Individual Details
Robert Sempill
(1505 - 1572)
===ROBERT, LORD SEMPILL===
===Evidence from the National Records of Scotland===
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'''12 November 1534: Instrument upon the revocation by James V of his gift of the island and lands of Little Cumray in favour of Robert Symple, son and heir of William, Lord Symple, and upon the ratification of the King of his gift thereof to Robert Huntar made in the Great Chamber of the Monastery of Kelso at seven hours afternoon John Hamylton of Cambuskenet, procurator for the said Robert Huntar. Witnesses: Malcolm, Lord Flemyng, Sir George Clappertoun, the King's Elemosiner, William Wod, his porter and John Mure, his barber, Alexander Kynninmond, notary.''' [http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD3%2f1%2f1%2f13%2f5&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=lord+Symple&ko=p&r=&ro=s&df=1500&dt=1600&di=y National Records of Scotland, Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton: Titles, reference GD3/1/1/13/5]
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'''10 November 1572; Instrument of sasine in favour of Robert Semple, grandson and apparent heir of Robert, Lord Semple of the barony of Craigenforth, containing the following lands viz Farnencis, Ryfrat, Bar in Kilburchun, Brientiscroft, Weitlandis, Biltreis, Harispennell, Boullandis, Mishealtoun and Craigenfeoche; the 20lib land of old extent of Auchinfour; 10 merk land of old extent called Third Part or Thirdpart of Auchennanes, lying within the barony and sheriffdom of Renfrew; 40 merks of land of old extent of Privick, lands of Pinotriddins Falie with common in the commonty of Largs, lying within the sheriffdom of Ayr with castles, houses etc which were all incorporated in one whole and free barony called the Barony of Craiginfeoche as also the Barony of Sempill containing in itself the following lands viz the lands of Cassiltoun with park, castle and lake thereof called Lochquhinzeoche, the lands of Ellistoun, Schutterflat, Nether Pennell, Haristingtoun, the lands of Laven, Bargane and Leicheland with all their pertinents, lying within the sheriffdom of Renfrew, together with the office of sheriff of Renfrew and of the whole sheriffdom of the same, together with the office of coroner and Mayor of Fee within the bounds between the Waters of Black Cart and Laveron; and the lands of Southennan, lying within the sheriffdom of Ayr; and the lands of Glassford, lying within the sheriffdom of Lainnarke (Lanark), mills, multures, castles etc together with the advocation, donation of the church of Glassford, provostry and prebendaries of the collegiate church of Sempill and other churches and chapels of the above expressed lands with all their pertinents, which whole lands of the Barony of Sempill are annexed and united and incorporated in one free barony called the Barony of Sempill; reserving to Robert, Lord Sempill during his life the free tenement of the said baronies.''' [http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD3%2f1%2f3%2f16%2f1&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=lord+semple&ko=p&r=&ro=s&df=1500&dt=1600&di=y National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/3/16/1]
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'''7 October 1573: Commission by Robert, lord Simple, sheriff principal, coroner and mair of fee of Renfrew, appointing Robert, master of Simple, his `oy', and James, earl of Mortoun, his tutor (for his interest), as his deputes''' [http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD150%2f2282&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=lord+simple&ko=p&r=&ro=s&df=1500&dt=1600&di=y National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Morton, reference GD150/2282]
===Evidence from the Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow===
12 November 1563: Robert, lord Sempile and his son John Sempile, are noticed in the witness list of a deed of reversion issued by John Brisbane of Bischoptowne. The deed was executed in "Lady Semillis hous in Paslay." [https://archive.org/stream/abstractsprotoc06scogoog#page/n56/mode/1up Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, William Hegait's Protocols, 1561-8, protocol number 762 on p. 44]
===Biographical Accounts===
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Robert, third Lord Sempill, the elder son, called the great Lord Sempill, had, when master of Sempill, with other charters, one of the office of governor and constable of the king’s castle of Douglas, 20th October 1533. He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Pinkie, 1547, and succeeded his father the following year. He was one of the supporters of the queen regent, Mary of Guise, against the lords of the Congregation. In 1560, his castle was besieged and taken, for having disobeyed the laws and ordinances of the council, especially, because he persisted in retaining the mass, and had beset the earl of Arran with a great number of his friends, while he was riding on his way with his accustomed company. He was faithful to the interests of Queen Mary till the murder of Darnley, but in 1567 he entered into the association to defend the young king, James Vi., and was one of the jury on the trial of the earl of Bothwell. At Carberry-hill he was one of the lords who commanded the rear-guard of the confederated force in arms against the queen and Bothwell. He was one of the lords who signed the letters to Douglas of Lochleven to take in charge the ill-fated Queen Mary. He had a command in the avant-guard of the army of the Regent Moray, at the battle of Langside, in 1568, and in consideration of his many valuable services to the king and government, he obtained from him, in 1569, a charter of the abbey of Paisley, on the forfeiture of Lord Claud Hamilton, but it was afterwards restored to the latter. He was one of the secret council of the regent, and after his murder he was taken prisoner, in 1570, by the Hamiltons, while riding home securely from the army of the earls of Lennox and Glencairn at Glasgow. He was carried prisoner to Draffen, whence in a few days he was removed to Argyle by Lord Boyd, and detained there for a year. He engaged in the great feuds between the houses of Eglinton, with which the Sempills had formed various marriage connections, and Glencairn, or the Montgomeries and Cunninghams. These feuds lasted from 1488 to 1586. He built the Peel, the ruins of which still exist, on a small isle on Castle-Semple Loch. He died in 1572.
He married, first, Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, and had, with four daughters, two sons, Robert, master of Sempill, who predeceased him, leaving a son, Robert, fourth Lord Sempill; and Andrew, who, in 1560, got from his father the lands of Bruntchells, and was ancestor of the Sempills of Bruntchells and Millbank.
He married, secondly, Elizabeth, a daughter of Carlyle of Torthorwald, and had, with three daughters, a son, John, whose wife, Mary Livingstone, one of ‘the Queen’s Maries,’ was the youngest daughter of the fifth Lord Livingstone. John Knox notices the marriage of Mary Livingstone the lusty to John Semple the dancer. He acquired the lands of Beltrees, and was ancestor of the Sempills of Beltrees, celebrated for their poetical talents (see next article). In 1577, John Sempill conspired against the Regent Morton, with the design of procuring his death. The conspiracy was revealed by one of his accomplices, Gabriel Sempill, who avowed it before the council, and offered to maintain the truth of his declaration against him in single combat. John Sempill then confessed, and subscribed his confession with his own hand, but instantly swooned, and could not hold the pen in his hand. When he recovered, he craved mercy, but was convicted by an assize, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. At the intercession of his friends, however, he was reprieved, and committed to prison in the castle of Edinburgh, to remain there during the regent’s pleasure. He was not set at liberty till Morton resigned the regency.
*'''Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill (c. 1505–1576), Scottish lord of Parliament.
*'''Robert, also Semphill or Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill (d. 1572), commonly called the 'Great Lord Sempill,' was the elder son of William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill, by his first wife, Lady Margaret Montgomery, eldest daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton. His parents marriage was commemorated in carved stone heraldry at Castle Semple Collegiate Church. The Sempill family from the thirteenth century were heritable bailiffs of the regality of Paisley, and sheriffs of Renfrewshire, under the Lord High Steward of Scotland. They frequently distinguished themselves in the English wars, and were employed in important duties of state. Sir Thomas Sempill, father of John Sempill, 1st Lord Sempill, was killed at the battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488, fighting in support of James III, and the first Lord Sempill, created by James IV about 1489, fell at Flodden on 9 September 1513.
*'''Robert, as Master of Sempill, served in household of James V of Scotland wearing livery costume, and gave the King presents which were recorded because the King had them embellished by his craftsmen. In 1532 the King's armourer William Smithberde polished and sharpened the blades of eight two-handed swords given by Robert, other gifts were stockings and a tartan coat.[1] On 20 October 1533, he was made Governor and Constable of the king's castle of Douglas. In April 1534, after Robert had reached his majority, James V exacted a financial penalty for his "non-entry" to the Sempill lands, punishing his father for non-payment.[2] Robert became Master of Household to Regent Arran.[3] He succeeded his father as Lord Semple in 1548.
*In July 1550, his son, Robert, Master of Sempill was summoned for treason.[4]
*Robert, Lord Sempill, was said to have murdered William Crichton, 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar on 11 June 1552. According to the story recorded by John Lesley, Lord Sempill was in the private lodging of Regent Arran in Edinburgh, and was moved by rage to stab Lord Sanquhar with his sword. Sempill was arrested and taken to Edinburgh Castle, and would have been beheaded, but his influential friends secured his release.
*It was said by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie that Sempill's daughter, Grizzel called 'Lady Gilton', who was the widow of James Hamilton of Stenhouse a former Provost of Edinburgh, was particularly helpful in securing help for Sempill. She was the mistress of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews, Regent Arran's brother. A record survives of a pardon granted in September 1552 to Lord Sempill's eldest son, Robert Master of Sempill, for his part in the murder.[5]
*For Lesley, the incident was an example of the troubles in Scotland during a period of factional rivalry between Regent Arran and Mary of Guise, before she became Regent. Pitscottie tells the story as an example of corruption in Arran's regency.[6]
*'''Robert, Lord Sempill, resisted the Scottish Reformation in 1560. Being a steadfast supporter of the queen regent against the Lords of the Congregation, he was described by Knox as "a man sold under sin, an enemy to God and to all godliness."[7] The Lords of the West laid siege to Castle Semple in Lochwinnoch in December 1559.[8] Leaving his son at Castle Semple, Lord Semple took refuge in the stronghold of Dunbar Castle, then under the command of a French captain, Corbeyran de Cardaillac Sarlabous. Sarlabous was asked in August 1560 to give him up but declined to do so until he received the command of Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis II of France. Thomas Randolph shortly afterwards reported that Sempill had conveyed himself secretly out of Dunbar, and had retired to his own castle with twenty arquebusiers lent him by Sarlabous, and then that he had gone to France.[9]
*After the Scottish Reformation Parliament, James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault and his son James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran again besieged Castle Semple. An ally of the Hamiltons, the Earl of Glencairn gave a description of an assault on the castle on 18 September 1560 that penetrated the yard. The attackers took some sheep to prove their achievement;
** "This last Wednesday the few hagbutters here came to Castle Sympill, and they within came forth to the yards in their accustomed manner, and they, more wilful than wise, came plain upon them and drove them out of the yards into the castle, while they (the defenders) shot little pistols at them out of the windows, and dared not come to the wall heads (parapet). And to verify this, they took sheep that they had within the close away with them. And never a man hurt or slain, but one who will heal, and diverse of the enemy evil hurt, as my brother has written to me."[10]
*'''Lord Sempill made his way to Dumbarton Castle but was captured on 14 October 1560.[11] When Castle Semple was taken in November 1560, he was at Dunbar. He was 'relaxed from the horn' in March 1561.[12] A royal cannon with the insignia of James V of Scotland, probably used at this siege, was recovered from Castle Semple Loch in the 19th century and is now in the collection of Glasgow Museums.
