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Imprisonment and Execution of Scottish Prisoners is in 1300-1309 Scottish Succession.
On 4th August 1306 John Seton (age 28) was hanged at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland [Map] following his capture by English forces after the fall of Tibbers Castle, Carronbridge.
John of Fordun's Chronicle. 120. Conflict at Dalry, in the borders of Argyll
The same year [1306], while this king was fleeing from his foes, and lurking, with his men, in the borders of Athol and Argyll, he was again beaten and put to flight, on the 11th of August, at a place called Dalry. But there, also, he did not lose many of his men. Nevertheless, they were all filled with fear, and were dispersed and scattered throughout various places. But the queen fled to Saint Duthac in Ross, where she was taken by William Earl of Ross, and brought to the king of England; and she was kept a prisoner in close custody, until the battle of Bannockburn. Nigel of Bruce, however, one of the king's brothers, fled, with many ladies and damsels, to Kyndrumie Castle, and was there welcomed, with his companions. But, the same year, that castle was made over to the English through treachery, and Nigel, and other nobles of both sexes, were taken prisoners, brought to Berwick, and suffered capital punishment. The same year, Thomas and Alexander of Bruce, brothers of the aforesaid king, while hastening towards Carrick by another road, were taken at Loch Ryan, and beheaded at Carlisle - and, thus, all who had gone away and left the king, were, in that same year, either bereft of life, or taken and thrown into prison.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. [Around September 1306] Christopher de Seton, who had married the new king's sister Mary [a mistake for Christina Bruce (age 33)], and was an Englishman, having been captured in the castle of Loch Doon, and afterwards his wife and many others as well, the king ordered to be brought to Dumfries, where the knight [John Comyn] had been killed, and there to be drawn, hanged, and beheaded. The same sentence was passed on two of his brothers and on all the others who had agreed to and taken part in the death of Lord John Comyn; and this was done by the special command of the king.
Christoforum autem de Sethon, qui sororem novi regis duxerat nomine Mariam, et esset Anglicus, cum in castro de Lochdor captus esset, et post uxorque sua et multi alii, jussit rex adduci apud Dunfrees ubi militem occiderat, ibique trahi, suspendi et decollari. Simile judicium habuerunt duo fratres sui, et omnes alii qui morti domini Johannis Comyn consenserunt et interfuerunt; et hoc ex speciali præcepto regis.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. [November 1306] The wife [Christina Bruce (age 33)] of Christopher , the king placed in the monastery of Sixhills [Map] in Lindsey, and the daughter [Marjorie Bruce (age 10)] of the new king he placed in the monastery of Watton [Map]. The lord king gave to Lord Edmund de Mauley (age 25) the manor of Seaton in Whitby Strand, which had belonged to Christopher, and other lands he had held in Northumberland the king gave to Lord William le Latimer (age 30). The lands of the new king the lord king divided among his magnates in this way: he gave the Valley of Annandale to the Earl of Hereford, who had married the daughter of the king of England; Ayr and Ayrshire he gave to Lord Robert de Clifford (saving, however, the right of the church of Durham); Tothenham, Tothenhamschire, and the manor of Wrothell in the southern parts he gave to other magnates. The earldom of Carrick, which the new king had held by maternal inheritance, the king of England gave to Lord Henry de Percy; and the earldom of Atholl he gave to the Earl of Gloucester (age 36), who had married the king's daughter after the death of Gilbert de Clare, the former earl of Gloucester. Thus he bore the title of earl by right of his wife, not by inheritance, for he had been a mere and unremarkable knight when he married her, by the name of Ralph Monthermer.
Uxorem vero Christofori posuit rex in monasterio de Thyxsel in Lindesay, et filiam novi regis posuit in monasterio de Watton. Deditque dominus rex domino Eadmundo de Malo-lacu manerium de Seton in Wytebystrand, quod erat Christofori, et alias suas terras quas habuit in Northumberland dedit rex domino Willelmo le Latymer. Terras vero novi regis dispersit dominus rex inter magnates suos hoc modo; dedit enim Vallem Anandiæ comiti de Herford, qui filiam regis Angliæ duxerat in uxorem; Hert vero et Herternes dedit domino Roberto de Clifforde, salvo tamen jure ecclesiæ Dunolmensis; Thotenham et Thotenhamschyre et manerium de Wrothell in partibus australibus dedit aliis magnatibus suis; comitatum vero de Karrik, quem ex hæreditate materna habuerat ipse novus rex, dedit rex Angliæ domino Henrico de Percy; comitatum autem de Asechel dedit rex comiti Gloucestriæ, qui filiam regis post mortem Gilberti de Clare quondam comitis Gloucestriæ, duxerat; sicque nomen comitis habebat ab uxore, non ab hæreditate, fuerat enim miles simplex et segnis quando eam duxerat, nomine Radulphus Monhermer.
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Calendar Scottish Documents Volume 2. 7th November 1306. 1851. Farther orders for the custody of the Countesses of Carrick (age 22) and Buchan, Marie (age 24) and Christine (age 33) the sisters, and Margerie the daughter of Robert de Brus, and other Scottish prisoners; three of the ladies to be in 'kages' [Chapter House (Scots Documents), Box 1, No. 4.]
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. As for the Earl of Atholl [John Stathbogie (age 40)], who had fled from that castle [Methven Castle] and, after some time, had been captured, although the queen of England and many magnates begged the king on his behalf that his life be spared, because he was a close kinsman1 to the lord king of England, the king ordered that he be brought to London and hanged higher than the others. And because he was found to be a deceiver, although a relative, the king commanded that after being hanged he should be beheaded and burned, and this was done [on 7th November 1306].
Comitem vero de Asechel, qui ab isto castro fugerat et post aliquod intervallum captus fuerat, cum regina Angliæ et multi magnates rogarent pro eo ad regem ne sanguis ejus effunderetur, pro eo quod fuit proximus parens domino regi Angliæ, jussit rex Londoniis adduci et cæteris excelsior suspendi. Et quia seductor inventus qui consanguineus extiterat, præcepit rex post suspensionem decollari eum et comburi, quod factum est.
Note 1. John Strathbogie, 9th Earl Atholl, and King Edward I, were half first cousins twice removed. Strathbogie was a great great grandson of King John through his illegitimate son Richard.
Scalaronica. [7th November 1306]. The Earl of Athol (age 40), forasmuch as he was cousin of the King of England, [being] the son of Maud of Dover [great grand-daughter of King John] his [Edward's] aunt, was sent to London, and, because he was of the blood royal, was hanged on a gallows thirty feet higher than the others.
On 7th November 1306 John Strathbogie 9th Earl Atholl (age 40) was hanged, beheaed and burned, in London on a gallows 30 feet higher than ordinary to signfy his higher status and as a consequence of his kinship to King Edward I. His son David succeeded 10th Earl Atholl. He was the first Earl to be executed in England for 230 years.
Note 1. John Strathbogie, 9th Earl Atholl, and King Edward I, were half first cousins twice removed. Strathbogie was a great great grandson of King John through his illegitimate son Richard.