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Andrew Keith, Lord Dingwall

January 01, 1970

For other people named Andrew Keith, see Andrew Keith (disambiguation).

Andrew Keith, Lord Dingwall (died 1606) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, and diplomat.

Andrew Keith was a grandson of William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal, a son of Robert Keith, the second Commendator of Deer. He spent his early career as a soldier in the service of Sweden, as a supporter and later an official of John III of Sweden, and had been made Baron Forsholm.[1]

Sweden edit

In October 1571 Regent Mar provided Keith with a letter of recommendation to the King of Denmark, Frederick II, as a brave soldier.[2]

Andrew Keith married Elisabeth Birgersdotter of Grip, a first cousin once removed of John III, in 1574. She wrote to George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal in August 1584 thanking him for the help he had given them.[3] They had a house in Stockholm, and ran a network of intelligence agents in Sweden.[4] In 1583 he was sent as Swedish ambassador to England to resolve a dispute about relations with Russia.[5]

In 1584, he was back in Scotland. He was knighted and then created Lord Dingwall by James VI of Scotland.[6] He was appointed keeper of the castle of Dingwall.[7] He enjoyed the confidence of the politically ascendant James Stewart, Earl of Arran, who appreciated his efforts as a diplomat in Sweden and England.[8] Arran arranged his peerage and sent him as ambassador to England in March 1584. The English ambassador in Scotland Robert Bowes understood that Arran and Dingwall had agreed to promote the marriage of James VI to the King of Sweden's daughter.[9]

In March 1586 he wrote to James Stewart, Earl of Arran from Västerås, sending his letters with John Anstruther, a brother of the Laird of Anstruther. He discussed their "secret purpose", a plan to marry James VI to a Swedish princess, Anna Vasa of Sweden, daughter of John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon, who had recently converted to Lutheranism. The plan was likely to fail because of the objections of her mother's sister the Catholic Anna Jagiellon, Queen of Poland. Dingwall thought their scheme "should be put in oblivion." Anna Vasa never married and died in 1625.[10]

Anna of Denmark edit

In June 1589 he went to Denmark with the Earl Marischal to negotiate the king's marriage to Anne of Denmark.[11] He was paid £1,666-13s-4d Scots for the expense of fitting up two ships for his voyage.[12] The Chancellor, John Maitland of Thirlestane was sceptical about their suitability and combined abilities for this mission, and said, "Marischal and the lord Dingwall ... will not both make a wise man".[13]

In July, Dingwall and his fellow ambassadors George Young and John Skene returned to Scotland and at Boyne Castle in Banffshire they reported to James VI on the progress of the marriage negotiations.[14] However, in Denmark the presence of Andrew Keith in the embassy, as a man in Swedish service, had caused offence.[15] John Colville, who was at Aberdeen with the royal party, heard that the ambassadors had not seen Anne of Denmark in person. Thomas Fowler, also at Aberdeen, heard a rumour that the embassy had caused some confusion in Denmark, the marriage being considered as settled, and costly preparations in hand, including ships, jewels, clothes, and a silver coach for the bride. Circumstances that, if the marriage plan failed, could bring disgrace to the lady and the Danish council "in most parts of Europe".[16]

James VI decided to send Dingwall back to Denmark.[17] He was instructed to accept any Danish offer to complete the marriage.[18] James wrote to the Earl Marischal congratulating him on his progress and asked him help Dingwall buy a jewel to give to Anne of Denmark.[19]

James was married on 20 August 1589, the Earl Marischal was his proxy or stand-in at the ceremony in his bride's lodging and bedchamber in the palace of Kronborg.[20] Dingwall returned from Denmark on 12 September 1589 and reported that he had seen Anna of Denmark and her fleet, commanded by the Danish admirals Peder Munk and Henrik Gyldenstierne, at the northern tip of Denmark, at Skagen. The English ambassador William Ashby heard that the queen would arrive in five days in the best of conditions, and the wind was favourable.[21] Some accounts say that Dingwall brought news of the storm.[22] On 10 October Steen Bille and Andrew Sinclair brought Anne of Denmark's letters of 3 October to Leith. She had decided to stay over-winter in Norway.[23]

Dingwall was picked to travel to Norway to fetch the queen, and then was included in the king's party in Norway and Denmark.[24] In January they travelled overland through a part of Sweden, Anne of Denmark and James VI in sledges sent by her mother Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. John III king of Sweden had sent special instructions that Andrew Keith and Axel Gyldenstierne should on no account be allowed in the fortress of Älvsborg at the mouth of the river Göta.[25]

