Henry Erskine, Master of Cardross

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Henry Erskine, Master of Cardross (died 1628) was a Scottish landowner.

He was a son of John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1558–1634) and Marie Stewart.

He, or more likely, his older half-brother, the Master of Mar, danced in Lord Haddington's masque in 1608. [1]

Henry and his brother Alexander Erskine took an extended Grand Tour in France and Italy from 1618 to 1620 and met Henry Wotton in Venice. [2]

In March 1624 he wrote to his father from London, with news of the parliament. It had been decided to formally abandon the Spanish Match. His brother Alexander Erskine was raise a company of Scots horsemen for the Prince of Orange. He had not written to his mother, as he did not want to get involved in the affairs of his lately deceased uncle, Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox, despite the unwelcome intervention of George Elphinstone. [3]

Elizabeth of Bohemia suggested that one of the Erskines, Alexander or Henry, should marry one of her ladies in waiting, Mistress Margaret or Margery Croft (d. 1637), a daughter of the Catholic Sir Herbert Croft of Croft Castle and Mary Bourne. [4] The marriage plan, which did not take place, was examined by Lisa Jardine, who supposed that Croft was not of sufficient status to marry the son of an earl. [5]

Henry Erskine married Margaret Bannatyne or Bellenden in 1626, daughter of Sir James Bellenden of Broughton. [6]

Their son David Erskine succeeded to the barony of Cardross, and in 1646 married Anne Hope, daughter of Sir Thomas Hope. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ John Nichols, The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, vol. 2 (London, 1828), p. 186.
  2. ↑ HMC Mar & Kellie, 2 (London, 1930), p. 90.
  3. ↑ HMC Mar & Kellie, vol. 1 (London, 1904), pp. 122-4.
  4. ↑ Nadine Akkerman, The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia. vol 1 (Oxford, 2015), pp. 568-70: Joseph Lemuel Chester, Westminster Abbey Registers: Harleian Society, vol. 10 (London, 1869), pp. 64, 132.
  5. ↑ HMC 4th Report: Erskine-Murray of Alva (London, 1874), p. 527: HMC Mar & Kellie (London, 1904), p. 178: Lisa Jardine, Temptation in the Archives, (UCL: London, 2015), pp. 1-17.
  6. ↑ Francis Grant, Parish of Holyroodhouse of Canongate: Marriages 1564-1800 (Edinburgh, 1915), p. 617.
  7. ↑ David Matthew, Scotland under Charles I (London, 1955), p. 74.
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