Individual Details
Sir Henry St. Clair, 7th Baron of Roslin
( - 1331)
According to Wikipedia:
Sir Henry St Clair was a 13th-14th century Scottish noble and the 7th Baron of Roslin.
Henry was the son of William St Clair and Amicia de Roskelyn.[1] He fought at the Battle of Dunbar on 27 April 1296, where he and his father William were captured and he became a prisoner of King Edward I of England at St Briavels Castle. He was the Sheriff of Lanark in 1305. Fought with his two sons John and William at the Battle of Bannockburn on 23–24 June 1314. King Robert I of Scotland rewarded him for his bravery with the gift of Pentland, the forest of Pentland Moor, Morton and Mortonhall. He was one of the Scottish nobles who in 1320 signed the Declaration of Arbroath.[2] He died c. 1335.
Family and issue[edit]
Henry married Alice de Fenton, daughter of William de Fenton of Baikie and Beaufort and Cecilia Bisset, and is known to have had the following issue;
William (d. 1330), who left a son, William St Clair, 8th Baron of Roslin (d. 1358), who married Isabella de Strathearn, daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn.[3]
John (d. 1330)References[edit]
^ People of Medieval Scotland - Henry Sinclair (d.c.1330)
^ Paul, James Balfour (1909). The Scots Peerage : Founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. VI. Edinburgh: David Douglas. p. 565-566. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^ Saint-Clair, Roland (1898). The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the Sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair. Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand: H. Brett. p. 284-285. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
Sir Henry St Clair was a 13th-14th century Scottish noble and the 7th Baron of Roslin.
Henry was the son of William St Clair and Amicia de Roskelyn.[1] He fought at the Battle of Dunbar on 27 April 1296, where he and his father William were captured and he became a prisoner of King Edward I of England at St Briavels Castle. He was the Sheriff of Lanark in 1305. Fought with his two sons John and William at the Battle of Bannockburn on 23–24 June 1314. King Robert I of Scotland rewarded him for his bravery with the gift of Pentland, the forest of Pentland Moor, Morton and Mortonhall. He was one of the Scottish nobles who in 1320 signed the Declaration of Arbroath.[2] He died c. 1335.
Family and issue[edit]
Henry married Alice de Fenton, daughter of William de Fenton of Baikie and Beaufort and Cecilia Bisset, and is known to have had the following issue;
William (d. 1330), who left a son, William St Clair, 8th Baron of Roslin (d. 1358), who married Isabella de Strathearn, daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn.[3]
John (d. 1330)References[edit]
^ People of Medieval Scotland - Henry Sinclair (d.c.1330)
^ Paul, James Balfour (1909). The Scots Peerage : Founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. VI. Edinburgh: David Douglas. p. 565-566. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^ Saint-Clair, Roland (1898). The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the Sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair. Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand: H. Brett. p. 284-285. Retrieved June 6, 2021.
Events
| Death | 1331 |
Families
| Spouse | Alice de Fenton ( - ) |
| Child | Sir William St. Clair ( - ) |
| Father | William St. Clair, 6th Baron of Roslin ( - 1297) |
| Mother | Amicia de Roskelyn ( - ) |