Robert Colville

ROBERT COLVILLE OF HILTOUN

Chamberlain of Scotland; Steward and Comptroller of the Household of Margaret of Denmark

Robert Colville of Hiltoun, who is directly represented by the present Viscount Colville, has not been clearly ascertained to be the half-brother of Sir William Colville, as has been asserted. He and his son of the same name are confused and merged into one by Wood in his edition of Douglas's Peerage. It was the son who acquired part of Ochiltree and other lands belonging to the main line of the family, but the son was certainly not the nearest heir-male, as Wood states, for brothers-german of Sir William were then alive. Robert Colville is first found on record as the King's Chamberlain, rendering the accounts of Stirling- shire in 1471, and as he must then have been a man of some experience, it is probable that he was a contemporary rather than a son of the last Sir Robert Colville. This is corroborated by the fact that when on 10 October 1483 he received a charter of the lands of Hiltoun, he had already had them in liferent for nineteen years. In that year, and no doubt for some time previously, he was Steward to Queen Margaret of Denmark, wife of King Jame III. He was her house-steward and comptroller, and dealt with her expenses between 1484 and I486. He had a lease of Hiltoun about 1480 and 1481, but latterly held it in feu. It has been said that he was killed at Sauchieburn 11 June 1488, but there is clear evidence he survived that date, and died after January 1495-96, as he was tenant of Hiltoun at that date, but not much later. The Scots Peerage II: pp. 543-4

Marriage

Robert Colville of Hilton married Margaret Logan. The Scots Peerage II: p. 544 He and his wife had a nineteen year lease for the lands of Hilton, in the barony of Tillicoultry and sheriffdom of Clackmannan, which James III, King of Scots, subsequent gave them a feu charter for at the request of his Queen, Margaret of Denmark. RMS, 1483-1513, charter number 1568

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

16 October 1483: REX, ad instantiam et specialem requestam consortis sue Mergarete regine Scotie, et pro singulari favore quem gessit erga famdiarem servitorem suum Robertum Colvile, diets regins senescallum, et pro longo, fideli, et gratuito servitio regi, regine ac filio suo principi Scotie impenso, — concessit et ad feodifirmam dimisit dicto ROBERTO COLYILE, et MERGARETE LOGAN ejus sponse, — terras de le Hiltoun, in baronia de Tulicultre, vie. Clakmanan ; — quas dicti Rob. et Merg. tunc habuerunt in assedatione pro terminis 1 9 annorum : — Texexd. dictis Rob. et Merg. et eorum alteri diutius viventi et heredibus inter ipsos legitime procreatis, quibus deficienti- bus, legitimis et propinquioribus heredibus dicti Rob. quibuscunque, in feodifirma et hereditate imperpetuum : — Reddexd. 3 lib. 13 sol 4 den., et 6 bollas brasii, nomine feotlifirme :— Test. 105. 133.137. 113. 99. 144. 58. 136. Regustrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1483-1513, charter number 1568 on pp. 329-30