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Hace 6 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.
Hace 5 días · Summary: An international team has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Scottish Orkney islands to show that Orkney actually experienced large-scale immigration during the Early...
Hace 4 días · Portrait of James Sinclair-Erskine, later 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, his brother John and his sister Henrietta Maria, painted by Nathaniel (I) Hone. Erskine was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Erskine, 5th Baronet , and Janet, daughter of Peter Wedderburn (a Lord of Session under the judicial title of Lord Chesterhall) and sister of Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn .
Hace 5 días · The first chapter sets out Coss' argument that the gentry emerged around 1300. The second chapter, 'The Roots of the Gentry', discredits alternative hypotheses that the gentry originated earlier, before the Norman Conquest or alongside the legal reforms of Henry II.
Hace 2 días · Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent GCB, PC (9 January 1735 – 13 March 1823) was an admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the Seven Years' War , American War of Independence , French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars .
Hace 5 días · Sinclair led many attacks from Kent against airfields and V1 construction sites in the Pas de Calais. Sinclair was promoted to Wing Commander in May 1944 and joined the staff at HQ 84 Group.
Hace 4 días · St Magnus Church was named after the 12th century Magnus Erlendsson, Earl Of Orkney. Legend has it that he was murdered on Egilsay by Earl Haakon around 1116. The two earls arrived on the island to settle an argument, but Haakon tricked Magnus, and then murdered him on the spot where the church now stands.
