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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.
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
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.
Laurence Bruce is best known as the builder of Muness Castle, which was completed around 1598. Muness Castle, now a ruin, is the most northerly castle in Great Britain. Later events proved that Laurence Bruce had good reason to fear the aggression of Earl Patrick.
When Lawrence Bruce was born on 20 January 1547, in Tibbermore, Perthshire, Scotland, his father, John Bruce 3rd of Cultmalindie, was 39 and his mother, Euphemia Elphinstone, was 37. He married Helen Kennedy of Girvanmains on 20 August 1559, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
6 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.
