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4TH LORD JOHN MAXWELL HERRIES (c. 151...

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LORD See also:JOHN See also:MAXWELL See also:HERRIES (c. 1512-1583)  , Scottish politician, was the second son of See also:Robert See also:Maxwell, 4th See also:Lord Maxwell (d . 1546) . In 1547 he married See also:Agnes (d . 1594),daughter of See also:William See also:Herries, 3rd Lord Herries (d . 1543), a See also:grandson of See also:Herbert Herries (d. c . 1500) of Terregles, See also:Kirkcudbrightshire, who was created a lord of the Scottish See also:parliament about 1490, and in 1567 he obtained the See also:title of Lord Herries . But before this event Maxwell had become prominent among the men who rallied See also:round See also:Mary See also:queen of Scots, although during the earlier See also:part of his public See also:life he had been associated with the religious reformers and had been imprisoned by the See also:regent, Mary of See also:Lorraine . He was, moreover—at least until 1563—very friendly with See also:John See also:Knox, who calls him " a See also:man zealous and stout in See also:God's cause." But the transition from one party to the other was gradually accomplished, and from See also:March 1566, when Maxwell joined Mary at See also:Dunbar after the See also:murder of See also:David See also:Rizzio and her See also:escape from Holyrood, he remained one of her staunchest See also:friends, although he disliked her See also:marriage with See also:Bothwell . He led her See also:cavalry at Langside, and after this See also:battle she committed herself to his care . Herries rode with the queen into See also:England in May 1568, and he and John See also:Lesley, See also:bishop of See also:Ross, were her See also:chief commissioners at the conferences at See also:York . He continued to labour in Mary's cause after returning to See also:Scotland, and was imprisoned by the regent See also:Murray; he also incurred See also:Elizabeth's displeasure by harbouring the See also:rebel Leonard See also:Dam-es, but he soon made his See also:peace with the See also:English queen . He showed himself in See also:general hostile to the regent See also:Morton, but he was among the supporters of the regent See also:Lennox until his See also:death on the loth of See also:January 1583 .

His son William, 5th Lord Herries (d . 1604), was, like his See also:

father, See also:warden of the See also:west See also:marches . William's grandson John, 7th Lord Herries (d . 1677), became 3rd See also:earl of See also:Nithsdale in See also:succession to his See also:cousin Robert Maxwell, the 2nd earl, in 1667 . John's grandson was William, 5th earl of Nithsdale, the Jacobite (see NITHSDALE) . William was deprived of his honours in 1716, but in 1858 the See also:House of Lords decided that his descendant William See also:Constable-Maxwell (1804–1876) was rightly Lord Herries of Terregles . In 1876 William's son Marmaduke Constable-Maxwell (b . 1837) became 12th Lord Herries, and in 1884 he was created a See also:baron of the See also:United See also:Kingdom .

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