Gelis Cockburn

Gelis COCKBURN, the third daughter of William COCKBURN of Henderland and his wife Egidia (Gelis) FRASER.

Notes

https://thehistoryjar.com/tag/william-cockburn-of-henderland/

He explains that King James V was going to go to Dumfries that spring and this being the case nothing was likely to happen until the king had spoken on the matter. James had attempted to bring some order to his border barony in 1530 when he summoned them all to Edinburgh for a verbal dressing down and a swift execution of one William Cockburn of Henderland as a lesson to them all (Macdonald Fraser, 257). It didn’t have any noteable effect on the borderers so James was forced to execute Johnny Armstrong of Gilknockie which resulted in immortality in the form of a border ballad for fair Johnny Armstrong who dressed rather better than his monarch if the balladeer was telling the truth on the matter. So who were these assorted rebels of 1536? And what did Lord Dacre have to do with it?

References

• https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getpe...
• Murray of Stanhope, Jack Murray, (http://www.murrayofstanhope.com/index.htm), http://www.murrayofstanhope.com/alexandermurraygelis.htm.