*'''Sempill was one of the "nobles and barons of the west country" who on 5 Sept 1565 signed a band in support of Mary and Darnley, in opposition to the Earl of Moray and other rebels of the Chaseabout Raid, and in Mary's army held a command in the vanguard of the battle;[13] but though a catholic, he, after the murder of Darnley, joined the association for the 'defences of the young prince' in opposition to Bothwell and the queen.
*'''At Carberry Hill on 14 June 1567 he commanded in the vanguard of the army which opposed the queen; and he was also one of those who signed the documents authorising William Douglas of Lochleven to take the queen under his charge in Lochleven Castle. In Morton's declaration regarding the discovery and custody of the 'casket letters,' he is mentioned as having been present at the opening of the casket.
*'''After the queen's escape from Lochleven he assembled his dependents against her at Langside on 13 May 1568; and on the 19 May he was, with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed Lieutenant of the Western parts, with special instructions to watch the castle of Dumbarton, and prevent the entrance into it of provisions or reinforcements or fugitives.[14] For his special services he obtained a gift of the abbey of Paisley. While returning one evening in May 1570 from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, he was seized by some of the Hamiltons' dependents, and carried a prisoner to Draffen, whence he was shortly afterwards removed to Argyle. Calderwood states that he remained in Argyle for twelve months, but he was probably set at liberty in February 1570; for when the house of Paisley surrendered to the regent at that time, the lives of those within it were granted on this condition.[15] Notwithstanding the utmost efforts of Glencairn and Sempill, the castle of Dumbarton continued to hold out, until, on 1 April 1571, its rock was scaled by Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill.
*'''Robert 3rd Lord Sempill married firstly, Isabel Hamilton, a daughter of William Hamilton of Sanquhar, and secondly Elizabeth Carlille, a daughter of Lord Torthorwald.
*'''By his first wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, he had, with four daughters, two sons''', Robert Master of Sempill, who predeceased him, leaving his grandson to become Robert Sempill, 4th Lord Sempill, and Andrew, ancestor of the Sempills of Burchell.
*'''By his second wife, Elizabeth Carlyle, he had a son''' John, ancestor of the Sempills of Beltrees.
*'''A son''', James Sempill, '''whose mother was said to be an Englishwoman''', married Mary Livingston in March 1565. She was one of the Four Marys who were ladies in waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots. Colonel William Sempill of Lochwinnoch, who was involved in the Spanish blanks plot is also thought to have been a son of the 3rd Earl.
*'''A daughter''', Jean Sempill married James Ross, 4th Lord Ross.
*Andrew Sempill and his half-brother James Sempill, '''noted as sons of Robert (then Master of Sempill)''', were old enough to witness a property transaction made in Paisley in August 1542.[16]
*'''On 12 June 1572 Robert had a charter of the lands of Glassford, and he appears to have died soon after.
*'''Neither the 3rd lord Sempill nor his son Robert, Master of Sempill, nor the 4th Lord Sempill could have been, as Sibbald, Motherwell, and others maintain, the Robert Sempill who was author of the Sempill Ballads, the 4th Lord was born too late, while in the case of the first two the early date of their death precludes the supposition.
*From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sempill,_3rd_Lord_Sempill
*ROBERT SEMPILL'S WIKIPEDIA NAMES HIS SON AS JAMES WHO MARRIED MARY?
*Mary Livingston (c. 1541–1579) was a Scottish noblewoman and childhood companion of Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the famous "Four Marys". As a child, she and three other girls of similar age and standing, chosen by the queen's mother, Mary of Guise, became Queen Mary's ladies-in-waiting. The other three "Marys" were Mary Fleming, Mary Seton and Mary Beaton. Her father, Alexander Livingston, 5th Lord Livingston, was Queen Mary's guardian.
*In March 1565, Mary Livingston married John Sempill of Bruntschiells and Beltrees, a son of '''Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, who had been born in England. Their son was James Sempill.
*The leading preacher of the Scottish Reformation, John Knox, disapproved .... etc.
*From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Livingston
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http://www.thepeerage.com/p14749.htm#i147483
Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill1
M, #147483, b. circa 1505, d. from 1 August 1573 to 17 January 1575/76
Last Edited=24 Feb 2017
Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill was born circa 1505 at Lochwinning, Renfrewshire, Scotland.1 He was the son of William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill and Margaret Montgomerie.2 He married, secondly, Elizabeth Carlile of Torthorwald.3 He married, firstly, Isabel Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton of Sanquhar and Jean Campbell, before 7 April 1538.4 He died from 1 August 1573 to 17 January 1575/76.1
He held the office of Governor and Constable of Douglas Castle in 1533.4 He held the office of Bailiff Regality of Paisley in 1544.4 He held the office of Sheriff of Renfrew in January 1543/44.4 He fought in the Battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547, where he was captured by the English.4 He murdered William Crichton, 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar on 11 June 1550 at the house of Governor Arran, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, stabbed to death in a quarrel by the 3rd Lord Sempill.5 He stabbed dead 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar and was imprisoned for it in Edinburgh Castle but his daughter Grizel's influence with the Archbishop of St. Andrews, whose mistress she was, saved him from almost certain execution.4 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Sempill [S., 1488] on 3 June 1552.4 In 1560 he supported Mary, Queen of Scots, hence Sempill Castle was captured by her opponents.4 He supported King James VI, though remaining Roman Catholic.4 He fought in the Battle of Langside in 1568.4 He was Joint Lieutenant of the western ports in 1568.4 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Scotland] in 1571.4 He was Lieutenant-General and Justiciar of Lanark and Renfrew in 1572.4
Children of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill and Isabel Hamilton
Robert Sempill, Master of Sempill+1 d. b 16 Dec 1569
Grizel Sempill+5 d. Oct 1575
Margaret Sempill+6 d. Nov 1580
Andrew Sempill5
unknown Sempill4
unknown Sempill4
Children of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill and Elizabeth Carlile of Torthorwald
Jean Sempill+7
Dorothy Sempill4
John Sempill, 1st of Beltrees+3 b. c 1540, d. 25 Aug 1579
Citations
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XI, page 623. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 622.
[S6286] Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy, online http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info. Hereinafter cited as Clan MacFarlane.
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3567. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
[S35] BLG1965 volume 3, page 948. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S35]
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 158.
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Name Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill
Alt Name (Lord) Robert Semple
Gender Male
Birth[6] abt 1505 Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland Hereditary Sempill Lords of Lochwinnoch & Clan Sempill
Alt Birth? ABT 1525
Ancestral File Number FGC8-H7
Parents and Siblings
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F. William Semple, 2nd Lord Sempill "Sheriff of Renfrew; Justiciary of the Regality of Paisley" - 1552
M. Baroness Margaret Montgomery - 1523
m. Bef. 20 Jul 1517
David Semple, of of Craiginfeoch and Craigbettsabt 1500 -
Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
Helen Semple
Mary Semple
Ninian Semple
William Semple - 1576
Constable Peter Semple, of Edinburgh Castle
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
W. Isabel Hamilton1518 - 1604
m. 07 Apr 1538
Robert Semple, Master of Sempillabt 1536 - 1569
Grizzel Semple - 1575
Andrew Semple
Margaret Semple
James Semple
John Semple, of Bruntschellisabt 1537 - Bef 1587
Barbara SempleAbt 1538 -
Janet Semple - Aft 1570/71
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
W. Elizabeth Carlyle, of Torthorwaldabt 1510 - aft 1564
m. 24 Aug 1546
John Semple, 1st Lord Sempill 'of Beltrees'abt 1540 - 1579
Countess Jean Semple, of Ross - 1592
Dorothea Sempleabt 1543 - 1600
Grissel Semple - 1609
Marian Semple - 1591
Isobel Semple
Elizabeth Semple
Col. William Semple, of Spainabt 1546 - 1633
Lt. Gilbert Semple - Aft 1594
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
Giles Sempleabt 1524 -
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
W. Janet Leslie
Helen Semple
Other[5] Bef. 12 Jun 1526/27 Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandWith his men he set upon on Corenlius de Mathetema, a Dutchman, near the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, and put him to death.
Other[5] 17 Jul 1526/27 Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandLetter of respite from James V of Scotland, for the killing of the Dutchman. Protecting Semple and his followers against all that might follow from this “treasonable slaughter” for nineteen years. The letter gives the names of Semple’s accomplices. In all they number 586.
Marriage 07 Apr 1538 Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotlandto Isabel Hamilton
Marriage 24 Aug 1546 to Elizabeth Carlyle, of Torthorwald
Other? 11 Jun 1550 Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandWilliam Crichton, 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar was stabbed and murdered at the house of Governor Arran, by Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill.
Reference Number? Q7349682?
Death[6] Bet. 1 Aug 1573 - 17 Jan 1575-76 Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland
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▼ Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill
The Scots Peerage by Paul, James
Page 538 thru 543 – Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, born about 1505, was involved with his father in the trouble with John Mure of Caldwell, East Renfrewshire in 1526.
He, as son and heir-apparent of William Semple, 2nd Lord Sempill, had a charter of the island of Little Cumbrae, 23 February 1532-33, which was afterwards revoked; a charter in liferent of the lands of Hardrig and others, in the lordship of Douglas; and a grant of the office of Governor and Constable of the King’s Castle of Douglas, both on 20 October 1533.
On 2 March 1539-40 ‘now being furth of the realme fugitive fra the lawis and at the horne for certane grete crymes,’ the King having granted him remission, his father undertook, under the pain of L5000, that he would not resort to Scotland or France. His father granted him a charter of the office of Sheriff of Renfrew, barony of Sempill, lands of Southannan, Previk, Glasfurd, and others 24 January 1543-44. He sat in Parliament 1544-46, and at the convention at Stirling 1545, and on 6 October 1545 and 20 May 1546 Queen Mary granted him the lands of Crukiston, Crukisfee, Thankerton, and Darnley, which were forfeited by Matthew, Earl of Lennox. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill came to the assistance of the Abbot of Paisley, and by arms preserved the monks from heretics, and in recompense, on 16 April 1545, he received from them the bailiary of the whole lands of the Abbey with some exceptions, and on the same day he and his father William Semple, 2nd Lord Sempill undertook to support and defend the Abbot and convent, or failing to do so to forfeit the appointment. He was made prisoner at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in September 1547.
