Inchmahome Priory
Dunfermline
Dunfermline Abbey
Perth
Annat Lodge, Kinnoul
Bowerswell House, Kinnoul
Kinnoull Parish Church
Tayside House, Kinnoul
Scone Abbey
Perthshire is in Scotland.
Around 1380 Margaret Graham 3rd Countess Menteith [aged 46] died. She was buried at Inchmahome Priory [Map].
Around 1266 John Strathbogie 9th Earl Atholl was born to David Strathbogie 8th Earl Atholl and Isabel Plantagenet Countess of Atholl at Atholl. He a great x 2 grandson of King John of England. He married Margaret Mar Countess Atholl, daughter of Donald Mar 6th Earl of Mar, and had issue.
On 11th April 1583 Colin Campbell of Glenorchy [aged 70] died at Balloch.
On 19th November 1662 John Campbell 2nd Earl Breadalbaine and Holland was born to John Campbell 1st Earl Breadalbaine and Holland [aged 26] and Mary Rich [aged 26] at Bredalbane. He married 1. 1685 Frances Cavendish, daughter of Henry Cavendish 2nd Duke Newcastle upon Tyne and Frances Pierrepont Duchess Newcastle upon Tyne 2. 23rd May 1695 his sixth cousin Henrietta Villiers Countess Breadalbaine and Holland and had issue.
In 1501 sisters Margaret Drummond [aged 26], Eupheme Drummond and Sibylla Drummond died from poisoning, food poisoning, at Drummond Castle.
In 1519 John Drummond 1st Lord Drummond died at Drummond Castle. He was buried at Innerpeffray.
On 11th May 1713 James Drummond 3rd Duke Perth was born to James Drummond 2nd Duke Perth [aged 39] and Jane Gordon Duchess Perth [aged 22] in Drummond Castle. Coefficient of inbreeding 2.70%.
In 1593 Bishop Robert Crichton was born at Dunkeld.
On 5th November 1774 John Murray 3rd Duke Atholl [aged 45] died at Dunkeld. His son John [aged 19] succeeded 4th Duke Atholl, 5th Marquess Atholl, 6th Earl Atholl, 7th Earl Tullibardine.
Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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On 29th May 1782 James Murray 1st Baron Glenlyon was born to John Murray 4th Duke Atholl [aged 26] in Dunmore in the Forst of Athole. He married 19th May 1810 Emily Frances Percy Baroness Goldolphin Helston, daughter of Hugh Percy 2nd Duke Northumberland and Frances Julia Burrell Duchess Northumberland, and had issue.
In 1423 William Hay 1st Earl Erroll was born to Gilbert Hay [aged 27] at Erroll. He married before 1436 his third cousin Beatrice Douglas Countess Erroll, daughter of James "Gross" Douglas 7th Earl Douglas 1st Earl Avondale and Beatrix Sinclair Countess Douglas and Avondale, and had issue.
In 1388 Robert Stewart of Innermeath [aged 63] died at Innermeath.
On 30th December 1394 James "Black Knight of Lorn" Stewart was born to John Stewart of Innermeath 3rd of Lorn [aged 44] and Isabel Macdougall at Innermeath. He married before 21st September 1439 Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland, daughter of John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset and Margaret Holland Duchess Clarence, and had issue.
In 1519 John Drummond 1st Lord Drummond died at Drummond Castle. He was buried at Innerpeffray.
On 27th July 1689 James Seton 4th Earl Dunfermline [aged 46] fought at Killiecrankie during the Battle of Killiecrankie.
In 1589 John Fleming 2nd Earl Wigtown was born to John Fleming 1st Earl Wigtown [aged 22] and Lilias Graham Countess Graham. He was baptised on 5th December 1589 at Kincardine Castle - Ludovic Stewart 2nd Duke Lennox 1st Duke Richmond [aged 14] and Francis Stewart 5th Earl Bothwell [aged 26] attended. Coefficient of inbreeding 3.25%. He married before 2nd September 1609 his second cousin Margaret Livingston Countess Wigtown, daughter of Alexander Livingston 1st Earl Linlithgow and Helen Hay, and had issue.
On 19th March 1286 King Alexander III of Scotland [aged 44] died from a fall from a horse at Kinghorn Ness while riding in the dark to visit the Queen [aged 22] at Kinghorn in Fife because it was her birthday the next day. His granddaughter Margaret [aged 2] succeeded I Queen Scotland.
