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	William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness (1455–1476), 3rd Earl of Orkney (until 1470), Baron of Roslin (1410–1484) was a Scottish nobleman and the builder of Rosslyn Chapel, in Midlothian.
		He was the grandson of the explorer Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney and son of Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney, for a time protector of the young James Stuart, the later James I of Scotland.
		King James III gained the Earldom of Orkney for the Scottish Crown in 1470 (see History of Orkney), and William Sinclair was thereafter Earl of Caithness alone until he resigned the Earldom in favour of his son William in 1476.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Sinclair,_1st_Earl_of_Caithness (361 words)

	Earl of Orkney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Earls were periodically subject to the kings of Norway for the Northern Isles, and later also to the kings of Alba for those parts of their territory in mainland Scotland (i.e.
		The Earl's status as a Norwegian vassal was formalised in 1195.
		Earl Henry ruled until his death in 1401, and was succeeded by a son named Henry, who was followed by his son Earl William, to whom the Earldom of Caithness was granted by the King of Scots in 1455.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Orkney (958 words)

	Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, and Lord of Shetland (c.
		Moreover, the identification of Zichmni as Henry Sinclair is very controversial, although it is often taken for granted among supporters of the theory.
		The most controversial theories speculate that Henry (Zichmni) traveled not only to Greenland but to present-day Nova Scotia, where he may have founded a settlement among the Micmac Indians, and perhaps as far south as present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Sinclair (403 words)

	Sinclair Earls of Orkney (1379-1471)
		Henry sailed with James I of Scotland, not to be confused with James I of England (VI of Scotland).
		Henry's son William (1404-1480) was also Admiral of Scotland and the last Sinclair Earl of Orkney.
		It is my belief that the Hansa arranged for the murder of Henry Sinclair; the murder of Richard II of England and the execution of Wichmann, the North Sea pirate who had been such a thorn in their flesh.
	sinclair.quarterman.org /sinclair/who/earls_of_orkney.html (1642 words)

	William St. Clair (1404-1482) Earl of Orkney, Earl of Caithness, Builder of Rosslyn Chapel
		He was the third and last Sinclair Earl of Orkney and he was the grandson of Prince Henry Sinclair, first Sinclair Earl of Orkney.
		In 1470 King James III of Scotland claimed the Earldom of Orkney for the Scottish crown, conveying it to his daughter Margaret, who at the age of eleven was being married to the Dauphin of France; the rents of Orkney were her dowry.
		In 1455 Earl William, while still the Norse Earl of Orkney, was granted the Earldom of Caithness by King James II of Scotland by letters patent.
	sinclair.quarterman.org /who/william1caithness.html (175 words)

	Sinclair History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		George Sinclair of Keiss, who later became the 7th Earl, was responsible for the destruction of the Castles in about 1690, by the use of cannon, forcing Campbell of Glenorchy, who was occupying them, to withdraw.
		His son and successor, Henri de St Clair (the first Sinclair to be born in Scotland) took part in, the 1st Crusade and was at the fall of Jerusalem in 1096.
		The ‘Jarldom’ of Orkney remained in Sinclair hands until the Northern Isles were handed over to James III of Scotland, as part of the dowry, of Princess Margaret of Denmark in 1471.
	www.btinternet.com /~murray.groat/Sinclair/SinclairHistory.htm (1429 words)

	Earls of Orkney
		Earls of Orkney, Paul was married to the daughter of Hakon Ivarsson, Erlend was married to Thora, daughter of Sumarlidi Ospakson
		Earl of Orkney and Caithness, son of Gilbride gained the Earldoms from Alexander II.
		Earl of Orkney, son of younger Henry, exchanged his rights to the Earldom of Orkney for the lands of Ravenscraig in 1471.
	www.fortunecity.com /bally/leitrim/147/orkney.html (714 words)

	Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the age of 13 in 1358, Henry Sinclair inherited from his father the titles of Baron of Roslin, Lord Chief Justice of Scotland and Admiral of the Seas.
		Orkney and Shetland, which had become increasingly disordered during the period without a Jarl, or Earl.
		Sinclair was determined to find out what lay behind these stories, and some time in the late 1390s led an expedition west, accompanied by the Zeno brothers.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /usbiography/biographies/henrysinclair.html (1088 words)

