Jamie Fraser

tall, handsome, blue eyes, curly ginger hair, muscular, broad shoulders, scottish, curious, kind, calm, childish, caring, gentle giant

OUTLANDER WIKI OUTLANDER WIKI James Fraser 0 of 4 minutes, 35 seconds 00:23 04:35   Secret Invasion Villain Doesn't Think Gravik Believes in the Greater Good 04:34  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION FULL NAME James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser BORN May 1, 1721[1][2] at Lallybroch near Inverness, Scotland (age 59)[3] MARITAL STATUS Married ALSO KNOWN AS Sawny[4] Jamie MacTavish The Dunbonnet Seumas Ruadh / Red Jamie[5] Mac Dubh Alex MacKenzie Alexander Malcolm Jamie Roy[6] Captain Alessandro[7] Etienne Marcel de Provac Alexandre[8] "Bear-Killer" TITLE(S) Laird Broch Tuarach (formerly) PHYSICAL INFORMATION GENDER Male HEIGHT 6'4" (193 cm) HAIR COLOR Red EYE COLOR Dark blue SKIN COLOR Fair, sometimes tanned AFFILIATIONS OCCUPATION Soldier Laird (former) Proprietor of Fraser's Ridge Printer CLAN/FAMILY Fraser NATIONALITY Scottish RELIGION Catholic FAMILY MEMBERS PARENTS AND SIBLINGS Brian Fraser † (father) Ellen Fraser † (mother) William Fraser † (brother) Jenny Murray (sister) Robert Fraser † [9][10] (brother) Ian Murray † (brother-in-law) SPOUSE(S) Claire Fraser (m. 1743) Laoghaire MacKenzie (m. 1765–1766, invalid) CHILDREN Faith Fraser † (daughter) Brianna MacKenzie (daughter) William Ransom (son by Geneva Dunsany) Fergus Fraser (adopted son) Marsali MacKimmie Fraser (stepdaughter)[11] Joan MacKimmie (stepdaughter)[11] Roger MacKenzie (son-in-law) Ian Fraser Murray (nephew, foster son) Frances Pocock (foster daughter) Agnes (foster daughter) EXTENDED FAMILY Jeremiah Fraser MacKenzie (grandson) Amanda MacKenzie (granddaughter) David MacKenzie (grandson) Germain Fraser (grandson)[12] Joan Fraser (granddaughter)[12] Félicité Fraser (granddaughter)[12] Henri-Christian Fraser (grandson) †[12] Alexandre Fraser (grandson) Charles-Claire Fraser (grandson) Murtagh Fraser (godfather) † Dougal MacKenzie (uncle) † Colum MacKenzie (uncle) † Jocasta MacKenzie (aunt) Hamish MacKenzie (cousin) See Fraser of Lovat BOOK APPEARANCES Virgins Outlander The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel Dragonfly in Amber A Fugitive Green Voyager Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade The Scottish Prisoner Drums of Autumn The Fiery Cross A Breath of Snow and Ashes An Echo in the Bone Written in My Own Heart's Blood Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone TV SHOW APPEARANCES ACTOR Sam Heughan SEASON(S) 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 MORE  Others like you also viewed Brianna MacKenzie Outlander Wiki Claire Fraser William Ransom Fergus Fraser Laoghaire MacKenzie Jenny Murray John Grey Geneva Dunsany Go Tell the Bees That... This page may contain MAJOR SPOILERS about Jamie Fraser from the latest book in the Outlander series, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Read at your own peril!  James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser is a Scottish soldier and landowner. He is well educated and has a knack for learning languages. Raised to be the future Laird of Lallybroch, he is a natural leader, from the homestead to the battlefield. He first meets Claire on his return home to Scotland from France. ADVERTISEMENT Personal History Jamie was born to Ellen and Brian Fraser in the Scottish Highlands, at their family home of Lallybroch. He was very close to his older brother, William, and was devastated when his brother died of smallpox when Jamie was only six or so. From then on, he was raised to be the future laird of Broch Tuarach, the more official name of the estate. The family suffered another blow when Ellen died in childbed, along with the baby, when Jamie was about eight years old. His older sister, Jenny, then aged ten, took on the running of the household after their mother's death, and their father Brian raised them both to adulthood. Around age fourteen, Jamie went to foster with his maternal uncle, Dougal MacKenzie, at Beannachd, his uncle's home.