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Katherine Campbell, Countess Of Crawford
Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford born Katherine Campbell ( – 1578) was a Scottish noblewoman. She married twice and controlled a substantial inheritance. Life Her parents were Muriel (born Calde) and Sir John Campbell, 1st of Cawdor. She had been a companion to Mary of Guise. Her first husband was James Ogilvy who she married on 1 October 1539. They would have five children including James Ogilvy who would become the 5th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie when her husband died at the Battle of Pinkie near Musselburgh in 1547. During that battle the Scots were defeated by an English army. She had the care of her children and she was able to act to their benefit. Her second husband was David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford. He had been married before to Janet Gray, daughter of Patrick Gray, Master of Gray, and Annabella Forbes. They married before 12 November 1550. David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford died at Invermark Castle in 1558. Thereafter Katherine Campbell lived at Edzell Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ogilvy (died 1547)
James Robert Bruce Ogilvy (born 29 February 1964) is a British landscape designer, and the founder and editor of '' Luxury Briefing''. He is a relative of the British royal family as the elder child and only son of Sir Angus Ogilvy and Princess Alexandra of Kent. His mother was a first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, both being granddaughters of King George V. As a result, he is a second cousin of King Charles III and 58th in the line to the British throne. Early life and family Ogilvy was born in Thatched House Lodge, Richmond Park, Surrey. He was the first of four children born to royalty within a space of nine weeks in 1964, the others being Prince Edward, Lady Helen Windsor and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones. Ogilvy was baptised by Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Queen Elizabeth II among his seven godparents. When he was born, he was 13th in line to the British throne. As of June 2023, he is 58th. Education and professional life His education began in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Erskine Of Dun
John Erskine of Dun (1509–1591) was a Scottish religious reformer. Biography The son of Sir John Erskine, Laird of Dun, he was educated at King's College, University of Aberdeen. At the age of twenty-one Erskine was the cause — probably by accident — of a priest's death, and was forced to go abroad, where he came under the influence of the new learning. It was through him that Greek was first taught in Scotland by Pierre de Marsilliers, whom he brought to live at Montrose. This was a factor in the progress of the Reformation. Erskine was also drawn towards the new faith, being a close friend of George Wishart, the reformer, from whose fate he was saved by his wealth and influence, and of John Knox, who advised him to discountenance the mass openly. Erskine was a supporter of Mary of Guise during the war of the Rough Wooing and she wrote to him in March 1548 to thank him for his support of Mary, Queen of Scots, and recommended him to Henri II of France. In August 1549 Er ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Of Atholl
The Mormaer or Earl of Atholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province of Atholl (''Ath Fodhla''), now in northern Perthshire. Atholl is a special Mormaerdom, because a King of Atholl is reported from the Pictish period. The only other two Pictish kingdoms to be known from contemporary sources are Fortriu and Circinn. Indeed, the early 13th century document known to modern scholars as the ''de Situ Albanie'' repeats the claim that Atholl was an ancient Pictish kingdom. In the 11th century, the famous Crínán of Dunkeld may have performed the role of Mormaer. Royal connections continued with Máel Muire, who was the son of King Donnchad I, and the younger brother of Máel Coluim III mac Donnchada. Matad was perhaps the most famous of the Mormaers, fathering Harald Maddadsson, a notorious rebel of the Scottish King and perhaps the first Gael to rule Orkney as Earl of Orkney. The line of Máel Muire and Crínán came to an e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Innermeath
Lord Innermeath is an extinct title in the Peerage of Scotland created c. 1471 for Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Innermeath. Stewart had previously been Lord of Lorne, but resigned that title - which came with substantial comital power - under pressure from James III; James wished to weaken the remaining power of the Black Douglases, who had been allies of Walter's uncle, The Black Knight of Lorn. Walter had in fact held the Lordship of Lorne for only a few days, following the murder of his brother, the former Lord of Lorne. The creation of ''Lord Innermeath'' was designed as immediate compensation for Walter's loss of Lorne; he received it on the same day that Lorne was resigned. The title - ''Innermeath'' - refers to the family home of the Stewart Lords of Lorn - Innermeath (now ''Invermay''). The Lordship of Lorn was subsequently awarded to Colin Campbell, husband of Walter's niece (Isabel Stewart), who became Earl of Argyll soon after. The Lords of Innermeath claimed rights to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stewart, 1st Earl Of Atholl (1566–1603)
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (1566-1603) was a Scottish landowner. John Stewart was sixth Lord Innermeath and made Earl of Atholl in 1596. His parents were James Stewart, 5th Lord Innermeath and Helen Ogilvy, a daughter of James Ogilvy, Lord Airlie, and Helen Sinclair. His uncle was the court poet, John Stewart of Baldynneis. In March 1592 his brother Robert Stewart, who had been a servant of the murdered Earl of Moray, stole the a trunk of money belonging to the Earl of Huntly and twice tried to assassinate him by entering his house in disguise armed with a pistol. He married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford and Katherine Campbell. Earl of Atholl In March 1596, he married, secondly, Marie Ruthven, the widow of John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl, and a friend of Anne of Denmark. She was a daughter of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie and Dorothea Stewart. He was newly created Earl of Atholl at Holyrood Palace on 25 March, after Marie Ruth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Drummond, 3rd Lord Drummond
