Border reivers - Wikipedia
Border reivers were raiders along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 17th century. They included both Scottish and English people, and they raided the entire border country without regard to their victims' nationality.
The History of the Border Reivers
On 17 March 1596, a truce-day was held in the Borders, so that Scots and English could meet to negotiate deals and treaties. On the Scottish side was one William Armstrong of Kinmont or ‘Kinmont Willie’ – perhaps the most notorious of all the Border Reivers.
Surnames & Clans – Border Reiver Heritage Society
If you are looking to pinpoint the names and where your reiver ancestors lived in the Scottish West March – and there are a lot of you out there – then here is a great place to start. The Records of the Scottish Parliament to 1707 are a goldmine of information and a key source.
Border Reiver Genealogy - Relatively Scottish
What also noticeable is a smattering of the most infamous reiver families live on. There are no less than 3 sons of Kinmont Willie and also Lancie Armstrong of Whithaugh. There’s a Clement and a Quentin Croser – definite echoes of their distinctively named reiver forebears.
Reivers – In Search of The Border Reivers
Border Reiver territory straddles the once fiercely contested Borderline between England and Scotland. Border lands stretch from the Solway Firth to the North Sea. They comprise the Cheviot Hills, the Southern Uplands, the Northern Pennines and the Lake District as well as the North Cumbrian Coast to the west and the Merse and the Northumbrian ...
The “Riding Clans” or “Border Reivers” of the AngloScottish borders were, like the Highlanders, - organized into clans led by a clan chief. These clans were not of Gaelic origin.
The rise and fall of Borders Reivers
Oct 1, 2024 · The Scottish Borders were heavily involved in what was something of a civil war in the early decades of the 15th century between the Douglases and just about everyone else. It ended badly for the Douglas faction which itself split in two, the “black” and “red” Douglases.
BBC - Legacies - Myths and Legends - Scotland - Borders - The Border …
Dec 1, 2003 · The Border Reivers. From the 13th Century through to the beginning of the 17th, the border lands between England and Scotland were home to the Reivers, lawless gangs who survived by plundering...
The Border Reivers - BBC
Dec 1, 2003 · Borderers were robbed and killed by both the English and Scottish armies, crops were burned and property was destroyed. Historians agree that these conditions bred the Reiver.
The Reivers : The Story of the Border Reivers - Google Books
Jul 1, 2011 · An “exciting and dramatic” history of the raiders who ruled the lawless Anglo-Scottish borderlands for over a century (Cumberland News).
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