In 1393 Henry Douglas [aged 53] died at Lochleven Castle, Kinross.
In 1469 Henry Douglas of Lochleve [aged 69] died at Lochleven Castle, Kinross.
In 1569 after the Rising of the North failed, Thomas Percy 7th Earl of Northumberland [aged 41] fled to Scotland, where he was captured by the Earl of Morton [aged 53], one of the leading Scottish nobles. He was held at Lochleven Castle. After three years of captivity he was sold to the English for £2000.
Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. 1570. Lady Margaret Erskine [aged 54] to the Countess of Murray, circ. 1570. Madam. Efter meist hertlie commendatioun. I haue resawit your wreting fra this berer and your excuyss off your lang wreting to me, quhilk I except in gud pairt, be resoun of the ewill wedder, quhilk is als ewill heir as it is with you, and quhair ye wrett that ye and your barnis ar weall and in gud helth I am waray glaid of the same, and I assuyr your Ladysohip ther is ne woman of the erth that I wald war fayunar weill nor ye and your bairnis, and sail call meist ernestlie for the same one God, and quhair ye wrett that ye sail wisie me efter Candilraes ye salbe hartlie welcoum, and I beseik in God that ye sail think your traywell weill waird to se my baim, quha growls weill, and cumis weill fordwart, thankis to God. As for newis heir I haue nene to wratt, bot the Laird and all frindis heir ar weill, and in gud helth thankis to God. And the laird [William Douglas 6th Earl Morton [aged 30]] is in the Loich, and it is all frosyn, quha is at greitt charges be resoun of grett eumpany in his houss daylie for the keiping of my Lord of Northumberland [aged 42]. As for newes of the Court, ye will gett from Bdinbruch, for it is ane waray sleicht court and small obeydience, and I dout nocht bot we sail think tham happye that ar away, and thay that ar wikkit that is behind. Ilk ane of thame sail try thair awain. pairt be tym, howbeit nayn uther will do it. I will cummer you vnth na laugar letter bot quhat that lyis in my power salbe reddye in the auld maner, as knauis God quha conserwe yow cternalie. Of the Newhons the fyft day of Januare be your Mother.
(Signed) Margart Erskyn
On 19th June 1306 the forces of Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke [aged 31], including Robert Pierrepont, ambushed and routed the Scottish army of King Robert the Bruce I of Scotland [aged 31] including Simon Fraser, Christopher Seton and John Strathbogie 9th Earl Atholl [aged 40] at Methven. John Strathbogie 9th Earl Atholl was captured as well as many others.
Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. [19th June 1306] So they went out in the evening as they had agreed, and found them lying about at ease; and before they could all mount up, they fell upon them fiercely. Many were cut down, and the king, with a few men resisting for a while, was at length put to flight. The new king fled, and they pursued him as far as the island of Kintyre; and they besieged the castle of that place [Methven Castle], believing that he had taken refuge there, but he had gone into the farthest islands of that region. When they had taken the castle, they found one of the new king's brothers, namely Lord Nigel Bruce [aged 30], along with the new queen [Elizabeth de Burgh [aged 22]] and many others. Bringing them with them to Berwick, there before the justiciars of the lord king of England, who by the king's command had assembled there, they were formally condemned: the men were drawn, hanged, and beheaded. But the new queen, because she was the daughter of the earl of Ulster [aged 47] (and that earl, at the beginning of the war started by his son-in-law, Lord Robert de Bruce, so that the lord king of England should suspect no ill will from him, had sent two of his sons to the king to be kept at the king's pleasure, as an excuse that he had always been loyal), and because of a certain remark she had made to her husband, when at his coronation he had spoken to her and said, "Rejoice now, my consort, for you have become queen and I king," she is reported to have answered him thus: "I fear, my lord, that we have become king and queen as children do in their summer games", for these two reasons, the king sent her with an honourable household to be lodged at his manor of Burstwick, and ordered that she be maintained with honour.
