being a mire or bog and hrycg a ridge (try saying it as if you were choking)

So that fancy pants Norman knight Sir Peter de Lestalric, invited by King David I to take on the lands as Baron, can be thought of as Sir Peter de Boggy Ridge.

I made a list of the Barons of Restalrig once, so here goes. Starting off, Peter de Lestalric, 1084-1153, 1st Baron of Restalrig. A Norman knight, invited to Scotland by King David I.

His son Edward de Lestalric, b.?-1183, 2nd Baron of Restalrig
His grandson Sir Thomas (I) de Lestalric, 1182 – 1214, 3rd Baron of Restalrig and Sheriff of Edinburgh (from this point on, the Baron of Restalrig was also the Sheriff of Edinburgh).

His great grandson Sir John (I) de Lestalric, b.?-1260, 4th Baron of Restalrig.
His great, great grandson Sir John (II) de Lestalric, b.?-1285, 5th Baron of Restalrig.
His great, great, great grandson Symon de Lestalric, b.?-1293, 6th Baron of Restalrig.

His great, great, great, great grandson Thomas (II) de Lestalric, b.? – 1316, 7th Baron of Restalrig.
And lastly his great, great, great, great, great grandson Sir John (III) de Lestalric , b.? – 1385, 8th Baron of Restalrig and the last of the de Lestalrics.

In 1385 on Sir John’s death he had no male heir and so the Barony passed by the marriage of his daughter Katherine to Robert Logan of Grugar (Gogar). Their son, Robert, takes the Barony, starting a long association of Robert Logans with Restalrig that spanned 4 centuries.

So, off we go with the Logans.
Sir Robert (I) Logan of Grugar & Restalrig (b.?- 1439), 9th Baron of Restalrig. Married Katherine Stewart, daughter of King Robert II (The Steward) of Scotland

His grandson, John (I) Logan (1420- 1450) , 10th Baron of Restalrig.
His great grandson Robert (II) Logan (1445 – 1498), 11th Baron.
His great, great grandson Sir John (II) Logan (1465 – 1513), 12th Baron. Killed at the Battle of Flodden with James IV of Scotland

His great, great, great grandson Sir Robert (III) Logan (1503-1543), 14th Baron.
His great, great, great, great grandson Sir Robert (IV) Logan (1533-1561), 15th Baron. Initially a protestant loyalist during the Scottish Reformation he wavered to the side of Mary of Guise

And the last Logan of Restalrig, his great, great, great, great, great grandson Sir Robert (V) Logan (1555-1606), 16th and last Baron. Loyal to the Stuarts, Queen Mary (“of Scots”) and her son James VI of Scotland

Robert V, "ane godles, drunkin, deboshit man" squandered his fortune, and sold much of the once extensive Logan lands to cover his debts, causing the Barony of Restalrig to be split between three lairds and died chidless, without an heir.

Robert V was posthumously implicated in the Gowrie House Affair, a supposed plot against James VI. His body was exhumed and subject to a show trial. His corpse was unable to defend itself and found guilty. The remaining lands and titles of the Logans were forfeit to the crown.

For good measure, Logan's accuser (who may well have made the whole thing up), George Sprott, was also hanged for having withheld forewarning of an attempt on the King's life.

And so the House of Logan had fell from grace. They had a good innings though, 4 centuries as Barons of Restalrig and Sheriff's of Edinburgh, generally coming down on the right side of whomever was in charge of the Scottish Crown (even if they paid with their lives at Flodden)

The Logans were also staunch allies of The Bruce. Robert Logan and his brother William were at the side of Sir James Douglas in 1330 at the battle of Teba when the latter famously hurled Bruce's heart in a silver casket into the battle before fighting to the death.

It is for this reason that both the Douglasses and the Logans have a red heart on their coat of arms.

Despite consistently being in the royal good books for so long, the house of Logan and the Barony began to fall into decline and ill repute under the penultimate and fourth Robert Logan (Grandson of Sir John Logan who fell at Flodden alongside James IV).

the 4th Robert swithered during the Scottish Reformation and ultimately got it wrong. He initially sided with the protestant Lords of the Congregation against the regency of the catholic Mary of Guise; wife of the late King James V and mother of Queen Mary I (of Scots).

Despite taking up arms and appearing on the field at Cupar Muir opposing Mary's French-backed forces, he later switched his allegiance, an unusual choice and one that put him out of step with much of the Scottish nobility.

Mary of Guise was attempting to rule Scotland from a power base in Leith and it was the Robert the 4th that persuaded the town to allow Mary's French forces to occupy and garrison the it without bloodshed, an occupation that would last 12 years.

Regent Mary compensated her allies in Leith who were displaced by the fortification of the town and bought the Logan lands of South Leith in 1555 (coincidentally, raising it into a Burgh, which many in Leith were overjoyed with at the time if it meant freedom from Edinburgh).

In 1560, the Lords of the Congregation and an English-backed protestant army encamped at Restalrig village to lay siege to Leith. The council of Edinburgh contributed 1,000 Pounds Scots to pay for the upkeep of 400 men of this army to assist in the pacification of Leith.

Mary died shortly thereafter that same year and from then on it was downhill for those opposing the reformers, including the Robert the Fourth who died the following year. The rot that had started with him became terminal under his son, the fifth and last Robert

The Logans, through their loyalty to Leith independence, had stirred up considerable ill feeling from Edinburgh and their seat at Lochend Castle was apparently sacked in 1586 by the Provost of Edinburgh, William Little of Liberton, in a disagreement about access across the Barony

Financial problems as a result of the Robert's lifestyle meant he began selling off the family lands to settle his debt. In 1604, the Barony of Restalrig was carved up, with the lands of Craigentinny being partitioned into one and estate bought by the Nisbet family of Edinburgh

The lands of the repaired Lochend Castle went to the Elphingstone family; the Lords Balmerino. They were to pay 18,000 Merks (Scots property transactions of this time were denominated in Merks, a silver coin worth 2/3 of a Pound Scots) but it seems they never ended up paying

The remainder of the lands of the Barony went to William Purvis of Abbeyhill. The new ruling trinity of Restalrig, the Nisbets, the Lords Balmerino and the Purvis' were all coincidentally Stewart loyalists.

Robert the Last died landless, but with cash still in the bank. Interestingly, his will left "Ane schip with hir armaments in Eyemouth, estimat to the sowme of 500 merkis"; This suggested that he may have been planning to flee the country should he have needed to.

When James VI made forfeit of the titles that Robert had not managed to squander before his death, the family arms were cancelled and stricken from the register. The Logans had given to the Stewarts and the Stewarts had taken away.