Bartholomew de Villemore

[1] During Mary of Guise's visit to France, Villemore was involved with the wardrobe of her household, and commissioned black velvet gowns for two of her gentlewomem.

Only the glazing of the tower windows was completed, more work would be needed to finish the chambers and galleries before Mary of Guise visited.

[5] The English ambassador in Paris, Nicholas Throckmorton heard in November 1560 that Villemore sought funds to keep a garrison on Inchkeith, even using soldiers from Dunbar Castle because of its strategic importance in the Firth of Forth.

[7] During the challenge to the rule of Mary of Guise posed by the Scottish Reformation, the Lords of the Congregation complained about her French officers of state Villemore, Yves de la Rubarye, and Henri Cleutin in a manifesto of October 1559.

It was said he was a "false flattering varlet", his wife had run away with another man in France, and he returned to Scotland to "follow his old trade of a villainous life".