William Kirkcaldy of Grange information

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...

heir was William Kirkcaldy of Grange. His main property was called Hallyards Castle. The name is sometimes spelled Kirkaldy. Sir James Kirkcaldy accompanied...

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...

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...

led by William Drury. 28 May 1573; Surrender of Edinburgh Castle by William Kirkcaldy of Grange. Anonymous, Thomson, Thomas, ed., A Diurnal of Remarkable...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

laird of Barnbougle in 1586, John Mowbray, was a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, his wife was a sister of William Kirkcaldy of Grange and two of their...

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...

Cardinal. William Kirkcaldy of Grange and eight men gained entry to the castle at the drawbridge and when they were joined by John Leslie of Parkhill,...

Helen Leslie of Kinnaird, Fife, widow of the Edinburgh merchant James Baron and James Kirkcaldy (d. 1573) brother of William Kirkcaldy of Grange, and secondly...

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...

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...

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...

despite being blockaded. On 27 January 1573, James Kirkcaldy, the brother of William Kirkcaldy of Grange who held Edinburgh Castle for Queen Mary, arrived...