Murdac Stewart, Earl of Fife

Also known as: Mordacke earle of Fife · Family: Scotland · Role: earl · First appears: Henry IV 10

Life events

1402 · Henry Percy, Hotspur and George Dunbar defeated Archibald Douglas and captured several Scottish earls.(Henry IV 10 · 📍 Homildon)
- With: Archibald Douglas, Earl of Douglas Hotspur George Dunbar, Earl of March Thomas Dunbar, Earl of Moray Robert de Umphraville, Earl of Angus
- “For at a place called Homildon, they were so fiercelie assailed by the Englishmen, vnder the leading of the lord Persie; surnamed Henrie Hotspur, and George earle of March, that with violence of the English shot they were quite vanquished and put to flight, on the Rood daie in haruest, with a great slaughter made by the Englishmen. ... and of prisoners among other were these, Mordacke earle of Fife, son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas, which in the fight lost one of his eies, Thomas erle of Murrey, Robert earle of Angus”

parent: Archibald Douglas, Earl of Douglas “and of prisoners among other were these, Mordacke earle of Fife, son to the gouernour Archembald earle Dowglas”
with Hotspur (interaction) “After this, the lord Persie, hauing bestowed the prisoners in suer kéeping, entered Tiuidale, wasting and destroieng the whole countrie, and then besieged the castell of Cocklawes, whereof was capteine one sir Iohn Grenlow”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.