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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".
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.
James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray (d. 1592), he married Elizabeth Stuart, 2nd Countess of Moray, [19] and became the subject of a popular ballad, The Bonnie Earl of Moray. Henry or Harry Stewart, later Lord St Colm, and Tutor of James Stewart, 3rd Earl of Moray. Archibald Stewart; John Stewart, (d. Dec 1609) Alexander Stewart
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.
Alan Ramsay also credited Lady Wardlaw with authorship while Robert Charles in Chalmer's Edinburgh Journal of 1847 claimed that Lady Wardlaw was author of both The Bonnie Earl O' Moray and also of the Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens. Tranter further states in evidence that Lady Wardlaw was a renowned 'ballad-monger'.
“You’d have to call the ‘80s the high-water mark of the power ballad,” says Tom Breihan, senior editor at Stereogum whose “Number Ones” column reviews and rates every No. 1 single in ...
An early Alfred Lord Tennyson poem, "The Sisters", also bears a resemblance to the ballad: a sister scorned in love who murders the lover of her sister, and possibly the sister too, out of jealousy. In Germany, there is a ballad called Das steinerne Brot (stone bread) which is also sometimes known as Zwei Schwestern (two sisters). [12] [13]