Battle of Wester Kinghorn

The Battle of Wester Kinghorn, was a battle fought on 6 August 1332, near Wester Kinghorn (now Burntisland), Fife, Scotland.

Edward Baliol sailed north from England in his attempt to gain the Scottish throne, with a fleet which included Henry de Percy, Lord Percy, Thomas Wake, Lord Wake, Henry de Beaumont and David Comyn.

On 6 August 1332 they landed at Wester Kinghorn, Beaumont stepped ashore first protected by a fusilade of arrows. They repelled an attack by a force of Bruce loyalists led by Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife, Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale and Sir Alexander Seton, who was killed in the action.

Two days later Baliol's fleet sailed north to the Firth of Tay.

References

Lauder, William, d. 1573; Hall, Fitzedward, 1825-1901; University of Michigan (1869), Ane compendious and breue tractate concerning ye office and dewtie of kyngis, spirituall pastoris, and temporall iugis, Published for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co, retrieved 14 May 2012
Traquair, Peter Freedom's Sword, p. 261

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