Exierunt ergo in vesperis ut condixerant, et invenerunt eos recumbentes secure, et antequam possent omnes ascendere, irruerunt in eos vehementer, cæsisque multis, regem cum paucis aliquamdiu resistentem, in fugam tandem converterunt. Fugitque rex novus, et insecuti sunt eum usque in insulam de Kentyr; obsederuntque castrum loci illius, credentes eum se ibidem recepisse sed ille abierat in extremas insulas regionis illius. Expugnatoque castro, invenerunt unum ex fratribus novi regis dominum scilicet Nigellum de Brus, cum nova regina, et multis Nigel Bruce aliis; quos adducentes secum usque Berewyk, Kildrummie ibi coram justitiariis domini regis Angliæ, qui is hanged at ex præcepto regis ibidem convenerant, judicialiter damnati sunt homines, tracti, suspensi et decollati. Reginam autem novam, quia filia comitis de Huluerster erat, (qui quidem comes, in principio guerræ motæ per generum dominum Robertum de Brus, ne dominus rex Angliæ quicquam mali contra eum suspicaretur, misit ad regem duos filios suos pro voluntate regis retinendos in excusationem sui quod semper ei fidelis extiterat,) et propter unum verbum quod marito suo dixerat cum in coronatione sua loqueretur ei et diceret, "Lætare modo consocia, quia regina effecta es, et ego rex," fertur eam sic respondisse ei: "Timeo, domine, quod sumus effecti rex et regina, sicut efficiuntur pueri in ludis æstivalibus:" propter istas ergo duas causas, misit eam rex cum honesta familia perendinandam in manerio suo de Bruscewych, et jussit eam honorifice sustentari.
On 7th September 1863 Winifred Anna Dallas-Yorke Duchess Portland was born to Thomas Dallas Yorke at Murthly Castle Perthshire. She married 11th June 1889 William Cavendish-Bentinck 6th Duke Portland and had issue.
22nd August 1582. The Raid of Ruthven was a plot by several nobles led by William Ruthven 1st Earl Gowrie [aged 39] to kidnap the fifteen years old King James VI of Scotland [aged 16], son of Mary Queen of Scots [aged 39], (before he became King of England) to reform the government of Scotland.
The nobles included John Erskine 19th Earl of Mar [aged 20], Thomas Lyon Master of Glamis, Robert Boyd 5th Lord Boyd [aged 65], Patrick Lindsay 6th Lord Lindsay of the Byres [aged 61], and David Erskine Commendator of Dryburgh.
They were opposed by Esme Stewart 1st Duke Lennox [aged 40] and James Stewart 1st Earl Arran who controlled the government.
King James VI of Scotland was captured whilst hunting near Ruthven Castle.
The rebels were joined by Francis Stewart 5th Earl Bothwell [aged 19] and James Cunningham 7th Earl Glencairn [aged 30].
Esme Stewart 1st Duke Lennox was exiled; he died a year later in Paris. James Stewart 1st Earl Arran was imprisoned.
The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel Volume 2 Chapters 61-109 1342-1361
The Chronicle of Jean le Bel, Volume 2 continues one of the most important fourteenth-century accounts of the early Hundred Years’ War. Written by the Liège chronicler Jean le Bel, this vivid narrative follows the fortunes of Edward III, Jean II of France, the Black Prince, the great nobles of France and England, and the soldiers, captains and companies who shaped the conflict. This volume covers some of the most dramatic events of the period, including the battles of Crécy and Poitiers, the siege and capture of Calais, the captivity of King John, the rise of the Jacquerie, the turmoil in Paris under Étienne Marcel and Charles of Navarre, the devastation caused by the free companies, Edward III’s great campaign of 1359–1360, and the negotiations leading to the Treaty of Brétigny. Jean le Bel’s chronicle is especially valuable for its lively detail, its interest in chivalry, warfare, politics and reputation, and its influence on later chroniclers, most famously Froissart. This English translation presents the text in clear, readable British English while preserving the force and character of the original narrative. The translation includes extensive notes to help the reader better understand Jean le Bel's text. Volume 2 also includes translated appendices drawn from royal and administrative records, many from the English Record Office, which illuminate Edward III’s campaigns in Brittany, the siege and occupation of Calais, naval preparations, military finance, appointments, safe conducts and related affairs.
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On 29th March 1834 John Campbell 1st Marquess Breadalbane [aged 71] died at Taymouth Castle. His son John [aged 37] succeeded 2nd Marquess Breadalbane, 5th Earl Breadalbaine and Holland.