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Margaret, Countess of Mar, 10th holder of the Earldom and 2nd Lady Garioch, married 1stly the Earl of Douglas, and 2ndly Sir John Swinton of Swinton. Margaret died before December 1393 and was succeeded by her daughter Isabel by her marriage to the Earl of Douglas. Isabel, Countess of Mar, 11th holder of the Earldom, married 1stly Sir Malcolm ...
Prior to this the title of Earl of Mar was held by Mary's half-brother James Stewart. John Erskine is regarded as both the 18th earl (in the 1st creation) and the 1st earl (in the 7th). Some sources deem him the 17th Earl, still others as the 6th Earl. Mar was made Sheriff of Stirlingshire and Keeper of Stirling Castle and the parks of Raploch ...
When John Stewart Earl of Mar was born in 1456, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James II Stewart King of Scotland, was 26 and his mother, Maria van Gueldres, was 25. He died on 18 July 1479, in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, at the age of 23, and was buried in Craigmiller Castle, Midlothian, Scotland.
25 de mar. de 2024 · Erskine inherited the earldom of Mar in 1572 upon the death of his father, John, 1st (and 18th) Earl of Mar, who had become regent for the five-year-old James VI in 1571. Mar grew up with James at Stirling Castle, and in 1578 he made himself James’s guardian. When his influence over the young king was challenged by Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of ...
John Erskine was born in 1558, though the precise date is unknown. Together with King James VI of Scotland he was educated by George Buchanan. He succeeded to the earldom of Mar on the death of his father in 1572. After attaining his majority he was nominally the guardian of the young king, who was about seven years his junior, and who lived ...
This paper briefly introduces the political background to Lord Mar's belief that economic and industrial developments were the preconditions for the restoration of Scotland's political autonomy following the Act of Union of 1707. It defines the term Scottish Historical Landscape, and describes and places Mar's design for his estate at Alloa in Clackmannanshire in the stylistic context of ...
John Erskine, the 23rd and 6th Earl of Mar and 1st Duke of Mar, KT (1675 – May 1732), was a prominent Scottish nobleman and a key figure in the Jacobite movement. He held the title of the 23rd Earl of Mar from the earldom's first creation and was the sixth earl in its seventh creation (of 1565). [1] Erskine, often remembered for his political ...
