Robert Elliot was born about 1480, he was the 13th Chief of Clan Elliot. His death in the battle of Flodden Field in Northumbria on the 9th September 1513 places him among the Scottish borderers fighting with Homes Borderers led by Lord Home, Warden of the Scottish Marches, holding the left flank of the Scottish army. Robert was fighting under Bothwell's command.

The first serious blow of the Scottish campaign was by Lord Home and his Borderers raiding some distance into English Northumberland. On their return, laden with booty, they were ambushed and routed by English archers at Millfield.

Flodden Field on the South Bank of the River Tweed, on the border between Scotland and England.

Scotland was in alliance with France, and England was at war with France. To take some pressure of France, The Scottish King James lV gathered a large army and marched into England. Thomas Howard, the English King Henry Vlll’s lieutenant in the north, gathered an army to oppose the Scots. King James and Howard came to a gentlemen’s agreement about the terms of the battle, with the time and the place of the battle agreed upon. In doing so. King James gave up the advantage of the better ground. The English archers devastated the Scottish right and at the end of the day, the Scottish army was annihilated.

Following Robert's death in 1513, his son Robert Elliot the 14th Chief of the Clan Elliot would face increasing incursions by the English and repeated devastation of the Scottish border communities. They rose to the challenge.

Sources The Battle of Flodden and the Raids of 1513 page 68 by Lieut.Col.the Hon. Fitzwilliam Elliot "The Chief ... Master Elliot was killed " [1] http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/13106255.Reimagining_Flodde...

The Battle of Flodden, Flodden Field, or occasionally Branxton (Brainston Moor[4]%29 was a military combat in the War of the League of Cambrai between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, resulting in an English victory. The battle was fought in Branxton in the county of Northumberland in northern England on 9 September 1513, between an invading Scots army under King James IV and an English army commanded by the Earl of Surrey.[5] In terms of troop numbers, it was the largest battle fought between the two kingdoms.[6] James IV was killed in the battle, becoming the last monarch from the British Isles to die in battle.