Kentigern
Mungo
Huntar XVIth of Hunterston
formerly Huntar
Born about in Ayrshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Isobel (Huntar) Crauford
Husband of
Marion (Hamilton) Hunter
— married
1535 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 32
in Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, Musselburgh, Lothian, Scotland
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Biography
Kentigern (Huntar) Huntar XVIth of Hunterston is a member of Clan Hunter.
Kentigern (Huntar) Huntar XVIth of Hunterston was Killed in Action during the Rough Wooing at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.
Kentigern Mungo Huntar was born about 1515 in Hunterston Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland and his parents were Robert Huntar and Janet Montgomerie. [1]
- Kentigern was also called "Mungo Huntar"
- Kentigern = "hound lord"
- Mungo = "dear one"
Kentigern Mungo Huntar of Hunterston married Marion Hamilton (daughter of James Hamilton of Torrance). [1]
He was the 16th Laird of Hunterston.
Kentigern Huntar was in military service in "our sovereign ladys army at Dumbarton on the 11th of July 1545, at the seige of the Castle".
On 10 Sep 1547 he fought at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh [1] on the banks of the River Esk in Muselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. He died that day as a young father of 32 years.
The "Names of the Ayrshire Gentlemen Who Fell at Pinkie" lists "Quintin Hunter of Hunterston". [2]
He was followed by Robert Huntar, 17th Lord of Hunterston+2 who died on 29 Aug 1581.
Research Notes
- The Peerage #482091 & #482093
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, edition#107 in 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003 v2 p2002.
- ↑ James Patterson, History of the County of Ayr: with a Genealogical Account of the Familie of Ayrshire (Edinburgh, Scotland: Thomas G. Stevenson, 1847); v1 p203
See also:
- "Record of Hunter of Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland" p9 by Mary Alice Hunter Bull in 1902 Washington, DC.
- "Some Family Papers of the Hunters of Hunterston" (in some old Writs called Hunters of that ilk) p24 compiled by M. S. Shaw & printed in 1925 Edinburgh, Scotland by J. Skinner & Company.
- The Clan Hunter Association (Hunterston, Ayrshire, Scotland)
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