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1575 In Scotland
Events from 1575 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Incumbents * Monarch – James VI * Regent Morton Events * 5 March – Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray returns the Great H of Scotland to Regent Morton. * 7 July – Raid of the Redeswire, near Carter Bar, a border incident. Births * 12 August – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn * David Calderwood, historian, at Dalkeith * William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn Deaths * 22 January – James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault * June – Marion Ogilvy at Melgund Castle.Margaret H. B. Sanderson, ''Mary Stewart's People'' (Edinburgh: James Thin, 1987), p. 19. * 11 November – Alexander Gordon (bishop of Galloway) * Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (died 1575) was a Scottish nobleman and Warden of the Eastern March. Early life Alexander Home was the son of George Home, 4th Lord Home and Mariotta Haliburton. He became Lord Home on the death of his father who ... References {{Years in Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Calderwood
David Calderwood (157529 October 1650) was a Scottish minister of religion and historian. Calderwood was banished for his nonconformity. He found a home in the Low Countries, where he wrote his great work, the ''Altare Damascenum'' which was an attack on Anglican episcopacy. He was present at the Glasgow Assembly in 1638, and saw episcopacy and the high church liturgy swept away from the Church of Scotland. He died at Jedburgh, a fugitive from his parish of Pencaitland; and buried in the churchyard of Crailing, where the first years of his ministry were spent. Royal conflict David Calderwood was born at Dalkeith, Midlothian, and educated at the college of Edinburgh. In 1604 he was ordained minister of Crailing in Roxburghshire. It was the time when King James was attempting to introduce prelacy into the Church of Scotland, and Calderwood was one of the sturdiest opponents of the royal scheme. In 1608, when James Law, bishop of Orkney, came to Jedburgh, ordered a presbytery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gordon (bishop Of Galloway)
Alexander Gordon ( – 11 November 1575) was a 16th-century Scottish churchman who was successively Archbishop of Glasgow, Titular Archbishop of Athens, Bishop of the Isles and Bishop of Galloway. Biography His father was John Gordon, Lord Gordon and his mother was Margaret Stewart, an illegitimate daughter of James IV of Scotland and Margaret Drummond. He was the brother of George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, the ex-Chancellor of Scotland. He acquired his first ecclesiastic appointment, as administrator of Caithness, despite competition with Robert Stewart, brother of the Earl of Lennox. He was provided and consecrated to the archdiocese of Glasgow in the year 1550. This see was resigned to the pope in 1551, and he was given a pension and the title archbishop of Athens ''in partibus'', along with the ''commendam'' of Inchaffray. In 1553, he was translated to the bishopric of the Isles (''Sodor'') at Iona. In 1559, after the death of the bishop of Galloway, Alexander was tra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melgund Castle
Melgund Castle, lying around due east of Aberlemno in Angus, Scotland, is a 16th-century L-plan castle which has been partially restored as a private residence. It was designated as a scheduled monument in 1971. History The land was initially held by the Cramonds, but by 1525 it was in the hands of Patrick Annand, whose daughter Janet passed it onto her husband, James Bethune, son of John Bethune, 6th of Balfour, and elder brother of Cardinal David Bethune. James had no children with Janet and, when he died in 1542, the estate was sold to David, who made it one of the many homes for his mistress Marion Ogilvy and their growing family. He started improving the castle and in 1543, he bought timber for the building works from William Mayne, a merchant in St Andrews, and had it shipped to Arbroath. After his assassination in 1546, Melgund passed to his eldest son, David Bethune, who may have made further improvements. It was much later passed on by marriage to the Earls of Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marion Ogilvy
Marion Ogilvy (c. 1495–1575) was the mistress of Cardinal David Beaton, an advisor of James V of Scotland. Early life Marion Ogilvy was the younger daughter of Sir James Ogilvy of Lintrathen. Sir James, a diplomat, was created Lord Ogilvy of Airlie by James IV of Scotland in 1491. Her mother was Janet Lyle (d. 1525), Airlie's 4th wife, and possibly a daughter of Robert, 2nd Lord Lyle, of Renfrewshire, another of the King's diplomats. As a child she lived at Airlie Castle and her family's lodging in Arbroath. She had an older sister, Janet Ogilvy, and a much older half-brother, John Ogilvy, who became the 2nd Lord Ogilvy. Her father had made only partial provision for her before his death, a marriage contract by which the heir of Gordon of Midmar Castle, Midmar would marry her elder sister Janet or, on her death, Marion. Janet appears to have died young but the contract was not implemented. In 1525 Marion as yet unmarried, served as executrix of her mother's estate. Life with D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hamilton, Duke Of Châtellerault
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Châtellerault, 2nd Earl of Arran ( – 22 January 1575), was a Scottish nobleman and Regent of Scotland during the minority of Mary, Queen of Scots from 1543 to 1554. At first pro- English and Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1543 and supported a pro- French policy. He reluctantly agreed to Mary's marriage to Francis, eldest son of King Henry II of France, and was rewarded by Henry by being made Duke of Châtellerault in 1549. During the Scottish Reformation, he joined the Protestant Lords of the Congregation to oppose the regency of Mary of Guise. Family James Hamilton was born about 1519 in Hamilton in Lanarkshire. He was the eldest legitimate son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran by his second wife, Janet Beaton (or Bethune). His paternal grandmother, Mary, was the eldest daughter of King James II. His father's family descended from Walter FitzGilbert, the founder of the House of Hamilton, who had received the barony of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cunningham, 8th Earl Of Glencairn
