Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

Walter Scott, 5th of Buccleuch, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch (1565 – 15 December 1611) was a Scottish nobleman and famous border reiver, known as the “Bold Buccleuch” and leader of Kinmont Willie’s Raid. Scott was the son of Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch (himself grandson of Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch) and Margaret Douglas.

Scott married (contract dated 1 October 1586) Mary, daughter of Sir William Kerr of Cessford and Janet Douglas. They had four children:

• 1. Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch (d. 20 November 1633)
• 2. Margaret Scott (died 5 October 1651) married first James Ross, 6th Lord Ross; married second Sir Alexander Seton of Foulstruther, later Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton
• 3. Elizabeth Scott who married (contract dated 22 November 1616) John Cranstoun, later 2nd Lord Cranstoun
• 4. Jean Scott (died after 21 November 1613).

Scott also had (apparently by Delia, daughter of Captain Thomas Butler in Holland) an illegitimate daughter, Jean, who married Robert Scott of Whitslaid. He further had an illegitimate son, John (probably to be identified with John Scott, Provost of Crichton, who died in 1646).[1]

Knighted by King James VI of Scotland in 1590, Buccleuch was then appointed by him Keeper of Liddesdale and Warden of the West March (borders).

In 1594, Buccleuch was re-appointed Keeper of Liddesdale, and it was in this capacity that two years afterwards he effected the rescue of Kinmont Willie Armstrong, an exploit famous in border lore.

Armstrong, a well known border reiver, was captured by English soldiers led by Deputy Warden Salkeld on 17 March 1596, in violation of a truce day. He was taken to Carlisle and imprisoned in Carlisle Castle.

Buccleuch, in his capacity as Keeper, petitioned the English Warden Sir Thomas Scrope for Armstrong’s release without success. Unable to effect Armstrong’s release by diplomatic means, on the night of 13 April 1596 Buccleuch led a party of about eighty men to Carlisle. Leaving the main body of his men a small distance outside the city to ambush any pursuers, Buccleuch took a small raiding party on to the castle where Armstrong was imprisoned. Finding their ladders too short to scale the walls, the raiding party breached a postern gate — or more probably bribed a contact inside the castle to open it for them — located Armstrong’s cell and freed him, returning him back across the Scottish border. No fatalities were occasioned on either side.

The raid on Carlisle created a diplomatic incident between England and Scotland, and war between the two nations appeared imminent until Buccleuch surrendered himself to the English authorities. Tried and found guilty, Buccleuch was placed in the custody of the English Master of the Ordnance at Berwick, Sir William Selby, and was afterwards sent to London.

When Buccleuch reached London, and, having been presented to the Queen, was asked by Elizabeth I of England how he dared to undertake an enterprise so desperate and presumptuous, Buccleuch is reported to have replied, "What is it that a man dare not do?" Unaccustomed though she must have been to such rejoinders from her own courtly nobles, Elizabeth not only did not resent the answer, but turning to a lord-in-waiting, said, "With ten thousand such men, our brother in Scotland might shake the firmest throne of Europe."

Buccleuch's kinsman, the author Sir Walter Scott, transcribed a well known ballad about the raid entitled Kinmont Willie in his collection Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. 1.

He was created a Lord of Parliament, as Lord Scott of Buccleuch, in 1606 (pursuant to a commission from King James dated 18 March 1606).[1]

From 1604 until the truce of 1609, Buccleuch led a company of Borderers in the service of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange during the Dutch Revolt.

Buccleuch died on the 15th of December 1611, and was interred at St Mary's Kirk, Hawick.[1]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott,_1st_Lord_Scott_of_Buccl...

