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Caithness. CAITHNESS, earl of, in the peerage of Scotland, a title possessed since 1455 by the “lordly line of high St. Clair,” or Sinclair. It is, however, of very great antiquity, and has been held by different families. It was one of the titles of the ancient Vikingrs or sea kings.
16 de sept. de 2023 · Captain Imbert-Terry Sells the Castle to the Queen Mother. The 15th Earl of Caithness was thirty, unmarried and childless when he died. He bequeathed the castle to renowned Victorian zoologist Frederick Granville Heathcote on the condition that he and his wife Agnes changed their surname to Sinclair, which they happily did.
1 de may. de 2024 · Biographical Summary. " James Augustus, sixteenth Earl, heir-male of Robert Sinclair, fifth son of Sir James Sinclair of Cannisbey and Mey, Baronet. He was born 31 May 1827. He was for many years a chartered accountant in Aberdeen; he died 20 January 1891 in Paddington, and was buried in Old Aberdeen. He married, 26 April 1855, Jessie, daughter ...
Next year (1321) Henry de St.Clair appears as Ballivus in Caithness, which is the first notice of the Roslins in those parts. In 1329 Katherine, Countess of Caithness and Orkney, executes deeds in viduilate, and the Caithness possessions of Earl Magnus are found inherited by the Earl of Stratherne and Simon Fraser, reputed ancestor of the Lovats.
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Earl of Orkney, historically Jarl of Orkney, is a title of nobility encompassing the archipelagoes of Orkney and Shetland, which comprise the Northern Isles of Scotland. Originally founded by Norse invaders, the status of the rulers of the Northern Isles as Norwegian vassals was formalised in 1195. Although the Old Norse term jarl is ...
Earl of Caithness is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland, and it has a very complex history. Its first grant, in the modern sense as to have been counted in strict lists of peerages, is now generally held to have taken place in favor of Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn, in 1334, although in the true circumstances of 14th century, this presumably was just a ...