There was a controversy whether the queen's dowry money should be brought home untouched to Scotland, or whether the Earl Marischal, Dingwall and William Keith of Delny should be recompensed there and then. Delny, who was criticised for his ostentatious dress, was sacked from the post of Master of Wardrobe, and replaced by the rising favourite Sir George Home.[26] Some of the Earl Marischal's expenses and Delny's outlay on the king's clothes were reimbursed from the dowry.[27]

Sweden again edit

Keith returned to Sweden in 1592.[28] He resigned his lands in Scotland to William Keith of Delny.[29] He came to Scotland in January 1598 on a diplomatic mission from the king of Poland, and James VI gave him a gold chain worth 300 crowns. He intended to enlist men for service in Sweden but according to the English courtier Roger Aston he had no money to enlist them, and people were discouraged because earlier recruits had been "cruelly slain."[30]

Keith accompanied Sigismund III Vasa into exile after the coup in 1598 and died in Paris in 1606.[31]

References edit

  1. ^ David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (John Donald: Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 17-18: Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland (Boydell, 2019), p. 209.
  2. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1571-1574, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 692.
  3. ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland (Boydell, 2019), p. 160. ISBN 978-1-78327-376-8
  4. ^ 'KEITH, ANDREW (SSNE 1534)', University of St Andrews, SSNE database.
  5. ^ Kerr-Peterson, Miles (2019), A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554 - 1623), The Boydell Press, p. 34
  6. ^ Gordon Donaldson, Register of the Privy Seal: 1581-1584, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1982), p. 328 nos. 1931.
  7. ^ Gordon Donaldson, Register of the Privy Seal: 1581-1584, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1982), pp. 320-1 nos. 1901-2.
  8. ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: George Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (Boydell, 2019), pp. 34-5.
  9. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1584-1585, vol. 7 (London, 1913), p. 41 no. 37.
  10. ^ William Boyd, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1585-1586, vol. 8 (London, 1914), pp. 278, 286: TNA SP 52/59 ff. 32, 33.
  11. ^ George Crawfurd, The peerage of Scotland : containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom (Edinburgh, 1716), p. 92.
  12. ^ George Duncan Gibb, Life and times of Robert Gib, Lord of Carriber, vol. 1 (London, 1874), p. 310 quoting the royal treasurer's accounts.
  13. ^ Maurice Lee junior, John Maitland of Thirlestane and the Foundation of the Stewart Despotism (Princeton, 1959), p. 198.
  14. ^ Kerr-Peterson, Miles (2019), A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland: Georg Keith, Fifth Earl Marischal (1554 - 1623), The Boydell Press, pp. 49 - 50
  15. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 124: David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (John Donald: Edinburgh, 1997), p. 21.
  16. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 131-132.
  17. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 123-30.
  18. ^ Maurice Lee junior, John Maitland of Thirlestane and the Foundation of the Stewart Despotism (Princeton, 1959), pp. 199-200.
  19. ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), p. 36: Letter from King James to the Earl Marischal, congratulating him on concluding the marriage and buy a jewel, 1 August 1589, Folger Shakespeare Library, X.c.108
  20. ^ David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 22, 85-6.
  21. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 155, 163-4.
  22. ^ James Dennistoun, Moysie's Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1830), p. 79
  23. ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 1-2, 10, 93-4.
  24. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 170-1.
  25. ^ David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (John Donald: Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 97-99.
  26. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland, vol. 10 (Edinburgh, 1936), pp. 221-2: Robert Vans-Agnew, Correspondence of Sir Patrick Waus (Edinburgh, 1887), p. 447.
  27. ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts', Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 36-7.
  28. ^ David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 22, 85-6.
  29. ^ John Maitland Thomson, Register of the Great Seal: 1580-1593 (Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 766-7.
  30. ^ Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1597-1603, 13:1 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 155.
  31. ^ David Stevenson, Scotland's Last Royal Wedding (John Donald: Edinburgh, 1997), pp. 17-18: Miles Kerr-Peterson, A Protestant Lord in James VI's Scotland (Boydell, 2019), p. 209.