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• Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch1
• M, #17764, b. 1565, d. 15 December 1611
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• Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch was born in 1565.1 He was the son of Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Douglas.1 He married Mary Ker, daughter of Sir William Ker of Cessford and Janet Douglas, circa 1 October 1586, with a tocher of 10,000 marks Scots.1 He died on 15 December 1611 at Branxholme, Roxburghshire, Scotland.1 He was buried at Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland.1
• He held the office of Warden of the West Marches in 1590.1,2 He was invested as a Knight in 1590.1,2 In October 1597 he was surrendered to the English, after leading some border raids, including an attack on Carlisle Castle.1 On the accession of King James VI to the English throne, he distinguished himself in composing the border strife.1 He held the office of Keeper of Liddesdale.1 He fought in the War in the Netherlands, under Maurice, Prince of Orange.1 He was created 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch [Scotland] on 18 March 1605/6.1 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Scotland] on 26 February 1610/11.1
• Children of Sir Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch and Mary Ker
  • Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch+1 d. 20 Nov 1633
  • Margaret Scott+2 d. 5 Oct 1652
  • Elizabeth Scott2
• Citations
• [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 364. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• [S37] BP2003 volume 1, page 560. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1777.htm#i17764 ____________________
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 51
• Scott, Walter (1565-1611) by Thomas Finlayson Henderson
• SCOTT, WALTER, first Lord Scott of Buccleugh (1565–1611), born in 1565, was the only son of Sir Walter Scott of Buccleuch (d. 1574), by his wife, Lady Margaret Douglas, eldest daughter of David, seventh earl of Angus, who afterwards married Francis Stewart Hepburn, fifth earl of Bothwell. The father, who latterly became a devoted adherent of Mary Queen of Scots, was privy to the design for the assassination of the regent Moray, and, counting on its occurrence, set out the day before with Ker of Ferniehirst on a devastating raid into England. In revenge his lands were laid waste by the Earl of Sussex and Lord Scrope, and his castle of Branxholm blown up with gunpowder. He was a principal leader of the raid to Stirling on 4 Sept. 1571, when an attempt was made to seize the regent Lennox, who was slain by one of the Hamiltons during the mêlée. Buccleuch, who had interposed to save the regent Morton, his kinsman, whom the Hamiltons intended also to have slain, was during the retreat taken prisoner by Morton (Diurnal of Occurrents, p. 248), and was for some time confined in the castle of Doune in Menteith (Reg. P. C. Scotl. ii. 156).
• The son succeeded his father on 17 April 1574, and on 21 June was infeft in the baronies of Branxholm as heir to David Scott, his grandfather's brother. Being a minor, the Earl of Morton—failing whom, the Earl of Angus—was appointed his guardian. On account of a feud between Scott and Lord Hay, both were on 19 Aug. 1586 ordered to find caution of 10,000l. each for their good behaviour (ib. iv. 98). On 2 June 1587 he and other border chiefs were summoned to appear before the privy council on 9 June to answer ‘touching good rule and quietness to be observed on the borders hereafter, under pain of treason’ (ib. p. 183); and on the 9th Robert Scott gave caution for him in five thousand merks that he would appear on the 21st (ib. p. 189). Towards the close of the year he and the laird of Cessford were, however, committed to ward for making incursions in England (Calderwood, History, iv. 641); but on 13 Dec. he found caution in 10,000l. that on being liberated from the castle of Edinburgh he would by 10 Jan. find surety for the relief of the king and his wardens of ‘all attempts against the peace of England bygone and to come’ (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iv. 234).
• On the occasion of the queen's coronation, 17 May 1590, Buccleuch was dubbed a knight (Calderwood, History,, v. 95). When his stepfather, Bothwell, was put to the horn in the following year, he was appointed keeper of Liddesdale, and on 6 July, with the border chiefs, he gave his oath to concur without ‘shrinking, shift, or excuse in Bothwell's pursuit’ (Reg. P. C. Scotl. iv. 649), a band to this effect being also subscribed by him at Edinburgh on 6 Aug. (ib. p. 667). Hardly had it been subscribed when the pursuit of Bothwell was declared to be unnecessary; but doubts of Buccleuch's fidelity being nevertheless entertained, he next day gave caution in 10,000l. that he would go abroad within a month, and not return within the next three years (ib. p. 668); and on 29 Aug. he was relieved of the keepership of Liddesdale (ib. p. 674). He, however, obtained letters permitting his return to Scotland on 12 Nov. 1592 (Fraser, Scotts of Buccleuch, ii. 250). On 22 May 