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7 unusual facts about ''Bannockburn


Bannockburn, New Zealand

Wine in this region, like the majority of Central Otago, focuses primarily on Pinot noir, suited to the dry climate and soils.

Bannockburn, Victoria

The nearby Bannockburn Vineyards is a 25-hectare vineyard on the Midland Highway, established in 1974 by Stuart Hooper.

Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester

The most detailed account of the Earl of Gloucester's death at the Battle of Bannockburn is the chronicle Vita Edwardi Secundi.

He was killed at the Battle of Bannockburn on 24 June, under somewhat unclear circumstances.

Pleasant Rowland

Rowland was born in the Chicago area and grew up in Bannockburn, a suburb north of Chicago.

William de Vescy of Kildare

On 24 June 1314, while serving as a retainer of Aymer de Valence, Earl of Pembroke, William perished at the Battle of Bannockburn.

William de Vescy, sometimes spelt Vesci (d 24 June 1314 Bannockburn), was an illegitimate child of William de Vesci and Devorgille, daughter of Donal Roe Macarthy Mor, Prince of Desmond.


Battle of Falkirk Muir

There he set his headquarters and resided at Bannockburn House as the guest of Sir Hugh Paterson, a Jacobite supporter.

Broomridge

Broomridge is a district in the south of the city of Stirling, Scotland, located north of Bannockburn and east of St. Ninians.

Henry de Grey

Hugh de Grey (born Chillingham, Northumberland, c. 1203), father of John de Grey, born in Scotland, and grandfather of Thomas de Grey of Heton (Heton, Northumberland, circa 1266 - Angus, Scotland, 1310), whose son Sir Thomas de Grey of Heaton (circa 1297 - bef. 12 March 1343/1344) was taken prisoner by the Scots at Bannockburn and married circa 1327 Agnes (possibly Agnes de Beyle, born Heton, Northumberland, c. 1301), being the parents of Sir Thomas Grey

Inchcolm

This was the period of the Scottish Wars of Independence were in full swing, and decisive battles were being fought in the Lothians and in the Stirling/Bannockburn region, and so the island was effectively in the route of any supply or raiding vessels.

James Douglas, Lord of Douglas

Bannockburn left northern England open to attack; and in the years that followed many communities in the area became closely acquainted with the 'Blak Dowglas.' Along with Randolph, Douglas was to make a new name for himself in a war of mobility, which carried Scots raiders as far south as Pontefract and the Humber.

Llywelyn Bren

The death of Gilbert de Clare, the Lord of Glamorgan and the most prominent landowner in the south, at the battle of Bannockburn in June 1314, left a power vacuum in the region, and the heavy-handed response of the English Crown towards overseeing de Clare's lands there, combined with the death of several hundred men of Glamorgan at Bannockburn, precipitated a revolt in the lordship in late summer of that year.

SS Bannockburn

Eventually the underwriters came to the conclusion that the Bannockburn had stranded on Caribou Island.


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