page_title: Andrew Murray (Scottish soldier)
section_title: Military and political career
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Murray (Scottish soldier) / Military and political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Bothwell Castle, South Lanarkshire, Scotland - south-east tower Nederlands: Bothwell Castle, South Lanarkshire, Schotland - zuidoostelijke toren
context_page_description: Sir Andrew Murray, also known as Sir Andrew Moray, or Sir Andrew de Moray, was a Scottish military and political leader who supported David II of Scotland against Edward Balliol and King Edward III of England during the so-called Second War of Scottish Independence. He held the lordships of Avoch and Petty in north Scotland, and Bothwell in west-central Scotland. In 1326 he married Christina Bruce, a sister of King Robert I of Scotland. Murray was twice chosen as Guardian of Scotland, first in 1332, and again from 1335 on his return to Scotland after his release from captivity in England. He held the guardianship until his death in 1338.
context_section_description: When King Robert I died in June 1329 he left his nephew Thomas Randolph, the Earl of Moray as guardian of the infant King David. But Randolph died suddenly in June 1332. A period of turmoil befell the Scots. Domhnall, Earl of Mar was next chosen as Regent in a hasty gathering of the Scottish Nobles at Perth on 2 August. He would be killed 9 days later at the Battle of Dupplin Moor. Shortly after Edward Baliol was crowned, in 1332, Murray was elected warden or regent by the Scots who adhered to the young king, David II, but he had no opportunity of attempting anything till the following year, when he attacked Baliol at Roxburgh. 
  While endeavouring to rescue Ralph Golding he was taken, and, refusing to be the prisoner of any one but the king of England, was carried to Durham, April 1333.
  No sooner was he set at liberty, in 1334, than he raised armed opposition to the English. 
  With Alexander de Mowbray he marched into Buchan, and besieged Henry de Beaumont in his castle of Dundarg, on the Moray Firth (August–November). 
  By cutting the water pipes he compelled his foe to surrender, but he permitted him to return to England. 
  Murray was present at the futile parliament convened at Dairsie Castle in April 1335, by the steward of Scotland and the returned Earl of Moray, the regents. 
  In the subsequent surrender to Edward, and in the making of the treaty of Perth (18 August 1335), Murray had no part, but chose to go into hiding with the Earl of March and William Douglas, Lord of Liddesdale. 
  When the David of Strathbogie laid siege to Kildrummy castle, which was held by Murray's wife. Murray led an army of eleven hundred men north to raise the siege. 
  They surprised and slew Strathbogie in the forest of Kilblain or Culbleen.
caption: Bothwell Castle, the caput of the Murray lordship of Bothwell in Lanarkshire.
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