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  Historic Earls and Earldoms of Scotland - Chapter IV - Earldom and Earls of Erroll - Section VII
Earl Charles was elected Chancellor of University and King’s College, Aberdeen, on the 12th of February, 1705.
On the 24th of April, 1705, he was served heir to his father, as Earl of Erroll, Lord Hay and Slains, and High Constable of Scotland, and also served heir to the lands of the barony of Slains, along with the patronage of the churches of the parishes of Cruden and Turriff.
Further, in the lands and barony of Mountblairy, with the tithes, rectorial and vicarage, lying in the parishes of Alva and Forglen, and the county of Banff.
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  Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (3 April 1893-14 December 1945) was the younger daughter of Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife and Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.
The Countess of Southesk and her elder sister, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, had the distinction of being the only female-line granddaughters of a British Sovereign to receive the title of Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and the style Highness, although she ceased to use that title and style after her marriage.
Her husband, the 11th Earl of Southesk, was educated at Eton College and received a commission in the Scots Guard.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earl of Southesk
Earl of Southesk is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.
The Earl of Southesk also holds the Scottish feudal title of Baron of Kinnaird and is a Baronet in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia.
The first Earl of Southesk’s great-great-grandson, the fifth Earl, was involved in the Jacobite rising of 1715.
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 Montrose James Graham 5th Earl and 1st Marquess Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
However, he came to fear a Presbyterian oligarchy controlled by Archibald Campbell, 8th earl of Argyll, and was imprisoned (1640–41) by Argyll.
James Graham, the...the fourth earl and Margaret...1616, and Earl of Southesk...his father; James, the second...life which Montrose was fated...given by Graham of Morphie...
He succeeded (1625...as marquess of Hamilton and earl of Cambridge and was appointed...as the Incident, devised by James Graham, 5th earl of Montrose, to seize and probably murder...
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 Continuation of the Earl of Wemyss Line
The Earl of Southesk was to be appointed by the King, until it was learned that he was not trusted by the county.
The earl brought his wife to Wemyss Castle on the 2nd of May. Their married life, however, was not a long one, nor, if Lamont is to be believed, was it at all profitable to the Wemyss family.
The frindes of the Earle of Weyms say, that att her death, he was a hunder thousand mark worse than when he maried her (and all the tyme of ther mariage was onlie two years).
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 Clan Carnegie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
In 1633 David, 8th of Kinnaird, became Earl of Southesk, and his brother John was also given an Earldom, that of Northesk (the North and South Esk rivers bisect the county of Angus, both flowing into the North Sea at Montrose).
The 5th Earl of Southesk's title was forfieted after the '45 rising, not to be restored until the 19th century.
The Duke's heir is the Earl of MacDuff.
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 James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife
As the son of the Earl of Southesk, he held the courtesy title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird from birth.
He succeeded his father as 12th Earl of Southesk and 9th Baronet, as well as chief of the Clan Carnegie on 16 February 1992.
David Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southsesk (born 3 March 1961), styled Earl of MacDuff (by courtsey) from birth until his paternal grandfather's death 16 February 1992, thereafter styled Earl of Southesk; m.
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 Celtic Studio-Clan Carnegie
James, second Earl of Southesk, attended on the king in exile, Charles II, in Holland in 1650 and was one of the Commissioners chosen for Scotland to sit in the Parliament of England during the Protectorate.
The younger son of the third Earl was not so fortunate in his dueling career and was killed in Paris in 1681 by William, son of the Duchess of Lauderdale.
The earl him-self died in France in 1730, and the representation of the family then devolved on Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, who was descended from a younger son of the first Earl of Southesk.
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 Early adventurer put Edmonton on the map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
For this is the very map that James Carnegie, the ninth Earl of Southesk, carried with him on his trip through what is now Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, in 1859-60.
Southesk, then 32, was a wealthy Scottish earl, a former soldier, an avid horseman and an enthusiastic amateur poet and linguist.
Southesk was given this map by Sir George Simpson, the governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
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 Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk - Definition, explanation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (3 April 1893-14 December 1945) was the younger daughter of Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife and Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife.
The Countess of Southesk and her elder sister, Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife, had the distinction of being the only female-line granddaughters of a British Sovereign to receive the title of Princess of Great Britain and Ireland and the style Highness, although she ceased to use that title and style after her marriage.
Her husband, the 11th Earl of Southesk, was educated at Eton College and received a commission in the Scots Guard.
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 Clan Carnegie
The Carnegies of Southesk, the first family, were previously designated by the Gaelic township name of Balinhard, also in Angus, and are descended from John de Balinhard whose forebears held these lands.
