Sir Thomas Maule
Sir Thomas Maule Captain of Brechin Castle | |
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| Died | August 9, 1303 |
| Parent(s) | Sir Peter Maule Christina de Valognes |
Sir Thomas Maule was the youngest son of Sir Peter Maule and Christina de Valognes, Baron and Baroness of Panmure and Benvie.[1]
He was Captain of Brechin Castle, and led the defence when the English forces, led by Edward I laid siege in July, 1303, during the First War of Independence.[1][2] The defending forces purportedly held out for 20 days,[3] before Maule was killed on the battlements by a stone hurled from a siege engine, after which the garrison yielded.[1][2]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Maule, Harry (1874), Stuart, John (ed.), Registrum de Panmure. Records of the families of Maule, De Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, united in the line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure, Edinburgh: Fox Maule-Ramsay
- ^ a b Barrow, G.W.S. (2005), Robert Bruce and the community of the realm of Scotland (4 ed.), Edinburgh University Press, ISBN 9780748620227, retrieved 28 October 2010
- ^ Black, David (1839), The History of Brechin, Brechin: Alexander Black, retrieved 28 October 2010
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