John "Hero of Sark" Wallace of Craigie, 5th of Craigie, 10th of Riccarton

John "The Hero Of Sark" Wallace, 5th of Craigie, 10th of Riccarton ( b abt 1400 d about 1450)

The 1448 clash was the first decisive victory for a Scottish force over the English since the Battle of Otterburn, 60 years earlier. It was the final pitched battle between the two countries in the period of the Hundred Years War.

Renewed border skirmishing saw Henry Percy, future 3rd earl of Northumberland, defeated by Hugh Douglas, earl of Ormond, on 23 October 1448. The encounter took place on the river Sark, near Gretna. Percy was taken prisoner and had to be ransomed.

From https://archive.org/stream/bookofwallace01roge#page/n97/mode/2up/se...

William Wallace of Craigie married Elizabeth, daughter of James, 7th Earl of Douglas, by his wife Beatrix, daughter of the Regent, Robert, Duke of Albany. Of the union was born three sons, John, Hugh, and Adam; also a daughter Margaret, who became the second wife of Robert, first Lord Lyle.

From https://archive.org/stream/bookofwallace01roge#page/n101/mode/2up/s...

Sir John Wallace hero of Sark left a widow and two sons, William and Thomas

family

From http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getper...

Married

1. Margaret Johnstone b. Abt 1400

Children

• 1. Sir William Wallace, 6th of Craigie, 11th of Riccarton b. Abt 1421 married Margaret de Dunbar, heiress of Cockburn widow of Alexander Lindsay  b. Abt 1423, Cockburn, Berwickshire, Scotland d. Abt 1498
• 2. Thomas Wallace wife unknown

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Sir William WALLACE 9th of Riccarton & 4th of Craigie (b. abt 1375) Married, Lady Elizabeth DOUGLAS

Father of Lieutenant-General Sir John WALLACE 10th of Riccarton & 5th of Craigie b. abt 1400. d. 1450, Craigie, Ayrshire, Scotland Married, Margaret JOHNSTONE br. b. abt 1400 (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~vfarch/Genealogy-data/wc15/wc15_360.htm) (died of his wounds at the battle of Sark)

Father of Sir William WALLACE 11th of Riccarton & 6th of Craigie ®14 b. abt 1421 m. abt 1453, Craufurd, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Margaret DUNBAR. b. abt 1423, Cockburn, Berwickshire, d. ca 1498 daughter of Sir David DUNBAR of Cockburn (She also married Alexander LINDSAY 4th Earl ofCrawford). (http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~vfarch/Genealogy-data/wc15/wc15_359.htm)

From http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/ww/wallace03.php membership needed to view

Sir John Wallace of Craigie and Riccarton (b c1350) m. Margaret Douglas (dau of Sir Henry Douglas of Lugton and Lochleven)

• 1. Sir Hugh Wallace of Craigie and Riccarton
• 2. Sir William Wallace of Craigie and Riccarton m. Elizabeth Douglas (dau of James Douglas, Earl of Avondale, 7th Earl of Douglas)
  • A. Sir William Wallace of Craigie and Riccarton (d 1450) m. Margaret Johnstone

notes

From http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kufan_tre...

Note 1 - The Battle of Sark was fought in October 1448. Soooo this could NOT have been the John Wallace who married Catherine Douglas.

Looking back up the tree a little is a John Wallace b. ca 1390 who married Elizabeth Cathcart. This John was know as the "Good Laird" and is of an age (58) that makes him a prime candidate for being the "Hero of Sark"

He is referred to as "Wallace of Craige" so we know that this is the right family at least. Also he suffered a mortal wound in the battle and died of it later