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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Stobo_Castle%2C_Scottish_Borders.JPG/300px-Stobo_Castle%2C_Scottish_Borders.JPG" decoding="async" width="300" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Stobo_Castle%2C_Scottish_Borders.JPG/450px-Stobo_Castle%2C_Scottish_Borders.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Stobo_Castle%2C_Scottish_Borders.JPG/600px-Stobo_Castle%2C_Scottish_Borders.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2288" data-file-height="1712" /></a><figcaption>Stobo Castle, Seat of the Barony</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Baron of Stobo</b> is a title of nobility in the <a href="/wiki/Baronage_of_Scotland" title="Baronage of Scotland">Baronage of Scotland</a> which takes its name from <a href="/wiki/Stobo_Castle" title="Stobo Castle">Stobo</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Borders" title="Scottish Borders">Scottish Borders</a>. </p><p>The barony has played an important role in Scottish history for almost five centuries. It was closely associated with the rise and fall of Stuart power in Scotland, its granting or forfeiture being used by turns to reward or punish those loyal to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Stuart" title="House of Stuart">House of Stuart</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baron_of_Stobo&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Claims have been made for the existence of the barony as early as the twelfth century. It is probable an <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Normans" title="Anglo-Normans">Anglo-Norman</a> lordship emerged during the turbulent period preceding the formation of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Marches" title="Scottish Marches">Scottish Marches</a>, with its holder exercising customary powers of "pit and gallows, sake and soke, toll, team and infangthief".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Scoto-Norman" title="Scoto-Norman">Scoto-Norman</a> Sir John Ker(r), the so-called "Hunter of Swynhope", has been tentatively identified as a likely early Lord of Stobo (circa 1140).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The de Ker family appears to have had its origins in Criel (now <a href="/wiki/Criel-sur-Mer" title="Criel-sur-Mer">Criel-sur-Mer</a>) in Normandy and was closely affiliated with <a href="/wiki/Hugh_de_Morville,_Constable_of_Scotland" title="Hugh de Morville, Constable of Scotland">Hugh de Morville</a>, Lord of Lauderdale and Cunningham. The Kerrs later became a leading <a href="/wiki/Reiver" class="mw-redirect" title="Reiver">reiver</a> clan (from which the <a href="/wiki/Marquess_of_Lothian" title="Marquess of Lothian">Marquesses of Lothian</a> descend). There is no evidence to support the existence of a pre-Norman <a href="/wiki/Thanage" title="Thanage">thanage</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baron_of_Stobo&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Regent_Morton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Regent_Morton.jpg/220px-Regent_Morton.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="320" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Regent_Morton.jpg/330px-Regent_Morton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Regent_Morton.jpg/440px-Regent_Morton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="884" data-file-height="1284" /></a><figcaption>James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, short-lived 1st Baron of Stobo</figcaption></figure> <p>At some point in the C12th, the barony came under the patronage of the Bishops of <a href="/wiki/Glasgow" title="Glasgow">Glasgow</a> as part of the Scottish Middle March.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The barony may have been acquired by the Church or gifted to the bishopric either by the Kerr family or the Crown as part of the so-called "Davidian Revolution". <a href="/wiki/David_I_of_Scotland" title="David I of Scotland">King David I</a> was instrumental in the foundation of burghs and regional markets, implementation of the ideals of <a href="/wiki/Gregorian_Reform" title="Gregorian Reform">Gregorian Reform</a>, foundation of monasteries, Normanisation of government, and the introduction of feudalism throughout Scotland. </p><p>According to <i>The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Mentioned in the Glasgow Inquisition of c. 1120, <a href="/wiki/Stobo_Kirk" title="Stobo Kirk">St Mungo’s church at Stobo</a> was the most important church in the upper <a href="/wiki/River_Tweed" title="River Tweed">Tweed Valley</a> during the early medieval period. <a href="/wiki/Pope_Alexander_III" title="Pope Alexander III">Pope Alexander III</a> confirmed the church to the bishop of Glasgow, <a href="/wiki/Enguerrand_(bishop_of_Glasgow)" title="Enguerrand (bishop of Glasgow)">Engelram</a>, in 1170. This was confirmed several times throughout the rest of the 12th and early 13th centuries. Sometime before 1266, and most likely in the early 12th century, Stobo became a <a href="/wiki/Prebend" class="mw-redirect" title="Prebend">prebend</a> of <a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Cathedral" title="Glasgow Cathedral">Glasgow Cathedral</a>, which continued as such until the Reformation. The <a href="/wiki/Advowson" title="Advowson">advowson</a> of ‘Stobou’ was confirmed by the pope in 1216, and in 1319 <a href="/wiki/Edward_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward II">Edward II</a> of England, as Overlord of Scotland, claimed to exercise the right of patronage. ‘Peter, the dean of Stobhou’ witnessed charters of the bishops of Glasgow between 1175 and 1199. In 1369, 1482 and 1486, Stobo appears as one of the baronies of the bishopric of Glasgow, and in 1489-90 it was erected by <a href="/wiki/King_James_IV_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="King James IV of Scotland">King James IV of Scotland</a> into a free regality of Robert, bishop of Glasgow, and his successors. Stobo had 5 chaplaincies: Lyne, Broughton, <a href="/wiki/Kingledoors" title="Kingledoors">Kingledoors</a>, Dawic and Drummelzier".