On 9 April 1549 John Mure of Caldwell, East Renfrewshire and others attempted to murder him. On 11 June 1549, probably during a private quarrel, he slew William, Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in the lodging or hall of the Lord Governor in Edinburgh. For this crime he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and would probably have been executed but for the favour of the John Hamilton, 'Archbishop of St. Andrews', whose mistress was Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill’s daughter Grizzel Sempill, 'Lady of Stonehouse' 'Lady Gilton' 'Lady Blair'. An agreement was come to in 1550 between the relatives of the deceased and William, Lord Sempill, his son Robert, Master of Sempill, and his son Robert, which inter alia provided for the marriages of the Master’s second son with Margaret, the youngest daughter of the murdered Lord, and of Lord Sempill’s ward, Alan, fourth Lord Cathcart, with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Chrichton. In June 1552 he and his father’s widow came to an agreement regarding their respective rights in his estate, whereby he obtained possession of Castle Sempill and the place of Southannan. On 7 April 1554 he had a respite for treasonably coming in battle array against the Earl of Glencairn.
c. 1555 - Records of the time also document a dispute between John Porterfield and others in parish against Robert, Lord Sempill. The dispute probably arose from differences in faith as John and his allies were of the Reformed faith (Protestant) and Lord Sempill was of the Old Church (Catholic). In 1555, John and over 140 of their servants and tenants gather at Carsemeadow to plot the removal of Lord Sempill. The plot went astray and Porterfield and his group were brought up on charges in the court at Edinburgh. The case was dropped for lack of evidence.S8
In March 1557-58 je was ‘at enemytie and deadly feid’ with the Earl of Glencarin. The great feuds between the Montgomeries of Eglinton and the Cunninghams of Glencairn, in which the Lords Sempill took part with the former, lasted from 1488 to 1586. He was one of the few who were faithful to the Queen-Regent Mary of Guise against the Lords of the Congregation, and in 1559 was deputed by her to meet the Protestants who were convened at Perth. He was described by John Knox as ‘a man sold under sin, an enemy to God and all godliness’. After his father’s death he was again in Parliament as Lord Sempill in 1558, 1567.
His house of Castle Sempill was besieged by the Lords of the West in December 1559, and by James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault and his son James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran on 18 September 1560. The castle taken on 14 October 1560. He took refuge in Dunbar Castle, and the commander of that castle Corbeyran de Cardaillac Sarlabous declined to surrender him. He was ‘relaxed from the horn’ in March 1561.
Along with others of the ‘Nobles and Barons of the West Country’ on 5 September 1565 he signed a band in support of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, in opposition to the Earl of Moray and other rebels, and held a command under the Earl of Lennox in the vanguard of the army raised against them. He had a commission of justiciary upon the whole inhabitants of Renfrewshire, which was in 1564 discharged so far as concerned James Glen of the Bar, his family and friends, as he was also at ‘deidly feid and inimytie’ to them.
Although a Roman Catholic, after the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley he joined the Association for the ‘defences of the young prince’ as opposed to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and the Mary, Queen of Scots, and at that time preserved the life of the Earl of Lennox when attaked in Glasgow. He was a member of the assize at the mock trial of the James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell for the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley on 12 April 1567, and on the 19 of April is stated to have been one of the subscribers of the 'Aynesley' bond to Bothwell. On 12 June he was one of those who signed the bond to deliver Mary, Queen of Scots from thralldom, preserve the prince, and have the murderers of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley tried.
At the Battle of Carberry Hill, on 14-15 June 1567, he was present in the army which opposed her, and was one of those who signed the Act of Regent and Council authorizing her detention in Loch Leven Castle. He was one of the Council of the Regent, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray in 1567. In Morton’s declaration regarding the discovery and custody of the Casket letters, he is said to have been present at the opening of the casket which contained Mary, Queen of Scots letters. In 1568 he appeared in Parliament once more. He was a Commissioner for opening Parliament 1567-68. After her escape from Loch Leven Castle he appeared against Mary, Queen of Scots at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568; and on the 19 of that month he was, with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed by the Lord Regent and Lords of Secret Council Lieutenant of the Western Parts, for the purpose of suppressing the conspirators and those who were at the Battle of Langside opposed to the King and Regent.
He was at the Convention of Estates at Perth 20 July 1569, and voted against the Mary, Queen of Scots divorce from James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. Along with the Earl of Glencairn, on the instructions of the Earl of Moray, the Regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, he besieged the Dumbarton Castle, and was ordered to destroy the house of Boghall. For his special services he obtained a gift of the Abbot of Paisley in 1569, which was forfeited by Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley. About the commencement of the year 1570 he signed an instrument, along with other nobles, desiring Queen Elizabeth I, of England to return Mary, Queen of Scots. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill had a command in the army which destroyed Hamilton Castle, and set fire to it and the palace and other houses belonging to the supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1570.
Returning one evening in May 1570 from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was, by some of Hamilton’s dependents, taken prisoner, and carried first to Draffen, and afterwards to Argyll. He was probably set at liberty in July 1571. He was appointed a Privy Councillor 7 September 1571, and was in parliament 1571 and 1572. On 2 July 1572 he was appointed Lieutenant-General and Justiciar of the sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew.
On 8 November 1572 Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill granted a charter of his estates, reserving his own liferent, in favour of Robert, his grandson, and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to Andrew, his own son and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Bruntschellis and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Beltries and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to his own lawful and nearest heirs bearing the name and arms of Sempill. The Earl of Eglinton and Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill were, on 15 April 1573, ordered to disband their followers. He was sued by Thomas Jack, vicar of Eastwood, for payment of the duties due to him as such vicar; but his Lordship intruded Sir John Hamilton, a papist priest, into the vicarage, and threatened the life of the said Thomas Jack should he enforce his rights. For this he was put to the horn on 6 May 1573.
He was charged to surrender his house on 1 June 1573 to the Regent, and failing obedience the Earl of Argyll was to proceed against him, and in that month he was excommunicated, and was at court on 1 August 1573. He died between that date and 17 January 1575-76. His latter will and testament, dated 8 November 1572, appointed James, Earl of Morton, ‘tutor testamentary, reular, gidar and governour,’ to Robert Sempill, his grandson, and the Commissaries committed the administration of the grandchild and his lands until he was fourteen years of age to the tutor. An action for the reduction of tha latter will and testament was instituted by his Lordship’s second son Andrew on 6 May 1578.
He had been contracted to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Adam Chrichton of Ruthvendenny, prior to the death of his grandfather. The marriage, however, did not take place, and his father was sued for repayment of the tocher, and the marriage-contract between them is referred to. He married Isabel Hamilton, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, by whom he had issue:-
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1526 - Pardoned of Murder - Edingburgh, Scotland - Pardoned with his father and brothers for the murder of Cornelius de Machetema at Tolbooth.
A history of the county of Renfrew from the earliest times (1905) by Metcalf, William M.
Page 136, 137 - On June 12, 1527, Parliament assembled in Edinburgh. Lord Semple had already been concerned with the Earl of Eglinton, Sir Neil Montgomery, and Stirling of Keir, in the death of the laird of Lochleven, and on the 21st of the month the Lords Temporal thought it expedient that Semple and his associates should be indicted for treason. While Parliament was sitting, Semple whether aware of this resolution or not, entered Edinburgh at the head of a strong force. With his men he set upon on Corenlius de Mathetema, a Dutchman, near the Tolbooth, and put him to death. The affair created a great stir, but on the 17th of the following month the King issued a letter of respite, protecting Semple and his followers against all that might follow from this “treasonable slaughter” for nineteen years. The letter gives the names of Semple’s accomplices. In all they number 586.
1533 - Douglas Castle, Lanackshire, Scotland - Governor and Constable of Douglas Castle
07 Apr 1538 - Auchindonnamylne, Ayr, Scotland - Marriage to Isabel Hamilton - 1st wife
1541 - England, Great Britain - In exile in England for Murder - Pardoned
1543 - Illegitimate child born, Later to be known as: Colonel William Semple "of Lochwinnoch" "of Spain"
1544 - Renfrew, Renfrewshire, , Scotland - Sheriff of Renfrew, Bailiff of the Regality of Paisley
24 Aug 1546 - 2nd Marriage to - Elizabeth Carlyle "of Torthorwald"
10 Sep 1547 - River Esk near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland - Taken Prisoner at the Battle of Pinkie - It was the last pitched battle between Scottish and English armies, and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles. It was a catastrophic defeat for Scotland, and became known there as Black Saturday.
11 Jun 1550 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - Semple Killed William Crichton, 5th Lord of Sanquhar - At the house of Governor Arran, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, by Robert 3rd Lord Semple, stabbed to death in a quarrel.
1554 - Subscribed the Earl of Arran's Bond
Aug 1560 - Supported the Queen-Regent Mary of Guise against the Lords of the Congregation - Resulting in Semple Castle being besieged and taken.
Sep 1560 - Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Castle Semple Besieged - " was the Castell of Sempill 2 besieged and tane, because the Lord thairof disobeyed the lawes and ordinances of the Counsall in many thingis and especiallie in that, that he wold manteane the idolatrie of the Messe."
21 Oct 1561 - Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Castle Semple Surrender's - The castle surrendered about the 21st of October 1561. " B. 0. Scot-land Eliz ," vol. v. No. 39.
13 Feb 1563 - Kirk o'Field, Scotland - Lord Darnley Stewart Murdered - Semple, although a catholic, he, after the murder of Darnley, joined the association for the' defences of the young prince' in opposition to Bothwell and the Mary Stewart "Queen of Scots."
14-15 Jun 1567 - Carberry, East Lothian, Scotland - Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, one of the Confederate Lords in opposition to Mary, Queen of Scots that commanded in the vanguard of the army which opposed the queen at the Battle of Carberry Hill; and he was also one of those who signed the documents authorising William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton to take the queen under his charge in his fortalice of Loch Leven Castle.
Supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots - George Seton, 7th Lord Seton, Lord Hay of Yester, Lord Borthwick, John Cockburn of Ormiston, Home of Wedderburn, Blackadder of Tulliallan, and Cockburn of Langtoun.
Confederate Lords - The Confederate Lords included the Regent Morton, John Erskine, 17th Earl of Mar, Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn, the Lords Lindsay, William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home, Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, Lord Sanquhar, and the lairds Murray of Tullibardine, Douglas of Drumlanrig, Kirkcaldy of Grange and all their horsemen and foot soldiers.
04 Jul 1567 - Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was a Roman Catholic who joined the Protestant Church of Scotland and their Association to Defend James VI and I - James VI and I who was then raised up as a member of the Protestant Church of Scotland.
Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty's Coronation 1567
12-13 May 1568 - Langside, Scotland - Opposition to Mary, Queen of Scots - After the queen's escape from Lochleven Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill assembled his dependents against her at the Battle of Langside.
19 May 1568 - Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, , Scotland - Appointed Lieutenant of Western Parts - Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed lieutenant of the western parts, with special instructions to watch the Dumbarton Castle, and prevent the entrance into it of provisions or reinforcements or fugitives.
May 1570 - Draffen, Scotland - Kidnapped by the Hamiltons, Taken Prisoner - While returning one evening from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was seized by some of the Hamiltons' dependents, and carried a prisoner to Draffen.
01 Apr 1571 - Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland - Dumbarton Castle Captured - Notwithstanding the utmost efforts of Glencairn and Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, the Dumbarton Castle continued to hold out, until, its rock was scaled by Thomas Crawford, of Jordanhill.
