Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (c. 1520 –3 August 1573) was a Scottish politician and soldier who fought for the Scottish Reformation. He ended his career...
20 KB (2,654 words) - 13:29, 15 November 2024
heir was William Kirkcaldy of Grange. His main property was called Hallyards Castle. The name is sometimes spelled Kirkaldy. Sir James Kirkcaldy accompanied...
7 KB (1,002 words) - 21:31, 7 July 2024
railway line Sir James Kirkcaldy of Grange (died 1556), a Fife laird and treasurer of Scotland Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (1520–1573), a Scottish...
1 KB (197 words) - 20:24, 3 February 2024
the crime. In 1573 Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, noted for his military talents and the forthright adherent of Mary, Queen of Scots, arranged for Maitland...
9 KB (1,178 words) - 20:08, 6 June 2024
Earl of Huntly, Claude Hamilton, and the lairds of Buccleuch and Ferniehurst. Early reports said he was killed by his own party. William Kirkcaldy of Grange...
16 KB (1,853 words) - 22:17, 12 October 2024
Mary Fleming (category Court of Mary, Queen of Scots)
with a lace of black and white about her neck." On 19 September 1564, William Kirkcaldy of Grange wrote that the Royal Secretary, William Maitland, was...
13 KB (1,669 words) - 21:11, 2 October 2024
congregations. Both John Knox and Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, with whom he corresponded, seem to have been convinced of his sympathy with presbyterianism...
11 KB (1,197 words) - 14:27, 31 October 2024
Marian civil war (category Civil wars of the Early Modern period)
led by William Drury. 28 May 1573; Surrender of Edinburgh Castle by William Kirkcaldy of Grange. Anonymous, Thomson, Thomas, ed., A Diurnal of Remarkable...
52 KB (6,986 words) - 15:37, 6 October 2024
Kirkaldy (surname) (category Surnames of Scottish origin)
the generation of English women scientists Roy Kirkaldy (c.1910 – 1973), Australian rugby league player Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (c.1520 – 1573)...
1 KB (199 words) - 19:59, 6 January 2024
Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie (II) (1565) Sir Simon Preston of Craigmillar (1569) Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange (1570) James Macgill of Nesbit (1571)...
16 KB (1,620 words) - 21:20, 15 August 2024
of Scotland in August 1560. William Kirkcaldy of Grange and John Knox gave a list of members of the Congregation who expelled the troops of Mary of Guise...
9 KB (1,223 words) - 20:54, 9 November 2024
money to William Kirkcaldy of Grange who led the garrison at Edinburgh Castle. In return for his loans Kirkcaldy gave Huntly pieces of the jewelry of Mary...
7 KB (823 words) - 20:44, 12 April 2024
Fife, and after they destroyed Hallyards Castle, the house of William Kirkcaldy of Grange, Mary (according to Knox) declared, "Where is now John Knox's...
63 KB (8,535 words) - 16:34, 13 November 2024
transept of Jedburgh Abbey. He married firstly Janet Kirkcaldy, a daughter of William Kirkcaldy of Grange and Margaret Learmonth. The children of Sir Thomas...
7 KB (968 words) - 22:50, 14 August 2024
Declaration by William Kirkcaldy of Grange about the jewels, 13 June 1573. Answers of William Kirkcaldy of Grange, 11 July 1573, National Records of Scotland...
161 KB (22,174 words) - 16:33, 11 November 2024
Margaret Erskine (category Mistresses of James V of Scotland)
Treaty of Berwick. In July 1564 she resigned the lands of Nether Friarton in Fife so her son the Earl of Moray could give them to William Kirkcaldy of Grange...
8 KB (1,066 words) - 13:01, 16 October 2024
Edinburgh Castle (redirect from Castle of the Maidens)
name of the infant King James VI. Shortly after the Battle of Langside, in May 1568, Moray appointed Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange Keeper of the Castle...
107 KB (12,420 words) - 22:23, 31 October 2024
David Beaton (category Alumni of the University of St Andrews)
master of Rothes, and William Kirkcaldy of Grange. The Leslies had suffered from the expansion of Beaton's interest in Fife; while Kirkcaldy's uncle,...
17 KB (1,709 words) - 18:19, 26 October 2024
Henry Echlin (soldier) (category People of the Scottish Marian Civil War)
comptroller of Scotland, John Wishart of Pitarrow (died 1585). Echlin was a cousin of William Kirkcaldy of Grange who held Edinburgh Castle for Mary, Queen of Scots...
17 KB (2,059 words) - 20:58, 12 October 2024
which was held for Queen Mary by William Kirkcaldy of Grange. He placed artillery at the Pleasance to the east of the city. The guns were brought from...
11 KB (1,385 words) - 21:32, 26 June 2024
pursued by William Kirkcaldy of Grange and William Murray of Tullibardine, who sailed into Bressay Sound near Lerwick. Four of the Duke of Orkney's ships...
20 KB (2,605 words) - 23:38, 29 September 2024
Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray took him on a tour of Fife. They visited St Andrews and Hallyards, a house of William Kirkcaldy of Grange. He appears to have...
13 KB (1,086 words) - 06:07, 14 November 2024
carried his body; William Kirkcaldy of Grange held his standard, and John Knox preached at the funeral. Knox's own prohibition of funeral sermons (on...
29 KB (3,404 words) - 13:28, 19 November 2024
later after the Deacon of Crafts had spoken with William Kirkcaldy of Grange, Captain of the Castle. The younger William Baillie of Lamington went to Hamilton...
4 KB (482 words) - 15:03, 10 October 2024
Holyrood Palace (redirect from Palace of Holyrood)
Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, at the palace in May 1567. During the subsequent Marian civil war, on 25 July 1571, William Kirkcaldy of Grange bombarded the...
57 KB (7,176 words) - 05:27, 19 November 2024
Archibald Stewart (merchant) (category Lord provosts of Edinburgh)
lent money to William Kirkcaldy of Grange who held Edinburgh Castle for Mary, Queen of Scots, taking some of the jewels of Mary, Queen of Scots as security...
6 KB (839 words) - 22:52, 13 November 2024
Mar wanted English help to capture Edinburgh Castle from Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange who held it for Mary. Regent Mar hoped that Morton could arrange...
27 KB (3,553 words) - 12:06, 18 November 2024
Stirling Castle (category Wars of Scottish Independence)
under William Kirkcaldy of Grange. Grange led a raid on Stirling in 1571, attempting to round up the Queen's enemies, but failed to gain control of the...
71 KB (7,790 words) - 15:50, 17 October 2024
(wife of Bastian Pagez), Mary Pagez, Gillis Mowbray, Jean Kennedy, Elspeth or Elizabeth Curle, and Susanna Kirkcaldy (a daughter of William Kirkcaldy of Grange...
22 KB (2,906 words) - 17:38, 25 November 2024
sent him to arrest the Earl of Huntly at Huntly Castle in October 1562. On the day William Kirkcaldy of Grange and the Tutor of Pitcur arrived first and...
12 KB (1,480 words) - 12:35, 19 June 2024