Clan Rose
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
Clan Rose is a Highland Scottish clan.
Contents |
[edit] History
[edit] Origins of the clan
.jpg)
The origins of the Clan Rose, as with many northern Scottish clans are uncertain and there is more than one theory as to the origin of the clan. One traditional theory is that Hugh Rose of Geddes came over from Ireland to Scotland in the 12th century. The Clan Rose were vassels of the old Earls of Ross who were chiefs of the Clan Ross. However the Clan Rose were quite separate in origin from the Clan Ross.[1] Another theory as to the origin of the Roses was that they were English in origin as believed by Mr Hugh Rose of the Rose of Kilravock family.[1] Whatever the origin of the clan, the Roses of Kilravock appear to have settled in Nairn in the north of Scotland, in about 1219 during the reign of David I of Scotland.[1] Hugh Rose of Geddes was witness to the foundation of Beauly Priory and the name Rose of Geddes changed to Rose of Kilravock when Hugh Rose of Geddes' son acquired the lands of Kilravock through marriage.[1]
[edit] 14th to 15th centuries
In 1390 the Rose family records and charters were destroyed when Elgin Cathedral, where they were kept was burned down by the notorious Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan who was known as the Wolf of Badenoch. All records relating to the family were lost. However from this point onwards records of Clan Rose are complete. During the 14th and 15th centuries the Clan Rose had an alliance with the Clan Chisholm and Clan Mackintosh.[1]
The family at this time was at serious variance with one of its most powerful neighbours, the Thane of Cawdor who was the chief of Clan Calder. This Thane’s father, six years earlier, had built the present keep of Cawdor Castle, and Thane William himself had made one of the best matches of his time by marrying a daughter of Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath, whose wife was a daughter of one of the Lords of the Isles. Thane William was an ambitious man. He had his estates changed into a Crown holding by resigning them into the hands of the King and procuring a new charter, and, to make sure of the permanence of his family, he set aside with a pension his eldest son, William, who had some personal defect, and settled the whole thanedom and heritage of the family on his second son, John, whom, to close the feud between the families, he married to Isabella, daughter of Rose of Kilravock. The marriage, however, was not happy, and out of it arose one of the most curious romances of the north.
[edit] 16th century and Anglo-Scottish wars
Hugh Rose of Kilravock, grandson of him who built the tower, for some reason now unknown seized William Galbraith, Abbot of Kinloss, and imprisoned him at Kilravock Castle. For this he was himself arrested and kept long a prisoner in Dunbarton Castle, then commanded by Sir George Stirling of Glorat. A deed is extant by which, while a prisoner, in June, 1536, the laird engaged a burgess of Paisley as a gardener for Kilravock—"Thom Daueson and ane servand man with him is comyn man and servand for all his life to the said Huchion."[1]
The next chief and Laird of Clan Rose was known as the Black Baron. He lived in the troublous time of the Reformation, and in his youth he fought and was made prisoner at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh during the Anglo-Scottish Wars. However he managed to pay his ransom, 100 angels, and to provide portions for his seventeen sisters and daughters, built the manor place beside his ancient tower, and reigned as laird of Kilravock for more than fifty years.[1] It was in his time that Queen Mary paid her visit to Kilravock. The Castle of Inverness, of which the Earl of Huntly was keeper, had closed its gates against her and her half-brother, whom she had just made Earl of Moray, and the Queen, while preparing to storm the stronghold, took up her quarters at Kilravock.[1] Here possibly it was that she made the famous remark that she "repented she was not a man, to know what life it was to lie all night in the fields, or walk the rounds with a Jack and knapscull." A few days later, overawed by her preparations, the captain of Inverness Castle surrendered and was hanged, and shortly afterwards the Queen defeated Huntly himself at Corrichie, and brought the great rebellion in the north to an end.[1]
The Black Baron of Kilravock was justice depute of the north under Argyll, sheriff of Inverness and constable of its castle under Queen Mary, and commissioner for the Regent Moray. He lived to be summoned to Parliament by James VI. in 1593.[1]
[edit] 17th century and Civil War
The Clan Rose supported the Covenanters during the Civil War. They fought against James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose at the Battle of Auldearn in 1645. The thirteenth baron, who died young in 1649, was well skilled in music, vocal and instrumental. Hugh, the fourteenth baron, lived through the trying times of Charles II. and James VII., but, though sharing his wife’s warm sympathy with the persecuted Covenanters, managed himself to avoid the persecutions of his time.
[edit] 18th century and Jacobite Uprisings
The fifteenth baron, again, educated in a licentious age, began life as a supporter of the divine right of kings, but afterwards admitted the justice and necessity of the Revolution. He voted against the Act of Union, but declared openly for the Protestant Succession, and, after the Union, was appointed one of the Scottish Commissioners to the first Parliament of Great Britain.[1]
During the Jacobite Uprisings the Clan Rose supported the British government. At the outbreak of the 1715 Jacobite Uprising Aurther Rose was killed leading a detachment of the clan to seize Inverness. He stood firm for King George’s Government, armed two hundred of his clan, kept the peace in his country side, and maintained Kilravock Castle as a refuge for persons in dread of harm by the Jacobites. He even planned to reduce the Jacobite garrison at Inverness, and, along with Forbes of Culloden and Fraser Lord Lovat, blockaded the town. His brother, Arthur Rose, who had but lately been ransomed from slavery with the pirates of Algiers, and whose portrait in Turkish dress may still be seen at Kilravock, tried to seize the garrison. At the head of a small party he made his way to the Tolbooth, but was betrayed by his guide. As Rose pushed past the door, sword in hand, the fellow called out "An enemy! an enemy I" Upon this the guard rushed forward, shot him through the body, and crushed the life out of him between the door and the wall. See: Siege of Inverness (1715).[2]
On hearing of his brother’s end, Kilravock sent a message to the garrison, ordering it to leave the place, or he would lay the town in ashes, and so assured were the governor and magistrates that he would keep his word that they evacuated the town and castle during the night, and he entered and took possession next day.[3]
During the 1745 to 1746 Jacobite Uprising the commander of British government forces, the Duke of Cumberland stayed at the Roses town house in Nairn, however that same night the Jacobite leader Charles Edward Stuart was entertained by the people of Kilravock in the Roses lands. After the Jacobite Uprisings the chief's daughter, Anne Rose married Sir Harry Munro, 7th Baronet who was the chief of the Clan Munro.[4]
[edit] Castle
In 1460 the present Kilravock Castle was built on the banks of the River Nairn, where it is still inhabited by the Rose family today.
[edit] Clan chief
The present chief is Anna Elizabeth Guillemard Rose, 25th of Kilravock.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k electricscotland.com. "History of Clan Rose". http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/ntor/rose2.html. Retrieved 22 December 2011.
- ^ Mackensie, Alexander. History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy.
- ^ Mackenzie, Alexander. History of the Frasers of Lovat, with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which is added those of Dunballoch and Phopachy.
- ^ Mackenzie, Alexander (1898). History of the Munros of Fowlis with genealogies of the principal families of the name: to which are added those of Lexington and New England. Inverness: A. & W. Mackenzie.
[edit] External links and sources
- Clan Rose Society of America
- Clan Rose@ElectricScotland
- http://www.scotclans.com/clans/Rose/history.html
|
|||||||||||