1571 - Privy Councillor
1572 - Lieut-General and Justiciar of Lanark and Renfrew
06 May 1573 - Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Possession of Castle Taken - The Earl of Arran having taken possession of Castle Semple, Lord Semple took refuge in France. This day Robert, Lord Semple, was denounced and put to the horn, for intruding Sir Johnne Hamilton, a Papist priest, in the vicarage of Eastwood.
1573 - Put to the Horn and Excommunicated - Henceforth, three times a year, at the market cross, in their district's major burgh, their name to be read three times, and all their goods and money are to be confiscated. Announcement, usually in ancient times, was preceeded by 3 blasts of a horn.
17 Jan 1575 - Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Death
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Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill (c. 1505–1576) was a Scottish lord of Parliament.
Robert, also Semphill or Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill (d. 1572), commonly called the 'Great Lord Sempill,' was the elder son of William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill, by his first wife, Lady Margaret Montgomery, eldest daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton. His parents marriage was commemorated in carved stone heraldry at Castle Semple Collegiate Church. The Sempill family from the thirteenth century were heritable bailiffs of the regality of Paisley, and sheriffs of Renfrewshire, under the Lord High Steward of Scotland. They frequently distinguished themselves in the English wars, and were employed in important duties of state. Sir Thomas Sempill, father of John Sempill, 1st Lord Sempill, was killed at the battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488, fighting in support of James III, and the first Lord Sempill, created by James IV about 1489, fell at Flodden on 9 September 1513.
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Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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Semple, William Alexander. Genealogical History of the Family Semple: From 1214 to 1888. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1888), Page 11, 1888.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Metcalfe, William Musham. A history of the county of Renfrew from the earliest times: with a map of the county. (Paisley [Scotland]: A. Gardner, 1905).
Page 136, 137 - On June 12, 1527, Parliament assembled in Edinburgh. Lord Semple had already been concerned with the Earl of Eglinton, Sir Neil Montgomery, and Stirling of Keir, in the death of the laird of Lochleven, and on the 21st of the month the Lords Temporal thought it expedient that Semple and his associates should be indicted for treason. While Parliament was sitting, Semple whether aware of this resolution or not, entered Edinburgh at the head of a strong force. With his men he set upon on Corenlius de Mathetema, a Dutchman, near the Tolbooth, and put him to death. The affair created a great stir, but on the 17th of the following month the King issued a letter of respite, protecting Semple and his followers against all that might follow from this “treasonable slaughter” for nineteen years. The letter gives the names of Semple’s accomplices. In all they number 586.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland, containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914), Vol. 7.
Page 538 thru 543 – Robert, third Lord Sempill, born about 1505, was involved with his father in the trouble with John Mure of Caldwell in 1526. He, as son and heir-apparent, had a charter of the island of Little Cumray, 23 February 1532-33, which was afterwards revoked; a charter in liferent of the lands of Hardrig and others, in the lordship of Douglas; and a grant of the office of Governor and Constable of the King’s Castle of Douglas, both on 20 October 1533. On 2 March 1539-40 ‘now being furth of the realme fugitive fra the lawis and at the horne for certane grete crymes,’ the King having granted him remission, his father undertook, under the pain of L5000, that he would not resort to Scotland or France. His father granted him a charter of the office of Sheriff of Renfrew, barony of Sempill, lands of Southannan, Previk, Glasfurd, and others 24 January 1543-44. He sat in Parliament 1544-46, and at the convention at Stirling 1545, and on 6 October 1545 and 20 May 1546 Queen Mary granted him the lands of Crukiston, Crukisfee, Thankerton, and Darnley, which were forfeited by Matthew, Earl of Lennox. Robert Sempill came to the assistance of the Abbey of Paisley, and by arms preserved the monks from heretics, and in recompense, on 16 April 1545, he received from them the bailiary of the whole lands of the Abbey with some exceptions, and on the same day he and his father Lord Sempill undertook to support and defend the Abbot and convent, or failing to do so to forfeit the appointment. He was made prisoner at the battle of Pinkie in September 1547. On 9 April 1549 John Mure of Caldwell and others attempted to murder him. On 11 June 1549, probably during a private quarrel, he slew William, Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in the lodging or hall of the Lord Governor in Edinburgh. For this crime he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and would probably have been executed but for the favour of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, whose mistress was Lord Sempill’s daughter. An agreement was come to in 1550 between the relatives of the deceased and William, Lord Sempill, his son Robert, Master of Sempill, and his son Robert, which inter alia provided for the marriages of the Master’s second son with Margaret, the youngest daughter of the murdered Lord, and of Lord Sempill’s ward, Alan, fourth Lord Cathcart, with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Chrichton. In June 1552 he and his father’s widow came to an agreement regarding their respective rights in his estate, whereby he obtained possession of Castle Sempill and the place of Southannan. On 7 April 1554 he had a respite for treasonably coming in battle array against the Earl of Glencairn. In March 1557-58 je was ‘at enemytie and deadly feid’ with the Earl of Glencarin. The great feuds between the Montgomeries of Eglinton and the Cunninghams of Glencairn, in which the Lords Sempill took part with the former, lasted from 1488 to 1586. He was one of the few who were faithful to the Queen-Regent against the Lords of the Congregation, and in 1559 was deputed by her to meet the Protestants who were convened at Perth. He was described by John Knox as ‘a man sold under sin, an enemy to God and all godliness. After his father’s death he was again in Parliament as Lord Sempill in 1558, 1567. His house of Castle Sempill was besieged by the Lords of the West in December 1559, and taken 14 October 1560. He took refuge in Dunbar, and the commander of that castle declined to surrender him. He was ‘relaxed from the horn’ in March 1561. Along with others of the ‘Nobles and Barons of the West Country’ on 5 September 1565 he signed a band in support of Mary and Darnley, in opposition to the Earl of Moray and other rebels, and held a command under the Earl of Lennox in the vanguard of the army raised against them. He had a commission of justiciary upon the whole inhabitants of Renfrewshire, which was in 1564 discharged so far as concerned James Glen of the Bar, his family and friends, as he was also at ‘deidly feid and inimytie’ to them. Although a Roman Catholic, after the murder of Darnley he joined the Association for the ‘defences of the young prince’ as opposed to Bothwell and the Queen, and at that time preserved the life of the Earl of Lennox when attaked in Glasgow. He was a member of the assize at the mock trial of the Earl of Botwell for the murder of Darnley on 12 April 1567, and on the 19 of April is stated to have been one of the subscribers of the ‘Aynesley’ bond to Bothwell. On 12 June he was one of those who signed the bond to deliver Queen Mary from thralldom, preserve the prince, and have the murderers of Darnley tried. At Carberry Hill, on 14 June 1567, he was present in the army which opposed her, and was one of those who signed the Act of Regent and Council authorizing her detention in Lochleven Castle. He was one of the Council of the Regent Moray in 1567. In Morton’s declaration regarding the discovery and custody of the ‘casket letters,’ he is said to have been present at the opening of the casket which contained Queen Mary’s letters. In 1568 he appeared in Parliament onece more. He was a Commissioner for opening Parliament 1567-68. After her escape from Lochleven he appeared against Queen Mary at the battle of Langside on 13 May 1568; and on the 19 of that month he was, with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed by the Lord Regent and Lords of Secret Council Lieutenant of the Western Parts, for the purpose of suppressing the conspirators and those who were at the battle of Langside opposed to the King and Regent. He was at the Convention of Estates at Perth 20 July 1569, and voted against the Queen’s divorce from Bothwell. Along with the Earl of Glencairn, on the instructions of the Earl of Moray, the Regent, he besieged the castle of Dumbarton, and was ordered to destroy the house of Boghall. For his special services he obtained a gift of the Abbey of Paisley in 1569, which was forfeited by Lord Claud Hamilton. About the commencement of the year 1570 he signed an instrument, along with other nobles, desiring Queen Elizabeth to return Queen Mary to Scotland. He had a command in the army which destroyed Hamilton Castle, and set fire to it and the palace and other houses belonging to the supporters of Queen Mary, in 1570. Returning one evening in May 1570 from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, Lord Sempill was, by some of Hamilton’s dependents, taken prisoner, and carried first to Draffen, and afterwards to Argyll. He was probably set at liberty in July 1571. He was appointed a Privy Councillor 7 September 1571, and was in parliament 1571 and 1572. On 2 July 1572 he was appointed Lieutenant-General and Justiciar of the sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew. On 8 November 1572 Lord Sempill granted a charter of his estates, reserving his own liferent, in favour of Robert, his grandson, and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to Andrew, his own son and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Brintscheillis and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Beltries and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to his own lawful and nearest heirs bearing the name and arms of Sempill. The Earl of Eglinton and Lord Sempill were, on 15 April 1573, ordered to disband their followers. He was sued by Thomas Jack, vicar of Eastwood, for payment of the duties due to him as such vicar; but his Lordship intruded Sir John Hamilton, a papist priest, into the vicarage, and threatened the life of the said Thomas Jack should he enforce his rights. For this he was put to the horn on 6 May 1573. He was charged to surrender his house on 1 June 1573 to the Regent, and failing obedience the Earl of Argyll was to proceed against him, and in that month he was excommunicated, and was at court on 1 August 1573. He died between that date and 17 January 1575-76. His latter will and testament, dated 8 November 1572, appointed James, Earl of Morton, ‘tutor testamentary, reular, gidar and governour,’ to Robert Sempill, his grandson, and the Commissaries committed the administration of the grandchild and his lands until he was fourteen years of age to the tutor. An action for the reduction of tha latter will and testament was instituted by his Lordship’s second son Andrew on 6 May 1578. He had been contracted to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Adam Chrichton of Ruthvendenny, prior to the death of his grandfather. The marriage, however, did not take place, and his father was sued for repayment of the tocher, and the marriage-contract between them is referred to. He married Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, by whom he had issue:-
Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
*The Marty Acks Wiki - John Porterfield, Laird of Cuchal (1515-1575).
