branch of the clan was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, as were the Lairds of Auchinames. A generation later the Laird of Auchinames was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill also fought at the Battle of Pinkie but was captured and later ransomed. In 1569 he became a member of the household of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley when Darnley married Mary, Queen of Scots. Crawford denounced both Maitland of Letherington and Sir James Balfour as being conspirators in the murder of Darnley, however he did not sympathise with the deposed queen and in 1570 actually captured Dumbarton Castle from her forces with just one hundred and fifty men. In the seventeenth century Craufurdland Castle was much extended by the sixteenth Laird. 18th century and Jacobite risings John Walkinshaw Crawford, the twentieth Laird was a distinguished soldier who joined the army at an early age and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He fought in the victory at the Battle of Dettingen in 1743 against the French. Two years later he also distinguished himself at the Battle of Fontenoy. However, despite his faithful service to the house of Hanover, during the Jacobite rising of 1745, he was also a faithful friend of the Jacobite Earl of Kilmarnock (chief of Clan Boyd). In a last act of comradeship he followed Kilmarnock to the scaffold where he received the earl's severed head and attended to the solemnities of his funeral. As a result, his name was placed at the bottom of the army list, although he was restored in 1761 and appointed falconer to the king. He died in 1793 and left his entire estates to Sir Thomas Coutts. However this was contested by Elizabeth Craufurd, who eventually won her case in the House of Lords in 1806. This branch of the clan united the families of Houison (Howieson) and Craufurd and they still live at Craufurdland. Later clansmen Sir Alexander Craufurd of Kilbirnie was created baronet in 1781 and his son, Robert Craufurd, commanded the Light Division in the Peninsular War. He died in 1812 leading his troops in an assault on the fortress of Ciudad Rodrigo. A monument was erected to him in St Paul's Cathedral, London. Hugh Crawford, the twenty-first Laird of Auchinames, emigrated to Canada having sold the ancient clan lands in the early twentieth century. Clan castles Castles