[13] Dougal, left-handed like Jamie, taught him to wield a sword with both hands. Jamie had been previously taught some left-handed swordsmanship by the factor at Lallybroch, John Murray, his best friend Ian's father.[14] At sixteen, Jamie lived for a year at Castle Leoch, seat of the Clan MacKenzie.[15] At eighteen, Jamie went to Paris to study at the Université and lived with his father's cousin, Jared Fraser.[16] After Jamie had returned home to Lallybroch, in October of 1740 he was arrested by the English for obstruction – that is, for defending his family and property when the English set upon his home – and then taken to Fort William for imprisonment.[17] He escaped, but the English pursued him and brought him back to the fort, where he was flogged with one hundred lashes for escaping. While still recovering, Captain Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall ordered that he be given another hundred lashes for theft. After his second flogging, friends came to help Jamie escape a second time, and in the process one of the guards was killed; thence Jamie had a price of ten pounds Sterling on his head for murder. Jamie as depicted by Hoang Nguyen for The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel By the time he had escaped, though, he had word that his father had died of an apoplexy, apparently caused by his distress after Jamie's second flogging, when it looked as though Jamie had died.[18] Jamie then fled to France to join his best friend, Ian Murray, as a mercenary in the French army, where he stayed for two years. Returning once more to Scotland in 1742, Jamie traveled the countryside with a gang of broken men – men without clans – for six months, raiding cattle and the like from the borderlands, when one day someone hit Jamie in the back of the head with an axe, and his uncle Dougal had him sent to recover (or die) from his injury at the Abbey of Ste. Anne de Beaupré in France, where Jamie's uncle Alexander Fraser was abbot.[19] In the spring of 1743, Jamie returned to Scotland with his godfather Murtagh, and once in the Highlands they were found by Dougal and his men, who were absconding with lifted cattle. Captain Randall and his dragoons pursued the Scots and engaged them in a confrontation, during which Jamie dislocated his shoulder. Soon after, Murtagh brought an Englishwoman named Claire Beauchamp to Dougal, having rescued her from being raped by Captain Randall. ADVERTISEMENT Outlander series Main: Outlander series "Virgins" Main: Virgins In 1740, Jamie Fraser and Ian Murray become young mercenaries in France. These events take place after Captain Jack Randall arrested Jamie and Brian Fraser died, and before Jamie returned to Scotland and met Claire. Outlander Main: Jamie Fraser/Outlander After returning to Scotland as a fugitive, Jamie meets Claire, an Englishwoman who is markedly peculiar, even for a sassenach. While residing at Castle Leoch and trying to avoid conflict with his uncles' machinations, he befriends Claire and, in order to save her from being arrested by Captain Randall, marries her. Jamie also takes steps to remove the price on his head, but is unsuccessful. After narrowly rescuing Claire from being burned as a witch, Jamie takes Claire to Lallybroch, his childhood home and farm. They are unable to stay long, as Jamie is soon captured by the Watch and taken to Wentworth Prison, where he once again falls prey to Captain Randall's sadistic attentions. Claire rescues Jamie, but not before he has suffered rape and torture by Randall. They, along with Murtagh, escape to France, where Jamie eventually starts to heal. Dragonfly in Amber Main: Dragonfly in Amber Jamie travels with Claire to Paris, where he oversees his uncle Jared Fraser's wine business while the latter is abroad. They entertain the Paris elite at Jared's house in Rue Tremoulins, and Jamie visits the palace at Versailles at the behest of the king himself. Jamie also undertakes to befriend the exiled Prince Charles, all while stealing His Highness' mail with the help of a pickpocketing Parisian orphan. While their goal is clear – to do everything in their power to prevent