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Roxburgh is in Roxburghshire.
Around 1267 John Grey (age 37) died at Roxburgh. He was buried at Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. That same year, after the king had heard that his men had fallen in Scotland, as said above, he gathered a large army, and by royal summons all came to him at the Feast of Pentecost [26th May 1303] at Roxburgh. Advancing in short marches, he carried off much plunder, burning and almost laying waste everything, traversing the land and all the mountains as far as Caithness; nor was there anyone to resist him, for they had fled into the marshes and certain nearby islands. Seeing that they could by no means resist, the Scots sent to the king, submitting and humbly asking for the things that make for peace; and that if he would allow them to hold and possess under him, in peace, the lands which he had given and promised to his magnates before, they would willingly redeem them for a price. The proposal pleased the king, and in his royal clemency he received them into peace on the aforesaid terms, at the Feast of Saint Michael [29th September 1303] following.
Eodem anno, postquam audiverat rex suos corruisse in Scotia, ut prædictum est, congregavit exercitum copiosum, et convenerunt ad eum omnes ex edicto in festo Pentecostes apud Rokesburch; profectusque est per dietas modicas, prædas agens multas, incendens et quasi devastans omnia, perlustravitque terram et omnes montes usque Cathenesse, nec erat qui resisteret ei, fugerant enim ad paludes et insulas quasdam finitimas. Videntes autem Scoti se nullo modo posse resistere, miserunt ad regem, submit, rogantes humiliter ea quæ pacis sunt; et si permittere vellet quod terras suas, quas suis magnatibus dederat et promiserat ante, possent sub eo pacifice possidere et tenere, libenter eas redimerent dato pretio. Placuitque regi sermo, et ex clementia regia suscepit eos ad pacem modo prædicto in festo Sancti Michaelis subsequentis.
On 28th September 1547 Miles Partridge was knighted at Roxburgh.
Before 1390 Matthew Redman (age 61) was appointed Constable of of Roxburgh Castle.
A Brief Latin Chronicle. August 1436. In the same year, within the next month after the aforementioned Duke of Burgundy had besieged the town of Calais and then fled by the grace of God, James, King of the Scots (age 42) and perjurer, laid siege with his army to the Castle of Roxburgh in Northumbria, reportedly with a force of 300 men and more; there he achieved nothing. For the very noble knight, Ralph Grey (age 30), with eighty valiant men, strongly held the said castle and valiantly resisted the said King of Scots and his army. Hearing that the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland with a great force from the north were planning to confront them soon, the aforementioned king and his army, terrified and confused, immediately fled.
Anno eodem, infra mensem proximo sequentem quo prefatus dux Burgundie villam Calisie taliter obsedisset et inde gratia Dei profugatus fuisset, Jacobus rex Scottorum perjurus Castro de Rokesburgh in Northumbria cum suo exercitu, ut fertur, ad numerum c ml et ultra, obsidionem opposuit; ubi nichil profecit. Nam prenobilis ille miles Radulphus Greye, cum lxxx viris strenuis, dictum castrum fortiter custodivit et dicto regi Scottorum et exercitui suo viriliter restitit. Audito autem quod Archiepiscopus Eboracensis, episcopus Dunelmensis ac Comes Northumbrie cum maxima potestate borealium eisdem obviare infra breve proponebant, rex prefatus et suns exercitus territi et confusi protinus aufugerunt.
In 1458 Robert Ros was appointed Constable of of Roxburgh Castle which position he held until 1460.
On 3rd August 1460 King James II of Scotland (age 29) was killed accidentally whilst besieging Roxburgh Castle when a cannon exploded and he was hit by debris. He was buried at Holyrood Abbey, Holyrood. His son James (age 9) succeeded III King Scotland.
William Douglas 3rd Lord Drumlanrig (age 20) was present.
A Brief Latin Chronicle. 1460. About this time, James, King of Scotland (age 29), nobly governed his people, restraining thieves and oppressors, expanding agriculture, and maintaining holy justice. In the year of our Lord 1460, with his army, he besieged Roxburgh Castle and was killed by his own cannon, which burst while he stood by it. However, his army demolished the same castle and then withdrew.
Circiter istud tempus Jacobus rex Scocie populum suum nobiliter rexit, fures et oppressores cohibens, agriculturam amplians, sanctam(?) justiciam servans. Hic anno Domini 1460, cum suo exercitu obsedit castrum Rokisburgh et per propriam gunnam suam diruptam, cui astitit, interfectus est. Exercitus tamen ejus idem castrum prostravit et recessit.
An English Chronicle. 10th August 1460. Thys same yeere, in the monethe of August, the kyng of Scottes beseged the castelle of Rokesburghe in Northumbreland, and on seynt Laurence day in the mornyng, er he had herde masse, he wolde haue fyred a grete gonne for to have shot to the castelle, and the chambre of the gonne brake and slowe hym.