Lyon name – webtrees

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OBJE:_META	<metadataxml><content><line><ul><li><font color="#ba0000">Leon</font>, <font color="#002bb8">Normandy</font>, <font color="#002bb8">France</font>. </li></ul><p>Although Sir <font color="#002bb8">Iain Moncreiffe</font>, perhaps the greatest herald genealogist, believed his family were of Celtic origin and descended from a younger son of the <font color="#002bb8">Lamonts</font>, the generally accepted view is that they descended from a French family called de Leon, who came north with Edgar, son of <font color="#002bb8">Malcolm III</font>, at the end of the eleventh century to fight against his uncle, Donald Bane, the usurper of the throne. Edgar was triumphant, and de Leon received lands in <font color="#002bb8">Perthshire</font> which were later called <font color="#002bb8">Glen Lyon</font>. Roger de Leonne witnessed a charter of Edgar to the Abbey at <font color="#002bb8">Dunfermline</font> in 1105.</p><span>[<font color="#002bb8">edit</font>]</span> <span>14th Century</span><p>In 1372 <font color="#002bb8">Robert II</font> granted to Sir John Lyon (called the White Lyon because of his fair complexion) the <font color="#002bb8">thanage</font> of <font color="#002bb8">Glamis</font>. Five years later, he became Chamberlain of Scotland, and his prominence was such he was considered fit to marry the king&sup1;s daughter, Princess Joanna, who brought with her not only illustrious lineage, but also the lands of <font color="#002bb8">Tannadice</font> on the <font color="#002bb8">River Esk</font>. He was later also granted the <font color="#002bb8">barony</font> of <font color="#ba0000">Kinghorne</font>. He was killed during a quarrel with Sir James Lindsay of Crawford near Menmuir in Angus.</p><span>[<font color="#002bb8">edit</font>]</span> <span>15th Century</span><p>The family have descended in a direct line from the White Lion and Princess Joanna to the present day, and their crest alludes to this. His only son, another John, was his successor, and he strengthened the royal ties by marrying a granddaughter of <font color="#002bb8">Robert II</font>. Sir John&sup1;s son, Patrick, was created Lord Glamis in 1445 and thereafter became a Privy Councillor and Master of the Royal Household.</p><span>[<font color="#002bb8">edit</font>]</span> <span>16th Century</span><p>John, sixth <font color="#002bb8">Lord Glamis</font>, was, according to a tradition, a quarrelsome man with a quick temper. He married <font color="#002bb8">Janet Douglas</font>, granddaughter of the famous <font color="#002bb8">Earl Angus</font> (also called <font color="#002bb8">Bell the Cat</font>), and after his death she suffered terribly for the hatred which <font color="#002bb8">James V</font> bore all of her name. <font color="#ba0000">Lady Glamis</font> was accused on trumped-up charges of <font color="#002bb8">witchcraft</font> and, despite speaking boldly in her own defence, her doom was preordained. She was burned at the stake on the castle hill at Edinburgh on 3 December 1540.</p><p>The eighth Lord Glamis renounced his allegiance to <font color="#002bb8">Mary, Queen of Scots</font>, and served under the Regents Moray and Lennox. He was made <font color="#002bb8">Chancellor of Scotland</font> and Keeper of the Great Seal for life, and his son, the ninth Lord, was captain of the Royal Guard and one of <font color="#002bb8">James VIs</font> Privy Councillors.</p><span>[<font color="#002bb8">edit</font>]</span> <span>17th Century &amp; Civil War</span><p>In 1606 he was created Earl of Kinghorne, Viscount Lyon and Baron Glamis. His son, the second Earl, was a close personal friend of James <font color="#002bb8">Graham</font> the <font color="#002bb8">Marquess of Montrose</font> and was with him when he subscribed to the <font color="#002bb8">National Covenant</font> in 1638. He accompanied Montrose on his early campaigns in defence of the <font color="#002bb8">Covenant</font> , but despite his great affection for the Marquess, he could not support him when he broke with the Scots Parliament to fight for <font color="#002bb8">Charles I</font>. Lyon almost ruined his estates in supporting the Army of the Covenant against his friend.</p><p>In 1677, the third Earl of Kinghorne obtained a new patent of nobility, being styled thereafter <font color="#002bb8">Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne</font>, Viscount Lyon, Baron Glamis, Tannadyce, Sidlaw and Strathdichtie. He paid off the debts he inherited from his father by skillful management of the estates and was later able to alter and enlarge <font color="#002bb8">Castle Glamis</font>. John, his son, although a member of the <font color="#002bb8">Privy Council</font>, opposed the <font color="#002bb8">Treaty of Union of 1707</font>.</p></line></content></metadataxml>
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Alive Dead Death>100 Death<=100 Birth>100 Birth<=100 Roots Leaves
Given names	Surname	Sosa	Birth		Place		Death		Age	Place	Last change
Thomas Master of Glamis Lyon Thomas Lyon Father: John Lyon 7th Baron of Glamis Mother: Janet Keith				1550	475	Angus, Scotland	14	February 18, 1607	418	57	Glamis, Angus, Scotland	Never	M	YES	YES

Both alive Widower Widow Both dead Roots Leaves Not married Marriage>100 Marriage<=100 Divorce Multiple marriages
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