page_title: Ninian Cockburn
section_title: Murder of Cardinal Beaton
hierarchical_section_title: Ninian Cockburn / Rough Wooing / Murder of Cardinal Beaton
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Broughty Castle in Dundee.
context_page_description: Ninian Cockburn was a Scottish soldier and officer of the Garde Écossaise, a company which guarded the French king. He had an ambiguous role in political relations between Scotland, France and England during the war of the Rough Wooing and the Scottish Reformation.
context_section_description: Ninian was among those accused of the murder of Cardinal David Beaton in 1546, and he joined the Protestant garrison during the subsequent siege of St Andrews Castle. For this, Ninian was summoned for treason on 10 June 1546. Ninian's older brother, John Cockburn of Ormiston was also accused of involvement in the Cardinal's murder. John Cockburn was a prominent Protestant and on good terms with England. He had a licence to trade in England during the war of the Rough Wooing. According to the Earl of Glencairn, Ninian Cockburn was a double agent, a spy at St Andrews Castle for the Governor of Scotland, Regent Arran.
caption: Ninian Cockburn helped Andrew Dudley install an English garrison in Broughty Castle for a £4 reward
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