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Tour Scotland Photograph Sir Thomas Randolph Earl of Moray Memorial Edinburgh Castle
Tour Scotland photograph of the Sir Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray Memorial in Edinburgh Castle. In 1296 Edward I of England invaded Scotland taking Edinburgh Castle by storm. In 1314 Sir Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, led a party of thirty men who scaled the cliffs and climbed the castle walls capturing the surprised garrison. Thomas was the son of another Thomas, who was Chamberlain of Scotland and Sheriff of Roxburgh, and the grandson of the Randulf or Ranulf who gave the family their surname. It is known that the younger Thomas was the nephew of King Robert the Bruce, but it is uncertain which of Robert's sisters was his mother. The traditional view is that she was of the first marriage of Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, who was mother of Robert by her second marriage. However it is now believed that the King's father Robert married again after Marjorie's death and had with his second wife a daughter, Isabel, who married the elder Thomas.
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