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	EARLDOM OF MAR - LoveToKnow Article on EARLDOM OF MAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mar, one of the ancient divisions or provinces of Scotland, comprised the larger portion of Aberdeen-shire, extending from north of the Don southward to the Mounth.
		On the earl's death in 1435 the earldom was claimed by Robert, Lord Erskine, as heir of Gratney, earl of Mar, through a daughter; but the Crown claimed as reversionary under the xeation of 1426.
		It was not suggested that the late earl had more than one earldom of Mar, but; Lord Kellie claimed it as descendible to heirs-male under a creation by Queen Mary, and Mr Goodeve as descendible to heirs of line under an earlier creation.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAR_EARLDOM_OF.htm (1049 words)

	Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter 1 - Earldom and Earls of Mar - Section VI
		Mar called for this charter to be reduced and annulled, and the right to the lands declared to belong to him.
		to William, Earl of Sutherland, and Margaret his wife, the "King’s sister." John, Earl of Mar, adduced evidence before the commissioners commencing with the charter of Isabel, Countess of Mar and Garioch, of 9th December, 1404, and concluded with an extract of the retours of 1589; he was placed seventh on the roll.
		Earl John died in 1654 and was succeeded by his son John, Twenty-second Earl of Mar and ninth Lord Erskine.
	www.electricscotland.com /webclans/earldoms/chapter1s6.htm (1364 words)

	JOHN ERSKINE, 2ND OR 7TH EARL OF MAR - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN ERSKINE, 2ND OR 7TH EARL OF MAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1601 the earl was sent as envoy to London; here Elizabeth assured him that James should be her successor, and his mission was conducted with tact and prudence.
		Haying joined the English privy council Mar was created Lord Cardross in 1610; he was a member of the Court of High Commission and was lord high treasurer of Scotland from 1615 to 1630.
		1671) succeeded to the barony of Cardross; and Charles, the ancestor of the earls of Rosslyn.
	92.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MAR_JOHN_ERSKINE_2ND_OR_7TH_EARL_OF.htm (400 words)

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		Mar with Buchan (the territory comprising that now covered by the counties of Aberdeen and Banif) formed one of the seven original Earldoms of Scotland, the holders of which were styled Mormaers in the 10th and 11th centuries, and later called Earls.
		The Earl of Mar was one of the Scottish nobles summoned to accompany Edward to Gascony, Sep. 1294.
		After the death of the Earl of Moray (July 1332) the Earl of Mar, in spite of his leanings to Edward Baliol and his almost lifelong absence in England, was chosen Regent to succeed Moray (2 Aug.), probably by reason of his close relationship to the young King.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/erskin/gene6.html (5871 words)

	Mar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For Mar as an abbreviated form of a name of a month of the year, see March.
		Mar, one of the ancient divisions or provinces of Scotland, comprised the larger portion of Aberdeenshire, extending from north of the Don southward to the Mounth.
		In the 12th century an earl (the Earl of Mar) took his place, but no definite succession of earls appears till the 13th century, nor is any connection established between them and the mormaers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mar (145 words)

	Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter 1 - Earldom and Earls of Mar - Section V
		The Earl immediately recovered possession of the lands still in the hands of the Crown, but many years elapsed ere the other lands of the Earldom of Mar could be recovered, and large portions of them were never recovered.
		John, Earl of Mar, was appointed guardian of the infant King, James VI.
		1571, the Earl of Mar was elected Regent of Scotland.
	www.electricscotland.com /WEBCLANS/earldoms/chapter1s5.htm (1454 words)

	Donald, 8th Earl of Mar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Donald, 8th Earl of Mar was born around 1302 in Saline, Fife, Scotland.
		His father was Gratney (or Gartnait), 7th Earl of Mar, and his mother was Christian Bruce, sister of Robert I of Scotland.
		In 1332 Donald became regent of Scotland for the young King David II, son of Robert I. Following the invasion of Edward Balliol, with the support of Edward III, Mar led the Scots loyalists to defeat at the Battle of Dupplin Moor on August 12, 1332 and died in battle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donald_Mormaer,_8th_Earl_of_Mar (164 words)

