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unusual facts about Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Brentford



Lord Methven

Lady Methven later married her son-in-law's father Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven.

Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven

Patrick's two eldest children married their stepmother Janet Stewart's children; daughter Jean Ruthven married Henry Stewart, 2nd Lord Methven, and the heir, William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, married Dorothea Stewart.

However, as a strong Protestant and a supporter of the Lords of the Congregation, he signed the Treaty of Berwick in 1560, and sent his son Archibald as a hostage to England and Westminster School.

Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey

Rupert, on the other hand, had seen the swift fiery charges of the fierce troopers of the Thirty Years' war, and was backed up by Patrick Ruthven, Lord Ruthven, one of the many Scots who had won honour under King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.


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