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For other people named Andrew Keith see Andrew Keith disambiguation Andrew Keith Lord Dingwall died 1606 was a Scottish landowner soldier and diplomat Andrew Keith was a grandson of William Keith 4th Earl Marischal a son of Robert Keith the second Commendator of Deer He spent his early career as a soldier in the service of Sweden as a supporter and later an official of John III of Sweden and had been made Baron Forsholm 1 Contents 1 Sweden 2 Anna of Denmark 3 Sweden again 4 References 5 External linksSweden editIn October 1571 Regent Mar provided Keith with a letter of recommendation to the King of Denmark Frederick II as a brave soldier 2 Andrew Keith married Elisabeth Birgersdotter of Grip a first cousin once removed of John III in 1574 She wrote to George Keith 5th Earl Marischal in August 1584 thanking him for the help he had given them 3 They had a house in Stockholm and ran a network of intelligence agents in Sweden 4 In 1583 he was sent as Swedish ambassador to England to resolve a dispute about relations with Russia 5 In 1584 he was back in Scotland He was knighted and then created Lord Dingwall by James VI of Scotland 6 He was appointed keeper of the castle of Dingwall 7 He enjoyed the confidence of the politically ascendant James Stewart Earl of Arran who appreciated his efforts as a diplomat in Sweden and England 8 Arran arranged his peerage and sent him as ambassador to England in March 1584 The English ambassador in Scotland Robert Bowes understood that Arran and Dingwall had agreed to promote the marriage of James VI to the King of Sweden s daughter 9 In March 1586 he wrote to James Stewart Earl of Arran from Vasteras sending his letters with John Anstruther a brother of the Laird of Anstruther He discussed their secret purpose a plan to marry James VI to a Swedish princess Anna Vasa of Sweden daughter of John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon who had recently converted to Lutheranism The plan was likely to fail because of the objections of her mother s sister the Catholic Anna Jagiellon Queen of Poland Dingwall thought their scheme should be put in oblivion Anna Vasa never married and died in 1625 10 Anna of Denmark editIn June 1589 he went to Denmark with the Earl Marischal to negotiate the king s marriage to Anne of Denmark 11 He was paid 1 666 13s 4d Scots for the expense of fitting up two ships for his voyage 12 The Chancellor John Maitland of Thirlestane was sceptical about their suitability and combined abilities for this mission and said Marischal and the lord Dingwall will not both make a wise man 13 In July Dingwall and his fellow ambassadors George Young and John Skene returned to Scotland and at Boyne Castle in Banffshire they reported to James VI on the progress of the marriage negotiations 14 However in Denmark the presence of Andrew Keith in the embassy as a man in Swedish service had caused offence 15 John Colville who was at Aberdeen with the royal party heard that the ambassadors had not seen Anne of Denmark in person Thomas Fowler also at Aberdeen heard a rumour that the embassy had caused some confusion in Denmark the marriage being considered as settled and costly preparations in hand including ships jewels clothes and a silver coach for the bride Circumstances that if the marriage plan failed could bring disgrace to the lady and the Danish council in most parts of Europe 16 James VI decided to send Dingwall back to Denmark 17 He was instructed to accept any Danish offer to complete the marriage 18 James wrote to the Earl Marischal congratulating him on his progress and asked him help Dingwall buy a jewel to give to Anne of Denmark 19 James was married on 20 August 1589 the Earl Marischal was his proxy or stand in at the ceremony in his bride s lodging and bedchamber in the palace of Kronborg 20 Dingwall returned from Denmark on 12 September 1589 and reported that he had seen Anna of Denmark and her fleet commanded by the Danish admirals Peder Munk and Henrik Gyldenstierne at the northern tip of Denmark at Skagen The English ambassador William Ashby heard that the queen would arrive in five days in the best of conditions and the wind was favourable 21 Some accounts say that Dingwall brought news of the storm 22 On 10 October Steen Bille and Andrew Sinclair brought Anne of Denmark s letters of 3 October to Leith She had decided to stay over winter in Norway 23 Dingwall was picked to travel to Norway to fetch the queen and then was included in the king s party in Norway and Denmark 24 In January they travelled overland through a part of Sweden Anne of Denmark and James VI in sledges sent by her mother Sophie of Mecklenburg Gustrow John III king of Sweden had sent special instructions that Andrew Keith and Axel Gyldenstierne should on no account be allowed in the fortress of