	Family of Barbara L. Sherman - pafg75 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Earl of Mar Donald [Parents] was born in 1243 in Kildrummy,, Scotland.
		Earl of Mar William [Parents] was born in 1222 in,, Scotland.
		Earl of Mar William was born in 1222 and died before 25 Jul 1281.
	www.web-glitter.com /ali/sherman/pafg75.htm (427 words)

	Mar, John Erskine, 2d (or 7th) earl of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1578 he was persuaded by James Douglas, 4th earl of Morton, to assert his claims to Stirling Castle and the guardianship of the young James VI (later James I of England).
		Mar emerged in control of the king's person, while Morton attempted to recover his authority.
		Mar was made a member of the privy council.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mar-J1ohn2.asp (380 words)

	AllRefer.com - Morton, James Douglas, 4th earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		He was chief counselor to the regent James Stuart, 1st earl of Murray, and became regent himself on the death of the 1st earl of Mar. His rule was devoted to the pacification of a religiously divided and wartorn Scotland.
		In 1578 he was forced out by a junta of nobles, led by the 6th earl of Argyll and John Stuart, 4th earl of Atholl, who persuaded the boy king, James VI (later James I of England), to assert his power.
		Morton regained control of the king, with the aid of John Erskine, 2d earl of Mar; but in 1581 a plot against him, engineered by EsmE Stuart, 1st duke of Lennox, and James Stuart, later earl of Arran, resulted in his being tried, convicted, and beheaded for taking part in the murder of Darnley.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mortn-JD.html (400 words)

	Declaration of the Earl of Mar, September 9, 1715
		John Erskine was born in 1675, the son of Charles Erskine, 22nd and 5th Earl of Mar. He succeeded his father in April 1689, but did not take his seat in the Scottish Parliament of the Prince of Orange until 1696.
		Mar escaped from London, and on August 26, 1715, held a great council of Scottish nobles and gentry, known as the "Hunting of Braemar".
		the Lord Huntley, the Lord Tullibardine, the Earl Mareschal, the Earl of Southesk, Glingary from the Clans, Glenderule from the Earl of Broadalbine, and gentlemen of Argyleshire, Mr.
	www.jacobite.ca /documents/17150909.htm (452 words)

	Perthshire Diary - Earl of Mar, James 8th and the 1715 rebellion - January 15th 1716
		The Earl of Mar, as leader of the rebellion, made his headquarters in Perth where he was received with a good deal of enthusiasm, (The enthusiasm was markedly less in 1745).
		The result was inconclusive, but in spite of lower Jacobite casualties and greatly superior forces, Mar decided to leave the field in the control of the Government's forces under the Duke of Argyll.
		When James reached Glamis, Mar sent on news of the King to Perth and a character sketch which no doubt encouraged the army and the people of Perth and which was faithfully reproduced by Robert Freebairn.
	www.perthshirediary.com /html/day0115.html (733 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mar, John Erskine, 1st (or 6th) earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The earl of Bothwell tried to gain control of the prince, but Mar evaded him and joined the revolt of the nobles.
		Although Mar was chosen regent after the earl of Lennox's death in 1571, James Douglas, the earl of Morton, held the real power.
		Mar's death forestalled a proposal by Elizabeth I of England that Mary, a prisoner in England, be turned over to the Scots for execution.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Mar-John1.html (301 words)

	Janet's Genealogy
		Duncan was the son of Morgund, 2nd Earl of Mar who was in turn the son of Ruadri or Rotheri, 1st Earl of Mar. Duncan de Mar. Duncan, 4th Earl of Mar; died before 7 Feb 1244, buried at Aberdeen Cathedral, Scotland.
		Eldest son of the 2nd marriage Gratney of Mar was joint keeper of the shire of Aberdeen in 1297.
		After the death of the Earl of Moray, in spite of his leanings to Edward Baliol and his almost lifelong absence in England, he was chosen Regent to succeed Moray, probably by reason of his close relationship to the young King.
	www.geocities.com /janet_ariciu/Mar.html (3494 words)

