October 13 – 1066 Edward the Confessor, King of England, died. The next to last Anglo Saxon King. His family flees to Scotland with the Norman invasion and marries into the Scot’s royal line.

EDWARD(US) REX. Edward the Confessor enthroned , opening scene of the Bayeux Tapestry.

1399 Henry IV crowned, first King of England from the Lancaster branch of the Plantagenets, Order of the Garter in 1377, Earl of Derby, Duke of Hereford after 1387. Henry IV’s father, John of Gaunt, was the third son of Edward III, mother was Blanche, heiress to the considerable Lancaster estates. Ancestors of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots.

Henry of Bolingbroke, flanked by the lords spiritual and temporal, claims the throne in 1399. From a contemporary manuscript, British Library, Harley 1319,f.57 Henry’s coronation, on 13 October 1399, marked the first time following the Norman Conquest when the monarch made an address in English.

1487 Parliament. James 3rd King of Scots lost his favorite, Cochrane Earl of Mar, 5 years earlier at Lauder. Mar was an architect and banker. James 3rd resolved to enforce the treason laws, which threatened the conspirators of Lauder. The Prince James, afterwards James 4th conspired to dethrone his father. In Parliament, negotiations for full pardon failed. James 3rd created his second son Duke of Ross, and Marquis of Ormond, and ultimately became Archbishop of St. Andrews. The appointment of officers convinced James’ opponents to rebel, declare James the Third fofeit title to the throne, and proclaim his son James the Fourth, King. Rebels included Earl of Angus, known as Bell the Cat Tytler’s Britannica 100. Tytler’s Britannica 100. The Cochrane’s marry money, and by the of the Restoration, King Charles 2nd, the eldest Cochrane became Earl of Dundonald, which Earldom continues to the present with the 15th Earl as of 2015.

1488 Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Lord Hailes, 1st Earl of Bothwell had a Crown charter of the feudal lordships of Crichtoun (see Crichton Castle)

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and Bothwell, in the King’s hands following the forfeiture of John Ramsay, Lord Bothwell.

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1499 Claude of France (French: Claude de France) (13 October 1499 – 26 July 1524) was a princess and queen consort of France and ruling Duchess of Brittany. She was the eldest daughter of Louis XII of France and Anne, Duchess of Brittany.

Claude of France with her daughters: at the front, Charlotte (left) and Louise (right), both of whom died young; right and behind, Madeleine, Queen consort of Scotland (10 August 1520 – 2 July 1537) – married James V of Scotland. No issue; left and behind, Marguerite, Duchess consort of Savoy

1501 Italian War of 1499–1504. The Treaty of Trente was signed on October 13, 1501 between Louis XII and Maximilian of Austria. Based on the terms of the agreement, Austria recognized all French conquests in the northern territories of Italy.

1659 Rump Parliament disbanded again.

1715 – Lord Kenmure marched from Moffat, with about a hundred and fifty horse [TG68-292].

Moffat is in the West March, lower left quadrant on the map.

1731 Charlotte Murray, born Duchess of Atholl and 8th Baroness Strange (13 October 1731 – 13 October 1805) was a Scottish peeress.

Born Lady Charlotte Murray, she was the daughter of the 2nd Duke of Atholl. On 23 October 1753, she married her first cousin, John Murray at Dunkeld, Scotland. They had nine children. In 1765 she sold the Isle of Man to the Crown.

John Stewart 5th Earl of Atholl married Mary Ruthven (1578 Jan 24), sister of William Ruthven, who fled to the Continent and heirs to Virginia, 2Kinchin 2Jarrett 2Simmons 2Choate.

1805 Charlotte Murray, born Duchess of Atholl and 8th Baroness Strange (13 October 1731 – 13 October 1805) died.

1878 Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory. When David Hogg Matheson from Dundee arrived with his family in the Valley in the fall of 1878, he remembered the same kind of reception, although he expressed his vulnerability at age sixty, being in a new setting: “There was a number at the depot in Salt Lake City but Andrew Macfarlane claimed us to go with him. We were royally treated as long as we stayed in the city, but I felt awfully blue one day near the Temple block wandering what in the world I could do in this new country. . . . I didn’t know anything about a corral never had been on a horse’s back.” His son, David Matheson Jr., also experienced a warm reception. Upon arrival in Salt Lake City he wrote, “There were a number of Dundee Saints there to meet me. There was a returned missionary, Hamilton G. Park in the crowd. He was on a mission twice to Scotland. They all wanted me to stay with them. Also in the crowd was an Uncle John Matheson whom I had never seen. I knew him by the family resemblance and said I would go home with this man.” HISTORY SCOTLAND – MAGAZINE

Hogg clan. Crest: An oak tree Proper Motto: DAT GLORIA VIRES [“A good name gives strength”] Seat: Newliston House, Kirkliston, Lothian

1942 Permission for Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bay of Biscay port of Bordeaux Harbour was granted on 13 October 1942, but Admiral Louis Mountbatten Chief of Combined operations increased the number of canoes to be taken to six. Royal Navy submarine HMS Tuna (N94) left from Holy Loch in Scotland. Admiral Louis Mountbatten, the commander of Combined Operations, deemed the raid “the most courageous and imaginative of all the raids ever carried out by the men of Combined Operations.” Two of ten survived the raid. Lieutenant J. W. Mackinnon and Sergeant S. Wallace did not.

Holy Loch Naval base is the inlet north of Dunoon, in the lower right quadrant.

1993 Tiffany Ariana Trump, who was born, daughter of Marla Ann Maples and Donald John Trump (clans MacLeod, McSwane, Smith) Outer Hebrides.

2012 Humor. It was obvious to all that Robert was clearing ground for his garden. After months of toil he saw the fruits of his labors and, with pride, admired the blooms and vegetables when the Minister approached with a smile of approval.
 “Well Rabbie, Ah must say that ye ane the Lord have done a grand auld job on this garden.”
 But Robert was not pleased about the division of credit.
” Maybe so, ” he replied, ” maybe so — but ye should have seen the weeds when He had it all to Himself.’’

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2014  The founder of the race was Muiredach O’Daly [1180 – 1222 AD], an outstanding poet of his time. Harp Glen now in its second year at the Seaside Highland Games in Ventura, California.

 

2016 The Economist. Candidate Donald Trump. Clan McLoed. Really?

 

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