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The Bonnie Earl of Moray, anonymous "vendetta portrait" of the murdered James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, 1592 " The Bonnie Earl o' Moray " ( Child 181, [ 1 ] Roud 334 [ 2 ] ) is a popular Scottish ballad , which may date from as early as the 17th century.
James Stewart, 2nd Lord Doune, jure uxoris 2nd Earl of Moray (c. 1565 – 7 February 1592), [1] was a Scottish nobleman. He was murdered by George Gordon, Earl of Huntly as the culmination of a vendetta. Known as the Bonnie Earl for his good looks, he became the subject of a popular ballad, "The Bonnie Earl of Moray".
Poems written in Middle Scots. Pages in category "Middle Scots poems" ... The Bonnie Earl o' Moray; The Buik of Alexander; Buke of the Howlat; D. The Dregy of Dunbar; E.
Lord Doune's son James Stewart married, in 1581, Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray, and assumed, jure uxoris (in right of his wife), the title of the Earl of Moray. Moray quarrelled with George Gordon, 1st Marquess of Huntly, and on 7 February 1592 Huntly attacked and burned Donibristle. Moray attempted to flee but was caught and killed.
In a 1954 essay in Harper's Magazine, Sylvia Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the last line of the first stanza from the ballad "The Bonnie Earl o' Moray" (from Thomas Percy's 1765 book Reliques of Ancient English Poetry).
John Douglas Stuart, 21st Earl of Moray (born 29 August 1966) is the only son of the 20th Earl of Moray and Lady Malvina Dorothea Murray, elder daughter of Mungo Murray, 7th Earl of Mansfield. Known as Lord Doune between 1974 and 2011, he was educated at Loretto School and University College London , graduating BA in History of Art.
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Several Appalachian musicians recorded the ballad; Jean Ritchie sang the Ritchie family version in 1946 with her sister (recorded by Mary Elizabeth Barnacle) [3] and in 1961 on the album Jean Ritchie: Ballads from her Appalachian Family Tradition, [4] whilst Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1935), [5] Horton Barker (1941), [6] and Almeida Riddle (1972) [7] also had their traditional versions recorded.