Robert Porterfield (abt. 1485 - 1513)

Born about 1485 in Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Isobel (Maxwell) Porterfield — married [date unknown] in Scotland

Descendants

Died 9 Sep 1513 at about age 28 in Flodden Field, Northumberland, England

Biography

This profile is part of the Porterfield Name Study.

Robert Porterfield was killed in Action during the War of the League of Cambrai at the Battle of Flodden Field.

Robert obtained the lands of his father, John Porterfield, from King James IV of Scotland, by charter in 1500.^[1][2][3] He is the first Porterfield for which the names of more than one child is known.

He had the following children by his wife Isobel Maxwell, a daughter of the house of Newark.^[3]

• Alexander - succeeded to the estate, but had no heirs
• Colin - died at a young age
• Allan - vicar of Androssan
• John - received the Porterfield estate after the death of his brother Alexander.

Robert died at the Battle of Flodden on 9 Sep 1513.^[4]

Research Notes

Playfair only identifies the two sons that succeeded to the estate.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ George Crawfurd, A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew (1818), p. 63; scanned image, (http://books.google.com/books?id=bpnmAAAAMAAJ).
2. ↑ Frank Burke Porterfield, The Porterfields (Roanoke, Virginia: Multiprint Inc, 1947), p. 7, digital images, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066246737;view=1up;seq=15. Hathi Trust Digital Library (https://babel.hathitrust.org: accessed 29 April 2019).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} James Murray, Kilmacolm: a Parish History, 1100-1898 (1898), p. 240-241; scanned image, Open Library (https://archive.org/stream/kilmacolmparishh00murr).
4. ↑ "The Flodden Death-Roll", The Scottish Antiquary, or, Northern Notes and Queries, Vol. 13, No. 52 (Apr., 1899), pp. 168-172 (5 pages), https://www.jstor.org/stable/25516931
5. ↑ William Playfair, British Baronetage: Volume III (1811), pp. 120-121; scanned image, Open Library (https://archive.org/stream/britishbaronetag31play#page/n3/mode/2up).