Charles Stuart from raising support for the Jacobite cause – navigating the political and social tides of the city proves daunting, and at times dangerous. Jamie encounters old acquaintances and old enemies, and faces new threats, all while he struggles to continue his recovery from the ordeal at Wentworth Prison. Things come to a head when Jamie chooses to enter a duel against Jack Randall, and the fallout of this event proves devastating to both Jamie and Claire. As they begin to heal, they leave France to return to Scotland, and they live at Lallybroch for a year before Charles Stuart pulls Jamie back into the Jacobite rebellion, which has begun in earnest in Scotland by summer of 1745. After a brief, somewhat amusing encounter with a young Englishman, Jamie fights in the Battle of Prestonpans, and earns a reputation as a fierce warrior by the name of Red Jamie. He and Claire struggle with what they know to be imminent – disaster in April 1746, and destruction thereafter throughout the Highlands – and ponder what influence they could possibly have on such a doomed outcome, even as they throw themselves into supporting the cause. After a few victories, the losses escalate on both sides, and Jamie's final encounter with his uncle Dougal forces him to see Claire safe back through the stones, back to her own time, so that she and the child she carries may survive. For himself, Jamie does not intend to survive the impending battle. Voyager Main: Jamie Fraser/Voyager, or Voyager Drums of Autumn Main: Jamie Fraser/Drums of Autumn The Fiery Cross Main: The Fiery Cross A Breath of Snow and Ashes Main: A Breath of Snow and Ashes An Echo in the Bone Main: Jamie Fraser/An Echo in the Bone Written in My Own Heart's Blood Main: Written in My Own Heart's Blood ADVERTISEMENT Lord John Series While Jamie is often in Lord John's thoughts all through the Lord John series, he only appears in person in two of the novels. Personality I am a chief. God has made me what I am. He has given me the duty—and I must do it, whatever the cost. In general, Jamie is charming and amiable, with a highly developed sense of humor and knack for inventive swearing. However, the Frasers are known for their stubbornness, and Jamie exemplifies the trait powerfully. He is also completely devoted to his family, especially his wife Claire, and will eliminate any threat to his loved ones, no matter the cost to himself. He has a strongly developed social intelligence, and a profound sense of a man's honor and duty. He won't turn away from any fight or responsibility that he perceives to be his. ADVERTISEMENT Physical Appearance Jamie is described as very tall at six feet, four inches, with thick, wavy red hair and slanted, cat-like blue eyes. While his height and broad shoulders cut a large figure, Jamie is built like a swimmer or basketball player; muscled and strong, but not excessively so – no extra flesh on his large frame. His hair is not the gingery sort of red, but rather a multitude of individual colors mixed together: auburn, amber, roan, cinnabar, rufous, copper, cinnamon, red and gold are all used to describe the strands of its unique hue, and it is often compared to a red deer's pelt. His eyes are described as dark blue, fringed with long lashes that are nearly black at the tips, but transition to auburn then pale blond at the roots. He gets his height and hair color from his mother's MacKenzie blood, as well as the high cheekbones and long, straight nose, but the slanted eyes, strong jaw and wide mouth are traits from his father, Brian Fraser. Over the years, Jamie's body has acquired many scars from various injuries. The most shocking of these, usually hidden by his shirt, is his heavily scarred back, from lashings inflicted by Jack Randall and, years later, as a punishment at Ardsmuir Prison. He also has a triangular scar on his collar bone, as well as a long scar on the fourth finger of his right hand, both of these also inflicted by Jack Randall. In Wentworth Prison, Randall also branded him, though Jamie later cuts the stigmatized flesh out of his chest, leaving a puckered scar.