Remains Of The Old Parish Church With Music On History Visit To Kinfauns Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video, with Scottish music, of a walk around the remains of the old Parish Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Kinfauns, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. This site was immortalized by Sir Walter Scott in The Fair Maid of Perth. The French knight Sir Walter de Longueville, who fought with Robert the Bruce at the siege of Perth, was buried here, along with his huge sword, which was uncovered centuries later. On record as a chapel of the parish church of Scone in the 12th century, the church attained parochial status by 1419. It went out of use in 1868 when it was abandoned. It is now roofless and the walls very much in ruin, except for the south aisle, dated 1598, the burial place of the Grays of Kinfauns. The rest of the church is probably 15th century, although considerably altered after the Reformation. Sir Thomas Charteris, or Thomas de Longueville, was a native of France. He was for many years a pirate under the name of the Red Rover, because of the red flags displayed from his ships. Wallace on his way to France encountered him on the high seas, and after a gallant struggle took him prisoner. The French King at Wallace's desire pardoned him and made him a knight He returned with Wallace to Scotland, to whom he was ever after a faithful friend and aided him in his exploits, When Wallace was carried a prisoner into England, Sir Thomas returned to Lochmaben, where he afterwards joined Bruce, and was the first who followed Bruce into the water at the memorable siege of Perth in 1312. In return for his bravery Bruce gave him the lands of Kinfauns. In Kinfauns Castle is a two handled sword supposed to have belonged to this Sir Thomas Charteris, the ancestor of the family of Charteris of Kinfauns, who were Lord Provosts of Perth for several generations. When the vault in the old church of Kinfauns was opened many years ago, there was found a helmet made of thick leather pointed over with broad stripes of blue and white, said to have been part of the armour in which the body of Thomas de Longueville had been deposited. After the family of Charteris the Kinfauns Estate passed into the hands of the Blairs, whose heiress was married to John, Lord Gray. A branch of this family had the lands of Balthayock. The following entries are recorded concerning this family: Thomas Charteris and Robert Ross, as frank tenementars of Kinfauns, are mentioned as having had a dispute about some teinds with Adam, Abbot of Scone; William Charteris of Cangnor, great grandson of the foresaid Thomas, refers to the sequel of the above dispute and confirms the teinds of the Abbey of Scone on 1st December, 1455. Confirmations of charters by this William Charteris, called also of Kinfauns, are given in the Register of the Great Seal; Thomas Charteris of Kinfauns, son and heir apparent of the foresaid William, received a charter from his father on 13th July, 1470, of the lands of Haltoun and others in the lordship of Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire, and of the lands of Kinfauns and Pitsindy in the lordship of Kinfauns, Perthshire; John Charteris of Kinfauns occurs frequently as a witness to charters between 1524 and 1531; and also as son and heir apparent of Thomas Charters of Kin-uns, at Aberdeen on 17th September, 1506. To m and his wife, Euphame Lindsay, the king on 17th March, 1524-5, granted the lands of Golktoun and others; Thomas Charteris of Kinfauns, probably son of the foregoing John, is frequently mentioned as granting charters of lands in the barony of Kinfauns between 1540 and 1546; and there are several uprisings led against him. John Charteris of Kinfauns and Janet Chisholm, his wife, had a charter of the lands of Corscaplie and others from William, Bishop of Dunblane, on 23rd May, 1567. They adopted as their son Harry Lindsay, brother of David, Earl of Crawford, who assumed the surname of Charteris, and thus acquired the lands and Barony of Kinfauns. He was afterwards Earl Craw-ford, having succeeded his brother, David. He is said to have married Beatrix Charteris, Heiress of Kinfauns. The family of Gray can trace its lineage as far back as the twelfth century. Baron Gray of Chillingham, in England, is recorded to have been a follower of King David I., and his son Andrew obtained in 1214 the lands of Browfield, near Roxburgh. The Grays of Browfield were represented to the fifth generation by Sir Andrew Gray of Fowlis, who married Janet, only daughter and heiress of Sir Robert Mortimer of Fowlis. Sir Andrew died about 1445. He had a family of five sons and eight daughters; one of them was married to John Ross of Kinfauns. Sir Andrew Gray of Fowlis, was on the 28th June, 1445, made a Lord of Parliament, and was the first Lord Gray of Fowlis. He died about 1470. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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