The Royalist 2nd Earl was imprisoned by Cromwell, and such abiding loyalty to the Stewarts led to the forfeiture of their estates following the 5th Earl's proclamation of the 'Old Pretender' at Montrose in 1715, and his participation in that Rising.
This Earl being devoid of issue, the family representation passed to the 3rd Carnegie Baronet of Pitarro who repurchased the estates and to whose descendant the Earldom was restored in 1855 as 9th Earl.
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 Kinnaird   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The building was burned to the ground by the Earl of Crawford in revenge for Carnegie having taken sides against him with the Earl of Huntly at the Battle of Brechin.
Lord Carnegie was created a peer by the title of Earl of Southesk by King Charles I in 1633 and was succeeded by his son James in 1658.
Charles' son James the Fifth Earl in 1699 took up arms along with the Earl of Mar at Aboyne near Braemar, in support of the restoration of the Jacobite James VIII (father of Bonnie Prince Charlie) proclaiming him King at Montrose.
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 Earls of Galloway
Son of the third earl, he was born in January of 1660 and died, unmarried in 1694.
She died on December of 1757 and was the daughter of Alexander Seton Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton.
Alexander, the Fifth Earl of Galloway’s third son became the Sixth Earl of Galloway, because his two older brothers, James and George, did not survive their father.
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 BRECHIN - LoveToKnow Article on BRECHIN
David I. erected it into a bishopric in 1150, and it is still a see of the Episcopal Church of Scotland.
In 1452 the earl of Huntly crushed the insurrection led by the earl of Crawford at the battle of Brechin Muir, and in 1645 the town and castle were harried by the marquis of Montrose.
Between Farnell and Brechin lies Kinnaird Castle, the seat of the earl of Southesk.
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 Catriona Fraser: Photograph of Kinnaird Castle, Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Home to Lord Southesk, Kinnaird Castle (the word "Kinnaird" comes from the Gaelic "Ceann-airde", meaning "the head of the hill-rise") was burned to the ground in the year 1100 by the Duke of Montrose (His request for the hand of the Lady of the castle was denied).
In 1617 King James VI visited the Earl as later did Charles I and Charles II (The second Earl, James, was imprisoned by Cromwell for his Royalist beliefs.
It was a costly visit, and as a result of this, and of the Earl's adherence to the Stuart cause during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, his title and estate were forfeited; they were, however, returned in 1764.
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 MyClan.com : Clan Carnegie : Clan History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The younger son of the third Earl was not so fortunate in his duelling career and was killed in Paris in 1681 by William, son of the Duchess of Lauderdale.
The earl himself died in France in 1730, and the representation of the family then devolved on Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, who was descended from a younger son of the first Earl of Southesk.
No such alliance was more splendid than that of the eleventh Earl who, as Lord Carnegie, married Her Highness Princess Maude, younger daughter of the Princess Royal and granddaughter of Edward VII.
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 Worldroots.com
On 30 August 1638 he was served heir to his father and grandfather and obtained a pension in 1639.
On 7 January 1658 at Kinnaird, he married Lady Katherine Carnegie, daughter of the Earl of Southesk.
Having resigned his dignities to the Crown, he received a new grant thereof, on 13 November 1666, to him and the heirs male or female of his body, which failing, to the heirs he should appoint, remainder to the heirs male and of tailzee and provision in the former
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 ScotClans - Clan Carnegie - Clan History
The second Earl James was imprisoned by Cromwell for his Royalist beliefs.
Descending from a younger son of the 1st Earl of Southesk was Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, the distinguished soldier.
During the Rising of 1715, Lord Southesk and Glengarry worked closely in the Jacobite Army.
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 Lord Southesk in Hudson's Bay Country: a book by R. J. Bens
James Carnegie, the 9th Earl of Southesk, traveled across the Canadian prairies in the summer of 1859.
There were large unmapped areas on the prairies and in the Rockies, beckoning fearless adventurers like the Earl of Southesk.
Lord Southesk was a highly educated gentleman, fearless mountain man, skilled horseman and avid hunter.
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 Coindetector - 1850 sightseer preserves priceless Prairie history
The Southesk Collection -- a remarkable group of Aboriginal and Metis artifacts, gathered here in 1859 and 1860 by James Carnegie, the Earl of Southesk -- is home at last.
Southesk was a sportsman, a former soldier who had been educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and who had served with the Gordon Highlanders and the Grenadier Guards.
