Baron Patrick GRAY b. Abt 1518 Buttergask, Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland d. 1584 Fowlis, Perthshire, Scotland, his testament being dated 18 August 1581.: Our Family History

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Name	Patrick GRAY
Prefix	Baron
Birth	Abt 1518	Buttergask, Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland
Gender	Male
TitleOfNobility	Apr 1541 [1]
	TitleOfNobility
Name	Sir Patrick GRAY [1]
_FSFTID	M8F3-C5P
_FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M8F3-C5P
_UID	9D8D3717A140413C84977FF2D7AA4B35634C
Death	1584	Fowlis, Perthshire, Scotland, his testament being dated 18 August 1581. [1, 2]
Burial	1584	Perthshire, Scotland [1]
Person ID	I21703	Carney Wehofer July 2025
Last Modified	8 Apr 2024

Father	Gilbert GRAY, b. Abt 1480, Buttergask, Ardoch, Perthshire, Scotland d. 1541, Buttergask, Perthshire, Scotland (Age ~ 61 years)
Mother	Gille (Egidia) MERCER, b. 1480, Aldie, Kinross-shire, Scotland d. 1543, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 63 years)
Marriage	1501	Perthshire, Scotland [3]
Family ID	F240	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Baroness Marion (Mariota) OGILVY, b. 1514, Airlie Castle, Angus, Scotland d. 16 Jul 1569, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 55 years)

Marriage 21 Sep 1537 Buttergask, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland (Date on Marriage Contract)

Children

	1. Isabel Forster GRAY, b. 1530, Preston, Berwickshire, Scotland d. 23 Mar 1589, Halkertoun Mearns, West Lothian, Scotland (Age 59 years)
	2. Sir Robert GRAY, Fifth Lord of Buttergask, b. 14 May 1534, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland d. 14 Jul 1595, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (Age 61 years)
	3. Dorothy GRAY, b. Abt 1535, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England d. 28 Nov 1655, Hertfordshire, England (Age ~ 120 years)
	4. Isabell GREY, b. 1536, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 1619, Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland (Age 83 years)
	5. Patrick GRAY, 5th Lord, b. 1538 d. 1607 (Age 69 years)
	6. Lilias GRAY, b. 1542, Grey House, Buttergask, Perthshire, Scotland d. Mar 1614, Ochiltree Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 72 years)
	7. James GRAY, b. 1546 d. 1586, Scotland (Age 40 years)
	8. Elizabeth GRAY, b. Aft 1551 d. 1578, Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age ~ 26 years)

Family ID F10232 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 14 Dec 2022

Notes

Wikipedia bio:
Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray (c. 1518 -1584) was a Scottish landowner and Sheriff of Angus, active during the war of the Rough Wooing as a supporter of the Scottish Reformation.
Family:
Patrick Gray was the son of Egidia Mercer and Gilbert Gray of Buttergask (half-brother of Patrick Gray, 3rd Lord Gray), and the grandson of Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray (d. 1514). Patrick became Lord Gray in April 1541, after the death of his uncle. In order to succeed to the Gray lands, as heir of his grandfather, he had to pay 10,000 marks to the Treasury of King James V of Scotland, and was confirmed Lord Gray on 14 September 1542. He was still paying James Hamilton, Regent Arran, in 1543.
Patrick Gray firstly married Marion Ogilvy in 1537. Their son was Patrick Gray, 5th Lord Gray (1538– 1608). They also had another son, James Gray, who was the second husband of Elizabeth Bethune, a mistress of King James V of Scotland. Patrick secondly married Margaret Ker, daughter of Sir Walter Ker of Cessford, in 1557. The chief residence of the Grays was Fowlis Castle, near Dundee, Scotland, and they also lived as well at Castle Huntly, nearby. In 1583, an English list of the Scottish nobility described Patrick with an interesting but inaccurate English pedigree;
"an aged man, esteemed to come of English bloode, that came into Scotlande with the Lady Somerset, wyef to King James the Firste. In religion suspected; of no greate power or frendes. His eldest sonne married th'erle of Gowrie's father's sister, and his other the daughter of Lord Glamis."
Rough Wooing:
Lord Gray was captured by the English at the Battle of Solway Moss and was held by the Archbishop of York. When he returned to Scotland he made a band of friendship or 'manrent' with Cardinal David Beaton at St Andrews on 22 October 1544.
On 11 March 1547, during the siege at St Andrews Castle, Gray made a pledge to Edward VI of England. This contract stated that for English assistance in re-instating his rights over Perth, and the return of his brother, who was a hostage (called a "pledge" in the language of the time) in England; Patrick Gray would further the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots to Edward VI, and deliver Broughty Castle and the Spey Tower at Perth to the English army. This instrument was witnessed by Norman Leslie, James Kirkcaldy of Grange, Henry Balnaves, and Alexander Whitelaw of Newgrange.
Gray asked to be compensated for his fishing rights at Broughty; he was duly paid £1000 on 14 November 1547 by Sir Andrew Dudley, an English soldier and brother of the Duke of Northumberland. At the same time, the Master of Ruthven, whose father was Provost of Perth and Gray's rival, offered to deliver Perth to the English. In June 1548, Thomas Fisher brought him the Lord Protector's thanks, a gold chain, a pension of 1000 crowns and a gift of 300 crowns. Gray was captured by French troops in November 1548 and summoned for treason on 18 December 1548. D'Essé, the French commander, wanted him executed, but Regent Arran and the other Scottish lords protested.
Later life:
During the crisis of the Scottish Reformation, Mary of Guise wrote to Lord Gray on 11 May 1560 to inform him of the defeat of an English assault at the Siege of Leith. In August 1560, Lord Gray attended the Scottish Reformation Parliament, and signed the commission for the marriage of James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran to Elizabeth I of England, (which had no effect). Some years before, Gray had been captured by the English at a border incident called the Raid of Swinton. In 1562 he was detained in England, on account of his old bail conditions – he had been, "lattin hame upoun ane band." Mary, Queen of Scots, wrote to Elizabeth to complain at his ill-treatment.
References:
Cameron, James V, Tuckwell (1998), 277– 278.
Rogers, Charles, Estimate of the Scottish Nobility, Grampian Club, (1873), 25, 36, Barbara Ruthven married Lord Gray.
Lodge, Edmund, Illustrations of British History, vol. 1 (1791), no. 19, 37– 43.
Stuart, John, ed., Miscellany of the Spalding Club, vol. 5 (1852), 295– 6.
Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 2.
Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol.1, (1898), 39,
Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 50, 64.
Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898),130– 131.
Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 9, 264.
Calendar of State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 168.
Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 403, 465.
Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 1 (1898), 617– 8.

Sources

[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 14 Dec 2022), entry for Patrick GRAY, person ID M8F3-C5P. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 14 Dec 2022), entry for Patrick GRAY, person ID GJ4H-928. (Reliability: 3).
[S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 14 Dec 2022), entry for Gilbert GRAY, person ID LK8M-LWW. (Reliability: 3).