William Cunningham, 8th Earl of Glencairn (1575–1630) was a Scottish politician. The son of James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn by his spouse Margaret (d. January 1610), daughter of Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy and Katherine Ruthven. His sisters included Lady Ann Cunningham and Margaret Cunningham (autobiographer). William succeeded his father in 1630 but enjoyed the earldom only for a short time, dying himself in October that year. Finlaystone House and estate in Inverclyde was the seat of the Earl of Glencairn and chief of clan Cunningham from 1405 to 1796. Marriage and family He married Janet Kerr, daughter of Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian, by his wife Margaret Maxwell, daughter of John Maxwell, Lord Herries of Terregles. They had three sons and five daughters, including: * William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn * Colonel Robert Cunningham, who was an usher to King Charles II * Alexander Cunningham * Elizabeth Cunningham, who married Sir Ludovic Stewart of Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dalkeith
Dalkeith ( ; , ) is a town in Midlothian, Scotland, on the River Esk. It was granted a burgh of barony in 1401 and a burgh of regality in 1541. The settlement of Dalkeith grew southwestwards from its 12th-century castle (now Dalkeith Palace). Dalkeith has a population of 12,342 people according to the 2011 census. The town is divided into four distinct areas: Dalkeith proper with its town centre and historic core; Eskbank (considered to be the well-heeled neighbourhood of Dalkeith with many large Victorian and newer houses) to its west; Woodburn (primarily a working class council estate with pockets of new housing developments) to its east; and Newbattle (a semi-rural village with its abbey) to the south. Dalkeith is the main administrative centre for Midlothian. It is twinned with Jarnac, France. In 2004, Midlothian Council re-paved Jarnac Court in honour of Dalkeith and Jarnac's long standing link. On the north-eastern edge of Dalkeith at Woodburn is the Dalkeith Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hamilton, 1st Earl Of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn PC (S) (1575–1618), was a Scottish diplomat for James VI and an undertaker (a term for a British colonist) in the Plantation of Ulster in the north of Ireland. Birth and origins James was born on 12 August 1575, probably at Paisley, Scotland, the eldest son of Claud Hamilton and his wife Margaret Seton. At that time his father was only a younger brother of the 3rd Earl of Arran, but he would on 24 July 1587 be created Lord Paisley. His paternal grandfather was the 2nd Earl of Arran in the Peerage of Scotland and the Duke of Châtellerault in the Kingdom of France. His father's family descended from Walter FitzGilbert, the founder of the House of Hamilton, who had received the barony of Cadzow from Robert the Bruce. James's mother was a daughter of the 7th Lord Seton. His parents had married in 1574 at Niddry Castle, West Lothian, Scotland. Both sides of the family were Scottish, Catholic, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Scotland
The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a Anglo-Scottish border, land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English. Following the annexation of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles from Norway in 1266 and 1472 respectively, and the capture of Berwick upon Tweed, Berwick by England in 1482, the territory of the Kingdom of Scotland corresponded to that of modern-day Scotland, bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel (British Isles), North Channel and Irish Sea to the southwest. In 1603, James VI of Scotland became King of England, joini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carter Bar
__NOTOC__ Carter Bar is a pass in the Cheviot Hills, on the Anglo-Scottish border. It lies north-east of Carter Fell at the head of Redesdale, and is crossed by the A68 road as it runs north towards Jedburgh and Teviotdale. The name "Carter Bar" is relatively modern, and refers to a toll-gate that once stood here. Historically, the pass was known as the Redeswire, from the Scots word ''swire'' meaning "col" or "pass". The Redeswire Fray, the last skirmish between England and Scotland, was fought here in 1575. History Carter Bar was the location of the "truce days", at which the wardens of the English and Scottish marches would meet to dispense cross-border justice. Truce days were also held at Carlisle and Berwick-upon-Tweed. In 1575, Carter Bar was the scene of the Raid of the Redeswire, one of the last large-scale battles between the English and the Scots. In the 19th century a toll road was constructed from Carter Bar to the market town of Hawick, necessitating the bui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raid Of The Redeswire
The Raid of the Redeswire, also known as the Redeswire Fray, was a border skirmish between England and Scotland on 7 July 1575 which took place at Carter Bar, the Cheviot pass which enters Redesdale. The skirmish was between (on the English side) the English Warden of the Middle Marches, Sir John Forster, with Sir George Heron, Keeper of Redesdale, Keeper of Liddesdale and Scottish Warden and (on the Scottish side) Sir John Carmichael, the Lord Warden of the Marches, with George Douglas of Bonjedworth. It was the last battle between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland. Opposing forces After the Scottish defeat at Pinkie in 1547, no Anglo-Scottish battle had occurred until this. Sir John Carmichael met Sir John Forster at a hill called Red Swire ("Redeswire" in Scottish English) in Carter Bar for a regularly scheduled "Truce Day" wherein the two discussed matters that came up between their two regions. Both men were accompanied by a number of armed guards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
