Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone

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Elphinstone Tower the home of Lord Elphinstone, in 1897. The Elphinstone family book of the lords Elphinstone, Balmerino and Coupar (1897) (14592145038).jpg
Elphinstone Tower the home of Lord Elphinstone, in 1897.

Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone (1530-1602) was a Scottish landowner and courtier.

Robert Elphinstone was the son of Alexander Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Elphinstone and Katherine Erskine, daughter of John Erskine, 5th Lord Erskine and his wife Lady Margaret Campbell, daughter of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart. His great-aunt Euphemia Elphinstone was a mistress of James V of Scotland and the mother of Robert, Earl of Orkney.

The Elphinstone lands were to the east of Stirling near Airth and the Forth, centered on Elphinstone Tower.

His sister Margery Elphinstone married his neighbour Robert Drummond of Carnock in the 1540s. [1] Their coat of arms from Carnock House was obtained by Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West had it displayed at Sissinghurst Castle. [2]

Robert became Lord Elphinstone after the death of his father at the Battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547.

On 16 May 1554, because he had made poor decisions about his properties in his youth, Lord Elphinstone put his affairs in the hands of his grandfather Lord Erskine, his father-in-law John Drummond of Innerpeffray, and his brothers-in-law Robert Drummond of Carnock and John Hamilton of Haggs. This transaction was enacted before Mary of Guise and the Privy Council of Scotland in her presence chamber at Stirling Castle. [3] Subsequently, the Elphinstones and Erskines continued a feud.

In May 1565, his brother-in-law Alexander Drummond of Midhope Castle was charged with conspiring with Lady Elphinstone to defraud Lord Elphinstone of his income over the past three years. However, there does not seem to have been a trial, or any further evidence of bad feeling between Elphinstone and his wife and the Drummonds of Midhope. [4]

In April 1567 it was said that Lord Elphinstone had avoided signing the Ainslie Tavern Bond which would have pledged his support for the Earl of Bothwell. In May 1568, because he was a supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, Regent Moray ordered him to surrender Elphinstone Tower. [5]

In 1577 he was said to be a Catholic and still a supporter of the exiled Mary, Queen of Scots. [6] In that year he transferred his estates to his eldest son, Alexander, Master of Elphinsone. [7]

Lord Elphinstone was in London in 1592 and returned in November. [8]

Robert, Lord Elphinstone, died on 18 May 1602 and was buried in the kirk of Airth. [9]

Family

Robert Elphinstone married Margaret Drummond, daughter of John Drummond of Innerpeffray and Margaret Stewart, a daughter of James IV of Scotland. Their children included; [10]

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References

  1. ↑ William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 3.
  2. ↑ The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries, vol. 10, no. 39, (Edinburgh, 1896), pp. 99-100.
  3. ↑ Register of Privy Council of Scotland, vol.1 (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 140: William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 98-99.
  4. ↑ William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), pp. 101-2.
  5. ↑ Register of Privy Council of Scotland, vol.1 (Edinburgh, 1877), p. 626.
  6. ↑ Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 254 no. 284.
  7. ↑ William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 103.
  8. ↑ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 4 (London, 1892), p. 247, 252.
  9. ↑ William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 103.
  10. ↑ William Fraser, Elphinstone Family Book, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1897), p. 3, 104-6.
  11. ↑ HMC Salisbury Hatfield, vol. 4 (London, 1892), p. 252.
  12. ↑ Sara Jayne Steen, Letters of Arbella Stewart (Oxford, 1994), p. 181.
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