Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton
Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton | |
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6th Earl of Eglinton | |
In office 1612–1661 | |
Succeeded by | Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton |
Personal details | |
Born | 1588 |
Died | 7 January 1661 |
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Children | 8[1] |
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Military service | |
Commands | Scottish regiment of horse |
Battles/wars | Battle of Marston Moor |
Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton (1588 – 7 January 1661[1]) was a Scottish aristocrat and soldier, originally known as Sir Alexander Seton of Foulstruther.
Life
He was the third son of Robert Seton, 1st Earl of Winton by his wife Lady Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton.
In July 1606 he was involved in an incident at Perth, during Parliament. In the evening he went with his older brother, the Master of Winton, to the lodging of the Earl of Eglinton with nine or ten companions. On the way they met the Earl of Glencairn who had thirty followers coming the other way. The Master of Winton and the Earl passed each other, but the servants at the rear of the two companies started to fight, only because of a long-standing feud between the Eglinton and Glancairn families. The town and royal guard stopped the fighting. There were few injuries, except to John Mathie, a servant of Glencairn.[2]
In 1612, after spending some time in Paris, and visiting the exiled minister
Montgomerie petitioned against the imposition of
Montgomerie, who was commonly known as
Family
In 1612 Alexander married
- Hugh Montgomerie (1613-1669), later 7th Earl of Eglinton, who married Anne Hamilton (d. 1632), and secondly Mary Leslie.
- Henry Montgomerie of Giffen, who married as the second husband of Jane Campbell, Viscountess Kenmure. He died in 1644 and she gained a pension for life.[8]
- Colonel Alexander Montgomerie (b. 1615).
- Colonel James Montgomerie of Coylsfield (d. 1675), who married Margaret MacDonald.
- General Robert Montgomerie, who married Elizabeth Livingstone, and was wounded at the Battle of Marston Moor.[9]
- Margaret Montgomerie, who married John Hay, 1st Earl of Tweeddale, and secondly, William Cunningham, 9th Earl of Glencairn.
- Eleanor Montgomerie.
- Anna Montgomerie.
He married, secondly, Margaret Scott, daughter of Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch. In May 1650 she sent him a letter discussing the sacking of a female servant and wrote "God Almighty send a good trial of all the witches, and send them a hot fire to burn them with".[10]
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1903). "Montgomerie, Alexander (1588-1661)". Index and Epitome. Dictionary of National Biography. Cambridge University Press. p. 893.
- ^ a b Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .
- ^ Melros Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 17-18.
- ^ Melros Papers, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 113-5, 201.
- ^ William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1859), pp. 189-91: Cynthia Fry, 'Perceptions of Influences', in Nadine Akkerman, The Politics of Female Households (Brill: Leiden, 2014), p. 283.
- ^ William Drummond, The genealogy of the most noble and ancient House of Drummond (Glasgow, 1879), p. 150.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 18.
- ^ Lee 1903.
- . Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ Steve Murdoch & Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Year's War (London, 2014), p. 32.
- ^ HMC Eglinton (London, 1885), p. 57: William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1859), pp. 295-6