Isabel Bras Williamson | |
Birth Name: | Isabel Bras |
Birth Date: | c.1430 |
Death Date: | c.1493 |
Nationality: | Scottish |
Occupation: | merchant |
Isabel Bras Williamson (–), was a Scottish merchant.
She was born as Isabel Bras and married the Edinburgh merchant Thomas Williamson.[1] After his death she took responsibility for the business, particularly trading with Flanders.[2]
She was a supplier of the royal court, traded in cloth with Europe and had an important part in the Scottish textile industry.[2]
She later acquired land at Mortonhall and founded a chaplaincy in 1489 at the alter of St. Lawrence in St. Giles, Edinburgh.[3]