For the village in Northern Ireland, see Greysteel.
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Greysteil ("Graysteel") is a medieval poem popular in 16th century Scotland. Set to music, it was performed for James IV of Scotland and James V of Scotland. The poem was also called Syr Egeir and Syr Gryme, Eger and Grime being the names of the two knights who fight Greysteil and whose contrasted virtues are the poem's real subject.
The name of the protagonist, a strong and agile knight, opulent, tainted with the black-arts, and vanquished by a magic sword provided by a powerful woman, was adopted as a nickname for two 16th-century courtiers, Archibald Douglas of Kilspindie who was said to have been dominated by his wife Isobel Hoppar,[1] and William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie,[2] and Alexander Montgomery, 6th Earl of Eglinton in the 17th-century, and was a given name of the 20th-century 2nd Earl of Gowrie.
^Andrea Thomas, Princelie Majestie: The Court of James V (Edinburgh: John Donald), p. 128: David Reid, David Hume of Godscroft's History of the House of Angus, 1 (Edinburgh: STS, 2005), pp. 101-2.
^Gowrie was called 'Greysteil' posthumously in a letter of Robert Logan of Restalrig, 31 July 1600: Hales (1867), 7: Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, 4 (1816), p. 422.
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