	The Twickenham Museum : John Erskine, Earl of Mar
		John Erskine also known as "Bobbing John" became the 11th Earl of Mar on the death of his father in 1689.
		Mar was an enthusiastic amateur architect: he produced drawings of the grounds of Secretary Johnston's house and of Ham House, in 1711.
		Mar enjoyed a strong relationship with James Gibbs who, by his will, bequeathed £1000, three houses in Marylebone and all his plate to Mar's son, "in gratitude for favours received from his father the late Earl of Mar".
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=133 (373 words)

	MyClan.com : Clan Mar : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Earl of Mar was among the fallen.
		She died without issue around 1407, and her kinsman, Robert, a descendent of Elyne, daughter of the seventh Earl, became de jure’ thirteenth Earl of Mar. His son, Thomas, was denied his lawful title when James II claimed the earldom through the alleged rights of Alexander Stewart, Countess Isabel’s husband.
		The earls were not supporters of Charles I’s religious policies, but when it became clear that support of the Covenant meant armed opposition to the king, both the earl and his eldest son, John, Lord Erskine, took up arms in the royalist cause.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Mar_100/default.php (976 words)

	ERROLL - LoveToKnow Article on ERROLL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Scottish nobleman, was the son of Andrew, 8th earl, and of Lady Jean Hay, daughter of William, 6th earl.
		He married (1) Anne, daughter of John, 4th earl of Atholl; (2) Margaret, daughter of the regent Murray; and (3) Elizabeth, daughter of William, 6th earl of Morton.
		The dispute which began in his lifetime concerning the hereditary office of lord high constable between the families of Erroll and of the Earl Marischal was settled finally in favor of the former; thus establishing the precedence enjoyed by the earls bf Erroll next after the royal fathily over all other subjects in Scotland.
	20.1911encyclopedia.org /E/ER/ERROLL.htm (549 words)

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		Passed on to generations is the story that William Erskine (pronounced air-skins) was the son of 'Bobbing' John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar. Jean Leeper has done extensive research on the Marrs history.
		Genealogical History of Washington D.C. #3007 (p14, "Marrs" by Mabel Marrs) "William Erskine Marr of Scotland (youngest son of one of the Earls of Mar) came to the Colonies, sailing from the Port of Bristol, England to escape punishment.
		In 1715, when the Earl of Mar declared war on England and lost, his sons were also banished from the political situation of the times.
	www.marrs-family.com /marrs.html (949 words)

	Battle of Sherrifmuir 1715 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the 6 September 1715, the 6th Earl of Mar, John Erskine, declared himself for James Francis Edward Stewart, the Old Pretender, and left Braemar carrying the Stewart standard to head south to the Jacobites in England.
		Two thousand of Mar’s army had been sent with William MacKintosh of Borlum to Edinburgh so that when Argyll was confronted at Sheriffmuir on the Ochils slopes near Dunblane in Perthshire, the numbers were ten thousand to four thousand.
		The Earl of Mar, known also as ‘Bobbing John’, lost interest in the disintegrating Rising, fled to France, and betrayed many of his Jacobite colleagues by revealing their identities.
	www.scotclans.com /clans/1715s.htm (336 words)

	Mar, John Erskine, 1st Earl of -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Scottish lord who played a major role in deposing Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (reigned 1542–67), and gaining the crown for her infant son James VI (later James I of England); Mar was regent for James in 1571–72.
		The modern name Mars is that of the Roman god of war; the planet's two moons, Phobos (Fear) and Deimos (Terror), are named after the...
		Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9050714?tocId=9050714 (859 words)

	Family of Barbara L. Sherman - pafg66 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Earl of Mar Donald [Parents] was born about 1302 in Saline,, Scotland.
		Christina Bruce married (Gartnet) Earl of Mar Gratney in 1292 in Kildrummy,, Scotland.
		Earl of Mar Donald was born about 1302 and died on 12 Aug 1332.
	www.web-glitter.com /ali/sherman/pafg66.htm (431 words)

