Tour Scotland Video Of Old Photographs Of Giffnock East Renfrewshire

Tour Scotland travel Blog video of old photographs of Giffnock in East Renfrewshire located six miles from Paisley, Scotland. The first written mention of Giffnock came in 1530, when King James V presented Rockend, Ruken Mill and the surrounding lands to Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton. Montgomerie was created Earl of Eglinton between the 3 and 20 January 1506. He was one of those peers who after the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, at which King James IV was slain, met at Perth, Perthshire, to arrange for the coronation of the infant prince, King James V, and was nominated one of the guardians of the prince. On 28 October 1515, he was made keeper of the isle of Little Cumbrae, for the preservation of the game, until the king came of age. On 2 February 1526 he was appointed justice general of the northern parts of Scotland. He was one of the lords who attended the council of the king at Stirling in June 1528, after the young king's escape from the Douglas Clan. In November of the same year, his house of Eglinton was burnt down by William Cunningham, 4th Earl of Glencairn, and the charters of his lands having been all destroyed, the king granted him a new charter dated 23 January 1528. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.

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