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The Battle of Arbroath was fought on 24 January 1445 (or by another version in 1446) at Arbroath in Scotland between rival claimants to the post of Baillie of the Regality. [ 1 ] Background
The Declaration of Arbroath included in the text of the Scotichronicon in the British Library.. The Declaration was part of a broader diplomatic campaign, which sought to assert Scotland's position as an independent kingdom, [5] rather than its being a feudal land controlled by England's Norman kings, as well as to lift the excommunication of Robert the Bruce. [6]
The Battle of Arbroath in 1446 came after a series of clashes between the Chief Justiciary of Arbroath, Alexander Lindsay, third Earl of Crawford and Bishop James Kennedy of St Andrews, which resulted in Lindsay sacking the bishop's lands and burning his properties.
At the Battle of Arbroath in 1445 the Clan Lindsay, led by the Master of Crawford, advanced with over 1000 men. Their enemy was the Clan Ogilvy who were also supported by men from the Clan Oliphant, Clan Gordon, Clan Seton and Clan Forbes of Pitsligo. The Earl, who was the Master of Crawford's father, rode between the two armies in an attempt ...
The Clan Ogilvy, supported by men from the Clan Oliphant, Clan Seton, Clan Gordon and the Clan Forbes fought at the Battle of Arbroath on 24 January 1445 against the Master of Crawford and his Clan Lindsay. [9] [10] [11] In 1425 Sir Walter Ogilvy, younger son of Ogilvy of Wester Powrie, was appointed High Treasurer of Scotland. [2]
Following the battle he was captured and taken to Rochester Castle in England where he was imprisoned. [2] He was released after agreeing to serve King Edward I of England overseas. [ 2 ] He returned to Scotland where he was second in command of Stirling Castle under his cousin of the same name, Sir William Oliphant .
Holinshed, Raphael, The Scottish Chronicle, vol. 1, Arbroath (1805) Holinshed, Raphael, Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, , vol. 4, London (1808) Thomson, Thomas , ed., History of Scotland from the death of King James I in the year 1536 to the year 1561, by John Lesley , Bannatyne Club (1830)
In 1445 a dispute between Alexander Ogilvy of Inverquharity and the son of the Earl of Crawford from nearby Finavon Castle culminated in the Battle of Arbroath in which Ogilvy and the Earl were killed. [1] In the late 18th century, the tower was sold by the 5th Ogilvy Baronet, and the wing demolished. The castle decayed until the 1960s, when it ...