	History Of The Orkney Islands info here at en.29of100d.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1468 Orkney and Shetland were pledged by Christian I of Denmark and Norway for the defrayal of the dowry of their daughter Margaret, betrothed to James III of Scotland, and as the property was not invariably paid, their conjunction with the crown of Scotland has out-of-date perpetual.
		In 1471 James bestowed the castle and lands of Ravenscraig in Fife on William, earl of Orkney, in deal for total their rights to the earldom of Orkney, which, by move of parliament, canyoned on February 20, 1472, was annexed to the Scottish crown.
		The toponymy of Orkney is wholly Norse, and the Norse tongue which evolved into the regional Norn, at definitive extinguished by the standardized influx of settlers from Scotland, lingered the bound of the 18th century.
	en.29of100d.info /History_of_the_Orkney_Islands (1632 words)

	ORKNEY, EARL OF - Online Information article about ORKNEY, EARL OF
		Edinburgh, being recognized as earl by the king of Norway.
		In 1455 William was created earl of Caithness, and in 1470 he resigned his earldom of Orkney to James III.
		Petty, earl of Shelburne, and was succeeded in the title by her grandson, Thomas John Hamilton Fitzmaurice (1803–1877), whose descendants still hold the earldom.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /ORC_PAI/ORKNEY_EARL_OF.html (675 words)

	CSAC Sinclair Peers Baronets and Knights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By tradition, the oldest son of the Earl of Rosslyn uses the title of Lord Loughborough; this is why the present Earl of Rosslyn was known as Peter Loughborough.
		She is descended from the Sinclairs of Dunbeath, a daughter of the eighth Baronet, and is a life peer in her own right, active in the House of Lords.
		The 2nd Earl of Rosslyn, who inherited the Rosslyn estate in 1789, was descended from both the the 1st/10th Lord Sinclair and the 1st Earl of Caithness.
	www.clansinclaircanada.ca /docs/peers.htm (1090 words)

	Orkney
		The Orkney Islands are one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and form a traditional county and Lieutenancy area.
		The original Earl of Orkney was a Norse jarl controlling Orkney in the period 875-1231.
		Both of Orkney's burghs, Kirkwall and Stromness, lie on the island, which is also the heart of Orkney's ferry and air connections.
	www.frozenup.com /pages9/62/orkney.html (1076 words)

	Sinclair
		Henry Sinclair is reputed to have been born about 1345, and was proclaimed Lord of Rosslyn upon the death of his father in 1358.
		Henry Sinclair was slain circa 1400 - 1404.
		Sir William Sinclair was Sheriff of Edinburgh 1266, 1288-90; of Haddington 1264-90; Linlithgow 1264-90; Dumfries 1288; and Justiciar of Galwythie 1288-89.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/sinclair.html (2916 words)

	Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the 19th century, some historians have speculated that Zichmni was the Scottish nobleman Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney.
		From at latest the reign of King Henry VII (r.1485-1509), English fishermen were catching cod off of the coast of New England.
		King Henry was recorded as having threatened the captain of the fishermen with imprisonment if he would not reveal the location of this great cache of cod.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transatlantic_Diffusion (5846 words)

	MyClan.com : Clan Sinclair : Clan History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Sir Henry’s son, Sir William, was a favourite of King Robert, and he accompanied Sir James Douglas on his expedition to the Holy Land with the heart of the king.
		The earldom, or princedom, of Orkney was bought from the St Clares in 1470, and later annexed to the Crown.
		The right to the title in the estates was disputed by George Sinclair of Keiss, a descendant of a younger son of the fifth Earl.
	www.myclan.com /clans/Sinclair_127/default.php (817 words)

	Ebook More Info -Oxford valley mall - Free For You. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The original Earl of Orkney was a Norsemen jarl controlling Orkney in the period 875 - 1231.
		In 1379 Haakon VI of Norway granted the earldom to the Scottish Henry Sinclair.
		The next Orkney title was the dukedom of Orkney, which was given to James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, husband of Mary I of Scotland, in 1567.
	de_shane.west.de.lmoney.org (1742 words)

	De Quincy
		Maud de Saint Liz was the widow of Robert FitzRichard de Clare (died between 1134 and 1136) and the daughter of Simon de Saint Liz, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton (died in 1111) and Maud of Huntingdon, Countess of Huntingdon and Northumberland (born in 1072 and died in 1130/31).
		Isabella was the second daughter of Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Orkney and Caithness and was declared by her father to be the heiress of the earldom of Caithness.
		Henry Sinclair was one of the competitors for the Earldom of Orkney through his mother, the other competitors being his cousins Alexander del Ard and Malise Sperra, Lord of Skaldale.
	www.robertsewell.ca /dequincy.html (2931 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney
		Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney, Baron of Roslin, and Lord of Shetland (c.
		He is also noted for being the subject of speculation that he undertook early explorations of Greenland and North America in about the year 1398.
		According to these theories, he may have been responsible for the building of the Newport Tower.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Henry_Sinclair (528 words)

