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- 1 - 1519 Lord William Sempill II obtains a charter to the lordship with the assistance of the Regent of Albany. He favours the betrothal of the infant Mary, queen of Scots, to the son of Henry VIII of England. William becomes one of the Privy Council for King James V.
2 - WILLIAM, SECOND LORD SEMPLE, the eldest son of the first lord, was one of the Privy Council of James the Fifth, and Lord Justiciary and heritable Bailie of the
Regality of Paisley. He was one of those who assented to the match betwixt Queen Mary and Prince Edward of England, August 25, 1543, and died in 1548. In 1547, he
purchased from John Bruntschells, the last of the family of Bruntschells of that ilk, the estate of Bruntschells (a corruption of Burnt shields), in the parish of Kilbarchan,
Renfrewshire. His lordship married, first, Lady Margaret Montgomery, eldest daughter of Hugh, first Earl of Eglintoun, by the Lady Helen Campbell, daughter of Archibald, Earl of Argyll, and by her had issue.
1. Robert, who succeeded as third Lord
2. David, ancestor of the Semples of Craigbetts, a branch of whom settled in Spain and flourished there.
3. Helen, married Allan, third Lord Cathcart.
4. Mart, married Sir John Stirling of Keir.
He married, secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Arnot, of Arnot; thirdly, Marian, daughter of Hugh Montgomery of Hazelhead, without issue.
(GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE FAMILY SEMPLE FROM 1214 TO 1888. Compiled William Alexander Semple, of Broad Brook, Conn., U. S. A. pub 1888)
[Sempill-Genealogical_History_of_the_Family_Semple pub.1888.pdf]
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- [S494] http://42.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SEMPER_GOTTFRIED.htm.
- [S555] http://www.csranet.com/~ksemple/semplenm.htm.
- [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Sempill01:.
- [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Montgomery03: "The Origin and History of the Montgomerie s " by B.D. de Montgomery (1948); The Scots Peerage (Eglint on ); Burkes Peerages 1934 (Eglinton).
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