Following the death of his father at the Battle of Flodden, Ross had by 1514 obtained sasines of his father's lands in Melville, Renfrew and Tarbert. He attended the parliaments of James V of Scotland frequently over the next 25 years. On 30 June 1534 he ratified Scotland's peace treaty with England. He died in February 1555/6.[1]
Robert, Master of Ross, who was killed in 1547 at the Battle of Pinkie. He married Agnes Moncrieff and left a daughter, Elizabeth Ross. She was a lady in waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots, and married on 10 May 1562, John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming. Mary paid for the wedding banquet.[2] The celebrations were held in Holyrood park at the side of the loch and there were "great triumphs", shows and masques involving a staged sea-battle or naumachia.[3] The ambassador from Sweden attended.[4]
Christian Ross, who married first (1543) John Mure of Caldwell, secondly (5 November 1552) Nicholas Ramsay of Dalhousie and thirdly (before 8 July 1555) John Weir, and died before February 1556/7
(a natural son) John Ross of Tartraven, ancestor of the family of Ross of Kirkland.[5]
↑ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 622.
↑ Pesala Bandara, 'Mary Queen of Scot's Aquatic Entertainments for the Wedding of John Fleming to Elizabeth Ross', Margaret Shewring, Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance: Essays in Honour of J. R. Mulryne(Ashgate, 2013).
↑ Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1858), p. 28.
↑ The Scottish Journal of Topography, Antiquities, Traditions, etc. (Edinburgh, 1848), at page 28, Regent, or Professor Ross
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