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Alexander Home, 5º Lord Home
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Name Alexander Home [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Suffix 5º Lord Home
Biographical Aft 9 Sep 1513 England [2]
was a prisoner "for some time'
"... after the battle of Pinkie."
Born 1532-1533 [1]
Notable Notables
Politician Politicians
Marriage Contract 1537 [6]
"Lord Home, while Master of Home, had been contracted in 1537 to a natural daughter of King James V by Elizabeth Beaton, whose Christian name is not given. A gift of the casualty of his marriage was granted in 1550 to himself by the Queen-Dowager, to which she had right, from the gift to her of the late Margaret Stewart, who had received the same from King James V, but it is not certain that this Margaret was the natural daughter above mentioned. The contract was never carried out."
Political 6 Dec 1548 [2]
recipient of a pass into Scotland with the Earl of Huntly, 'bondis' being taken for re-entry
"He probably did not return."
Military Service Apr 1550 [2]
Warden of the East Marches
Travel Sep 1550 France [2]
as one of the nobles who accompanied Mary of Lorraine on her visit
Acceded 16 Apr 1551 [2]
heir of his father, George, Lord Home in his lands
"... and in the offices of Steward of Dunbar, Bailie of Coldingham, Eccles, and Dryburgh."
Land Relinquish 7 Jan 1557 Castle Home, , Berwick, Scotland [2, 7]
"Lord Home had an annual pension from the King of France of 2,000 livres as appears from his appointing procurators to receive it, 7 January 1556-57. This pension is referred to in an obligation 12 July 1549, in implement of the contract between the Queen-Dowager, the governor, the French lieutenant, and French ambassador and the Chancellor, and Lords of the Privy Council, on the one part, and George, Lord Home, and his son, Alexander, Master of Home, on the other, who promised to deliver up the castle of Home to be maintained as a fortress against the English in consideration of a pension of 2000 merks Scots yearly from France during their lives, and to the survivor."
Home → Castle Home
(Castle Recontructions by Andrew Spratt, http://www.maybole.org/history/castles/index.htm)
Military Service 21 Oct 1557 Castle Home, , Berwick, Scotland [7]
appointed Warden of the East and Middle Marches by the Queen-Regent
Political 21 May 1559 [7]
one of the Scots Commissioners appointed to sign the treaty of Upsetlington
Political 1560 [7]
a member of the Reformation Parliament
Political Nov 1566 Castle Home, , Berwick, Scotland [7]
host of Queen Mary for two nights
"Lord Home was one of Queen Mary's supporters in her proposed marriage with Darnley, and it was reported he would be made Earl of March. In November 1566, after the memorable visit made by Queen Mary to Jedburgh, she spent two nights at Home Castle."
Political 25 Jul 1567 [7]
was one of the Lords who signed the warrant for the committal of the Queen to Lochleven, and received her demission of the Crown
"Lord Home was one of the nobles who signed the 'Ainslie band' in favour of the Bothwell marriage 19 April 1567, but he shortly afterwards joined the Earl of Moray's party, and was in command of a body of horse at Carberry hill, when the Queen surrendered to the Lords 15 June 1567. He was one of the Lords who signed the warrant for the committal of the Queen to Lochleven, and received her demission of the Crown 25 July 1567."
Political 29 Jul 1567 Castle Stirling, Stirling, Scotland [7]
present at the coronation of King James VI
a signer of the act against the Queen
Acceded 26 Dec 1567 [7]
the hereditary offices of Sheriff of Berwickshire and Bailie of Lauderdale, forfeited by the Earl of Bothwell
Military Service 13 May 1568 Langside, , Scotland [7]
as commander of a body of horse and foot in the Regent Moray's army and was wounded in the face and leg
Land Relinquish 1570 Castle Home, , Berwick, Scotland [7]
by surrender to Sussex
"In 1569 Lord Home returned to his old allegiance, and after Home Castle was surrendered to Sussex, whose army had overrun and destroyed the Borders in 1570, Lord Home retired to Edinburgh."
Political 13 Jun 1571 Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland [6]
in the Marion Parliament
Legal Oct 1573 [6]
convicted of treason in the Parliament and his title and estates were forfeited
Died 11 Aug 1575 Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland [1]
Arrest 28 May 1573-2 Jun 1757 Castle Edinburgh, Edinburgh, , Midlothian, Scotland [6]
"He joined Kirkcaldy of Grane and Maitland of Lethington in holding out in Edinburgh Castle for Queen Mary, his wife and his stepson Robert Logan of Restalrig being with him. When the castle surrendered to Elizabeth's troops 28 May 1573, Lord Home was delivered up to the Regent Morton, who kept him a prisoner until 2 June 1575 when he was 'relevit out of the Castell of Edinburgh and wardit in his awne lugeing in the heid of the [Black] Freir Wynd.'
He was carried thither in a bed, and died in the month of August following."
Castle Edinburgh
Aristocrat Aristocracy & Nobility
Person ID I10080 If the Legends Are True...
