John Eustace de Maxwell Sixth Lord Caerlavock

• Preferred Name: John Eustace de Maxwell Sixth Lord Caerlavock^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Residence: in Scotland with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Alternate Birthplace: with note: Description: Caerlaverock Castle
  
• FSID: GJH9-V5P
  
• Titled: with note: Description: 6th Lord of Caerlaverock
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Sir-John-de-Maxwell-Lord-of-Caerlaverock/6000000029350688901?through=6000000002188032372 Most vital information and relationships match. Some details contain minor conflicts. ID numbers: G4VD-BCC and GCQB-PTD.
  
• Birth: 2 JUN 1262 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.1478 LONG: E3.6428
  
• 6th Lord of Maxwell: 1296 with note: GEDCOM data
  
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• Alternate death place: with note: Description: Caerlaverock Castle
  
• Death: 1 JUN 1307 in Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.0167 LONG: E3.5333
  
• Notes:

  === John of Maxwell, sixth Lord of Maxwell, ===
  John of Maxwell, sixth Lord of Maxwell, fourth of Carlaverock, third of Mearns, and second of Pencaitland.
  
  Of the subject of this memior little can be said. Like his father, Sir Herbert, he submitted to the triumphant arms of Edward King of England. On 17th July 1296, at Aberdeen, "John, son of Herbert of Makeswell," gave his oath of homage and fidelity to that king. He is so styled in a general enumeration of those who, at that place on that day, thus gave their oaths; and, in his letters of submission and fealty, he is designated "John of Makeswell, Chevalier, the son of Sir Herbert of Makeswelle." On the same day and at the same place, a person of the same name, who is probably identical, though represented in the English accounts as a different person, "Johannes dominus de Makeswelle," so called in the enumeration of names referred to, and in his letters of submission, "John de Makeswelle, Chevalier," gave his oath of homage an fidelity to Edward King of England.
  
  John of Maxwell obtained from his father, Sir Herbert, a grant of certain lands in the shire of Edinburgh, probably those of Pencaitland, and part, if not the whole, of Maxwell in the shire of Roxburgh, which he held of him. This suggests that Sir Herbert may have granted to his son John the fee of the family estates, reserving to himself the liferent.
  
  In 1297, John of Maxwell, "son and heir of Herbert of Maxwell," bave a charter, "Domino Ade de Gordon," of lands in Glenkenns, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright.
  
  In the preceding memoir we have brought down the history of the family of Maxwell to nearly the close of the year 1296. From that time to the spring of the year 1312, when Sir Eustace was Lord of Maxwell, there is almost a blank in the history of the family.
  
  These blank years were a very unsettled and disastrous period in the history of Scotland. Edward the First, King of England, had overrun the kingdom, and the most of the nobles of Scotland had been reluctantly constrained to submit to his overwhelming power. It seemed as if the conquest appeared in the person of Sir William Wallace, who, from his success agains the English, was chosen Governor of Scotland, and who, after a brief and noble struggle for the liberty and independence of his country, fell into the hands of Edward, and was executed in London, with ruthless barbarity, on 23rd August 1305. Only a few months after the death of Wallace, a new deliverer arose in Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick, grandson of the competitor for the throne; and he was crowned King of Scotland on 27th March 1306.
  
  During the period between 1296 and 1312, Sir Herbert and his son John certainly died; but the exact dated of the death of either of them is unknown. This John, we presume, is the "John Maxwell of Pencateland" who granted to the Abbey of Dryburgh the patronage of the Church of Pencateland and the chapel of Payston. The Abbey of Dryburgh, with which the name of John of Maxwell was thus associated, has been generally considered as founded between 1150 and 1152, by King David the First, who in his charter in its favour describes it as "the church of St Mary of Dryburgh, which I have founded." In the Chronicle of Melrose, its founder is said to have been Hugh of Morville, Constable of Scotland in the reign of King David the Second. But these conflicting statements may perhaps be reconciled by supposing that Morville, if not the founder, was the earliest benefactor of the abbey. It is said to have been erected on the site of a druidical temple. Its striking and picturesque ruins, standing on a plain at the bend of the Tweed, and surrounded by the lofty trees that cover its banks, are objects of special attraction to the antiquary, the historian, and the tourist.
  
