The Rough Wooing (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Suirghe Chnaparra; December 1543 – March 1551), also known as the Eight Years' War, was part of the Anglo-Scottish...
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parties include the Wars of Scottish Independence (1296–1357), and the Rough Wooing (1544–1551), as well as numerous smaller campaigns and individual confrontations...
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years of war between England and Scotland, a campaign later dubbed "the Rough Wooing". Despite several peace treaties, unrest continued in Scotland until...
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Anglo-Scottish Wars (section Rough Wooing)
Three decades later, after the death of James V in 1542, the so-called 'rough wooing' at the hands of invading English armies under the Earl of Hertford brought...
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List of battles involving the Kingdom of Scotland (section Nine Years' War (Sometimes called The Rough Wooing))
This is a chronological list of the battles involving the Kingdom of Scotland, as well as battles involving Scotland in support of France as part of the...
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Edward VI (category English people of the Rough Wooing)
The war, which continued into Edward's reign, has become known as "the Rough Wooing". The nine-year-old Edward wrote to his father and stepmother on 10 January...
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Mary, Queen of Scots (category Scottish people of the Rough Wooing)
France, where she would be safe from invading English forces during the Rough Wooing. Mary married Francis in 1558, becoming queen consort of France from...
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Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (category Scottish people of the Rough Wooing)
between Queen Mary and his son Prince Edward, in the war now known as the Rough Wooing. In the summer of 1544, Lennox plundered the Isle of Arran and made himself...
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Tantallon Castle (section The Rough Wooing)
of Hertford invaded Scotland in 1544, during the ensuing War of the Rough Wooing, Tantallon was bypassed by the English army, due to the Earl's English...
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Mary Willoughby was a ship of the English Tudor navy. She appears in the navy lists from 1532 during the reign of Henry VIII. She was named after Maria...
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The Canongate (section Rough Wooing)
assault Edinburgh through the Netherbow Port. In May 1544, during the Rough Wooing, the English army under Lord Hertford attacked and burnt Edinburgh. The...
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Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch (category Scottish people of the Rough Wooing)
He was an "inveterate English hater" active in the wars known as The Rough Wooing and a noted Border reiver. He was killed on Edinburgh High Street in...
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Dunglass Castle, East Lothian (category Castles and forts of the Rough Wooing)
frequently visited by the Stewart kings. A fortification was built during the Rough Wooing. There are no upstanding masonry remains of the castle. A more recent...
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Broughty Castle (category Rough Wooing)
1490. The castle saw military action during the 16th-century War of the Rough Wooing. After the battle of Pinkie in September 1547, it was surrendered by...
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Invasions of the British Isles have occurred several times throughout its history. The British Isles have been subject to several waves of invasion and...
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Scottish Reformation (section Rough Wooing)
English. They invaded to enforce the match, an action later known as the "rough wooing", which devastated south-east Scotland. In 1546, George Wishart, a preacher...
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Siege of Leith (section War of the Rough Wooing)
1544–1549, a period which the writer Sir Walter Scott later christened the "Rough Wooing". In May 1544, an English army landed at Granton and captured Leith to...
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Ferniehirst Castle (category Castles and forts of the Rough Wooing)
Ferniehirst was occupied by English forces in 1547, during the war of the Rough Wooing. The English were dislodged by a force of Sir John Ker's clansmen, and...
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Battle of Pinkie (category Battles of the Rough Wooing)
before the Union of the Crowns, it was part of the conflict known as the Rough Wooing. It was a catastrophic defeat for Scotland, where it became known as...
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Alliance with France. A nine year long war resulted, now known as the Rough Wooing. In July 1565, Mary, Queen of Scots, married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley...
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Dunglass (section Rough Wooing)
Northumberland in the winter of 1532. In 1547, during the war now known as the Rough Wooing, Dunglass was captured by the forces of the Duke of Somerset from George...
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in 1550 under the Treaty of Boulogne which also concluded the war of Rough Wooing in Scotland. Simon Renard reported that the English captain accepted...
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Dunbar Castle (category Castles and forts of the Rough Wooing)
castle was burnt by the Earl of Shrewsbury on a punitive raid during the Rough wooing in 1548. A French soldier, Monsieur La Chapelle was made keeper of the...
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Peter Meutas (category English people of the Rough Wooing)
Edinburgh in May 1544, the first major action of the war now known as the Rough Wooing. The English army landed near Granton and marched towards Leith. Their...
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Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (category Scottish people of the Rough Wooing)
Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home (died 1575) was a Scottish nobleman and Warden of the Eastern March. Alexander Home was the son of George Home, 4th Lord...
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George Durie (Dury confused by Watt & Shead with Drury) (died 1577), abbot of Dunfermline and archdeacon of St Andrews, son of John Durie of Durie in the...
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damage to the palace and the abbey in 1544 and 1547 during the War of the Rough Wooing. Repairs were made by Mary of Guise, and in May 1559 she had a new altarpiece...
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Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray (category Scottish people of the Rough Wooing)
Scottish landowner and Sheriff of Angus, active during the war of the Rough Wooing as a supporter of the Scottish Reformation. Patrick Gray was the son...
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Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven (category Scottish people of the Rough Wooing)
Scottish artillery at the Siege of Haddington. During the war of the Rough Wooing, Methven wrote to queen Mary of Guise, the widow of James V, on 31 December...
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Kirkhope Tower (section Rough Wooing)
campaign of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the early stages of the Rough Wooing of Mary, Queen of Scots, by Henry VIII of England. The actual raiding...
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