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William Urquhart

1290 - ?

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William Urquhart

Male 1290 - ?

Born, Cromarty, Cromartyshire, Scotland.

Married to Lilias Ross Married to Violet Cumming. Father of Adam Urquhart. Son of Francis Urquhart and Rosalind Hay.

, and had a son and successor."in itself and with known historical research. The reason for this may be the changing politics and contradictions of monarchy, nobility, power, and family relations in the time of the interregnum. The poetic justice of the author and the politics and culture of his own time may also offer some explanation.ilias, dau. of Hugh, Earl of Ross; 2. Violet, dau. of John Cumming, Earl of Buchan. WILLIAM married LILLIAS 1314. His first wife was Lillias, the daughter of Hugh earl of Ross: to his second wife, he took Violet Cumming, the daughter of John Cumming earl of Buchan and lord of Strathboghie; at which marriage Hugh earl of Ross, was so incensed, that he begged of king Robert the Bruce, the gift of his forfeiture, because the Cummings had been disloyal to him: whatever the king's facility was, this William Urquhart carried himself so lovingly towards king Robert, that when almost all Scotland was possest by king Edward's faction, and his lands at Cromarty altogether over-run by them, and his house garrisoned and victualed with three years provision of all necessaries for 100 men, he, by a stratagem, gained the castle, and with the matter of forty men, kept it out against the forces of Edward, for the space of seven years and a half; during which time, all his lands there were totally wasted, and his woods burnt; so that having nothing then he could properly call his own, but the Motehill only of Cromarty, which he fiercely maintained against his enemies; he was agnamed Gulielmus de monte alto. At last William Wallace came to his relief (but, as I conceive, it was the brother's son of the renowned Wallace) who, in a little den, within two miles of Cromarty (till this hour called Wallace den) killed six hundred of king Edward's unfortunate forces. Afterwards raising the siege from about the Mote-hill of Cromarty, by the assistance of his namesake, the other William, the shire of Cromarty was totally purged of the enemy: and shortly after, by King David, son of the said king Robert, confirmed upon Adam, son to the aforesaid William, with all priviledges, royalties, and immunities that to the said William formerly did belong, which the earl of Ross consented unto; upon whose daughter, Lillias by name, the said William begot Adam.'"

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