What's most striking about Southesk's hoard is that it is a collection of authentic artifacts of Edmonton, Alberta and the West, the artistic expression of our shared history, and the diverse cultural matrix on which our West was built.
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 Earls of Galloway
Alan Stewart, the tenth Earl of Galloway, was born in 1835, the oldest son of the 9th Earl of Galloway and his wife, Harriet Blanche Somerset.
Cumloden House to the north was built in 1875 for Sir William Stewart and became a summer retreat for the Earls of Galloway and to the east in the grounds of Kirroughtree House Hotel (1719) stand an ice house and an octagonal dovecote.
Lady Jane STEWART, a daughter of the Eighth Earl of Galloway, and niece of the Fifth Duchess of Marlborough, Susan Stewart.
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 Passes of the Canadian Rockies
James Carnegie (Earl of Southesk), travelled over this pass in 1859 on his way from the Athabasca River valley to the Bow valley.
James Carnegie (The Ninth Earl of Southesk) travelled to Canada in 1859, thinking that it would improve his deteriorating health.
During his 1859 trip, The Earl of Southesk and his friends climbed Southesk Cairn, a low mountain immediately southwest of the pass and built a giant cairn on top that can still be seen today.
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Captured at Preston, Lancashire in 1715; tried in Jan 1716 at London, and sentenced to death with Earl of Derwentwater and Viscount of Kenmure on Feb 24th; was smuggled from the tower in women's clothes on the 23rd.
Was married to Margaret, daughter of John Hay, 12th Earl of Errol, but left no male heir.
Escaped to France, where he died in 1729, but his wife, Lady Margaret, daughter of James Stuart, 5th Earl of Galloway, was supported by the crown.
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 Bambooweb: Earl of Southesk
The 1st Duke of Fife was the husband of Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
Since Princess Alexandra's only son, Alastair Arthur Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught, had predeceased her, the dukedom passed to her nephew, Lord Carnegie, the son of Charles Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, and his wife, Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk.
The subsidiary titles held by the present Duke are: Earl of Macduff (created 1900), Earl of Southesk (1633), Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird (1616) and Baron Balinhard (1869).
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 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.
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.
The King, intending that his forces shall be paid from the time of their setting out, he expects, as he positively orders, that they behave themselves civilly, and commit no plundering nor other disorders upon the highest penalties and his displeasure, which is expected you'll see observed.
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 CARNEGIE, EARL OF SOUTHESK
In 1452 he took arms with the King's troops under the Earl of Huntly against the Earl of Crawford (Earl Beardie), and after the battle of Brechin on 18 May of that year Crawford burned Kinnaird, and the family records preserved there were destroyed.
In 1550 the Earl of Arran sent Robert Carnegie as Ambassador-Extraordinary to the French Court to thank the King, Henri II., for rendering assistance to Scotland in the war against the English.
After the assassination of the Earl of Moray, the Queen's friends thought that there was an opportunity for a rising in her favour, and a raid was organised for 1 October 1571, in which Sir John does not seem to have taken part.
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 Kinnaird Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It was in the days of the first Earl of Southesk that this "reddendo" was called into operation.
In the winter of 1715 the Old Pretender spent some time at the castle; but, alas, as a result of this, and of the Earl's adherence to the Stuart cause during the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion, his title and estate were forfeited.
Descending from a younger son of the 1st Earl of Southesk was Sir James Carnegie of Pittarrow, a distinguished soldier.
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 Forret.org: A Forret Family History (Scottish Lineage): Logie Parish (Page 2)
The lands of Cruivie were in the possession of David Ramsay of Colluthie and his wife, Margaret Lundy, in 1539, and at that time they conferred "one half of the lands of Cruvy, with the tower, fortalice, and right of fishing in the water of Motray," upon their son, Henry Ramsay.
The latter was married to Margaret Kirkcaldy, and was slain at Pinkiecleugh, leaving one daughter, Elizabeth Ramsay, who was first wife of Magister David Carnegie of Panbride, ancestor of the Earls of Southesk and Northesk.
The Fifeshire estates are included in detail in all the retours of the Earls of Southesk, until they were forfeited through the connection of James, fifth Earl, with the rebellion of 1715, when they were included in the extensive purchases made by the York Buildings Company.
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 Track 7: The Earl of Errol
In January 1658 Sir Gilbert Hay, 10th Earl of Errol, was married to Lady Caroline Carnegie, younger daughter of the Earl of Southesk.
Carnegie attempted to withhold the tocher or dowry charging that the Earl could not consummate the marriage, and matters went to a bitter public hearing in February, 1659.
There were no children of the marriage and the Earl died in 1674.
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