Alvsborg at the mouth of the river Gota 25 There was a controversy whether the queen s dowry money should be brought home untouched to Scotland or whether the Earl Marischal Dingwall and William Keith of Delny should be recompensed there and then Delny who was criticised for his ostentatious dress was sacked from the post of Master of Wardrobe and replaced by the rising favourite Sir George Home 26 Some of the Earl Marischal s expenses and Delny s outlay on the king s clothes were reimbursed from the dowry 27 Sweden again editKeith returned to Sweden in 1592 28 He resigned his lands in Scotland to William Keith of Delny 29 He came to Scotland in January 1598 on a diplomatic mission from the king of Poland and James VI gave him a gold chain worth 300 crowns He intended to enlist men for service in Sweden but according to the English courtier Roger Aston he had no money to enlist them and people were discouraged because earlier recruits had been cruelly slain 30 Keith accompanied Sigismund III Vasa into exile after the coup in 1598 and died in Paris in 1606 31 References edit David Stevenson Scotland s Last Royal Wedding John Donald Edinburgh 1997 pp 17 18 Miles Kerr Peterson A Protestant Lord in James VI s Scotland Boydell 2019 p 209 William Boyd Calendar State Papers Scotland 1571 1574 vol 4 Edinburgh 1905 p 692 Miles Kerr Peterson A Protestant Lord in James VI s Scotland Boydell 2019 p 160 ISBN 978 1 78327 376 8 KEITH ANDREW SSNE 1534 University of St Andrews SSNE database Kerr Peterson Miles 2019 A Protestant Lord in James VI s Scotland George Keith Fifth Earl Marischal 1554 1623 The Boydell Press p 34 Gordon Donaldson Register of the Privy Seal 1581 1584 vol 8 Edinburgh 1982 p 328 nos 1931 Gordon Donaldson Register of the Privy Seal 1581 1584 vol 8 Edinburgh 1982 pp 320 1 nos 1901 2 Miles Kerr Peterson A Protestant Lord in James VI s Scotland George Keith Fifth Earl Marischal Boydell 2019 pp 34 5 William Boyd Calendar State Papers Scotland 1584 1585 vol 7 London 1913 p 41 no 37 William Boyd Calendar State Papers Scotland 1585 1586 vol 8 London 1914 pp 278 286 TNA SP 52 59 ff 32 33 George Crawfurd The peerage of Scotland containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom Edinburgh 1716 p 92 George Duncan Gibb Life and times of Robert Gib Lord of Carriber vol 1 London 1874 p 310 quoting the royal treasurer s accounts Maurice Lee junior John Maitland of Thirlestane and the Foundation of the Stewart Despotism Princeton 1959 p 198 Kerr Peterson Miles 2019 A Protestant Lord in James VI s Scotland Georg Keith Fifth Earl Marischal 1554 1623 The Boydell Press pp 49 50 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 10 Edinburgh 1936 p 124 David Stevenson Scotland s Last Royal Wedding John Donald Edinburgh 1997 p 21 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 10 Edinburgh 1936 pp 131 132 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 10 Edinburgh 1936 pp 123 30 Maurice Lee junior John Maitland of Thirlestane and the Foundation of the Stewart Despotism Princeton 1959 pp 199 200 Miles Kerr Peterson amp Michael Pearce James VI s English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI Woodbridge 2020 p 36 Letter from King James to the Earl Marischal congratulating him on concluding the marriage and buy a jewel 1 August 1589 Folger Shakespeare Library X c 108 David Stevenson Scotland s Last Royal Wedding Edinburgh 1997 pp 22 85 6 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 10 Edinburgh 1936 pp 155 163 4 James Dennistoun Moysie s Memoirs of the Affairs of Scotland Edinburgh 1830 p 79 Miles Kerr Peterson amp Michael Pearce James VI s English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI Woodbridge 2020 pp 1 2 10 93 4 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 10 Edinburgh 1936 pp 170 1 David Stevenson Scotland s Last Royal Wedding John Donald Edinburgh 1997 pp 97 99 Calendar State Papers Scotland vol 10 Edinburgh 1936 pp 221 2 Robert Vans Agnew Correspondence of Sir Patrick Waus Edinburgh 1887 p 447 Miles Kerr Peterson amp Michael Pearce James VI s English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts Scottish History Society Miscellany XVI Woodbridge 2020 pp 36 7 David Stevenson Scotland s Last Royal Wedding Edinburgh 1997 pp 22 85 6 John Maitland Thomson Register of the Great Seal 1580 1593 Edinburgh 1888 pp 766 7 Calendar State Papers Scotland 1597 1603 13 1 Edinburgh 1969 p 155 David Stevenson Scotland s Last Royal Wedding John Donald Edinburgh 1997 pp 17 18 Miles Kerr Peterson A Protestant Lord in James VI s Scotland Boydell 2019 p 209 External links edit KEITH ANDREW SSNE 1534 University of St Andrews Scotland Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Andrew Keith Lord Dingwall amp oldid 1194735857, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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