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to Mackenzie, "a Lord of Regality is a <i>Regulus</i>, a little King" and thus the actions of James IV placed the Bishops of Glasgow in a powerful position, in effect placing them beyond the reach of Crown officers (although not of the Crown itself).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Reformation radically changed this position, with the Crown seizing and then re-granting the barony to <a href="/wiki/James_Douglas,_4th_Earl_of_Morton" title="James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton">James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Morton was one of the four Regents of Scotland during the minority of <a href="/wiki/King_James_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="King James VI">King James VI</a>, later <a href="/wiki/James_VI_and_I" title="James VI and I">James I</a> of England .<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Crown Charter of 1577 survives but Morton's possession of the barony itself was short-lived. He was executed in 1581 for his part in the murder of <a href="/wiki/Henry_Stuart,_Lord_Darnley" title="Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley">Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley</a>, <a href="/wiki/King_Consort" class="mw-redirect" title="King Consort">King Consort</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mary,_Queen_of_Scots" title="Mary, Queen of Scots">Mary, Queen of Scots</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The barony was re-granted in 1587 to <a href="/wiki/John_Maitland,_1st_Lord_Maitland_of_Thirlestane" title="John Maitland, 1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane">Sir John Maitland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Chancellor_of_Scotland" title="Lord Chancellor of Scotland">Lord Chancellor of Scotland</a>, who in 1590 became <a href="/wiki/Lord_Maitland" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Maitland">1st Lord Maitland of Thirlestane</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in recognition of his role in arranging the marriage of <a href="/wiki/James_VI_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="James VI of Scotland">James VI</a> to <a href="/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark" title="Anne of Denmark">Anne of Denmark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Maitland is generally considered the principal architect of Stuart rule during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament,_a_jacobite_air.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament%2C_a_jacobite_air.pdf/page1-220px-Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament%2C_a_jacobite_air.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament%2C_a_jacobite_air.pdf/page1-330px-Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament%2C_a_jacobite_air.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament%2C_a_jacobite_air.pdf/page1-440px-Lord_Stobo%27s_Lament%2C_a_jacobite_air.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1239" data-file-height="1754" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <p>Over the following century, ownership of the barony alternated between two competing sets of Stuart supporters: Maitland's descendants, the powerful <a href="/wiki/Earls_of_Lauderdale" class="mw-redirect" title="Earls of Lauderdale">Earls of Lauderdale</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> chiefs of <a href="/wiki/Clan_Maitland" title="Clan Maitland">Clan Maitland</a> and hereditary bearers of the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_St._Andrew" class="mw-redirect" title="Flag of St. Andrew">National Flag of Scotland</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Lennox" title="Duke of Lennox">Dukes of Lennox and Richmond</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> chiefs of the Clan <a href="/wiki/Stewart_of_Darnley" title="Stewart of Darnley">Stewart of Darnley</a> and favoured kinsmen of James I, <a href="/wiki/Charles_I_of_England" title="Charles I of England">Charles I</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also owned briefly in the early seventeenth century by a local reiver family, the Tweedies of Dreva. </p><p>In the 1630s, the barony passed to the Murrays, a family of staunch Stuart supporters. In 1664, the family received a baronetcy from Charles II for their support of the Royalist cause and became known as the <a href="/wiki/Stanhope,_Peeblesshire" title="Stanhope, Peeblesshire">Murrays of Stanhope</a>. In 1697, Stobo was erected into a <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/published-gazetteers-and-atlases/atlas-scottish-history-1707/atlas-scottish-history-1707/223">free barony</a> by Crown Charter.