===Evidence from the National Records of Scotland===
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'''12 November 1534: Instrument upon the revocation by James V of his gift of the island and lands of Little Cumray in favour of Robert Symple, son and heir of William, Lord Symple, and upon the ratification of the King of his gift thereof to Robert Huntar made in the Great Chamber of the Monastery of Kelso at seven hours afternoon John Hamylton of Cambuskenet, procurator for the said Robert Huntar. Witnesses: Malcolm, Lord Flemyng, Sir George Clappertoun, the King's Elemosiner, William Wod, his porter and John Mure, his barber, Alexander Kynninmond, notary.''' [http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD3%2f1%2f1%2f13%2f5&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=lord+Symple&ko=p&r=&ro=s&df=1500&dt=1600&di=y National Records of Scotland, Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton: Titles, reference GD3/1/1/13/5]
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'''10 November 1572; Instrument of sasine in favour of Robert Semple, grandson and apparent heir of Robert, Lord Semple of the barony of Craigenforth, containing the following lands viz Farnencis, Ryfrat, Bar in Kilburchun, Brientiscroft, Weitlandis, Biltreis, Harispennell, Boullandis, Mishealtoun and Craigenfeoche; the 20lib land of old extent of Auchinfour; 10 merk land of old extent called Third Part or Thirdpart of Auchennanes, lying within the barony and sheriffdom of Renfrew; 40 merks of land of old extent of Privick, lands of Pinotriddins Falie with common in the commonty of Largs, lying within the sheriffdom of Ayr with castles, houses etc which were all incorporated in one whole and free barony called the Barony of Craiginfeoche as also the Barony of Sempill containing in itself the following lands viz the lands of Cassiltoun with park, castle and lake thereof called Lochquhinzeoche, the lands of Ellistoun, Schutterflat, Nether Pennell, Haristingtoun, the lands of Laven, Bargane and Leicheland with all their pertinents, lying within the sheriffdom of Renfrew, together with the office of sheriff of Renfrew and of the whole sheriffdom of the same, together with the office of coroner and Mayor of Fee within the bounds between the Waters of Black Cart and Laveron; and the lands of Southennan, lying within the sheriffdom of Ayr; and the lands of Glassford, lying within the sheriffdom of Lainnarke (Lanark), mills, multures, castles etc together with the advocation, donation of the church of Glassford, provostry and prebendaries of the collegiate church of Sempill and other churches and chapels of the above expressed lands with all their pertinents, which whole lands of the Barony of Sempill are annexed and united and incorporated in one free barony called the Barony of Sempill; reserving to Robert, Lord Sempill during his life the free tenement of the said baronies.''' [http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD3%2f1%2f3%2f16%2f1&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=lord+semple&ko=p&r=&ro=s&df=1500&dt=1600&di=y National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Montgomerie Family, Earls of Eglinton, reference GD3/1/3/16/1]
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'''7 October 1573: Commission by Robert, lord Simple, sheriff principal, coroner and mair of fee of Renfrew, appointing Robert, master of Simple, his `oy', and James, earl of Mortoun, his tutor (for his interest), as his deputes''' [http://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk/nrsonlinecatalogue/details.aspx?reference=GD150%2f2282&st=1&tc=y&tl=n&tn=n&tp=n&k=lord+simple&ko=p&r=&ro=s&df=1500&dt=1600&di=y National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Earls of Morton, reference GD150/2282]
===Evidence from the Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow===
12 November 1563: Robert, lord Sempile and his son John Sempile, are noticed in the witness list of a deed of reversion issued by John Brisbane of Bischoptowne. The deed was executed in "Lady Semillis hous in Paslay." [https://archive.org/stream/abstractsprotoc06scogoog#page/n56/mode/1up Protocol Books of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, William Hegait's Protocols, 1561-8, protocol number 762 on p. 44]
===Biographical Accounts===
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Robert, third Lord Sempill, the elder son, called the great Lord Sempill, had, when master of Sempill, with other charters, one of the office of governor and constable of the king’s castle of Douglas, 20th October 1533. He was taken prisoner by the English at the battle of Pinkie, 1547, and succeeded his father the following year. He was one of the supporters of the queen regent, Mary of Guise, against the lords of the Congregation. In 1560, his castle was besieged and taken, for having disobeyed the laws and ordinances of the council, especially, because he persisted in retaining the mass, and had beset the earl of Arran with a great number of his friends, while he was riding on his way with his accustomed company. He was faithful to the interests of Queen Mary till the murder of Darnley, but in 1567 he entered into the association to defend the young king, James Vi., and was one of the jury on the trial of the earl of Bothwell. At Carberry-hill he was one of the lords who commanded the rear-guard of the confederated force in arms against the queen and Bothwell. He was one of the lords who signed the letters to Douglas of Lochleven to take in charge the ill-fated Queen Mary. He had a command in the avant-guard of the army of the Regent Moray, at the battle of Langside, in 1568, and in consideration of his many valuable services to the king and government, he obtained from him, in 1569, a charter of the abbey of Paisley, on the forfeiture of Lord Claud Hamilton, but it was afterwards restored to the latter. He was one of the secret council of the regent, and after his murder he was taken prisoner, in 1570, by the Hamiltons, while riding home securely from the army of the earls of Lennox and Glencairn at Glasgow. He was carried prisoner to Draffen, whence in a few days he was removed to Argyle by Lord Boyd, and detained there for a year. He engaged in the great feuds between the houses of Eglinton, with which the Sempills had formed various marriage connections, and Glencairn, or the Montgomeries and Cunninghams. These feuds lasted from 1488 to 1586. He built the Peel, the ruins of which still exist, on a small isle on Castle-Semple Loch. He died in 1572.
He married, first, Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, and had, with four daughters, two sons, Robert, master of Sempill, who predeceased him, leaving a son, Robert, fourth Lord Sempill; and Andrew, who, in 1560, got from his father the lands of Bruntchells, and was ancestor of the Sempills of Bruntchells and Millbank.
He married, secondly, Elizabeth, a daughter of Carlyle of Torthorwald, and had, with three daughters, a son, John, whose wife, Mary Livingstone, one of ‘the Queen’s Maries,’ was the youngest daughter of the fifth Lord Livingstone. John Knox notices the marriage of Mary Livingstone the lusty to John Semple the dancer. He acquired the lands of Beltrees, and was ancestor of the Sempills of Beltrees, celebrated for their poetical talents (see next article). In 1577, John Sempill conspired against the Regent Morton, with the design of procuring his death. The conspiracy was revealed by one of his accomplices, Gabriel Sempill, who avowed it before the council, and offered to maintain the truth of his declaration against him in single combat. John Sempill then confessed, and subscribed his confession with his own hand, but instantly swooned, and could not hold the pen in his hand. When he recovered, he craved mercy, but was convicted by an assize, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. At the intercession of his friends, however, he was reprieved, and committed to prison in the castle of Edinburgh, to remain there during the regent’s pleasure. He was not set at liberty till Morton resigned the regency.
*'''Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill (c. 1505–1576), Scottish lord of Parliament.
*'''Robert, also Semphill or Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill (d. 1572), commonly called the 'Great Lord Sempill,' was the elder son of William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill, by his first wife, Lady Margaret Montgomery, eldest daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton. His parents marriage was commemorated in carved stone heraldry at Castle Semple Collegiate Church. The Sempill family from the thirteenth century were heritable bailiffs of the regality of Paisley, and sheriffs of Renfrewshire, under the Lord High Steward of Scotland. They frequently distinguished themselves in the English wars, and were employed in important duties of state. Sir Thomas Sempill, father of John Sempill, 1st Lord Sempill, was killed at the battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488, fighting in support of James III, and the first Lord Sempill, created by James IV about 1489, fell at Flodden on 9 September 1513.
*'''Robert, as Master of Sempill, served in household of James V of Scotland wearing livery costume, and gave the King presents which were recorded because the King had them embellished by his craftsmen. In 1532 the King's armourer William Smithberde polished and sharpened the blades of eight two-handed swords given by Robert, other gifts were stockings and a tartan coat.[1] On 20 October 1533, he was made Governor and Constable of the king's castle of Douglas. In April 1534, after Robert had reached his majority, James V exacted a financial penalty for his "non-entry" to the Sempill lands, punishing his father for non-payment.[2] Robert became Master of Household to Regent Arran.[3] He succeeded his father as Lord Semple in 1548.
*In July 1550, his son, Robert, Master of Sempill was summoned for treason.[4]
*Robert, Lord Sempill, was said to have murdered William Crichton, 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar on 11 June 1552. According to the story recorded by John Lesley, Lord Sempill was in the private lodging of Regent Arran in Edinburgh, and was moved by rage to stab Lord Sanquhar with his sword. Sempill was arrested and taken to Edinburgh Castle, and would have been beheaded, but his influential friends secured his release.
*It was said by Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie that Sempill's daughter, Grizzel called 'Lady Gilton', who was the widow of James Hamilton of Stenhouse a former Provost of Edinburgh, was particularly helpful in securing help for Sempill. She was the mistress of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St Andrews, Regent Arran's brother. A record survives of a pardon granted in September 1552 to Lord Sempill's eldest son, Robert Master of Sempill, for his part in the murder.[5]
*For Lesley, the incident was an example of the troubles in Scotland during a period of factional rivalry between Regent Arran and Mary of Guise, before she became Regent. Pitscottie tells the story as an example of corruption in Arran's regency.[6]
*'''Robert, Lord Sempill, resisted the Scottish Reformation in 1560. Being a steadfast supporter of the queen regent against the Lords of the Congregation, he was described by Knox as "a man sold under sin, an enemy to God and to all godliness."[7] The Lords of the West laid siege to Castle Semple in Lochwinnoch in December 1559.[8] Leaving his son at Castle Semple, Lord Semple took refuge in the stronghold of Dunbar Castle, then under the command of a French captain, Corbeyran de Cardaillac Sarlabous. Sarlabous was asked in August 1560 to give him up but declined to do so until he received the command of Mary, Queen of Scots and Francis II of France. Thomas Randolph shortly afterwards reported that Sempill had conveyed himself secretly out of Dunbar, and had retired to his own castle with twenty arquebusiers lent him by Sarlabous, and then that he had gone to France.[9]
*After the Scottish Reformation Parliament, James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault and his son James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran again besieged Castle Semple. An ally of the Hamiltons, the Earl of Glencairn gave a description of an assault on the castle on 18 September 1560 that penetrated the yard. The attackers took some sheep to prove their achievement;
** "This last Wednesday the few hagbutters here came to Castle Sympill, and they within came forth to the yards in their accustomed manner, and they, more wilful than wise, came plain upon them and drove them out of the yards into the castle, while they (the defenders) shot little pistols at them out of the windows, and dared not come to the wall heads (parapet). And to verify this, they took sheep that they had within the close away with them. And never a man hurt or slain, but one who will heal, and diverse of the enemy evil hurt, as my brother has written to me."[10]
*'''Lord Sempill made his way to Dumbarton Castle but was captured on 14 October 1560.[11] When Castle Semple was taken in November 1560, he was at Dunbar. He was 'relaxed from the horn' in March 1561.[12] A royal cannon with the insignia of James V of Scotland, probably used at this siege, was recovered from Castle Semple Loch in the 19th century and is now in the collection of Glasgow Museums.
*'''Sempill was one of the "nobles and barons of the west country" who on 5 Sept 1565 signed a band in support of Mary and Darnley, in opposition to the Earl of Moray and other rebels of the Chaseabout Raid, and in Mary's army held a command in the vanguard of the battle;[13] but though a catholic, he, after the murder of Darnley, joined the association for the 'defences of the young prince' in opposition to Bothwell and the queen.
*'''At Carberry Hill on 14 June 1567 he commanded in the vanguard of the army which opposed the queen; and he was also one of those who signed the documents authorising William Douglas of Lochleven to take the queen under his charge in Lochleven Castle. In Morton's declaration regarding the discovery and custody of the 'casket letters,' he is mentioned as having been present at the opening of the casket.
