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Christopher (Irvine) Irving (abt. 1450 - 1513)

Laird Christopher "Laird of Bonshaw" Irving formerly Irvine
Born about in Scotlandmap [uncertain]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
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Died at about age 63 in Battle of Flodden, Cumberland, Englandmap
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Biography

Family Tree. [1]

Christopher was born about 1450. The major source work on the family is silent on his parentage but records that "Christopher Irvine, Laird of Bonshaw, who was head of the family in the beginning of the sixteenth century".[2]

Christopher Irving is known to have led the Scottish Light Horse at the Battle of Flodden in 1513 where he was killed.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Page 26 of Irving's of Bonshaw.
  2. ↑ A brief account of the Irvine family, County Fermanagh, page 16
  3. ↑ Page 8 of Irving's of Bonshaw.

Sources

  • A brief account of the Irvine family, County Fermanagh (with Genealogical table); John Irvine, of Rockfield; 1828; archive.org
  • The Irvings of Bonshaw by Alastair Maxwell Irving, 1968. Pub Wheaton & Co, Exeter.




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