Henry St Clair, 7th Baron of Roslin

{{Infobox noble|type

| name = Henry St. Clair

| title = Baron of Roslin

| image = Blason Henri Ier Sinclair.svg

| caption = Sinclair, Baron of Roslin coat of arms

| predecessor = William St. Clair, 6th Baron of Roslin

| successor = William St Clair, 8th Baron of Roslin

| noble family = Clan Sinclair

| father = William St. Clair, 6th Baron of Roslin

| mother = Agnes Dunbar (maybe)

| birth_date =

| death_date = {{c.}} 1335

| spouse = Alice de Fenton

}}

Sir Henry St Clair was a 13th- and 14th-century Scottish noble, who was the 7th Baron of Roslin and Lord of Catcune.

Biography

Henry was the son of William St. Clair and wife, maybe Agnes Dunbar.[http://db.poms.ac.uk/record/person/16175/# People of Medieval Scotland - Henry Sinclair (d.c.1330)] He fought at the Battle of Dunbar on 27 April 1296, where he and his father William were captured and he became a prisoner of King Edward I of England at St Briavels Castle. Henry was later exchanged for William FitzWarin in a prisoner exchange.{{cite book |last=Armstrong |first=Peter |title= Stirling Bridge and Falkirk 1297–98 - William Wallace's rebellion (Campaign 117) |year=2003 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=9781841765105 |page=56 }}

St Clair was the Sheriff of Lanark in 1305. Fought with his two sons John and William at the Battle of Bannockburn on 23–24 June 1314. King Robert I of Scotland rewarded him for his bravery with the gift of Pentland, the forest of Pentland Moor, Morton and Mortonhall. He was one of the Scottish nobles who in 1320 signed the Declaration of Arbroath.{{cite book |last=Paul |first=James Balfour |authorlink=James Balfour Paul |year=1909 |title=The Scots Peerage : Founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom |url=https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul/page/n5/mode/2up |volume=VI |location=Edinburgh |publisher=David Douglas |page=[https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul/page/564/mode/2up 565]-566 |access-date=June 12, 2021}} He died around 1335.

Family and issue

Henry married Alice de Fenton, daughter of Sir William de Fenton of Baikie and Beaufort and wife Cecilia Bissett, and is known to have had the following issue:

Sir William (d. 1330), who left a son, Sir William St Clair, 8th Baron of Roslin (d. 1358), who married Isabella (Isobel) of Strathearn, daughter of Malise V, Earl of Strathearn, and second wife Marjory of Ross{{cite book |last=Saint-Clair |first=Roland |year=1898 |title=The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the Sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair |url=https://archive.org/details/saintclairsofisl00sain/page/n9/mode/2up |location=Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand |publisher=H. Brett |page=[https://archive.org/details/saintclairsofisl00sain/page/284/mode/2up 284]-285 |access-date=June 6, 2021}}
John (d. 1330)