Alexander Home of Home and Dunglas

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Sir Alexander Home of Home and Dunglas was the son of Sir Thomas Home of that Ilk and Nicole Papedy. He married Janet Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay of Lochorwart and Alice (?). He died on 17 August 1424 at Verneuil, France, killed in action.

Sir Alexander Home of Home and Dunglas lived at Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland. He fought in the Battle of Verneuil on 17 August 1424, with the French.

Children of Sir Alexander Home of Home and Dunglas and Janet Hay

• * Helen Home+ d. a 1512
• * Alexander Home, 1st Lord Home+ d. bt Feb 1490 - Apr 1491
• * Thomas Home d. a 20 Jun 1443
• * George Home

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Sir Alexander [Home] was taken prisoner at the battle of Homildon in 1402. David was about to accompany Douglas to France, and Alexander accompanied him to the ship, when Douglas cordially embracing him, said, "O Alexander, I never could have believed that anything should have separated us;" upon which, Alexander replied, "Then let nothing ever separate us;" and persuading his brother David to return home, he left him in charge of his children, if anything should befal him: he accordingly accompanied the Scottish forces under the Earl of Douglas to France, and lost his life with his leader at the Battle of Verneuil in 1424. [Drummond's Histories of Noble British Families, William Pickering, London, 1844, Part VI., Dunbar, Hume and Dundas Families]

Notes

Hitherto the De Homes had acknowledged as their feudal lords the Earls of Dunbar and March, the heads of the great house from which they sprung, who, from their vast possessions and their strong castle of Dunbar, on the eastern Border, having the keys of the kingdom at their girdle, as they boasted, were among the most powerful nobles in the kingdom.

Partly from ambition, partly, it would appear, from a hereditary fickleness of character, these barons were noted for the frequency with which they changed sides in the wars between England and Scotland. The eleventh Earl was in the end unfairly deprived of his earldom, castles, and estates by James I., towards the middle of the fifteenth century, in pursuance of his policy to break down the power of the great nobles. As some compensation for this treatment, the King conferred upon him the title of Earl of Buchan, but he indignantly refused to accept of the honour, and sought an asylum in England, from which he never afterwards returned.

His father, the tenth Earl of Dunbar and March, who was one of the heroes of Otterburn, in consequence of the manner in which the contract of marriage between his daughter and the Duke of Rothesay was broken off (see THE D0UGLASES), renounced his allegiance for a time to his sovereign; the De Homes, his kinsmen, abandoned his banner, and fought against him and Harry Percy at the sanguinary battle of Homildon, where their chief, SIR ALEXANDER HOME, was taken prisoner.

On regaining his liberty he accompanied the Earl of Douglas (Shakespeare's Earl, nicknamed Tineman) to France, shared in his triumphs and disasters, and fell along with him at the battle of Verneuil, in 1424, where the Scottish auxiliaries were almost annihilated. Sir Alexander's second son, THOMAS, was the ancestor of the Homes of Tyningham and the Humes of Ninewells, the family of which David Hume, the philosopher and historian, was a member.

The Great Historic Families of Scotland, Volume I – 1889

Will

3 Feb 1424  Dunglas   [8]  "It gives an inventory of his effects, and the first clause directs that a commemorative mass should be said for him in the church of the Virgin at Whitekirk, and should he happen to die that year, he desires an immediate mass to be celebrated for him. He names two of his three sons, and provides for them and his three daughters, his executors being Patrick Hepburn, Laird of Wauchton, and his brothers David and Patrick."

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