Henry Kinghorn or de Kingorne was a Scottish clergyman, courtier, and steward or seneschal to Mary of Guelders, the wife of James II of Scotland. He also held the financial office of Chamberlain in Garioch and Brechin.[1]
In 1461, after the death of James II, Kinghorn spent 25 days with other members of the royal household at Ravenscraig Castle in Fife where Mary of Guelders was continuing building works.[3]
Kinghorn was responsible for building works at Falkland Palace in 1461, including a stairway from the queen's chamber to the pleasance, new stables, a coal shed, repairs and an extension to the counting house, making andirons or firedogs for the queen's bedchamber and the firegrate of the great hall, and other works including the construction of two ponds in the hay yard. The royal carpenter was Andrew Lesouris. The works were completed under the supervision of another steward, William Blair, in 1462 and included a "galry", apparently the earliest use of the French-derived term "gallery" in Britain.[4]
^John G. Dunbar, Scottish Royal Palaces (Tuckwell: East Linton, 1999), p. 22: George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. 78-9, 106.
^George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. liii, 167-8.
^George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. 7 (Edinburgh, 1884), pp. 559-61: W. Douglas Simpson, 'A New Survey of Kildrummy Castle', Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 62 (1927-8), p. 44.
^George Burnett, Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, vol. 8 (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 78-9.