  John of Maxwell, who, in a charter by his son John, afterwards given at length, is designated "Dominus Johannes de Maxwell de Pencateland," had two sons, Eustace, who was in possession of the estates of Maxwell in the year 1312, and John, who succeeded his brother Eustace. [The Book of Carlaverock I:92-93]
  
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  SIR JOHN DE MAXWELL, knight, son of Sir Herbert, swore fealty to Edward I at Aberdeen, 17 July 1296, and at Berwick, 28 August following. He was summoned for service with his father in 1297. It was in his day that Carlaverock was besieged. In 1307 (14 June) a cask of wine was sent by Edward I to Sir John de Maxwell, lord of Carlaverock. [Complete Peerage VIII:588, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  === Sir John Maxwell, Knight, first of Pollo ===
  Sir John Maxwell, Knight, first of Pollok, 1270-1306.
  
  Sir John Maxwell, second son of Sir Aymer, and brother of Sir Herbert, Lord of Maxwell and Carlaverock, was provided by his father to the estate of Pollok, from which he and his descendants were designated. It is easy to conjecture why Sir Aymer thus provided his younger son to Pollok. He had recently acquired the valuable barony of Mearns, but his older baronies of Maxwell and Carlaverock, being situated near the English border, were much exposed to hostile attacks, and required all his energies for their portection and defense, and he had little time to devote to the care of the distant barionies of Mearns or of Pollok. Here therefore wisely settled his second son in Pollok very soon after its acquisition; that is, about the year 1270.
  
  The Pollok branch thus early planted - the earliest offshoot from the parent stem - became itself and independent tree, whence numerous branches have since sprung, which are now flourishing both in Scotland and in other countries. In the course of little more than a century, it was enabled, by an alliance with a member of the royal house of Stewart, to provide large estates to a second son, who became the founder of the baronial family of Calderwood.
  
  At a later period, when the misfortunes of the parent line of Lords Maxwell had been reduced them from their former affluence, the position of the Pollok branch was such that its representative was solicited by the leading members of the family to relieve the estates of it s burdens,a nd to assume, on the death of the then chief, his place as head of the house of Maxwell.
  
  A race which has been so long established as the Pollok Maxwell family and several of the representatives of which have held positions of prominence and distinction, seems worthy of having its descent recorded. It is the object of these Memoirs to trace this descent through the seventeen successive generations which have existed between the first Baron of Pollok and his present representative, who is the twenty-first in descent from Undwyn, father of Maccus. We, therefore, commence these Memoirs of the Pollok line, in continuation of the four generations of the main line already given, with the younger son of the fourth generation, who was Sir John Maxwell, first Baron of Pollok. Sir John Maxwell and his brother Alexander witnessed a charter by their eldest brother, Herbert Maxwell, to the church of Saint James and Saint Mirrin of Paisley, of the lands in Mearns, about the year 1300, in which they are designated brothers of Herbert. As Lord of Pollok (lower), Sir John Maxwell also witnessed another charter, about the same year, by Herbert Maxwell, his brother, to the parish church of Merness, of six merks of an annual-rent from the mills of Merness. It has not been ascertained whom Sir John married. [Memiors of the Maxwells of Pollok I:9-10]

• m. BEF 1280

1. John Maxwell, b. ABT 1285 in Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland     d. 17 OCT 1346 in London, Middlesex, Englan

