Holders of the office of Lord Chamberlain of

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are known from about 1124. It was ranked by King Malcolm as the third great Officer of State, called ''Camerarius Domini Regis'', and had a salary of £200 per annum allotted to him. He anciently collected the revenues of the Crown, at least before Scotland had a Treasurer, of which office there is no vestige until the restoration of King James I when he disbursed the money necessary for the maintenance of the King's Household. The Great Chamberlain had jurisdiction for judging of all crimes committed within burgh, and of the crime of forestalling; and was in effect Justice-General over the burghs, and held Chamberlain-ayrs every year for that purpose; the form whereof is set down in ''Iter Camerarii'', the Chamberlain-ayr. He was a supreme judge and his Decrees could not be questioned by any inferior judicatory. His sentences were to be put into execution by the baillies of burghs. He also settled the prices of provisions within burghs, and the fees of the workmen in the Mint. The Chamberlain lost his financial functions after 1425 to the

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. The position was vacant from 1558 to 1565 and again from 1569. It was occupied in 1580 for the cousin of James I,

Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Earl of Lennox, 6th Seigneur d'Aubigny (26 May 1583) of the Château d'Aubigny at Aubigny-sur-Nère in the ancient Provinces of France, province of Berry, France, Berry, France, was a Catholic French nob ...

, whose appearance as a

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in 1581 is attributable to his personal standing with the king rather than his office. But following the Raid of Ruthven, 24 August 1582, the Great Chamberlain lost his supervision of the

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s. Thereafter the office was held by successive Dukes of Lennox (heritably from 1603) until resigned to the Crown ''ad perpetuam remanentiam'' by the Duke of Richmond and Lennox in 1703, since which time no Great Chamberlain has been appointed. In 1711 a form of the office was revived in a Commission of Chamberlainry and Trade, which lapsed on the death of Queen Anne.

Lord Chamberlains

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David I of Scotland David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Scottish Gaelic, Modern Gaelic: ''Daibhidh I mac haoilChaluim''; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was David I as Prince of the Cumbrians, Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 112 ...

() * Edmund, witnessed a charter granting Annandale to Robert de Brus in 1124. * 1130-1153: Herbert ;

Malcolm IV of Scotland Malcolm IV (; ), nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" (between 23 April and 24 May 1141 – 9 December 1165) was King of Scotland from 1153 until his death. He was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria (died 1152) and Ada de War ...

() * 1153-1160: Herbert * 1160-1165: Nicolaus, later Lord Chancellor ;

William the Lion William the Lion (), sometimes styled William I (; ) and also known by the nickname ; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10. ( 1142 – 4 December 1214), reigned as King of Alba from 1165 to 1214. His almost 49 ...

() * 1165-1189: Walter de Berkeley of Redcastle * 1205-14: Philip de Valognes ; Alexander II of Scotland () * 1214-19: William de Valognes * Hugo de Giffard, Lord of Yester and Morham * John de Melville * 1216: Henry de Balliol (d. 1246) * 1228: David de Bernham (later

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) * 1231-41: Sir John de Maccuswel (or Maxwell) ;

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() * c.1250/1: Sir Robert de Meyners * 1252-1255: William, Earl of Mar * 1255-1257: David de Lindsay of Barnweill and Byres * 1257-60: Aylmer de Maxwell lord of Caerlaverock, Sheriff of Dumfries, son of Sir John Maxwell. * 1260: William, Earl of Mar, again * 1267: Sir Reginald Cheyne * 1269: Sir Thomas Randolph, father of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray, * 1278: John de Lindsay ; Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland (First Interregnum)(1286-1292) * 1287-1292: Alexander de Baliol ; John Balliol () * 1292-1296: Alexander de Baliol ; Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland (Second Interregnum) (1296-1306) *1297-1307: John Sandale ;

Robert the Bruce Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (), was King of Scots from 1306 until his death in 1329. Robert led Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against Kingdom of Eng ...

() * 1307: Eustace de Cotesbache * 1319: William de Lindsay * 1325: Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie (who married Mary, the King's sister) ;

David II of Scotland David II (5 March 1324 – 22 February 1371) was King of Scotland from 1329 until his death in 1371. Upon the death of his father, Robert the Bruce, David succeeded to the throne at the age of five and was crowned at Scone in November 1331, be ...

() * 1329: John Baptista * 1327-1329: Robert de Peebles * 1329-1333: Reginald de Mure * 1333: Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood and The Bass (d. 1337) (also Justiciar of Scotia) * 1334: William Bullock, under Edward Balliol * 1334-1340: Reginald de Mure * 1341-1342: William Bullock, again * 1343-1346: John de Roxburgh * c.1350-1357: Sir Robert de Erskine * 1357-1358: Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus * 1358-1359: Thomas, Earl of Mar * 1359-1363: Walter Fleming of Biggar * c1363-1364: Sir Robert de Erskine, again * 1364-1371: Walter of Biggar, again ;

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() * 1371-1376: Walter of Biggar, again * 1376: Michael de Monymusk,

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* 1377-1382: Sir John Lyon * 1382: Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife ;

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() ;

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() * 1424-1448: Sir John Forrester of Corstorphine, Knt. ;

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() * 1448-1450: James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston * 1450-1454: James Crichton, 2nd Lord Crichton and Earl of Moray * 1454-1467: James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston ;

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() * 1467: Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd * 1477: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan * 1483: David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford ;

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() * 1488: Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home * 1509: Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home ;

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() * 1516: Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming (d. 1547 at

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) ;

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() * 1547:

James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming (approx 1534–18 December 1558) was Lord Chamberlain of Scotland. His death in France after making arrangements for the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots was regarded as suspicious by contemporaries. Life He was ...

(d. 1558) ;

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() * 1565: John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming (d. 1572)Cracrofts Peerage
* 1581:

* 1594: Ludovick (or Louis) Stewart, Duke of Lennox (made heritable Chamberlains).

References

* ''The Staggering State of the Scots' Statesmen'', by Sir John Scot of Scotstarvet, Director of Chancery, Edinburgh, 1754, pps: 137-8

* ''The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland'', edited by George Burnett (officer of arms), George Burnett,

Lord Lyon King of Arms The Right Honourable the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the head of Lyon Court, is the most junior of the Great Officer of State, Great Officers of State in Scotland and is the Scotland, Scottish official with responsibility for regulating heraldry i ...

, vol.II, 1359–1379, Edinburgh, 1878, in the appendix to the Preface i
a list of Chamberlains of Scotland
to 1406 only. See also p.cxxiii

* ''A History of the House of Douglas'', by

James Balfour Paul Sir James Balfour Paul (16 November 1846 – 15 September 1931) was the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the officer responsible for heraldry in Scotland, from 1890 until the end of 1926. Life James Balfour Paul was educated at Royal High School, Edinbur ...

Vol II p. 3, London 1902. {{Authority control Members of the Privy Council of Scotland Lists of office-holders in Scotland Positions within the British Royal Household Political office-holders in Scotland