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Laurence Bruce of Cultmalindie (20 January 1547 – August 1617) was a Scottish landowner and factor to the Earl of Orkney. He features in a number of traditional stories of Shetland. [1]
Laurence Bruce of Cultmalindie lived from 20 January 1547 to August 1617. He was a deeply unpopular Sheriff of the Shetland Islands best known for building Muness Castle on the island of Unst.
Laurence Bruce, 3rd of Braewick, married 4/22/1722, Ann Margaret Nicolson daughter of Arthur Nicolson of Lochend. They had 5 sons: Arthur, Henry, James, Robert, and Laurence, as well as 2 daughters, Margaret (married 5th January, 1759, Samuel Scollay, merchant in Lerwick), and Janet.
27 feb 2024 · Genealogy for Sir Laurence Bruce, of Cultmalindie (1547 - 1617) family tree on Geni, with over 255 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives.
- January 20, 1547
- August 1, 1617
4 giorni fa · Muness Castle began construction on orders of Laurence Bruce of Cultmalindie in 1598. Bruce was half-brother of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, and his influence was linked to that of his more powerful sibling.
25 feb 2015 · Muness Castle, the most northerly fortalice in Britain, was built in 1598 by the newly appointed Chamberlain of Shetland, Laurence Bruce. Laurence, originally from southern Scotland, thought the Scandinavians in Shetland were ‘lesser people’, and had no qualms in exploiting them to their fullest potential.
Euphemia Elphinstone (also written Euphame or Eupheme; born 11 May 1509) was a mistress of James V of Scotland and the mother of his son Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, born in 1532, [1] as well as another child who died in childhood. One of her sons with her husband John Bruce was Laurence Bruce of Cultmalindie (1547–1617 ...
