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Wikipedia / Lord High Chamberlain of Scotland

Holders of the office of Lord Chamberlain of Scotland are known from about 1124. It was ranked by King Malcolm as the third great Officer of State, called Camerarius Domini Regis, and had a salary of £200 per annum allotted to him. He anciently collected the revenues of the Crown, at least before Scotland had a Treasurer, of which office there is no vestige until the restoration of King James I when he disbursed the money necessary for the maintenance of the King's Household.

The Great Chamberlain had jurisdiction for judging of all crimes committed within burgh, and of the crime of forestalling; and was in effect Justice-General over the burghs, and held Chamberlain-ayrs every year for that purpose; the form whereof is set down in Iter Camerarii, the Chamberlain-ayr. He was a supreme judge and his Decrees could not be questioned by any inferior judicatory. His sentences were to be put into execution by the baillies of burghs. He also settled the prices of provisions within burghs, and the fees of the workmen in the Mint.

The Chamberlain lost his financial functions after 1425 to the Treasurer. The position was vacant from 1558 to 1565 and again from 1569. It was occupied in 1580 for the cousin of James I, Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, whose appearance as a Great Officer of State in 1581 is attributable to his personal standing with the king rather than his office. But following the Raid of Ruthven, 24 August 1582, the Great Chamberlain lost his supervision of the royal burghs.

Thereafter the office was held by successive Dukes of Lennox (heritably from 1603) until resigned to the Crown ad perpetuam remanentiam by the Duke of Richmond and Lennox in 1703, since which time no Great Chamberlain has been appointed. In 1711 a form of the office was revived in a Commission of Chamberlainry and Trade, which lapsed on the death of Queen Anne.

Lord Chamberlains

  1. David I of Scotland ()

  2. Edmund, witnessed a charter granting Annandale to Robert de Brus in 1124.

  3. 1130-1153: Herbert

  4. Malcolm IV of Scotland ()

  5. 1153-1160: Herbert

  6. 1160-1165: Nicolaus, later Lord Chancellor

  7. William the Lion ()

  8. 1165-1189: Walter de Berkeley of Redcastle

  9. 1205-14: Philip de Valognes

  10. Alexander II of Scotland ()

  11. 1214-19: William de Valognes

  12. Hugo de Giffard, Lord of Yester and Morham

  13. John de Melville

  14. 1216: Henry de Balliol (d. 1246)

  15. 1228: David de Bernham (later Bishop of St Andrews)

  16. 1231-41: Sir John de Maccuswel (or Maxwell)

  17. Alexander III of Scotland ()

  18. c.1250/1: Sir Robert de Meyners

  19. 1252-1255: William, Earl of Mar

  20. 1255-1257: David de Lindsay of Barnweill and Byres

  21. 1257-60: Aylmer de Maxwell lord of Caerlaverock, Sheriff of Dumfries, son of Sir John Maxwell.

  22. 1260: William, Earl of Mar, again

  23. 1267: Sir Reginald Cheyne

  24. 1269: Sir Thomas Randolph, father of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray,

  25. 1278: John de Lindsay

  26. Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland (First Interregnum)(1286-1292)

  27. 1287-1292: Alexander de Baliol

  28. John Balliol ()

  29. 1292-1296: Alexander de Baliol

  30. Guardians of the Kingdom of Scotland (Second Interregnum) (1296-1306)

  31. 1297-1307: John Sandale

  32. Robert the Bruce ()

  33. 1307: Eustace de Cotesbache

  34. 1319: William de Lindsay

  35. 1325: Alexander Fraser of Touchfraser and Cowie (who married Mary, the King's sister)

  36. David II of Scotland ()

  37. 1329: John Baptista

  38. 1327-1329: Robert de Peebles

  39. 1329-1333: Reginald de Mure

  40. 1333: Sir Robert Lauder of Quarrelwood and The Bass (d. 1337) (also Justiciar of Scotia)

  41. 1334: William Bullock, under Edward Balliol

  42. 1334-1340: Reginald de Mure

  43. 1341-1342: William Bullock, again

  44. 1343-1346: John de Roxburgh

  45. c.1350-1357: Sir Robert de Erskine

  46. 1357-1358: Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus

  47. 1358-1359: Thomas, Earl of Mar

  48. 1359-1363: Walter of Biggar

  49. c1363-1364: Sir Robert de Erskine, again

  50. 1364-1371: Walter of Biggar, again

  51. Robert II of Scotland ()

  52. 1371-1376: Walter of Biggar, continues

  53. 1376: Michael de Monymusk, Bishop of Dunkeld

  54. 1377-1382: Sir John Lyon

  55. 1382: Robert Stewart, Earl of Fife

  56. Robert III of Scotland ()

  57. James I of Scotland ()

  58. 1424-1448: Sir John Forrester of Corstorphine, Knt.

  59. James II of Scotland ()

  60. 1448-1450: James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston

  61. 1450-1454: James Crichton, 2nd Lord Crichton and Earl of Moray

  62. 1454-1467: James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston

  63. James III of Scotland ()

  64. 1467: Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd

  65. 1477: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan

  66. 1483: David Lindsay, 5th Earl of Crawford

  67. James IV of Scotland ()

  68. 1488: Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home

  69. 1509: Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home

  70. James V of Scotland ()

  71. 1515: John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming (resigned 1 Aug 1524)

  72. 1524: Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming (d. 1547 at Battle of Pinkie)

  73. Mary, Queen of Scots ()

  74. 1547: James Fleming, 4th Lord Fleming (d. 1558)

  75. James VI of Scotland ()

  76. 1565: John Fleming, 5th Lord Fleming (d. 1572)

  77. 1581: Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox

  78. 1594: Ludovick (or Louis) Stewart, Duke of Lennox (made heritable Chamberlains).

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