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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.
The Earl of Caithness coming to the aid of his kinsmen was slain with many of his followers at the Battle of Summerdale on 18 May 1529. The Earl of Caithness had been the author of this rebellion but in the battle his insurgents were encountered by James Sinclair, the Governor of Orkney, who defeated Caithness, killing him and five-hundred of his men.
The Earldom of Caithness is a title in the Peerage of Scotland with a complex history. Its first grant was in 1334 to Maol Íosa V, Earl of Strathearn. The title was later forfeited for treason, and the earldom was intermittently held by Norse earls of Orkney. The final creation was made in 1455 for William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, who surrendered the Orkney title and lands to James III ...
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.
Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness was the eldest son of John Sinclair, 8th Earl of Caithness (d. 1705). He married Lady Margaret Primrose, daughter of the Earl of Rosebery. He died in 1765, leaving an only child, Lady Dorothea, who married James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife and who died in 1819 without issue. [2]
17 de feb. de 2024 · William Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, obtained from King James II a grant of the earldom of Caithness, to himself and his heirs, 28 August 1455, in compensation, as the charter bears, of a claim of right which he and his heirs had to the lordship of Nithsdale, and he was afterwards designed Earl of Orkney and Caithness.
