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Hace 2 días · Henry II (5 March 1133 – 6 July 1189), also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, [why?] was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189. During his reign he controlled England, substantial parts of Wales and Ireland, and much of France (including Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine), an area that altogether was later called the Angevin Empire, and also held power over Scotland ...
- 19 December 1154 – 6 July 1189
- Empress Matilda
Hace 5 días · Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and feudal baron of Roslin (c. 1345 – c. 1400), was a Scottish nobleman who is best known today from a modern legend which claims that he took part in explorations of Greenland and North America almost 100 years before Christopher Columbus's voyages to the Americas.
1 de may. de 2024 · An interesting record connects the de Morvilles (builders of Dryburgh Abbey), the Vaux family, and the St Clairs of Herdmanston. About 1150, John de Vaux became the new lord of Dirleton and built a castle on Fidra Island, just off the coast of Dirleton in the Firth of Forth. In c. 1180, John’s son, William de Vaux granted Fidra to Dryburgh Abbey.
14 de abr. de 2024 · Henry I Sinclair was Earl of Orkney and Lord/Baron Roslin (Rosslyn). He held the title Earl of Orkney (which refers to Norðreyjar rather than just the islands of Orkney) and was Lord High Admiral of Scotland under the King of Scotland.
13 de abr. de 2024 · John Sinkler of Exeter, New Hampshire was, according to nineteenth-century genealogist L.A. Morrison, the second earliest well-documented Sinclair in the New World – not counting Henry Sinclair’s possible fourteenth-century feat. Like many Americans with a Sinclair lineage, he is my ancestor.
16 de abr. de 2024 · In 1398 Henry St. Clair, the 42nd Earl of Orkney and grandfather of the chapel's founder may have explored Newfoundland and Nova Scotia traveled as far south as Massachusetts and wintered in North America.
2 de may. de 2024 · Orkney Islands, group of more than 70 islands and islets—only about 20 of which are inhabited—in Scotland, lying about 20 miles (32 km) north of the Scottish mainland, across the strait known as the Pentland Firth. The Orkney Islands constitute a council area and belong to the historic county of Orkney.