1594 he was named one of a commission for the pursuit of Bothwell (Reg. P. C. Scotl. v. 137), and at ‘the king's earnest desire’ he was in October following reappointed to the office of keeper of Liddesdale ‘heritably in time to come’ (ib. p. 178). On the division of Bothwell's lands after his flight to France in 1595, Buccleuch obtained the lordship of Crichton and Liddesdale (Calderwood, v. 363). As a follower of the Hamiltons he in the same year joined them in the league with the chancellor Maitland against Mar. The queen proposed that he should succeed Mar in the guardianship of the young prince, and when the king declined to accede to this arrangement, Buccleuch, with the bold recklessness of the borderer, proposed that both king and prince should be seized, and that, this being done, Mar should be arraigned for high treason; but the proposal was too much for the prudent chancellor. In the following year Buccleuch won lasting renown by his brilliant exploit in delivering Kinmont Willie [see Armstrong, William, (fl. 1596)] from Carlisle Castle. Not only was the achievement noteworthy for its clever daring; it indicated the faculty of swift decision, and the high moral courage of a strong personality. Persuaded that he had justice on his side, Buccleuch never hesitated to defy all consequences. His simple, and to himself unanswerable, plea was that Armstrong, having been captured during a truce, was not legally a prisoner. It was scarcely to be expected, however, that Elizabeth would homologate this novel method of rectifying her representative's mistake, or that she would regard the deed as aught else than an illegal outrage committed by the king of Scotland's representative, and thus virtually in his name. In accordance with Elizabeth's instructions, Bowes, her representative, made formal complaint against it before the Scottish parliament, and concluded a long speech by declaring that peace could no longer exist between the two realms unless Buccleuch were delivered into England to be punished at the queen's pleasure. Although Buccleuch asserted that the illegality was chargeable only against the English warden (Armstrong not being in any proper sense a prisoner), he declared his readiness to submit his case to a joint English and Scottish commission. But the sympathy of the Scots being strongly with him, it was only after repeated and urgent demands by Elizabeth that arrangements were entered into for its appointment, and before it met Buccleuch still further exasperated Elizabeth by a raid into England, in which he apprehended six Tyndale rievers, whom he put to death. Consequently the commission which met at Berwick decided that he should enter into bond in England until pledges were given for the future maintenance of peace. He therefore surrendered himself to Sir William Selby, master of the ordnance at Berwick, on 7 Oct. 1597. On 12 May 1599 he received from Elizabeth a safe-conduct to pass abroad for the recovery of his health, and in 1600 he was in Paris, when he gave evidence before the Cour des Aides in regard to the genealogy of one Andrew Scott, Sieur de Savigne (Fraser, Scotts of Buccleuch, i. 172–3).
• After the accession of James VI to the throne of England, Buccleuch in 1604 raised a regiment of the borderers, in command of whom he distinguished himself under Maurice, prince of Orange, in the war against the Spaniards in the Netherlands. On 4 March 1606 he was raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Scott of Buccleuch. He died in December 1611. By his wife Mary, daughter of Sir William Ker of Cessford, sister of Robert, first earl of Roxburghe, he had one son—Walter, who succeeded him as second Lord Scott of Buccleuch—and two daughters: Margaret, married, first, to James, lord Ross, and, secondly, to Alexander Montgomery, sixth earl of Eglinton; and Elizabeth, married to John Master of Cranstoun, and afterwards second Lord Cranstoun.
• [Register Privy Council of Scotland, vols. i.–viii.; Cal. State Papers, Scot. Ser. and For. Ser. during the reign of Elizabeth; Histories of Knox and Calderwood; Sir William Fraser's Scotts of Buccleuch (privately printed); Douglas's Scottish Peerage (Wood), i. 251.]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Scott,_Walter_(1565-1611)_(DNB00) ________________
• Name Sir Walter (1st Lord) Scott
• Died 15 Dec 1611
• Father Walter (Sir) (of Buccleuch) Scott, b. Abt 1549, d. 17 Apr 1574 (Age ~ 25 years)
• Mother Margaret (of Angus) Douglas, d. 1640
• Family Mary Ker
• Children
  • 1. Walter (1st Earl of Buccleuch) Scott, d. 20 Nov 1633
  • 2. Margaret Scott, d. 3 Oct 1651
  • 3. Elizabeth Scott
• Sources
• [S883] Hamish Maclaren.
• From: http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/famgen/getperson.php?personID=I4928... _______________
• Scott of Buccleuch, Lord (S, 1606)
• Walter [Scott], 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch, PC
• only son and heir of Sir Walter Scot of Buccleuch and Branxholme, by his wife Lady Margaret Douglas, 1st dau. of David [Douglas], 7th Earl of Angus
• born 1565
