The Sheriff of Lanark or Sheriff of Lanarkshire was historically the royal official responsible for enforcing law and order and bringing criminals to...
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William Wallace led an uprising against the English and killed the Sheriff of Lanark, William Heselrig. The attack was not an isolated incident, but rather...
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Baldwin of Biggar was a mid-12th century Scottish magnate. He was granted the lordship of Biggar, and was made Sheriff of Lanark/Clydesdale by David I...
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William Wallace (redirect from Battle of elcho park)
was his killing of William de Heselrig, the English High Sheriff of Lanark, in May 1297. He then joined with William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas, and they...
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Lanarkshire (redirect from County of Lanark)
Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Lannraig; Scots: Lanrikshire), is a historic county, lieutenancy area and registration...
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Lanark Sheriff Court is a judicial building in Hope Street, Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The building, which continues to serve as the local courthouse...
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south-east of Hamilton. The town lies on the River Clyde, at its confluence with Mouse Water. In 2016, the town had a population of 9,050. Lanark has been...
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rest of the northeast of Scotland. William Wallace rose to prominence in May 1297, when he killed William Haselrig, the English sheriff of Lanark, and...
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Braveheart (category Cultural depictions of Edward I of England)
his 24th year; he killed the sheriff of Lanark when he was 27, apparently after the murder of his wife; he led a group of commoners against the English...
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the Sheriff of Lanark in 1305. Fought with his two sons John and William at the Battle of Bannockburn on 23–24 June 1314. King Robert I of Scotland rewarded...
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Walter de Burghdon (category English people of the Wars of Scottish Independence)
Constable of Carstairs Castle, the Sheriff of Lanark during 1301-1303 and joint Justiciar of Galloway in 1305. Walter was appointed keeper of Carstairs...
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Killellan in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland county of Renfrewshire, by Baldwin of Biggar, the Sheriff of Lanark. Baldwin may have been Sir Hugh's father...
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Justice of the Peace Court Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court Kirkwall Sheriff Court Lanark Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace...
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father died in 1479. In 1489 his first cousin King James IV made him Sheriff of Lanark, a position his father had previously held, and a Scottish Privy Counsellor...
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unrecorded and unknown. Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, Baldwin, Sheriff of Lanark/Clydesdale, and Walter fitz Alan, Steward of Scotland are all possible candidates...
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1912–1917 Alastair Oswald Morison Mackenzie, January–July 1917 (Sheriff of Lanark, 1917) David Anderson, 1917–1918 Charles Murray, 1918–1918 James Mercer...
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Clan Fleming (section Origins of the clan)
Biggar, South Lanarkshire under a grant of David I of Scotland. Baldwin became Sheriff of Lanark under Malcolm IV of Scotland and William the Lion and this...
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James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton (category Year of birth uncertain)
recompense for his Volte-Face, Hamilton was created Sheriff of Lanark, in July 1455, and certain of the Earl of Douglas' forfeited lands were made over to him...
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Andrew Moray (redirect from Andrew Murray, Guardian of Scotland)
in Fife, where MacDuff of Fife and his sons led the rising. In Central Scotland, William Hesilrig, the English sheriff of Lanark, was murdered on 3 May...
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Cumbric (category Extinct languages of Scotland)
came from the Renfrew area – itself a Cumbric name. Wallace slew the sheriff of Lanark (also a Cumbric name) in 1297. Even if he had inherited the surname...
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have been mustered by the Sheriff of Ayr, the Sheriff of Lanark, and the local magnates. At the time of Largs, the Scottish king thus had at his disposal...
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defeated an English force at Loudon Hill. In May of the following year Wallace slew the English sheriff of Lanark and soon after Blind Harry places Wallace and...
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Walter fitz Alan (redirect from Walter the Steward, 1st High Steward of Scotland)
commander was one of the three principal men of the region: Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow, Baldwin, Sheriff of Lanark/Clydesdale, and Walter himself. Whilst there...
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Scotland. "Hamilton Sheriff Court, Almada Street and Beckford Street (LB34470)". Retrieved 11 November 2021. Media related to Lanark County Buildings at...
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Somerled (redirect from Sumerled of the Isles)
Battle of Renfrew, fought near Renfrew, against forces led by Herbert, Bishop of Glasgow (d. 1164), and Baldwin of Biggar, Sheriff of Lanark (fl. 1160s)...
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1913. Retrieved 15 July 2022. Meeting of the County Council of the County of Lanark to be held within the Sheriff's Ordinary Court, County Buildings, Glasgow...
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Kilpeter. In the mid 12th century, the fee of Kilpeter was granted by Baldwin of Biggar, Sheriff of Lanark, to Hugh of Pettinain. From Hugh, the lands eventually...
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was originally owned by the Earls of Dunbar, then by Robert Lauder of The Bass. Sir James Hamilton, Sheriff of Lanark, bought Biel in 1641. William Hamilton...
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George Sinclair, Lord Woodhall (category Senators of the College of Justice)
as Sheriff of Lanark from 1747. His ancestor was one of the many Scottish landowners who purchased a Nova Scotia baronetcy in 1624 as part of a state exercise...
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formed part of Kintyre district of Argyll. A heritable sheriff was appointed to the shire in 1388. 1402: Renfrew: separated from the Shire of Lanark by Robert...
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