# Duncan Forestar > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Duncan_Forestar > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Duncan_Forestar.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Forestar > Source revision: 1354320717 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Duncan Forestar** or **Forrester** of Torwood and Skipinch was a Scottish courtier and financial administrator. He also served as Provost of Stirling.[1] His family home was [Torwood Castle](/source/Torwood_Castle) near Stirling. "Skipinch" was an alternative name for [Skipness Castle](/source/Skipness_Castle). [James IV of Scotland](/source/James_IV_of_Scotland) gave him a barony of the lands of Skipness and the keepership of the castle on 3 July 1495.[2] Duncan Forestar was made baron of Skipinch in 1495 and keeper of [Skipness Castle](/source/Skipness_Castle) Duncan Forestar was also called "of Garden", from another property near Stirling. His son was Walter Forestar.[3] [Alexander Forrester of Garden](/source/Alexander_Forrester_of_Garden) was a member of a later generation of the same family.[4] Duncan Forestar was keeper of [Stirling Castle](/source/Stirling_Castle) in 1480.[5] He was [Comptroller of Scotland](/source/Comptroller_of_Scotland) from 1492 to 1499 and from 1508 to 1509, serving [James IV of Scotland](/source/James_IV_of_Scotland).[6] The Comptroller was in charge of collecting and spending royal revenue.[7] In 1508 he was "Great Purveyor to the Queen" or "Magnus Provisor", in charge of purchasing [food and other items for the household](/source/Food_and_the_Scottish_royal_household) of [Margaret Tudor](/source/Margaret_Tudor), the wife of James IV. [James Redheuch](/source/James_Redheuch) was the equivalent administrator for the king's household.[8] For a time there were separate household accounts for Margaret Tudor, but these records do not now survive.[9] His accounts written in Latin mention royal servants, including the king's tailor [John Steel](/source/John_Steel_(tailor)), his barber James Jacklin, and the master cook Thomas Schaw.[10] Some expenses were met for the Spanish ambassador [Pedro de Ayala](/source/Pedro_de_Ayala), and details are given of [Perkin Warbeck](/source/Perkin_Warbeck) (called the Duke of York) and the raids in England to [Norham Castle](/source/Norham_Castle) and [Heaton Castle](/source/Heaton_Castle).[11] Forestar maintained a family burial aisle on the west side of the [Church of the Holy Rude](/source/Church_of_the_Holy_Rude) in Stirling. He outlived two wives, Margaret Forsyth and Margaret Bothwell. His son Walter Forestar was a servant of Margaret Tudor, acting as her provisor in 1508, when Duncan Forestar was the knight comptroller of her household.[12] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** John Gibson, *Lands and lairds of Larbert and Dunipace parishes* (Glasgow, 1908), pp. 134–137. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** *HMC 4th Report* (London, 1874), p. 477. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Francis J. Grant, *Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown* (Edinburgh, 1910), pp. 78–81. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** P. Gouldesbrough, 'Accounts of the Comptroller Duncan Forestar', *Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, IX* (Edinburgh, 1958), pp. 60-61. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** John Gibson, *Lands and lairds of Larbert and Dunipace parishes* (Glasgow, 1908), p. 135. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** M. Livingstone, *Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, 1488-1529*, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1908), p. 76 no. 532. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** P. Gouldesbrough, 'Accounts of the Comptroller Duncan Forestar', *Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, IX* (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 61. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** *Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland, 1507–1513*, vol. 4 (Edinburgh, 1902), pp. 27, 447. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** P. Gouldesbrough, 'Accounts of the Comptroller Duncan Forestar', *Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, IX* (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 61: *Exchequer Rolls*, vol. 13, pp. lxxvi, lxxix: [National Records of Scotland](/source/National_Records_of_Scotland) has a royal household account book for 1511-1512. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** P. Gouldesbrough, 'Accounts of the Comptroller Duncan Forestar', *Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, IX* (Edinburgh, 1958), p. 66. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** P. Gouldesbrough, 'Accounts of the Comptroller Duncan Forestar', *Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, IX* (Edinburgh, 1958), pp. 72, 74, 79, 81. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** Michelle L. Beer, *Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor* (Boydell, 2018), p. 104: John Gibson, *Lands and lairds of Larbert and Dunipace parishes* (Glasgow, 1908), pp. 136–138. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Duncan Forestar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Forestar) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan_Forestar?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.