Christian Fletcher
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Christian Fletcher, Lady Abercrombie
, (1619 or 1620, Kinneff
, Kincardineshire
– February 1691) was a Scottish
minister's wife who saved the Honours of Scotland
from Cromwell's troops during the English invasion of Scotland.
James Sandilands, 1st Lord Abercrombie
James Sandilands, 1st Lord Abercrombie was a Scottish nobleman, the son of Sir James Sandilands and Agnes Carnegie, daughter of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk.He married Jean Lichtoun after 1643 and had two children:...
, (1619 or 1620, Kinneff
Kinneff
Kinneff is a roadside hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, just north of Inverbervie. To the north lies another hamlet, Catterline. Kinneff also has a primary school....
, Kincardineshire
Kincardineshire
The County of Kincardine, also known as Kincardineshire or The Mearns was a local government county on the coast of northeast Scotland...
– February 1691) was a Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
minister's wife who saved the Honours of Scotland
Honours of Scotland
The Honours of Scotland, also known as the Scottish regalia and the Scottish Crown Jewels, dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, are the oldest set of crown jewels in the British Isles. The existing set were used for the coronation of Scottish monarchs from 1543 to 1651...
from Cromwell's troops during the English invasion of Scotland.
See also
- Charles IICharles II of EnglandCharles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...
's coronation at Scone AbbeyScone AbbeyScone Abbey was a house of Augustinian canons based at Scone, Perthshire , Scotland. Varying dates for the foundation have been given, but it was certainly founded between 1114 and 1122....
on 1 January 1651 - Dunnottar CastleDunnottar CastleDunnottar Castle is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-east coast of Scotland, about two miles south of Stonehaven. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th–16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been an early fortress of the Dark Ages...
Further reading
- D. G. Barron, ed., In defence of the regalia, 1651–2 (1910)
- J. P. Campbell, The Scottish crown jewels and the minister's wife (2007)
- J. J. Reid, ‘The Scottish regalia, anciently styled the honours of Scotland’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 24 (1889–90), 18–48
- The letters of Sir Walter Scott, ed. H. J. C. Grierson and others, centenary edn, 12 vols. (1932–79)
- Walter ScottWalter ScottSir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time....
, Provincial antiquities of Scotland (1834) - Walter Scott, Description of the regalia of Scotland (1819)
- A. Baden-Powell and R. Baden-Powell, The handbook for Girl Guides, or, How girls can help build the empire (1912)
- The records of the parliaments of Scotland to 1707, http://www.rps.ac.uk/, University of St AndrewsUniversity of St AndrewsThe University of St Andrews, informally referred to as "St Andrews", is the oldest university in Scotland and the third oldest in the English-speaking world after Oxford and Cambridge. The university is situated in the town of St Andrews, Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It was founded between...
- George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant
- W. J. Chiego, H. A. D. Miles, and D. B. Brown, Sir David Wilkie of Scotland, 1785–1841 (1987)
- memorial stones and other information on display, Kinneff old kirk
- R. Franck, Northern memoirs, calculated for the meridian of Scotland (1694)
- C. J. Burnett and C. J. Tabraham, The honours of Scotland (1993)
- W. D. Collier, The Scottish regalia (1951)
- C. R. A. Howden, ed., ‘Papers relating to the preservation of the honours of Scotland in Dunottar Castle 1651–1652’, Publications of the Scottish History Society, 26 (1896)
- J. Longmuir, A day spent among the ruins of Dunnottar Castle (1835)
- D. G. Barron, The castle of Dunnottar and its history (1925)
- A. Brook, ‘Technical description of the regalia of Scotland’, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 24 (1889–90), 49–141