1. Title: The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Volume VI
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2. Title: The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United...Volume 8
   Author: pages 586-8, gives outline of Ancient Maxwell line.
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   Note: 582 I.— THE EAELS OF NITHSDALE AND LOEDS MAXWELL. I.— UNDWIN, father of Maccus, c. 1070, p. 1. I II.— Maccus, who gave name to the Barony of Maccuswell or Maxwell, near Kelso, and to the lands and parish of Maxtoun, both hi the county of Roxburgh : also to the Family of Maxwell. Died c. 1150, pp. 1-17. III. IV. — Herbert de Maccuswell, Sheriff of Teviotdale. 1150-1200, pp. 17, 21. Liulphus, c. 1172. Had a daiighter, Cecilia, and a son, Uchtred, p. 18. Edmund de Maccuswell, c. 1152, p. 19. 1. — Sir John de Maccuswell, also Sheriff of Teviotdale and Chamberlain of Scotland. He was the first Maxwell of Carlaverock. 1200-1241, s.p., p. 27. I Robert, c. 1210, s.p., p. 26. I I Robert, of Lessuden, 1200, p. 19. IV. 2.— Aymer de Maxwell, fourth Lord of Maxwell, second of Carlaverock, and Chamberlain of Scotland. He married Mary of Meams, and acquired the Barony of Mearns, in the county of Renfrew. 1241-1266, pp. 26, 64. V.— Sir Herbert de Maxwell of Maxwell, Carlaverock, and Mearns. He also acquired, in 1296, from John of Pencaitland, the lands of Pencaitland, in the county of Haddington, 1266-e. 1298. Swore fealty to Edward 1. 1296. He first used the saltire as his armorial bearing, p. 81. j Edward Maxwell, 1248, s.p., p. 80. Sir John Maxwell, ancestor of the Max- wells of Pollok, as shown in the Pollok Book. P. 80. Alexander, c. 1300, p. 80. VI. —John of Maxwell, sixth Lord of Maxwell. • I He swore fealty to Edward I. in 1296, p. 92. VII. 1.— Sir Eustace Maxwell, seventh of Maxwell, Carlaverock, Mearns, etc. 1312-1342, p. 94. VII. 2.— Sir John de Maxwell, eighth Lord of Maxwell. "Was taken prisoner at the battle of Durham on 17th October 1346. 1342-1347, p. 106. VIII. 1. — Herbert de Maxwell of Car- laverock. 1347-1354. Died without issue, p. 110. > VIII. 2.— Sir John Maxwell, Knight, of Maxwell, Carlaverock, Mearns, and Libberton. 1353 or 4-1373. He had by his wife, Christian Erskine, (?) a son, Robert, who suc- ceeded him, p. 112. IX. — Sir Robert de Maxwell of Maxwell, Carlaverock, etc. 1373-1409. He rebuilt Carlaverock Castle, pp. 119, 120. I X.— Sir Herbert Maxwell of Carlaverock. 1409-1420. Appointed Steward of Annandale in 1409. Married Katherine, daughter of John Stewart, Lord of Dalswinton, in 1386, p. 121. Aymer, p. 120. I XL— Sir Herbert Maxwell of Maxwell, Carlaverock, etc. 1420-1453. Was served heir of his father on 16th October 1421. Created Lord Maxwell c. 1440. He built the Castle of Mearns. Married, first, a daughter of Herbert Herries of Terregles ; and secondly, Kathe- rine, daughter of Sir William Seton of Seton. He died before 14th February 1453-4, p. 125. Aymer de Maxwell, called brother of Herbert in January 1424-5. Ancestor of the Maxwells of Kirk- connell. Vide Pedigree of them, p. 600. Margaret, not in text, p. 124, married Sir John de Montgomerie of Eagleshame, in the county of Renfrew. XII. — Robert, second Lord Max- well. 1453-1485. Served heir of his father, 14th February 1453-4. He married Janet Forrester of Corstorphine. Died 1486, p. 140. Sir Edward, ances- George, ances- tor of the Maxwells tor of Maxwells of Monreith, p. 138. of Carnsalloch, Vide Pedigree, p. 597. county of Dum- fries, p. 139. I I M David, Adam, John p. 139. ancestor of and Maxwells of William. Southbar, p. 139. p. 139. Gavin, p. 139. I I i Katherine, by first wife. p. 138. Janet and Mahiot, by second wife, p. 139. XIII.— John Master of Maxwell, called third Lord Maxwell, his father having resigned in his favour the fee of the baronies of Maxwell and Carlaverock, and the lands of Mearns, on 14th February 1477-8. Was Steward of Annandale. He married Janet Creichton, daughter of George Earl of Caithness. Was killed at the battle of Kirtle in Annandale, on 22d July 1484, thus predeceasing his father, p. 152. I a I III Thomas, who married David. Agnes Maxwell, heiress Robert, of Kirkconnell, p. 151. Aymer. Vide Pedigree, p. 600. p. 151. I Christian, a daughter, p. 151.
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