Sir Thomas Maule

Sir
Thomas Maule
Captain of Brechin Castle
Died August 9, 1303(1303-08-09)
Parent(s) Sir Peter Maule
Christina de Valognes

Sir Thomas Maule was the youngest son of Sir Peter Maule and Christina de Valognes, Baron and Baroness of Panmure and Benvie.[1]

He was Captain of Brechin Castle, and led the defence when the English forces, led by Edward I laid siege in July, 1303, during the First War of Independence.[1][2] The defending forces purportedly held out for 20 days,[3] before Maule was killed on the battlements by a stone hurled from a siege engine, after which the garrison yielded.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Maule, Harry (1874), Stuart, John, ed., Registrum de Panmure. Records of the families of Maule, De Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, united in the line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure, Edinburgh: Fox Maule-Ramsay
  2. 1 2 Barrow, G.W.S. (2005), Robert Bruce and the community of the realm of Scotland (4 ed.), Edinburgh University Press, retrieved October 28, 2010
  3. Black, David (1839), The History of Brechin, Brechin: Alexander Black, retrieved October 28, 2010
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