Qualla: Battle of Ancrum Moor https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/5/battle-of-ancrum-moor-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Ancrum Moor https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor Battle of Ancrum Moor: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Sir Ralph Eure had been told he could keep what he could burn. In late February 1545, the English commander led roughly five thousand men, most of them German and Spanish mercenaries, across the Scottish border for another season of pillage. King Henry VIII had decided that since Scotland would not give him the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, as a bride for his son Edward, he would teach the Scots to regret their refusal. The campaign was later called the Rough Wooing, an accurate name. Eure had already burned Brumehous Tower with the lady of the house and her children and servants still inside. Now he was marching home with prisoners and plunder. On Ancrum Moor, two miles from Jedburgh, a smaller Scottish force caught him. By nightfall, Eure was dead, and an army that had outnumbered the Scots by perhaps three to one was scattered across the borderland.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/5/battle-of-ancrum-moor-wp/gcy5-battle-of-ancrum-moor-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Ancrum Moor: The Rough Wooing https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Henry VIII's ambition was simple and ugly. He wanted Mary, Queen of Scots, betrothed to his son Edward, who would later reign briefly as Edward VI. The marriage would dissolve the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France and put Scotland firmly inside an English orbit. In Decemb...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/5/battle-of-ancrum-moor-wp/gcy5-battle-of-ancrum-moor-the-rough-wooing.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Ancrum Moor: An Unlikely Alliance https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Scottish response began with grudges. The Earl of Arran, Regent for the infant Mary, and the Earl of Angus had been bitter enemies for years; they had fought a pitched battle in the streets of Edinburgh in 1520. But Angus's family lands were among those Eure had been promised...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/5/battle-of-ancrum-moor-wp/gcy5-battle-of-ancrum-moor-an-unlikely-alliance.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Ancrum Moor: Pikes, Treachery, and a Charge https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. The English army was substantially larger: 3,000 mercenaries from Germany and Spain, 1,500 English Border horse under Sir Brian Layton, and 700 'assured' Scottish Borderers who had sworn loyalty to England in exchange for protection. The battle turned on two things. The Scottish ...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/5/battle-of-ancrum-moor-wp/gcy5-battle-of-ancrum-moor-pikes-treachery-and-a-charge.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Ancrum Moor: Arran on the Field https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Regent Arran arrived after the fighting was over and found his old rival Angus standing among the corpses. According to an English report, Arran asked a prisoner to identify Eure's body. When it was shown to him he wept and said, 'God have mercy on him, for he was a fell cruel ma...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/y/5/battle-of-ancrum-moor-wp/gcy5-battle-of-ancrum-moor-arran-on-the-field.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Ancrum Moor: Lilliard's Stone https://qualla.com/battle-of-ancrum-moor/ Photo credit Tim Heaton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Local legend tells of a young woman called Lilliard who is said to have fought at Ancrum Moor after the death of her lover. Her story is engraved in popular memory and a stone marker known as Lilliard's Stone stands near the battlefield. The story is almost certainly apocryphal. ...

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