Sir Thomas Maule

Sir
Thomas Maule
Captain of Brechin Castle
Died August 9, 1303(1303-08-09)
Parents Sir Peter Maule
Christina de Valognes

Sir Thomas Maule was the youngest son of Sir Peter Maule and Christina de Valognes, Baron and Baroness of Panmure and Benvie.[1]

He was Captain of Brechin Castle, and led the defence when the English forces, led by Edward I laid siege in July, 1303, during the First War of Independence.[1][2] The defending forces purportedly held out for 20 days,[3] before Maule was killed on the battlements by a stone hurled from a siege engine, after which the garrison yielded.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Maule, Harry (1874), Stuart, John, ed., Registrum de Panmure. Records of the families of Maule, De Valoniis, Brechin, and Brechin-Barclay, united in the line of the Barons and Earls of Panmure, Edinburgh: Fox Maule-Ramsay 
  2. ^ a b Barrow, G.W.S. (2005), Robert Bruce and the community of the realm of Scotland (4 ed.), Edinburgh University Press, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fmA1R9aPK90C, retrieved October 28, 2010 
  3. ^ Black, David (1839), The History of Brechin, Brechin: Alexander Black, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=smkLAAAAYAAJ, retrieved October 28, 2010