Patrick Drummond, 3rd Lord Drummond (1550–1600) was a Scottish landowner. Patrick was the son of David Drummond, 2nd Lord Drummond and Lilias Ruthven (d. 1579), daughter of William Ruthven, 2nd Lord Ruthven and Janet Halyburton, Lady Dirleton. The English commander in Scotland during the Marian Civil War, William Drury, noted Drummond's activities in April 1572. There was a meeting of nobles in Perth, said to be to discuss the affairs of the young newly married Lord Drummond and his mother, Lilias Ruthven, Lady Drummond. Drury heard the Lords at Perth also intended to band together in a faction, but a quarrel between the Earl of Argyll and Atholl ended this. Lord Drummond went to France and returned in February 1583. Family He married Elisabeth Lindsay (d. 1585), daughter of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford and Katherine Campbell. Their children included: * James Drummond, 4th Lord Drummond and 1st Earl of Perth. He accompanied the Earl of Nottingham to Spain in 1604. * J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Lindsay Of Balgavie
Sir Walter Lindsay of Balgavie (died 25 October 1605) was a Scottish Roman Catholic intriguer. Early life He was the third son of Katherine Campbell, Countess of Crawford and David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford. Katherine was the daughter of Sir John Campbell of Lorn and Calder. He acquired the property of Balgavie and Balgavies Castle in of Forfarshire on 20 February 1584. In 1580 he became a gentleman of the bedchamber to James VI of Scotland, and also joined a group of young men who subscribed to serve the king in time of war at their own expense. Catholic convert Through the influence of the Jesuits James Gordon and William Crichton Lindsay became a convert to Catholicism; he said he was the first whom they induced to recant and openly profess the change of faith. He kept an English Jesuit in his house, and it became a rendezvous of Catholics: his chaplain for 18 months was John Ingram. It was, he stated, mainly through his example that George Gordon, 1st Marquis of Huntly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lindsay Of Edzell, Lord Edzell
Sir David Lindsay of Edzell, Lord Edzell (1551?–1610) was a Scottish judge. Early life The eldest son of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford and Catherine Campbell, daughter of Sir John Campbell of Lorn. His mother had been married before and he had five half siblings. Lindsay was born about 1551. On the death of his father in 1558 he succeeded only to barony and other estates of Edzell, the earldom of Crawford passing to David Lindsay, 10th Earl of Crawford, son of the "wicked master". With his brother, Lord Menmuir, he was educated on the continent under the care of James Lawson. He was interested in agricultural improvement and the exploitation of minerals on his estate. In March 1594, Lord Menmuir convinced a German mining expert Bernard Fechtenburg working for Thomas Foulis to work for Edzell. Fechtenburg said that Edzell's samples of ores were more promising than an assay made by Foulis' other experts suggested. Edzell was one of those who on 3 May 1578 signed a band in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lindsay Of Balcarres, Lord Menmuir
John Lindsay of Balcarres (1552–1598) was Secretary of State, Scotland. On 5 July 1581 he was appointed a Lord of Session under the title Lord Menmuir. Life He was the second son of David Lindsay, 9th Earl of Crawford and Catherine Campbell, daughter of Sir John Campbell of Lorn. Along with his brother, Lord Edzell, he was sent under the care of James Lawson to complete his education on the continent. The French Wars of Religion meant they had to return rapidly from Paris to Dieppe, then moving to the University of Cambridge; however, as there is no record of him in Venn's ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'' John may have returned to Paris subsequently. Menmuir, Lethnot, and Lochlee, in the gift of the Edzell family, were settled on him; later, under a Writ of the Privy Seal, 11 July 1576, various teinds and a pension were also granted, along with the small estate of Drumcairn, in Forfarshire. In 1586, he purchased the lands of Balcarres (near Colinsburgh in Fife), Balniell, Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Fraser, 4th Lord Lovat
Alexander Fraser, 4th Lord Lovat (1527 – 1557/1558) was a Scottish peer and Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat from 1544 until 1557. He succeeded to the chiefship in July 1544, aged seventeen, after his father Hugh Fraser, 3rd Lord Lovat and elder brother Simon were killed in the battle of Loch Lochy. He was made the legal ward of Robert Reid, Bishop of Orkney (d. 1558), who was a relative of his mother's. In 1555 he waited on Mary of Guise when she came to Inverness to hold assizes. He died of rheumatism in 1557/1558. Marriage and family Lovat married Janet Campbell (died 1592), daughter of Sir John Campbell of Cawdor Castle, a son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll. Their children included:John Anderson, ''Historical account of the family of Frisel or Fraser, particularly Fraser of Lovat'' (Edinburgh, 1825), p. 83. * Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat Hugh Fraser, 5th Lord Lovat (c. 1545–1577) was a Scottish landowner. He was the son of Alexander Fraser, 4th Lord Lovat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inverquharity Castle
Inverquharity Castle is a 15th-century tower house in Angus, Scotland. It lies around north-east of Kirriemuir near the River South Esk. The lands of Inverquharity came to the Ogilvie family around 1420. The castle was first constructed as a rectangular tower in the 1440s, by Alexander Ogilvie, 2nd Lord Inverquharity. In the 16th century a wing was added to form a four-storey L-plan castle. In 1445 a dispute between Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity and the son of the Earl of Crawford from nearby Finavon Castle culminated in the Battle of Arbroath in which Ogilvy and the Earl were killed. In the late 18th century, the tower was sold by the 5th Ogilvy Baronet, and the wing demolished. The castle decayed until the 1960s, when it was restored and the wing rebuilt. The original 15th-century yett, or iron gate, is still in place. In 2014, a BBC documentary followed the sale of the castle from the owners who had restored and lived there for the previous 40 years. It sold in 2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