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Murrays were ruined by their support for the <a href="/wiki/Jacobitism" title="Jacobitism">Jacobite</a> cause, with <a href="/wiki/Sir_David_Murray,_4th_Baronet" title="Sir David Murray, 4th Baronet">Sir David Murray, 4th Baronet</a>, forfeiting all his lands and being attainted for his role in the <a href="/wiki/1745_Rebellion" class="mw-redirect" title="1745 Rebellion">1745 Rebellion</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Murray died in exile at Leghorn in 1769.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9qnUw1Ba0"><i>Lord Stobo's Lament</i></a>, a traditional Scots air, commemorates this tragic episode in the history of the barony. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Forfeiture">Forfeiture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baron_of_Stobo&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Forfeiture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jolly-temp10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Jolly-temp10.jpg/220px-Jolly-temp10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="341" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Jolly-temp10.jpg/330px-Jolly-temp10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Jolly-temp10.jpg/440px-Jolly-temp10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="882" data-file-height="1366" /></a><figcaption>Arms of the Barons of Stobo</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1767, Stobo was purchased out of forfeiture for £40,000, as part of the <a href="/wiki/Stanhope,_Peeblesshire" title="Stanhope, Peeblesshire">Stanhope</a> estate, by <a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Montgomery,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet">James Montgomery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Advocate_of_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Advocate of Scotland">Lord Advocate of Scotland</a>. </p><p>In 1767, Montgomery also acquired a substantial and highly lucrative interest in the colonisation of Canada's Prince Edward Island;<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an investment which funded his son, the <a href="/wiki/Sir_James_Montgomery,_2nd_Baronet" title="Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet">2nd baronet</a> to build <a href="/wiki/Stobo_Castle" title="Stobo Castle">Stobo Castle</a> between 1805 and 1811 in place of an earlier fortified <a href="/wiki/Tower_house" title="Tower house">tower house</a> known as Hillhouse or Wester Stobo. Sir James had acquired a baronetcy in 1801, thereafter styling himself Sir James Montgomery of Stanhope. </p><p>The barony of Stobo remained in the possession of the <a href="/wiki/Graham-Montgomery_baronets" class="mw-redirect" title="Graham-Montgomery baronets">Graham-Montgomery</a> family until 1905<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then, in the possession of the <a href="/wiki/Earls_of_Dysart" class="mw-redirect" title="Earls of Dysart">Earls of Dysart</a> until 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="The_seat_of_barony_and_its_extent">The seat of barony and its extent</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baron_of_Stobo&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The seat of barony and its extent"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The seat (“<a href="/wiki/Caput" title="Caput">caput</a>”) of the barony is <a href="/wiki/Stobo_Castle" title="Stobo Castle">Stobo Castle</a>. The listed castle and its grounds have operated as a luxury spa hotel since the mid-1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The adjacent 3,884-acre Stobo Estate was broken up and sold in late 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The barony is situated in historic <a href="/wiki/Peeblesshire" title="Peeblesshire">Peeblesshire</a>, its southern boundary skirting the north bank of the <a href="/wiki/River_Tweed" title="River Tweed">River Tweed</a>. According to Bearhop's map of 1740, it originally encompassed some 7,000 acres across Stobo, <a href="/wiki/Drumelzier" title="Drumelzier">West Dawyck</a>, Easttoun and Westtoun, <a href="/wiki/Dreva_on_Tweed" title="Dreva on Tweed">Dreva</a>, to <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ancientmonuments.uk/122870-muirburn-castlefort-scooped-settlement-tweeddale-west-ward/map">Muirburn Castle</a> in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Tweeddale_West_(ward)" title="Tweeddale West (ward)">West Tweeddale</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Present_holder">Present holder</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baron_of_Stobo&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Present holder"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stobo_tartan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Stobo_tartan.jpg/220px-Stobo_tartan.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Stobo_tartan.jpg/330px-Stobo_tartan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Stobo_tartan.jpg/440px-Stobo_tartan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="750" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>The Stobo Tartan</figcaption></figure> <p>The Scottish Barony Register records <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://armorialregister.com/arms-sco/jolly-w-arms.html">William Jolly</a> as the present Baron of Stobo.