4TH See also: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
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1546)
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In 1547 he married See also:Agnes (d
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1594),daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Herries, 3rd Lord Herries (d
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1543), a See also:grandson of See also:Herbert Herries (d. c
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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
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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
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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 (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape from Holyrood, he remained one of her staunchest See also:friends, although he disliked her See also:marriage with See also:Bothwell
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He led her See also:cavalry at Langside, and after this See also:battle she committed herself to his care
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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
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He continued to labour in Mary's cause after returning to See also:Scotland, and was imprisoned by the regent See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
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
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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
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His son William, 5th Lord Herries (d
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1604), was, like his See also:father, See also:warden of the See also:west See also:marches
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William's grandson John, 7th Lord Herries (d
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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
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John's grandson was William, 5th earl of Nithsdale, the Jacobite (see NITHSDALE)
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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 (0. Fr. connestable, Fr. connetable, Med. Lat. comestabilis, conestabilis, constabularius, from the Lat. comes stabuli, count of the stable)
- CONSTABLE, ARCHIBALD (1774-1827)
- CONSTABLE, HENRY (1562-1613)
- CONSTABLE, JOHN (1776-1837)
- CONSTABLE, SIR MARMADUKE (c. 1455-1518)
Constable-Maxwell (1804–1876) was rightly Lord Herries of Terregles
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In 1876 William's son Marmaduke Constable-Maxwell (b
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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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