*'''After the queen's escape from Lochleven he assembled his dependents against her at Langside on 13 May 1568; and on the 19 May he was, with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed Lieutenant of the Western parts, with special instructions to watch the castle of Dumbarton, and prevent the entrance into it of provisions or reinforcements or fugitives.[14] For his special services he obtained a gift of the abbey of Paisley. While returning one evening in May 1570 from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, he was seized by some of the Hamiltons' dependents, and carried a prisoner to Draffen, whence he was shortly afterwards removed to Argyle. Calderwood states that he remained in Argyle for twelve months, but he was probably set at liberty in February 1570; for when the house of Paisley surrendered to the regent at that time, the lives of those within it were granted on this condition.[15] Notwithstanding the utmost efforts of Glencairn and Sempill, the castle of Dumbarton continued to hold out, until, on 1 April 1571, its rock was scaled by Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill.
*'''Robert 3rd Lord Sempill married firstly, Isabel Hamilton, a daughter of William Hamilton of Sanquhar, and secondly Elizabeth Carlille, a daughter of Lord Torthorwald.
*'''By his first wife, Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, he had, with four daughters, two sons''', Robert Master of Sempill, who predeceased him, leaving his grandson to become Robert Sempill, 4th Lord Sempill, and Andrew, ancestor of the Sempills of Burchell.
*'''By his second wife, Elizabeth Carlyle, he had a son''' John, ancestor of the Sempills of Beltrees.
*'''A son''', James Sempill, '''whose mother was said to be an Englishwoman''', married Mary Livingston in March 1565. She was one of the Four Marys who were ladies in waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots. Colonel William Sempill of Lochwinnoch, who was involved in the Spanish blanks plot is also thought to have been a son of the 3rd Earl.
*'''A daughter''', Jean Sempill married James Ross, 4th Lord Ross.
*Andrew Sempill and his half-brother James Sempill, '''noted as sons of Robert (then Master of Sempill)''', were old enough to witness a property transaction made in Paisley in August 1542.[16]
*'''On 12 June 1572 Robert had a charter of the lands of Glassford, and he appears to have died soon after.
*'''Neither the 3rd lord Sempill nor his son Robert, Master of Sempill, nor the 4th Lord Sempill could have been, as Sibbald, Motherwell, and others maintain, the Robert Sempill who was author of the Sempill Ballads, the 4th Lord was born too late, while in the case of the first two the early date of their death precludes the supposition.
*From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sempill,_3rd_Lord_Sempill
*ROBERT SEMPILL'S WIKIPEDIA NAMES HIS SON AS JAMES WHO MARRIED MARY?
*Mary Livingston (c. 1541–1579) was a Scottish noblewoman and childhood companion of Mary, Queen of Scots, one of the famous "Four Marys". As a child, she and three other girls of similar age and standing, chosen by the queen's mother, Mary of Guise, became Queen Mary's ladies-in-waiting. The other three "Marys" were Mary Fleming, Mary Seton and Mary Beaton. Her father, Alexander Livingston, 5th Lord Livingston, was Queen Mary's guardian.
*In March 1565, Mary Livingston married John Sempill of Bruntschiells and Beltrees, a son of '''Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, who had been born in England. Their son was James Sempill.
*The leading preacher of the Scottish Reformation, John Knox, disapproved .... etc.
*From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Livingston
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Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill1
M, #147483, b. circa 1505, d. from 1 August 1573 to 17 January 1575/76
Last Edited=24 Feb 2017
Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill was born circa 1505 at Lochwinning, Renfrewshire, Scotland.1 He was the son of William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill and Margaret Montgomerie.2 He married, secondly, Elizabeth Carlile of Torthorwald.3 He married, firstly, Isabel Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton of Sanquhar and Jean Campbell, before 7 April 1538.4 He died from 1 August 1573 to 17 January 1575/76.1
He held the office of Governor and Constable of Douglas Castle in 1533.4 He held the office of Bailiff Regality of Paisley in 1544.4 He held the office of Sheriff of Renfrew in January 1543/44.4 He fought in the Battle of Pinkie on 10 September 1547, where he was captured by the English.4 He murdered William Crichton, 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar on 11 June 1550 at the house of Governor Arran, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, stabbed to death in a quarrel by the 3rd Lord Sempill.5 He stabbed dead 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar and was imprisoned for it in Edinburgh Castle but his daughter Grizel's influence with the Archbishop of St. Andrews, whose mistress she was, saved him from almost certain execution.4 He succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Sempill [S., 1488] on 3 June 1552.4 In 1560 he supported Mary, Queen of Scots, hence Sempill Castle was captured by her opponents.4 He supported King James VI, though remaining Roman Catholic.4 He fought in the Battle of Langside in 1568.4 He was Joint Lieutenant of the western ports in 1568.4 He was invested as a Privy Counsellor (P.C.) [Scotland] in 1571.4 He was Lieutenant-General and Justiciar of Lanark and Renfrew in 1572.4
Children of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill and Isabel Hamilton
Robert Sempill, Master of Sempill+1 d. b 16 Dec 1569
Grizel Sempill+5 d. Oct 1575
Margaret Sempill+6 d. Nov 1580
Andrew Sempill5
unknown Sempill4
unknown Sempill4
Children of Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill and Elizabeth Carlile of Torthorwald
Jean Sempill+7
Dorothy Sempill4
John Sempill, 1st of Beltrees+3 b. c 1540, d. 25 Aug 1579
Citations
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XI, page 623. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 622.
[S6286] Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy, online http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info. Hereinafter cited as Clan MacFarlane.
[S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 3567. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] BP2003. [S37]
[S35] BLG1965 volume 3, page 948. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S35]
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume XI, page 158.
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http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Robert_Semple_(15)
Name Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill
Alt Name (Lord) Robert Semple
Gender Male
Birth[6] abt 1505 Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland Hereditary Sempill Lords of Lochwinnoch & Clan Sempill
Alt Birth? ABT 1525
Ancestral File Number FGC8-H7
Parents and Siblings
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F. William Semple, 2nd Lord Sempill "Sheriff of Renfrew; Justiciary of the Regality of Paisley" - 1552
M. Baroness Margaret Montgomery - 1523
m. Bef. 20 Jul 1517
David Semple, of of Craiginfeoch and Craigbettsabt 1500 -
Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
Helen Semple
Mary Semple
Ninian Semple
William Semple - 1576
Constable Peter Semple, of Edinburgh Castle
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
W. Isabel Hamilton1518 - 1604
m. 07 Apr 1538
Robert Semple, Master of Sempillabt 1536 - 1569
Grizzel Semple - 1575
Andrew Semple
Margaret Semple
James Semple
John Semple, of Bruntschellisabt 1537 - Bef 1587
Barbara SempleAbt 1538 -
Janet Semple - Aft 1570/71
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
W. Elizabeth Carlyle, of Torthorwaldabt 1510 - aft 1564
m. 24 Aug 1546
John Semple, 1st Lord Sempill 'of Beltrees'abt 1540 - 1579
Countess Jean Semple, of Ross - 1592
Dorothea Sempleabt 1543 - 1600
Grissel Semple - 1609
Marian Semple - 1591
Isobel Semple
Elizabeth Semple
Col. William Semple, of Spainabt 1546 - 1633
Lt. Gilbert Semple - Aft 1594
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
Giles Sempleabt 1524 -
Spouse and Children
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H. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempillabt 1505 - Bet 1573
W. Janet Leslie
Helen Semple
Other[5] Bef. 12 Jun 1526/27 Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandWith his men he set upon on Corenlius de Mathetema, a Dutchman, near the Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh, and put him to death.
Other[5] 17 Jul 1526/27 Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandLetter of respite from James V of Scotland, for the killing of the Dutchman. Protecting Semple and his followers against all that might follow from this “treasonable slaughter” for nineteen years. The letter gives the names of Semple’s accomplices. In all they number 586.
Marriage 07 Apr 1538 Ayr, Ayrshire, Scotlandto Isabel Hamilton
Marriage 24 Aug 1546 to Elizabeth Carlyle, of Torthorwald
Other? 11 Jun 1550 Edinburgh, Midlothian, ScotlandWilliam Crichton, 5th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar was stabbed and murdered at the house of Governor Arran, by Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill.
Reference Number? Q7349682?
Death[6] Bet. 1 Aug 1573 - 17 Jan 1575-76 Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland
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▼ Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill
The Scots Peerage by Paul, James
Page 538 thru 543 – Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, born about 1505, was involved with his father in the trouble with John Mure of Caldwell, East Renfrewshire in 1526.
He, as son and heir-apparent of William Semple, 2nd Lord Sempill, had a charter of the island of Little Cumbrae, 23 February 1532-33, which was afterwards revoked; a charter in liferent of the lands of Hardrig and others, in the lordship of Douglas; and a grant of the office of Governor and Constable of the King’s Castle of Douglas, both on 20 October 1533.
On 2 March 1539-40 ‘now being furth of the realme fugitive fra the lawis and at the horne for certane grete crymes,’ the King having granted him remission, his father undertook, under the pain of L5000, that he would not resort to Scotland or France. His father granted him a charter of the office of Sheriff of Renfrew, barony of Sempill, lands of Southannan, Previk, Glasfurd, and others 24 January 1543-44. He sat in Parliament 1544-46, and at the convention at Stirling 1545, and on 6 October 1545 and 20 May 1546 Queen Mary granted him the lands of Crukiston, Crukisfee, Thankerton, and Darnley, which were forfeited by Matthew, Earl of Lennox. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill came to the assistance of the Abbot of Paisley, and by arms preserved the monks from heretics, and in recompense, on 16 April 1545, he received from them the bailiary of the whole lands of the Abbey with some exceptions, and on the same day he and his father William Semple, 2nd Lord Sempill undertook to support and defend the Abbot and convent, or failing to do so to forfeit the appointment. He was made prisoner at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in September 1547.
