Sir Andrew Murray Sir Andrew Murray ( 1298 – 1338 ) , also known as Sir Andrew Moray or Sir Andrew Murray of Bothwell , was a Scottish military leader who commanded resistance forces loyal to David II of Scotland against Edward Balliol and Edward III of England during the Second War of Scottish Independence . He was twice chosen as Guardian of Scotland , from 1332 to 1333 , and again from 1335 until his death in 1338 . Life . Murray was the son of Andrew Moray , William Wallace ' s companion - in - arms , who died at the Battle of Stirling Bridge shortly before Murray ' s birth . On 28 August 1297 , he received letters of safe - conduct to visit his father , then a prisoner in the Tower of London . In 1297 he was , though still a young man , joined in command with Wallace in the Scottish advance into Northumberland , and in the succeeding raids into Cumberland and Annandale . On 8 November , he and Wallace appear as the grantors of a charter of protection to the monastery of Hexham , which had suffered at the hands of their wild soldiery . Murray acceded his father to the lordship of Petty and his uncle , Sir William Murray , to the lordship of Bothwell in Lanarkshire . He appears to have been in receipt of an annuity in 1329 - 1330 . Shortly after Edward Baliol was crowned , in 1332 , Moray 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 waterpipes he compelled his foe to surrender , but he permitted him to return to England . Moray was present at the futile parliament convened at Dairsie 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 ) , Moray had no part , but chose to go into hiding with the Earl of March and William Douglas , Lord of Liddesdale . When the Earl of Athole laid siege to the castle of Kildrummie , in which Moray ' s wife and children had been placed , the three fugitives came from their fastnesses , and marched against Kildrummie with eleven hundred men . They surprised and slew Athole in the forest of Kilblain or Culbleen . Moray assembled a parliament at Dunfermline , and was again made warden . Edward marched into Scotland , and vainly endeavoured to bring him to action . During the winter , 1335 - 6 , Moray kept an army in the field , and laid siege to the castles of Cupar - Fife and Lochindorb in Cromdale , in the latter of which was Catherine , Athole ' s widow . He retired from Lochindorb on the approach of Edward . No sooner had Edward returned to England than he assumed the offensive , captured the castles of Dunnottar , Lauriston , and Kinclevin , and laid waste the lands of Kincardine and Angus . Early in 1337 , having received the support of the Earls of March and Fife and William Douglas , he marched through Fife , destroyed the tower of Falkland , took the castle of Leuchars , and , after three weeks ' siege , captured and sacked St Andrews Castle ( 28 February ) Cupar still held out , under the ecclesiastic , William Bullock . In March , the Bothwell Castle was reduced , and the way to England cleared . Moray led his troops as far as Carlisle , then wheeled about on Edinburgh , which he proceeded to invest . The English Marchers rushed to its relief , and met the Scots at Crichton . In the combat Douglas was wounded , and Sir Andrew , though claiming the victory , saw fit to raise the siege . From this time till his death , in 1338 , we have but scanty record of him . In 1337 he is referred to as having been keeper of Berwick Castle . He retired in 1338 to Avoch Castle in Ross , and there died . He was buried in the chapel of Rosemarkie ( Rosmarkyne ) , but his remains were afterwards removed to Dunfermline Abbey . Family . In 1326 or 1327 , he married Lady Christian Bruce , sister of King Robert I , widow of ( 1 ) Gartnait , Earl of Mar , and ( 2 ) Sir Christopher Seton . Insofar as his wife was probably beyond child bearing years it has been conjectured that his two known sons , were from a previous marriage