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a member of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.scotsbarons.org/#:~:text=The%20Convention%20of%20the%20Baronage%20of%20Scotland%20is%20the%20representative,Abolition%20of%20Feudal%20Tenure%20etc.">Convention of the Baronage of Scotland</a> and a Vice-President of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.glenislahighlandgames.co.uk">Glenisla Highland Games</a>. </p><p>By custom, the heir apparent to the barony assumes the role of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/barronbaillie">baron baillie</a> and in that capacity, is styled Master of Muirburn; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ancientmonuments.uk/122870-muirburn-castlefort-scooped-settlement-tweeddale-west-ward/map">Muirburn</a> having been a part of the historic Stobo estate since at least the mid-eighteenth century. This is a customary rather than a peerage title. </p><p>The baron’s arms registered in the <a href="/wiki/Public_Register_of_All_Arms_and_Bearings_in_Scotland" title="Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland">Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland</a> are described as: <a href="/wiki/Sable_(heraldry)" title="Sable (heraldry)">Sable</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Escutcheon_(heraldry)" title="Escutcheon (heraldry)">escutcheon</a> <a href="/wiki/Argent" title="Argent">Argent</a> within an <a href="/wiki/Orle_(heraldry)" title="Orle (heraldry)">orle</a> of eight <a href="/wiki/Mullet_(heraldry)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mullet (heraldry)">mullets</a> <a href="/wiki/Or_(heraldry)" title="Or (heraldry)">Or</a> on the escutcheon a rose <a href="/wiki/Gules" title="Gules">Gules</a> barbed and seeded <a href="/wiki/Vert_(heraldry)" title="Vert (heraldry)">Vert</a>, with <a href="/wiki/Crest_(heraldry)" title="Crest (heraldry)">Crest</a> issuing from a crenellated coronet of five towers Or, a banner <a href="/wiki/Saltire" title="Saltire">saltire</a> Argent and Sable in <a href="/wiki/Pale_(heraldry)" title="Pale (heraldry)">pale</a> two roses Gules and in <a href="/wiki/Fess" title="Fess">fess</a> two mullets Or.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A tartan designed for use by the present baron’s heir, his family and supporters is registered in the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Register_of_Tartans" title="Scottish Register of Tartans">Scottish Register of Tartans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The barony also falls under the aegis of the <a href="/wiki/Sept" title="Sept">sept</a> of <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Morton" title="Earl of Morton">Morton</a> of <a href="/wiki/Douglas,_South_Lanarkshire" title="Douglas, South Lanarkshire">Douglas</a> entitling the baron to wear <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/tartanDetails?ref=964">Black Douglas</a>. </p><p>A separate and unrelated corporate tartan<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was registered for commercial use by the spa hotel at Stobo Castle in 2017. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baron_of_Stobo&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Oliver Thomson, <i>The Rises and Falls of the Royal Stewarts</i> (History Press: Stroud, 2009)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Alexander Grant, "Franchises North of the Border: Baronies and Regalities in Medieval Scotland", Chapter 9, Michael Prestwich. ed., <i>Liberties and Identities in Medieval Britain and Ireland</i> (Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2008)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sir John Ker, Lord of Stobo, <i>The Kerrs of Ferniehirst</i>: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://clankerr.co.uk/the%20fortress%20in%20the%20forest-2/the%20kerrs%20of%20ferniehirst-2.html">https://clankerr.co.uk/the%20fortress%20in%20the%20forest-2/the%20kerrs%20of%20ferniehirst-2.html</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Glasg. Reg., no. 104</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ian Cowan, <i>The Parishes of Medieval Scotland</i>, (Edinburgh 1967), 188</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=15223">"St Mungo, Stobo, Peebleshire"</a>. <i>CRSBI</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CRSBI&rft.atitle=St+Mungo%2C+Stobo%2C+Peebleshire&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crsbi.ac.uk%2Fview-item%3Fi%3D15223&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABaron+of+Stobo" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?key=SXsiUCI6eyJ2YWx1ZSI6InN0b2JvIiwib3BlcmF0b3IiOjEsImZ1enp5UHJlZml4TGVuZ3RoIjozLCJmdXp6eU1pblNpbWlsYXJpdHkiOjAuNSwibWF4U3VnZ2VzdGlvbnMiOjUsImFsd2F5c1N1Z2dlc3QiOm51bGx9LCJGIjoiZXlKMElqcGJObDE5In0&WINID=1610629146858#cjyVFY046_8AAAF3AOq8Ew/15223">The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland</a></i>, 2021</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Peter de Stobhou, 1174-1206: <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/factoid/25518/">https://www.poms.ac.uk/record/factoid/25518/</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, <i>Observations on the Acts of Parliament ...</i> (Edinburgh, 1686)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">NAS.GD150.13789; 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