On 9 April 1549 John Mure of Caldwell, East Renfrewshire and others attempted to murder him. On 11 June 1549, probably during a private quarrel, he slew William, Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in the lodging or hall of the Lord Governor in Edinburgh. For this crime he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and would probably have been executed but for the favour of the John Hamilton, 'Archbishop of St. Andrews', whose mistress was Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill’s daughter Grizzel Sempill, 'Lady of Stonehouse' 'Lady Gilton' 'Lady Blair'. An agreement was come to in 1550 between the relatives of the deceased and William, Lord Sempill, his son Robert, Master of Sempill, and his son Robert, which inter alia provided for the marriages of the Master’s second son with Margaret, the youngest daughter of the murdered Lord, and of Lord Sempill’s ward, Alan, fourth Lord Cathcart, with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Chrichton. In June 1552 he and his father’s widow came to an agreement regarding their respective rights in his estate, whereby he obtained possession of Castle Sempill and the place of Southannan. On 7 April 1554 he had a respite for treasonably coming in battle array against the Earl of Glencairn.
c. 1555 - Records of the time also document a dispute between John Porterfield and others in parish against Robert, Lord Sempill. The dispute probably arose from differences in faith as John and his allies were of the Reformed faith (Protestant) and Lord Sempill was of the Old Church (Catholic). In 1555, John and over 140 of their servants and tenants gather at Carsemeadow to plot the removal of Lord Sempill. The plot went astray and Porterfield and his group were brought up on charges in the court at Edinburgh. The case was dropped for lack of evidence.S8
In March 1557-58 je was ‘at enemytie and deadly feid’ with the Earl of Glencarin. The great feuds between the Montgomeries of Eglinton and the Cunninghams of Glencairn, in which the Lords Sempill took part with the former, lasted from 1488 to 1586. He was one of the few who were faithful to the Queen-Regent Mary of Guise against the Lords of the Congregation, and in 1559 was deputed by her to meet the Protestants who were convened at Perth. He was described by John Knox as ‘a man sold under sin, an enemy to God and all godliness’. After his father’s death he was again in Parliament as Lord Sempill in 1558, 1567.
His house of Castle Sempill was besieged by the Lords of the West in December 1559, and by James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault and his son James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran on 18 September 1560. The castle taken on 14 October 1560. He took refuge in Dunbar Castle, and the commander of that castle Corbeyran de Cardaillac Sarlabous declined to surrender him. He was ‘relaxed from the horn’ in March 1561.
Along with others of the ‘Nobles and Barons of the West Country’ on 5 September 1565 he signed a band in support of Mary, Queen of Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, in opposition to the Earl of Moray and other rebels, and held a command under the Earl of Lennox in the vanguard of the army raised against them. He had a commission of justiciary upon the whole inhabitants of Renfrewshire, which was in 1564 discharged so far as concerned James Glen of the Bar, his family and friends, as he was also at ‘deidly feid and inimytie’ to them.
Although a Roman Catholic, after the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley he joined the Association for the ‘defences of the young prince’ as opposed to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell and the Mary, Queen of Scots, and at that time preserved the life of the Earl of Lennox when attaked in Glasgow. He was a member of the assize at the mock trial of the James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell for the murder of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley on 12 April 1567, and on the 19 of April is stated to have been one of the subscribers of the 'Aynesley' bond to Bothwell. On 12 June he was one of those who signed the bond to deliver Mary, Queen of Scots from thralldom, preserve the prince, and have the murderers of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley tried.
At the Battle of Carberry Hill, on 14-15 June 1567, he was present in the army which opposed her, and was one of those who signed the Act of Regent and Council authorizing her detention in Loch Leven Castle. He was one of the Council of the Regent, James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray in 1567. In Morton’s declaration regarding the discovery and custody of the Casket letters, he is said to have been present at the opening of the casket which contained Mary, Queen of Scots letters. In 1568 he appeared in Parliament once more. He was a Commissioner for opening Parliament 1567-68. After her escape from Loch Leven Castle he appeared against Mary, Queen of Scots at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568; and on the 19 of that month he was, with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed by the Lord Regent and Lords of Secret Council Lieutenant of the Western Parts, for the purpose of suppressing the conspirators and those who were at the Battle of Langside opposed to the King and Regent.
He was at the Convention of Estates at Perth 20 July 1569, and voted against the Mary, Queen of Scots divorce from James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell. Along with the Earl of Glencairn, on the instructions of the Earl of Moray, the Regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, he besieged the Dumbarton Castle, and was ordered to destroy the house of Boghall. For his special services he obtained a gift of the Abbot of Paisley in 1569, which was forfeited by Claud Hamilton, 1st Lord Paisley. About the commencement of the year 1570 he signed an instrument, along with other nobles, desiring Queen Elizabeth I, of England to return Mary, Queen of Scots. Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill had a command in the army which destroyed Hamilton Castle, and set fire to it and the palace and other houses belonging to the supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1570.
Returning one evening in May 1570 from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was, by some of Hamilton’s dependents, taken prisoner, and carried first to Draffen, and afterwards to Argyll. He was probably set at liberty in July 1571. He was appointed a Privy Councillor 7 September 1571, and was in parliament 1571 and 1572. On 2 July 1572 he was appointed Lieutenant-General and Justiciar of the sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew.
On 8 November 1572 Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill granted a charter of his estates, reserving his own liferent, in favour of Robert, his grandson, and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to Andrew, his own son and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Bruntschellis and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Beltries and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to his own lawful and nearest heirs bearing the name and arms of Sempill. The Earl of Eglinton and Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill were, on 15 April 1573, ordered to disband their followers. He was sued by Thomas Jack, vicar of Eastwood, for payment of the duties due to him as such vicar; but his Lordship intruded Sir John Hamilton, a papist priest, into the vicarage, and threatened the life of the said Thomas Jack should he enforce his rights. For this he was put to the horn on 6 May 1573.
He was charged to surrender his house on 1 June 1573 to the Regent, and failing obedience the Earl of Argyll was to proceed against him, and in that month he was excommunicated, and was at court on 1 August 1573. He died between that date and 17 January 1575-76. His latter will and testament, dated 8 November 1572, appointed James, Earl of Morton, ‘tutor testamentary, reular, gidar and governour,’ to Robert Sempill, his grandson, and the Commissaries committed the administration of the grandchild and his lands until he was fourteen years of age to the tutor. An action for the reduction of tha latter will and testament was instituted by his Lordship’s second son Andrew on 6 May 1578.
He had been contracted to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Adam Chrichton of Ruthvendenny, prior to the death of his grandfather. The marriage, however, did not take place, and his father was sued for repayment of the tocher, and the marriage-contract between them is referred to. He married Isabel Hamilton, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, by whom he had issue:-
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1526 - Pardoned of Murder - Edingburgh, Scotland - Pardoned with his father and brothers for the murder of Cornelius de Machetema at Tolbooth.
A history of the county of Renfrew from the earliest times (1905) by Metcalf, William M.
Page 136, 137 - On June 12, 1527, Parliament assembled in Edinburgh. Lord Semple had already been concerned with the Earl of Eglinton, Sir Neil Montgomery, and Stirling of Keir, in the death of the laird of Lochleven, and on the 21st of the month the Lords Temporal thought it expedient that Semple and his associates should be indicted for treason. While Parliament was sitting, Semple whether aware of this resolution or not, entered Edinburgh at the head of a strong force. With his men he set upon on Corenlius de Mathetema, a Dutchman, near the Tolbooth, and put him to death. The affair created a great stir, but on the 17th of the following month the King issued a letter of respite, protecting Semple and his followers against all that might follow from this “treasonable slaughter” for nineteen years. The letter gives the names of Semple’s accomplices. In all they number 586.
1533 - Douglas Castle, Lanackshire, Scotland - Governor and Constable of Douglas Castle
07 Apr 1538 - Auchindonnamylne, Ayr, Scotland - Marriage to Isabel Hamilton - 1st wife
1541 - England, Great Britain - In exile in England for Murder - Pardoned
1543 - Illegitimate child born, Later to be known as: Colonel William Semple "of Lochwinnoch" "of Spain"
1544 - Renfrew, Renfrewshire, , Scotland - Sheriff of Renfrew, Bailiff of the Regality of Paisley
24 Aug 1546 - 2nd Marriage to - Elizabeth Carlyle "of Torthorwald"
10 Sep 1547 - River Esk near Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland - Taken Prisoner at the Battle of Pinkie - It was the last pitched battle between Scottish and English armies, and is seen as the first modern battle in the British Isles. It was a catastrophic defeat for Scotland, and became known there as Black Saturday.
11 Jun 1550 - Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - Semple Killed William Crichton, 5th Lord of Sanquhar - At the house of Governor Arran, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, by Robert 3rd Lord Semple, stabbed to death in a quarrel.
1554 - Subscribed the Earl of Arran's Bond
Aug 1560 - Supported the Queen-Regent Mary of Guise against the Lords of the Congregation - Resulting in Semple Castle being besieged and taken.
Sep 1560 - Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Castle Semple Besieged - " was the Castell of Sempill 2 besieged and tane, because the Lord thairof disobeyed the lawes and ordinances of the Counsall in many thingis and especiallie in that, that he wold manteane the idolatrie of the Messe."
21 Oct 1561 - Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Castle Semple Surrender's - The castle surrendered about the 21st of October 1561. " B. 0. Scot-land Eliz ," vol. v. No. 39.
13 Feb 1563 - Kirk o'Field, Scotland - Lord Darnley Stewart Murdered - Semple, although a catholic, he, after the murder of Darnley, joined the association for the' defences of the young prince' in opposition to Bothwell and the Mary Stewart "Queen of Scots."
14-15 Jun 1567 - Carberry, East Lothian, Scotland - Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, one of the Confederate Lords in opposition to Mary, Queen of Scots that commanded in the vanguard of the army which opposed the queen at the Battle of Carberry Hill; and he was also one of those who signed the documents authorising William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton to take the queen under his charge in his fortalice of Loch Leven Castle.
Supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots - George Seton, 7th Lord Seton, Lord Hay of Yester, Lord Borthwick, John Cockburn of Ormiston, Home of Wedderburn, Blackadder of Tulliallan, and Cockburn of Langtoun.
Confederate Lords - The Confederate Lords included the Regent Morton, John Erskine, 17th Earl of Mar, Alexander Cunningham, 5th Earl of Glencairn, the Lords Lindsay, William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, Alexander Home, 5th Lord Home, Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, Lord Sanquhar, and the lairds Murray of Tullibardine, Douglas of Drumlanrig, Kirkcaldy of Grange and all their horsemen and foot soldiers.
04 Jul 1567 - Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was a Roman Catholic who joined the Protestant Church of Scotland and their Association to Defend James VI and I - James VI and I who was then raised up as a member of the Protestant Church of Scotland.
Act Anent the demission of the Crown in favour of our Sovereign Lord, and his Majesty's Coronation 1567
12-13 May 1568 - Langside, Scotland - Opposition to Mary, Queen of Scots - After the queen's escape from Lochleven Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill assembled his dependents against her at the Battle of Langside.
19 May 1568 - Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, , Scotland - Appointed Lieutenant of Western Parts - Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed lieutenant of the western parts, with special instructions to watch the Dumbarton Castle, and prevent the entrance into it of provisions or reinforcements or fugitives.
May 1570 - Draffen, Scotland - Kidnapped by the Hamiltons, Taken Prisoner - While returning one evening from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill was seized by some of the Hamiltons' dependents, and carried a prisoner to Draffen.
01 Apr 1571 - Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland - Dumbarton Castle Captured - Notwithstanding the utmost efforts of Glencairn and Robert Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill, the Dumbarton Castle continued to hold out, until, its rock was scaled by Thomas Crawford, of Jordanhill.
