William Murray of Tullibardine (1510–1562) was a Scottish landowner.
Family background
editHe was a son of William Murray and Margaret Stewart. His mother was a daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, and Eleanor Sinclair. His father rebuilt Tullibardine Chapel and sent hart horns from Tullibardine to Edinburgh for the costumes of "wild men" at the tournament of the Wild Knight and the Black Lady.[1] He was killed at the battle of Flodden in 1513.
Career
editWilliam Murray inherited the main family residence at Tullibardine Castle, in the village of Tullibardine, 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Auchterarder, Perth and Kinross, from his grandfather (also William Murray) in 1525.[2]
Murray was sympathetic to the Scottish Reformation. He was one of the Scottish aristocrats who accompanied Mary of Guise to France and England in 1550 at the conclusion of the war now known as the Rough Wooing. In 1560, he was one of Lords of the Congregation who opposed Guise and French rule in Scotland. He signed a commission for the Treaty of Berwick which facilitated to entry of an English army into Scotland to fight at the siege of Leith.[3]
He died in 1562.
Marriage and children
editMurray married Katherine Campbell of Glenorchy, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy (d. 1513) and Margaret Moncreiffe. Their children included:
- Annabell Murray, who married John Erskine, Earl of Mar (died 1572). She looked after the young James VI and Prince Henry at Stirling Castle.[4]
- William Murray of Tullibardine (died 1583), father of John Murray, 1st Earl of Tullibardine
- Alexander Murray of Drumfin (died 1596), who married Isobel Redheuch of Cultybraggan, a granddaughter of the Comptroller of Scotland, James Redheuch of Tullichettle.[5]
- James Murray of Pardewis (died 1592),[6] said by John Knox to have challenged the Earl of Bothwell to single combat in Edinburgh after the murder of Lord Darnley and at the battle of Carberry Hill. The Earl refused.[7][8]
- Catherine Murray, who married Robert Murray of Abercairny
- Margaret Murray, who married Robert Bruce of Clackmannan.
- Jean Murray, who married James Henderson of Fordell
Lady Clackmannan and Lady Abercairny were dames of honour in the household of Prince Henry at Stirling.[9]
References
edit- ^ James Balfour Paul, Accounts of the Treasurer, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1901), pp. li, 358-9.
- ^ James Balfour Paul, Scots Peerage, 1 (Edinburgh, 1904), pp. 461–2
- ^ Pamela E. Ritchie, Mary of Guise in Scotland (Tuckwell, 2002), 70, 264.
- ^ HMC Mar & Kellie, vol. 1 (London, 1904), p. 39.
- ^ Jane Dawson, Clan Campbell Letters (Edinburgh: SHS, 1997), pp. 59, 273.
- ^ G. Harvey Johnston, The heraldry of the Murrays (Edinburgh, 1910), p. 19.
- ^ David Laing, Works of John Knox, 2 (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 560–561
- ^ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1563-1569, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 328.
- ^ HMC Mar & Kellie, vol. 1 (London, 1904), p. 41.