Piers de Lombard
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Piers de Lombard [a] was either a Gascon or Lombard knight who served in the Scottish War of Independence.[2]
He was appointed by Edward I of England as Sheriff of Edinburgh and was Governor of Edinburgh Castle,[3][4] succeeding John de Kingston.[5]
He was also Governor of Linlithgow Pele. He later entered the service of Robert the Bruce after being placed in the dungeons of Edinburgh castle by the English garrison and released by the Scottish who retook the castle under Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray.[1] His estate of Cowden, Midlothian was forfeited in 1316.
For having changed sides, Piers was later executed by the Scottish under orders from Robert the Bruce for being a traitor with "an English heart".[6][3]
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References
- 1 2 Dalrymple, Sir David (1819). Annals of Scotland From the Accession of Malcolm III in the Year MLVII to the Accession of the House of Stewart in the Year MCCCLXXI, to which are Added, Tracts Relative to the History and Antiquities of Scotland. Volume 2. Edinburgh: A. Constable. p. 49.
- ↑ Tytler, Patrick Fraser (1841). History of Scotland, 2nd Edition. Edinburgh: W. Tait.
- 1 2 "The Governor's Story". British Army. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
- ↑ Weirter, Lous (1913). The Story of Edinburgh Castle. Edinburgh: G.G. Harrap, & Company. p. 32.
- ↑ Grant, James (1860). Memorials of the Castle of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons. p. 30.
- ↑ Masson, Rosaline (2019). Edinburgh: Painted by John Fulleylove; described by Rosaline Masson. Edinburgh: Good Press. p. V.