	The Lordship of Garioch
		After the division Mar consisted principally of the lands watered by the two great rivers the Don and the Dee, and was for the greater part mountainous, whereas Buchan’s rich earth, supported by lesser rivers, was known as “the north-east lowlands”.
		A fairly substantial portion of Mar, the Garioch, about 200 square miles in the east of the territory, became identified separately, probably in the reign of Malcolm Canmore (mid-11th century), and was appropriated as an appanage of the Royal House.
		It was those rights, as they had come to be accepted, that the sister of the absent Earl of Fife placed the crown on the head of King Robert Bruce (for which pious act she later suffered seven years in an iron-barred cage exposed to Berwick’s cruel winds).
	www.baronage.co.uk /2004b/Garioch.html (681 words)

	The Erskine Clan
		JOHN FRANCIS MILLER (ERSKINE), EARL OF MAR, EARL OF KELLIE, VISCOUNT FENTOUN, cousin and h.
		In consequence of this decision the EARL OF KELLIE became EARL OF MAR with the precedence of 1565, i.e.
		WALTER JOHN FRANCIS (ERSKINE), EARL OF MAR [1565], EARL OF KELLIE [1619], VISCOUNT FENTOUN [1606 and 1619], LORD ERSKINE OF DIRLETOWNE [1604], and LORD DIRLETOUN [1619], in the peerage of Scotland, premier Viscount of Scotland, s.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/erskin/gene5.html (1436 words)

	Mar, John Erskine, 1st (or 6th) earl of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mar, John Erskine, 1st (or 6th) earl of on Encyclopedia.com
		In the struggle between the regent Mary of Guise and the Protestant nobles, Erskine intervened to a limited degree on both sides, and on the approach of the English (1559) he received the regent into Edinburgh Castle.
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mar-J1ohn1.asp (340 words)

	John Erskine, earl of Mar (1675-1732) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although he had some initial success, he failed to capture any significant town, and the indecisive battle of Sheriff Muir (13 November 1715) was his last significant military venture.
		James Edward himself reached Mar in late december 1715, by which point the revolt was already a failure, and within a month both men had abandoned the army.
		Mar fled to France with James Edward, but lost favour after 1723.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/people_mar.html (142 words)

	Mar, John Erskine, 6th (or 11th) earl of on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mar, John Erskine, 6th (or 11th) earl of on Encyclopedia.com
		He succeeded his father as earl in 1689 and in the following years was generally a member of the court party.
		He was attainted of treason in England, but his active dissatisfaction with the Jacobite court and his suspected treachery caused the Pretender also to break with him in 1724.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/Mar-J1ohn6.asp (322 words)

	The Jacobite Revolution Pt. 3 - The '15 and the '45 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many people were very dissatisfied with this arrangement, including the Earl of Mar, who was rebuffed when he went to meet with the new monarch.
		In response to this snub, the Earl responded by again raising the colours of the exiled Stuart kings.
		This rebellion of the Jacobite cause led by the Earl of Mar began in 1715.
	www.tartans.com /articles/jacobite3.html (875 words)

	TWELFTH GENERATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mary STEWART Lady Erskine was born in Scotland - dtr of Esme' Stewart Duke of Lennox.
		She was married to John II Earl of Mar ERSKINE (son of John ERSKINE Earl of Mar) about 1585 in Scotland (2nd wife).
		John II Earl of Mar ERSKINE was born about 1558 in Scotland - son of John Earl of Mar. He was christened in 1610 in Scotland - cr.
	home.att.net /~hamiltonclan/hamilton/gilbert/d8067.htm (76 words)

	Articles - John Erskine, 17th Earl of Mar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Erskine, 1st Earl of Mar (died 29 OCtober 1572), regent of Scotland, was a son of John, 5th Lord Erskine (d.
		When Mary Stuart returned to Scotland in 1561 Lord Erskine was a member of her council, he favored her marriage with Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and his wife, Annabella Murray, called by Knox a "verray Jesabell", was a frequent companion of the queen.
		In September 1571 he was chosen regent of Scotland, but he was overshadowed and perhaps slighted by the James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, and he died at Stirling on the 29 October 1572.
	www.gaple.com /articles/John_Erskine,_1st_Earl_of_Mar (378 words)

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