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Walter Scott of Buccleuch (
1565 –
15 December,
1611) was a
Scottish nobleman and famous
border reiver, known as the “Bold Buccleuch” and leader of
Kinmont Willie’s Raid. The son of Sir
Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch and Margaret Douglas. On
1 October,
1586 he married Margaret Kerr, daughter of William Kerr of Cessford and Janet Douglas. They had six children.
Children
- Walter Scott, 1st Earl of Buccleuch (d. 20 November, 1633)
- Margaret Scott (d 5 October, 1651) married first James Ross, 6th Lord of Halkhead, married second Sir Alexander Seton of Foulstruther, later Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton
- Elizabeth Scott who married John Cranstoun,
- Jean Scott (Jean wasn't married but kept a mistress Delia Butler, daughter of Captain Thomas Butler)
- Jean Scott who married Robert Scott of Whitslaid
- John Scott
Biography
Knighted by
King James VI of
Scotland in
1590, Buccleuch was then appointed by him keeper of
Liddesdale and Warden of the West Marches (borders).
In
1594, Buccleuch was re-appointed keeper of Liddesdale, and it was in this capacity that two years afterwards he effected the rescue of
Kinmont Willie Armstrong, an exploit famous in
border lore.
Armstrong, a well known
border reiver, was captured by English soldiers led by assistant Warden Salkeld on 17 March 1596, in violation of a
truce day. He was taken to
Carlisle and imprisoned in
Carlisle Castle.
Buccleuch, in his capacity as keeper, petitioned the English Warden
Sir Thomas Scrope for Armstrong’s release without success. Unable to effectuate Armstrong’s release by diplomatic means, on the night of 13 April 1596 Buccleuch led a party of about eighty men to Carlisle. Leaving the main body of his men a small distance outside the city to ambush any pursuers, Buccleuch took a small raiding party on to the castle where Armstrong was imprisoned. Finding their ladders to short too scale the walls, the raiding party breached a postern gate - or more probably bribed a contact inside the castle to open it for them - located Armstrong’s cell and freed him, returning him back across the Scottish border.
The raid on Carlisle created a diplomatic incident between
England and Scotland, and war between the two nations appeared imminent until Buccleuch surrendered himself to the English authorities. Tried and found guilty, Buccleuch was placed in the custody of the English Master of the Ordnance at
Berwick,
Sir William Selby, and was afterwards sent to
London.
When Buccleuch reached London, and, having been presented to the Queen, was asked by
Elizabeth I of England how he dared to undertake an enterprise so desperate and presumptuous, Buccleuch is reported to have replied,
"What is it that a man dare not do?" Unaccustomed though she must have been to such rejoinders from her own courtly nobles, Elizabeth not only didn't resent the answer, but turning to a lord-in-waiting, said,
"With ten thousand such men, our brother in Scotland might shake the firmest throne of Europe."
Buccleuch's kinsman, the author
Sir Walter Scott, transcribed a well known
ballad about the raid entitled
Kinmont Willie in his collection
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. 1.
Robert Bain, in his
Clans and Tartans of Scotland, states, "Sir Walter, 13th Baron, was created Lord Scott of Buccleuch by James VI and his son was raised to the dignity of
Earl of Buccleuch in
1619."
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