	Britain Travel - Die Geschichte des Clans Sinclair in Caithness
		His son Olaf and Earls Paul and Erlend, who were also in the battle receive peace from the conqueror and are free to return north.
		William Sinclair, Baron of Rosslyn and father of Prince Henry Sinclair dies in Lithuania crusading with the Teutonic Knights
		John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness dies in battle with 500 between Sinclairs of Caithness and Sinclairs of Orkney led by James Sinclair.
	www.scotland.de /wScot/schottlandshop/shop_lairds_Sinclairs.php (1543 words)

	Sinclair genealogy
		Married Jean Mackenzie, dau of Colin Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Seaforth.
		Married Jean, widow of Francis Sinclair of Dun and daughter of John Sinclair of Ulbster.
		Married Marjory Sinclair (1st dau of 2nd marriage of David Sinclair of Southdun.
	www.kittybrewster.com /ancestry/sinclair.htm (440 words)

	SINCLAIR HISTORY AND GENEALOGY: Bibliographic Materials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Karen Matheson's research on Peter Sinclair of Chatham, North Carolina, his father David Sinclair of Virginia, and their descendants who lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Illinois, Tennessee and Texas is available directly from the author.
		Descendants of Henry Sinclair, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and immigrated to Virginia in the 1700's.
		The author concentrates in particular on Henry Sinclair's (1st Earl of Orkney, possibly sailed to North America nearly 100 years before Columbus) journey in the 14th century to the Americas and the family's connections with the Templars and Masons (they were hereditary Grand Masons of Scotland).
	kingcrest.com /sinclair/bibliography.html-ssi (1696 words)

	sinclair01
		BP1934 (Sinclair) reports that "Two important families bearing the name of Sinclair (or St. Clair) co-existed in the 12th century, distinguished as of Rosslyn, in Midlothian, and of Herdmanstoun, in East Lothian.
		Isabella of Strathearn (dau of Malise, 8th Earl of Strathearn, Earl of Orkney and Caithness)
		BE1883 (Orkney) shows that Margaret was daughter of the William who married Isabella of Strathearn.
	www.stirnet.com /html/genie/british/ss4as/sinclair01.htm (500 words)

	thePeerage.com - Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney and others
		He was the son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and Margaret Lindsay.
		A contract for the marriage of James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Mary Stewart was signed on 12 September 1603.
		She married by contract, firstly, James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl and Margaret Lindsay, on 12 September 1603.
	www.thepeerage.com /p10925.htm (1451 words)

	Caithness CWS - History - History of Caithness - Appendix - Appendix 2 Superstiions In Caithness
		descent from George Sinclair of Mey, youngest son of the fourth Earl.
		The fist James Sinclair married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Orkney, and their son James, the baronet, married Jean, daughter of Stewart of Mains and Burray also in Orkney.
		Quarterly - 1st azure, a ship at anchor, her oars erected in saltyre within a double tressure counterfloured, or; 2nd and 3rd or, a lion rampant, gules; 4th azure, a ship under sail, or.
	www.caithness.org /history/historyofcaithness/appendix/app5.htm (506 words)

	1400 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Henry IV quells Epiphany Rising and executes the Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury and the Baron le Despencer for their attempt to have Richard II of England restored as King
		January 5 - Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, English politician (executed) (born 1374)
		January 13 - Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (executed)
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /1/4/0/1400.html (167 words)

	CSAC Winter 2000 Message from the Chief
		Bad weather has hampered his work but the full survey of Girnigoe and Sinclair Castles has now been done and compared with that done by McGibbon and Ross which was published in 1889.
		Sinclair Bay Trading Co. Ltd has been set up as the trading arm of the trust and I am working closely with Rory, Mary Selver in the USA and Margaret Stokes in Australia to source Sinclair related products at the cheapest price.
		I am still taking an active part in politics in Westminster having been lucky enough to be one of the ninety two hereditary peers that survived the reforms.
	www.clansinclaircanada.ca /articles/msg2000-win.htm (1101 words)

	1400 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Henry IV quells baron rebellion and executes The Earls of Kent, Huntingdon and Salisbury for their attempt to have Richard II of England restored as King
		January 16 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter and Earl of Huntingdon (executed) (born c.
		Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney (approximate date; born c.
	abcworld.net /1400.html (220 words)

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