Father George Home, 4º Lord Home, d. Aft 15 Mar 1549
Mother Mariota Haliburton, Co-Heiress of Dirleton, d. Bef 27 Feb 1564
Married Bef 30 Oct 1531
Family 1 Margaret Ker, b. Aft 1543, Ferniehirst, Roxburgh, Scotland , d. Bef 5 Dec 1565 (Age ~ 21 years)
Married Bef 4 Feb 1558 [4, 6, 8]
Land Acquisition 4 Feb 1558 [6]
a charter of the lands and barony of Broxfield in Roxburghshire, to them and their heirs
Alt. Marriage 1564 Scotland [9]
Children 1 child only [4]
+ 1. Honorable Margaret Home, b. Bef 5 Dec 1565, d. May 1598 (Age ~ 32 years)
Family 2 Dame Agnes Gray, Lady Home, d. Aft 9 Jan 1581
Biographical 1568 [10]
had two additional daughters mentioned in the retour of the Commendator of Jedburgh as tutor to his nephew in that year
Married Bef 3 May 1568 [4, 6, 11]
+ 1. Alexander Home, 1º Earl of Home, b. Abt 1566, d. 5 Apr 1619, City of London, , London, England (Age ~ 53 years)
+ 2. Honorable Isabel Home, d. Yes, date unknown
Family 3 Unknown, d. Yes, date unknown
Married Type: Unmarried [12]
Status Unmarried
1. John Home, Provost of Dunglas, d. Bef 4 Jul 1579
ALEXANDER, his elder son, fifth Baron, was a true representative of his family both in its strength and its weakness. He was personally brave, and fought with great distinction against the English invaders in the campaign of 1548 and 1549. Unlike a large body of the nobles, he steadfastly supported the independence of the country, and was proof against the bribes and threats of the Protector Somerset and his agents.
He recovered Home Castle from the enemy in a very daring manner. A small band of his retainers, who were on the watch for an opportunity of surprising it, perceiving on a certain night that the guards had relaxed their vigilance, boldly scaled the precipitous rock on which the fortress was built, and, killing the sentinel, obtained possession of the castle without difficulty. Fast Castle, another fortalice of the family, was retaken in a manner equally adventurous. A number of armed men concealed themselves in the waggons which were bringing a supply of provisions for the garrison. Suddenly starting out of their hiding-place, the Scots seized the castle gates and admitted a strong body of their countrymen, who were waiting their signal in the immediate vicinity of the fort. The garrison being taken unawares, were easily overpowered, and the place secured.
Lord Home was appointed to the office of Warden of the Eastern Marches, so often held by his ancestors, and was one of the commissioners who negotiated the treaty between England and Scotland at Norham in 1559. He supported the Reformation, and sat in the Parliament which abolished Popery and established the Protestant Church in 1560; but in 1565 he attached himself to the party of Mary and Darnley, who in the following year, with a splendid retinue, visited the family castles of Home, Wedderburn, and Langton.
He seemed to stand so high in the favour of the Queen at this time that it was expected that the ancient title of Earl of March would be revived in his favour. He was one of the nobles who signed the discreditable bond in favour of the Queen's marriage to Bothwell, but only a few weeks later he joined the association for the defence of the infant King, her son, and along with the Earls of Morton, Mar, Glencairn, and Athole, Lords Lindsay, Ruthven, Graham, and Ochiltree, he subscribed the order for Mary's imprisonment in Lochleven Castle.
After the Queen's escape from that fortalice, Home brought a body of six hundred spearmen to the assistance of the Regent Moray at the battle of Langside, where he was wounded both in the face and the leg; but the fierce charge of the Border spearmen contributed not a little to the defeat of the Queen's army.
In 1569, however, he once more changed sides, and joined Queen Mary's party. He assisted Kirkaldy of Grange and Maitland of Lethington in holding out the castle of Edinburgh to the last against Regent Morton; but on its surrender in May, 1573, he was more fortunate than his associates, for though he was brought to trial before the Parliament and convicted of treason, he was pardoned, and obtained the restoration of his estates. He died 11th August, 1575.
[S110] Leo's Genealogics, Leonardus Franciscus Maria van de Pas, (Perth, Australia: www.genealogics.org), I00043028 (Reliability: 3).
~Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London, 1938, Reference: Page 1326. ~The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: VI 554. ~_Ahnentafel for Mary Campbell , White, Ky Wayne, Reference: 108.
[S511] Scots Peerage, Vol. 4, Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms (editor), (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1907), archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft., Home, Earl of Home; page 460 (Reliability: 4).
[S682] Cracroft's Peerage, Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, editor, (Oxfordshire, England: Heraldic Media Limited, www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk), Home, Lord (Scotland, 1473) | http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/index1668.htm (Reliability: 3).
[S682] Cracroft's Peerage, Patrick Cracroft-Brennan, editor, (Oxfordshire, England: Heraldic Media Limited, www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk), Home, Earl of (Scotland, 1604/5) | http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/home1604.htm (Reliability: 3).
~The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: VI 554.
[S131] Pedigree Resource File, FamilySearch, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve, Inc.), Submission: MMQ5-Y93 (Reliability: 2).
(Santa Rosa, CA: Suzanne Guerra)
[S640] Scots Peerage, Vol. 9, Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King Of Arms (editor), (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1914), archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun09pauluoft., Home, page 108 (Reliability: 4).
~Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London, 1938, Reference: Page 1326
~The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: VI 554 ~_Ahnentafel for Mary Campbell , White, Ky Wayne, Reference: 108
[S644] Scotland, Great Historic Families Vol. 1, James Taylor, (London, England: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1889), archive.org/stream/greathistoricfam01tayluoft., pages 378-79 (Reliability: 3).
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