In 1513 Cuthbert Cunningham, earl of Glencairn was at the Battle of Flodden. The fifth Cunningham Earl of Glencairn was a Protestant reformer and a patron of John Knox. The English saw the Reformation as an opportunity to discomfort the Scottish Crown and Glencairn was accused of being in the pay of them. Glencairn rose up against Mary, Queen of Scots and at the Battle of Carberry Hill in 1567 where she surrendered, Glencairn was one of the commanders. He is said to have then ordered the destruction of the Chapel Royal at Holyrood. The Cunninghams were among the Scots who were undertakers of the Plantation of Ulster. Sir James Cunningham who married a daughter of the Earl of Glencairn was granted five thousand acres in County Donegal. The name Cunningham is in the top seventy-five most common in Ulster.