1571 - Privy Councillor
1572 - Lieut-General and Justiciar of Lanark and Renfrew
06 May 1573 - Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Possession of Castle Taken - The Earl of Arran having taken possession of Castle Semple, Lord Semple took refuge in France. This day Robert, Lord Semple, was denounced and put to the horn, for intruding Sir Johnne Hamilton, a Papist priest, in the vicarage of Eastwood.
1573 - Put to the Horn and Excommunicated - Henceforth, three times a year, at the market cross, in their district's major burgh, their name to be read three times, and all their goods and money are to be confiscated. Announcement, usually in ancient times, was preceeded by 3 blasts of a horn.
17 Jan 1575 - Renfrew, Renfrewshire, Scotland - Death
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Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill (c. 1505–1576) was a Scottish lord of Parliament.
Robert, also Semphill or Semple, 3rd Lord Sempill (d. 1572), commonly called the 'Great Lord Sempill,' was the elder son of William Sempill, 2nd Lord Sempill, by his first wife, Lady Margaret Montgomery, eldest daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton. His parents marriage was commemorated in carved stone heraldry at Castle Semple Collegiate Church. The Sempill family from the thirteenth century were heritable bailiffs of the regality of Paisley, and sheriffs of Renfrewshire, under the Lord High Steward of Scotland. They frequently distinguished themselves in the English wars, and were employed in important duties of state. Sir Thomas Sempill, father of John Sempill, 1st Lord Sempill, was killed at the battle of Sauchieburn on 11 June 1488, fighting in support of James III, and the first Lord Sempill, created by James IV about 1489, fell at Flodden on 9 September 1513.
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Semple, William Alexander. Genealogical History of the Family Semple: From 1214 to 1888. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1888), Page 11, 1888.
↑ 5.0 5.1 Metcalfe, William Musham. A history of the county of Renfrew from the earliest times: with a map of the county. (Paisley [Scotland]: A. Gardner, 1905).
Page 136, 137 - On June 12, 1527, Parliament assembled in Edinburgh. Lord Semple had already been concerned with the Earl of Eglinton, Sir Neil Montgomery, and Stirling of Keir, in the death of the laird of Lochleven, and on the 21st of the month the Lords Temporal thought it expedient that Semple and his associates should be indicted for treason. While Parliament was sitting, Semple whether aware of this resolution or not, entered Edinburgh at the head of a strong force. With his men he set upon on Corenlius de Mathetema, a Dutchman, near the Tolbooth, and put him to death. The affair created a great stir, but on the 17th of the following month the King issued a letter of respite, protecting Semple and his followers against all that might follow from this “treasonable slaughter” for nineteen years. The letter gives the names of Semple’s accomplices. In all they number 586.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland, containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914), Vol. 7.
Page 538 thru 543 – Robert, third Lord Sempill, born about 1505, was involved with his father in the trouble with John Mure of Caldwell in 1526. He, as son and heir-apparent, had a charter of the island of Little Cumray, 23 February 1532-33, which was afterwards revoked; a charter in liferent of the lands of Hardrig and others, in the lordship of Douglas; and a grant of the office of Governor and Constable of the King’s Castle of Douglas, both on 20 October 1533. On 2 March 1539-40 ‘now being furth of the realme fugitive fra the lawis and at the horne for certane grete crymes,’ the King having granted him remission, his father undertook, under the pain of L5000, that he would not resort to Scotland or France. His father granted him a charter of the office of Sheriff of Renfrew, barony of Sempill, lands of Southannan, Previk, Glasfurd, and others 24 January 1543-44. He sat in Parliament 1544-46, and at the convention at Stirling 1545, and on 6 October 1545 and 20 May 1546 Queen Mary granted him the lands of Crukiston, Crukisfee, Thankerton, and Darnley, which were forfeited by Matthew, Earl of Lennox. Robert Sempill came to the assistance of the Abbey of Paisley, and by arms preserved the monks from heretics, and in recompense, on 16 April 1545, he received from them the bailiary of the whole lands of the Abbey with some exceptions, and on the same day he and his father Lord Sempill undertook to support and defend the Abbot and convent, or failing to do so to forfeit the appointment. He was made prisoner at the battle of Pinkie in September 1547. On 9 April 1549 John Mure of Caldwell and others attempted to murder him. On 11 June 1549, probably during a private quarrel, he slew William, Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, in the lodging or hall of the Lord Governor in Edinburgh. For this crime he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle, and would probably have been executed but for the favour of the Archbishop of St. Andrews, whose mistress was Lord Sempill’s daughter. An agreement was come to in 1550 between the relatives of the deceased and William, Lord Sempill, his son Robert, Master of Sempill, and his son Robert, which inter alia provided for the marriages of the Master’s second son with Margaret, the youngest daughter of the murdered Lord, and of Lord Sempill’s ward, Alan, fourth Lord Cathcart, with Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lord Chrichton. In June 1552 he and his father’s widow came to an agreement regarding their respective rights in his estate, whereby he obtained possession of Castle Sempill and the place of Southannan. On 7 April 1554 he had a respite for treasonably coming in battle array against the Earl of Glencairn. In March 1557-58 je was ‘at enemytie and deadly feid’ with the Earl of Glencarin. The great feuds between the Montgomeries of Eglinton and the Cunninghams of Glencairn, in which the Lords Sempill took part with the former, lasted from 1488 to 1586. He was one of the few who were faithful to the Queen-Regent against the Lords of the Congregation, and in 1559 was deputed by her to meet the Protestants who were convened at Perth. He was described by John Knox as ‘a man sold under sin, an enemy to God and all godliness. After his father’s death he was again in Parliament as Lord Sempill in 1558, 1567. His house of Castle Sempill was besieged by the Lords of the West in December 1559, and taken 14 October 1560. He took refuge in Dunbar, and the commander of that castle declined to surrender him. He was ‘relaxed from the horn’ in March 1561. Along with others of the ‘Nobles and Barons of the West Country’ on 5 September 1565 he signed a band in support of Mary and Darnley, in opposition to the Earl of Moray and other rebels, and held a command under the Earl of Lennox in the vanguard of the army raised against them. He had a commission of justiciary upon the whole inhabitants of Renfrewshire, which was in 1564 discharged so far as concerned James Glen of the Bar, his family and friends, as he was also at ‘deidly feid and inimytie’ to them. Although a Roman Catholic, after the murder of Darnley he joined the Association for the ‘defences of the young prince’ as opposed to Bothwell and the Queen, and at that time preserved the life of the Earl of Lennox when attaked in Glasgow. He was a member of the assize at the mock trial of the Earl of Botwell for the murder of Darnley on 12 April 1567, and on the 19 of April is stated to have been one of the subscribers of the ‘Aynesley’ bond to Bothwell. On 12 June he was one of those who signed the bond to deliver Queen Mary from thralldom, preserve the prince, and have the murderers of Darnley tried. At Carberry Hill, on 14 June 1567, he was present in the army which opposed her, and was one of those who signed the Act of Regent and Council authorizing her detention in Lochleven Castle. He was one of the Council of the Regent Moray in 1567. In Morton’s declaration regarding the discovery and custody of the ‘casket letters,’ he is said to have been present at the opening of the casket which contained Queen Mary’s letters. In 1568 he appeared in Parliament onece more. He was a Commissioner for opening Parliament 1567-68. After her escape from Lochleven he appeared against Queen Mary at the battle of Langside on 13 May 1568; and on the 19 of that month he was, with the Earl of Glencairn, appointed by the Lord Regent and Lords of Secret Council Lieutenant of the Western Parts, for the purpose of suppressing the conspirators and those who were at the battle of Langside opposed to the King and Regent. He was at the Convention of Estates at Perth 20 July 1569, and voted against the Queen’s divorce from Bothwell. Along with the Earl of Glencairn, on the instructions of the Earl of Moray, the Regent, he besieged the castle of Dumbarton, and was ordered to destroy the house of Boghall. For his special services he obtained a gift of the Abbey of Paisley in 1569, which was forfeited by Lord Claud Hamilton. About the commencement of the year 1570 he signed an instrument, along with other nobles, desiring Queen Elizabeth to return Queen Mary to Scotland. He had a command in the army which destroyed Hamilton Castle, and set fire to it and the palace and other houses belonging to the supporters of Queen Mary, in 1570. Returning one evening in May 1570 from the army which had demolished the castle of the Hamiltons, Lord Sempill was, by some of Hamilton’s dependents, taken prisoner, and carried first to Draffen, and afterwards to Argyll. He was probably set at liberty in July 1571. He was appointed a Privy Councillor 7 September 1571, and was in parliament 1571 and 1572. On 2 July 1572 he was appointed Lieutenant-General and Justiciar of the sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew. On 8 November 1572 Lord Sempill granted a charter of his estates, reserving his own liferent, in favour of Robert, his grandson, and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to Andrew, his own son and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Brintscheillis and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to John Sempill of Beltries and the heirs-male of his body lawfully procreated, whom failing, to his own lawful and nearest heirs bearing the name and arms of Sempill. The Earl of Eglinton and Lord Sempill were, on 15 April 1573, ordered to disband their followers. He was sued by Thomas Jack, vicar of Eastwood, for payment of the duties due to him as such vicar; but his Lordship intruded Sir John Hamilton, a papist priest, into the vicarage, and threatened the life of the said Thomas Jack should he enforce his rights. For this he was put to the horn on 6 May 1573. He was charged to surrender his house on 1 June 1573 to the Regent, and failing obedience the Earl of Argyll was to proceed against him, and in that month he was excommunicated, and was at court on 1 August 1573. He died between that date and 17 January 1575-76. His latter will and testament, dated 8 November 1572, appointed James, Earl of Morton, ‘tutor testamentary, reular, gidar and governour,’ to Robert Sempill, his grandson, and the Commissaries committed the administration of the grandchild and his lands until he was fourteen years of age to the tutor. An action for the reduction of tha latter will and testament was instituted by his Lordship’s second son Andrew on 6 May 1578. He had been contracted to marry Margaret, daughter of Sir Adam Chrichton of Ruthvendenny, prior to the death of his grandfather. The marriage, however, did not take place, and his father was sued for repayment of the tocher, and the marriage-contract between them is referred to. He married Isabel, daughter of Sir William Hamilton of Sanquhar, by whom he had issue:-
Robert Sempill, 3rd Lord Sempill, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
*The Marty Acks Wiki - John Porterfield, Laird of Cuchal (1515-1575).
Events
| Birth | 1505 | ||||
| Birth | Abt 1505 | Renfrew, , Renfrewshire, Scotland | |||
| Death | 1572 | ||||
| Death | 17 Jan 1576 | Renfrew, , Renfrewshire, Scotland | |||
| Alt name | Robert "'Great Lord Sempill'" Sempill | ||||
| Reference No | 2078092 | ||||
| Reference No | 2106967 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Carlyle (1504 - 1564) |
| Child | Jean Sempill (1543 - 1592) |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Carlisle or Carlyle (1510 - 1564) |
| Child | Jean Sempill (1543 - 1592) |