Isobel Hoppar

Isobel Hoppar or Hopper, (born c.1490) Scottish landowner and governess of Margaret Douglas. She was said to have been a powerful political figure in Scotland during the youth of King James V until 1528, her wealth and influence attracted misogynous comment from her faction's enemies.

Isobel Hoppar was the daughter of an Edinburgh merchant Richard Hoppar. Katrine Hoppar who married Andrew Moubray of Moubray House in Edinburgh was probably her niece. The family connections are shown in a 1510 transaction when Katrine Hoppar's father William Hoppar, Isobel's husband John Murray of Barony and the royal secretary Adam Otterburn husband of Eufamia Moubray were witnesses together.

Richard Hoppar exported some goods to Andrew Halyburton at Middelburg in Zeeland. One of Andrew Halyburton's ledgers survives. It mentions Isobel's brother, William Hoppar, as Richard's agent and Halyburton's 'gossop' (colleague and relative) in Antwerp and Bery, perhaps Bergen op Zoom. In September 1498 Richard sent wool in a ship belonging to Andrew Barton. Barton returned with silverware for Richard Hoppar, destined for Thomas Tod the Provost of Edinburgh, the Archdean of Aberdeen, and 'our Warden.' The case for the silver was paid for by William Hoppar.

'Dik Hoppar' also sold fur and imported velvet to James IV of Scotland. In January 1505, Richard handed a newly built house on the north side of the Royal Mile to his other son, Master Henry Hoppar. Richard Hoppar also had a house on the west side of St Mary's Wynd, which was occupied by William Hoppar in 1507, and a part was inherited by his daughter Katrine in 1530.

Richard Hoppar's own dwelling was a 'great mansion.' The house on the north side of the Royal Mile, behind the 'foreland' on the street front, descending towards the Nor' Loch or Trinity College Kirk passage, was described in 1508 as having hall, chamber and kitchen with lofts and a straight stair running north (called a gallery), over three cellars. The plan was similar to the surviving Moubray House. The tenement building plot had belonged to Patrick Frog.

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