• mar. after 1 Oct 1586 Margaret Ker (d. after 1611), sister of Robert [Ker], 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and dau. of Sir William Ker of Cessford by his wife Janet Douglas, dau. of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig
• children
  • 1. Hon Walter Scott, later 2nd Lord Scott of Buccleuch later 1st Earl of Buccleuch
  • 1. Hon Margaret Scott (d. 5 Oct 1651), mar. (1) after 19 Dec 1614 James [Ross], 6th Lord Ross, and (2) betw. Nov 1642 and Mar 1642/3 as his second wife Alexander [Seton later Montgomerie], 6th Earl of Eglinton, and had issue by her first husband
  • 2. Hon Elizabeth Scott (dsp. after 30 Jun 1619 and before 23 Apr 1623), mar. after 22 Nov 1616 as his first wife John [Cranstoun], 2nd Lord Cranstoun
  • 3. Hon Jean Scott (d. after 21 Sep 1613)
• died 15 Dec 1611
• created 18 Mar 1605/6 Lord Scott of Buccleuch
• suc. by son
• note knighted 1590; Warden of the West Marches, Keeper of Liddesdale, etc. 1590; captured by the English 1597; served in the Netherlands under Maurice, Prince of Orange; Privy Councillor [S] 1611
• Walter [Scott], 2nd Lord Scott of Buccleuch later 1st Earl of Buccleuch
• created 15 Mar 1618/9 Lord Scott of Whitchester and Eskdale, and Earl of Buccleuch, with remainder to his heirs male (which remainder was apparently altered by a subsequent patent or charter to heirs general)
• The Lordship of Scott of Buccleuch has been held by the Earls of Buccleuch (Dukes of Buccleuch from 20 Apr 1663) since 15 Mar 1619.
• Last updated 8 Jun 2004
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/scott1606.htm?zoom... __________________
• Sir Walter "Bold Buccleuch" Scott
• Birth: 1565, Scotland
• Death: Dec. 14, 1611
• Walter Scott, 5th of Buccleuch, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch was a Scottish nobleman and famous border reiver, known as the "Bold Buccleuch" and leader of Kinmont Willie's Raid. Scott was the son of Sir Walter Scott, 4th of Buccleuch.
• He was the great grandson of Sir Walter Scott, "Wicked Wat".
• Scott married Mary, daughter of Sir William Kerr of Cessford and Janet Douglas, in 1586. They had four children.
• He was famous for the rescue of Kinmont Willie Armstrong, a well known border reiver, who was captured by English soldiers in 1596, in violation of a truce day. He was taken to Carlisle and imprisoned in Carlisle Castle.
• The raid on Carlisle created a diplomatic incident between England and Scotland, and war between the two nations appeared imminent until Walter surrendered himself to the English authorities. Tried and found guilty, Walter was sent to London.
• When Walter Scott reached London, and, having been presented to the Queen, was asked by Elizabeth I of England how he dared to undertake an enterprise so desperate and presumptuous. Walter is reported to have replied, "What is it that a man dare not do?" Elizabeth was surprised with the boldness, but she did not resent the answer. She responded to her own noble-in-waiting and said, "With ten thousand such men, our brother in Scotland might shake the firmest throne of Europe."
• Walter died in December 1611, and was interred at St Mary's Kirk, Hawick.
• Burial: Saint Mary's Kirk, Hawick, Scottish Borders, Scotland
• Find A Grave Memorial# 105696496
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105696496 ______________________
• Buccleuch, Earl of (S, 1618/9)
• Walter [Scott], 2nd Lord Scott of Buccleuch later 1st Earl of Buccleuch
• 1st son and heir of Walter [Scott], 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch, by his wife Mary Ker, sister of Robert [Ker], 1st Earl of Roxburghe, and dau. of Sir William Ker of Cessford
• born
• mar. 15 Oct 1618 Lady Mary Hay (d. 11 Apr 1631), 3rd dau. of Francis [Hay], 9th Earl of Erroll, by his third wife Lady Elizabeth Douglas, 6th dau. of William [Douglas], 6th Earl of Morton
• children
  • 1. Hon Walter Scott, styled Lord Scott (b. 13 Nov 1625; dvp. bef. 2 Apr 1629)
  • 2. Hon Francis Scott, later 2nd Earl of Buccleuch
  • 3. David Scott of Cannobie (b. 28 Nov 1627; d. Jul 1648)
  • 1. Lady Elizabeth Scott (b. Nov 1621; dsp. bef. 23 Jul 1647), mar. 1641 as his first wife John [Erskine], 20th and de jure 4th Earl of Mar
  • 2. Lady Jean Scott (bapt. 13 Feb 1628/9; d. Nov 1688), mar. 4 Sep 1644 John [Hay], 1st Marquess of Tweeddale, and had issue
  • 3. Lady Mary Scott (b. 11 Apr 1631 ; d. bef. Sep 1644)
• died 20 Nov 1633
• created
• 16 Mar 1618/9 Lord Scott of Whitchester and Eskdale, and Earl of Buccleuch, with remainder to his heirs male (which remainder was apparently altered by a subsequent patent or charter to heirs general)
• suc. by son
• note suc. his father 15 Dec 1611 as 2nd Lord Scott of Buccleuch
• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/buccleuch1618.htm?... __________
• Links
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott,_4th_Baron_of_Buccleuch
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott_of_Branxholme_and_Buccleuch
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott,_1st_Earl_of_Buccleuch
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ross,_6th_Lord_Ross
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cranstoun,_2nd_Lord_Cranstoun
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105688944

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