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Robert
"the Black Baron"
Munro XXth of Foulis
formerly Munro
Born about in Ross-shire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Margaret Munro and Hector (Munro) Munro of Foulis-Obsdale 1st Bt
Husband of
Margaret (Sutherland) Sutherland Lady Foulis
— married
24 Nov 1610 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Margaret (Munro) Munro Lady Scatwell
Died
at about age 38
in Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Profile last modified
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Biography
Robert (Munro) Munro XXth of Foulis is a member of Clan Munro.
Robert was born circa 1595. He was a son of Hector Munro, 17th Baron and 19th Laird of Foulis.
On his father's death he succeeded as 18th Baron and 20th Laird of Foulis. However to his contemporaries and tenants he became known as the Black Baron. It is assumed he acquired the nickname due to the colour of his hair rather than to any ferocious aspect of his personality.
As a young laird, Robert came under the influence of the Sutherland family and became in engaged on the Sutherland side in an ongoing dispute with the Sinclair, Earl of Caithness. It is therefore of little surprise that on 24th November 1610 he married Margaret Sutherland daughter of the Laird of Duffus.
Like many Munro men, he followed the path to mainland Europe and a military career fighting in foreign wars. Like his "more famous" cousin Robert Munro of Obsdale, he served with distinction in the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus, and he was in command of his own regiment. It was while on military service in Germany that he was wounded and ultimately died.
Children
- By his first wife, Margaret Sutherland, he had one daughter named Margaret.
- By his second wife, Mary Haynes, he had one daughter named Elizabeth.
- Robert left no male issue and he was succeeded in the Barony of Foulis by his brother Hector Munro.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stephen, Leslie. Lee, Sidney. The Dictionary of National Biography. 1917, Oxford University Press, London: Humphrey Milford. Vol. XIII, Masquerier though Myles, Pp. 634-5. Available on Ancestry.com. Also available on Google Play.
- ↑ Robert MUNRO, XVIII of Foulis family group sheet on Clan Munro USA.
- Alexander Mackenzie, History of the Munros of Fowlis: with Genealogies of the Principal Families of the Name (Inverness: A & W Mackenzie, 1898), pp 42-60; https://archive.org/details/historyofmunroso00mack
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Munro,_18th_Baron_of_Foulis
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- Richard Munro
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-Y136977, FTDNA kit #43395, MitoYDNA ID T11385 [compare] - Stuart Munro :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 12 markers, haplogroup R-Z16294, FTDNA kit #859386, MitoYDNA ID T13989 [compare]
- Ron Monroe :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-BY170683, FTDNA kit #842757, MitoYDNA ID T17628 [compare]
- Kevin Munro :
Y-Chromosome Test 12 markers, haplogroup I-Y12073
- Ken Munro :
Y-Chromosome Test 12 markers, haplogroup I-Y12073
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