1200s–1600s raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border
For other uses, see Border reivers (disambiguation).
"Reivers" redirects here. For the actor, see David Reivers. For other uses, see The Reivers (disambiguation).
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Reivers at Gilnockie Tower in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, from a 19th-century printNotorious raider, Walter Scott of Harden's horn, noted in a poem called "The Reiver's Wedding" by Sir Walter Scott. It reads in part: "He took a bugle frae his side, With names carved o'er and o'er, Full many a chief of meikle pride, That Border bugle bore."
Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. They included both Scottish and English people, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality. Their heyday was in the last hundred years of their existence, during the time of the House of Stuart in the Kingdom of Scotland and the House of Tudor in the Kingdom of England.
Borderreivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. They included both Scottish...
December 2010 The Reivers were associated as full members to the BAFA Community Leagues and for the first full season the Reivers were aligned to Division...
April 2007. "Edinburgh hit out at Borders loss". BBC Sport. 27 March 2007. Retrieved 23 April 2007. "BorderReivers 16–24 Ospreys". BBC Sport. 12 May...
of clan organisation grew up in this area. This was the land of the BorderReivers. These clans had a legal system distinct from that of the majority of...
Rugby, the club was subsequently merged with BorderReivers to form a new team known as Edinburgh Reivers. For the 1999 and 2000 seasons the Scottish Rugby...
The BorderReivers, of the English-Scottish borderlands, were very fond of burgonets and the morion in Elizabethan times, and as a result reivers were...
sonderklasse at Crimond, Scotland. By 1958, Clark was driving for the local BorderReivers team for Ian Scott-Watson, racing Jaguar D-Types and Porsches in national...
These peoples were known as the BorderReivers and Carlisle was the major city within their territories. The Reivers became so much of a nuisance to the...
four teams into two. Edinburgh merged with the BorderReivers to form a team to be known as Edinburgh Reivers. Glasgow merged with Caledonian to form a team...
in response to the threat of attack from the English, Scots and the BorderReivers of both nationalities. In Scotland, a line of these towers was built...
raids which took place in the times of the BorderReivers. During this period, at the western end of the border there was a strip of country, called the...
Harbottle BorderReivers Peel tower After uniting the English and Scottish thrones, James VI and I sharply curbed the lawlessness of the borderreivers and...
to the time of the Norman Conquest. In the Middle Ages they had been BorderReivers based in Redesdale. The main line had its family seat first at Mitford...
Anglo-Scottish Borderreivers and caused it to be read out in all churches in the border area. It comprehensively cursed the reivers and their families...
of construction found along the Anglo-Scottish border, in the areas formerly plagued by borderreivers. They are fortified farmhouses, characterised by...
letter, as a poem now known as "Armstrong's Goodnight", by one of the BorderReivers executed that year for the murder in 1600 of Sir John Carmichael, Warden...
to customers for use in various series. Notable privateers included BorderReivers, Ian Baille, David Hamm, and Essex Racing Stable. DBR1/3 finished 3rd...
Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire. See centre points of the United Kingdom. A Borderreivers' Peel Tower, circa 15th century, is now part of the Centre of Britain...
1608 Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home (1608-) Scottish Borders Anglo-Scottish borderBorderReivers Debatable Lands, land lying between England and Scotland...
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