Johnson / Bryans Families

Tracing the ancestry of Pamela Murdoch Bryans and Maurice Alan Johnson

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Robert Bruce, of Stenhouse[1]

Male 1513 -

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  • Name Robert Bruce 
    Relationshipwith Marion Murdoch Johnson
    Gender Male 
    Birth Between 1487 and 1513  [1] 
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2021 

    Father Sir Robert Bruce, of Stenhouse
              b. Abt 1472  
              d. 9 Sep 1513, Branxton, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Euphemia Montgomerie 

    Wife Janet Forrester 
    Children 
     1. Sir Alexander Bruce, of Airth and Stenhouse  
              d. 1598
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • From Lands and Lairds1:
      ...slain in the streets of Edinburgh in a conflict between French and Scottish soldiers, "which he sought to quell, being Captain of the Castle and Provost of the city." In May, 1544, he had defended the Castle against the army of Henry VIII under the Earl of Hertford, said to number 26,000 men, "with great artailyerie and all kind of munition," sent to demand that the young Queen Mary, then eighteen months old, should be given up to them to be conveyed to England to be married to Prince Edward; but "the laird of Stanehous, Capitane thairof, caused showte at them in so gret aboundance, and with so guid messour, that they slew a gret nowmer of Inglismen, amangis whome thair wes sum princepall Capitanis and gentillmen, and ane of the gretest peacis of the Inglis ordinances wes brakin, quhairthrow thai war constraned to raise thair seige shortlie and retire thame."


      Footnotes
      [1] Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace Parishs, John C. Gibson, Glasgow (1908); Bruce of Stenhouse, pages 15-27

  • Sources 
    1. [S0430] John Charles Gibson, Lands and Lairds of Larbert and Dunipace Parishes, (Glasgow, 1908), Bruce of Stenhouse; pages 15-27.