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  Earls of March - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
March's daughter Anne married Richard earl of Cambridge, son of Edmund duke of York, fifth son of Edward III.; their son Richard, duke of York, was father of King Edward IV., who thus derived his title to the crown and acquired the estates of the house of Mortimer.
Patrick Dunbar, 8th earl of Dunbar and 1st earl of March, claimed the crown of Scotland in 1291 as descendant of Ada, daughter of William the Lion.
George Dunbar, 1 1th earl of Dunbar and 4th earl of March, was one of the negotiators for the release of James I.
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 Earls of March
Earls of March, Marcher Lords, title derived from the "marches" or boundaries (1) between England and Wales, and (2) England and Scotland, and held severally by great feudal families possessed of lands in those border districts.
The Scottish earls of March were descended from Crinan, whose son Maldred married Algitha, daughter of Ughtred, earl of Northumberland, by Elgiva, daughter of the Saxon king Ethelred the Unready.
GEORGE DUNBAR, 11th earl of Dunbar and 4th earl of March, was one of the negotiators for the release.of James I. of Scotland in 1423 from his captivity in England, and was knighted at that king’s coronation.
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 Earl of Moray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, when her husband, James, was killed in battle against the Sovereign in 1455, his title was attained.
Furthermore, Lord Moray holds the title Baron Stuart, of Castle Stuart in the County of Inverness; since it is in the Peerage of Great Britain, it entitled the Earls of Moray to sit in the House of Lords until the passage of the Peerage Act 1963.
Perhaps the most well-known Earl of Moray was James Stewart, 2nd Earl of Moray, the husband of Elizabeth Stewart, 2nd Countess of Moray, who held the Earldom jure uxoris (by right of his wife), as he was the subject of a famous ballad, "The Bonny Earl of Murray" ("Murray" being a variant spelling of "Moray").
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 James Stuart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Francis Edward Stuart (1688-1766), "the Old Pretender", claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland
James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn (1897-1971), Conservative Party politician and Secretary of State for Scotland
James Stuart (1713-1788) English architect, archaeologist, and painter.
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 Stirling Castle & Mary, Queen of Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
James II lured the 8th Earl of Douglas to it in 1452, murdered him, and had his body tossed out of one of the windows, despite promising safe conduct.
James V built most of the royal palace in the early 16th century, and turned the castle into one of the most sumptuous in Scotland.
The Earl of Arran bore the crown, the Earl of Lennox the sceptre, and the Earl of Argyll the sword of state.
www.marie-stuart.co.uk /Castles/Stirling.htm   (930 words)

  
 Campbell
From this period the great power formerly enjoyed by the Earls of Ross, Lords of the Isles, was transferred to the Earls of Argyll and Huntly; the former having the chief rule in the south isles and adjacent coasts.
There was a suspicion at the privy council, probably shared in by James V himself, that many of the disturbances in the Isles were secretly formented by the Argyll family, who in due course received the lands forfeited by the other chiefs.
In 1599, when measures were in progress for bringing the chiefs of the Isles under subjection to the king, the Earl of Argyll and his kinsman, John Campbell of Calder, were accused of having secretly used their influences to prevent Sir James Macdonald of Dunyveg and his clan from being reconciled to the government.
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 Our Ancient Ancestors
The Earl being absent and unheard, the pretext being a claim of some legal impediment at the time of her marriage, said to be a prior contract to Lord Hamilton.
James I, was slain by the descendants of King Robert's second wife, whom he had dispossessed of the Royal Earldom of Strathern.
While Earl James fled into exile in England (from which he returned to die a monk at Lindores), the King procured a divorce for his fair young wife, and married her to his own half brother, John, son of Queen Joan and the Black Knight of Lorn.
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 ooBdoo
William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton and Sir Alexander Livingston (1439-1445), during the minority of James II William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas (1445-1449), during the minority of James II Mary of Gueldres (1460-1463), during the minority of her son, James III
James Stuart, 1st Earl of Moray (1567-1570), during the minority of his nephew James VI
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (1570-1571), during the minority of his grandson James VI John Erskine, 1st Earl of Mar (1571-1572), during the minority of James VI James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton (1572-1581), during the minority of James VI Spain
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 History
James II survived the civil strife of the first half of his reign and eventually emerged as a masterful ruler who consolidated his power throughout the kingdom.
James III was captured and killed after his defeat at the Battle of Sauchieburn, Stirling, on June 11.
James was 17 months old when he succeeded to the throne of his father, James IV (ruled 1488-1513).
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 The Story of Mary, Queen of Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Mary Stuart was born at Linlithgow Palace on 7th December 1542, the daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise.
Mary Stuart's claim to the English throne was based on the fact that she was the grand-daughter of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII--Elizabeth's father.
By the end of 1566 Mary had befriended James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, and was seeking a way to dissolve her marriage with Darnley.
www.marie-stuart.co.uk /story.htm   (920 words)

  
 Chapter 28. Notable Families Having Multiple Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Sir James [Ancestor of the Stewarts of Lorn] e.
Sir James, of Durrisdeer, was the father of, a.
James [1st Earl of Moray; Regent of Scotland], b.
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 Mary, Queen of Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Her father, James V passed away 6 days after her birth, stating "it come wi' a lass, it gang wi' a lass" meaning the Stuart Dynasty was started with Margory Bruce and would end with his daughter, Mary.
Mary remained a prisoner, and the lords who had themselves usurped power, and had been concerned in the crimes in which she was accused of participating, declared that she should be dethroned on account of her misgovernment, and compelled her to resign the crown to her infant son.
Her friends, including the Hamiltons, the Earl of Huntly, Lord Herries, and some of the noblest families in Scotland, were unable to help her, thou-h they insisted that she should be restored to the throne under equitable conditions.
www.royalstuarts.org /mary_1.htm   (2475 words)

  
 MURRAY (or MORAY), EAR... - Online Information article about MURRAY (or MORAY), EAR...
MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c.
January 157o; after this event a third James Stuart, who had married the regent's daughter Elizabeth (d.
The earldom of Moray has remained in the Stuart family since this date.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MOS_NAN/MURRAY_or_MORAY_EARLS_OF.html   (628 words)

  
 United Kindom Substates
Her mother was Margaret of Huntingdon, the daughter of David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, grand-son of the Scottish king David I.
She was married to James IV of Scotland; daughter of Henry VII of England and sister of Henry VIII.
Her father, Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Buckingham was murdered in 1397 and his brother, Humphrey de Bohun, Duke of Glouceste, died in 1399, and she inherited the lands and titles of the family and became a Countess in her owh right.
www.guide2womenleaders.com /united_kingdom_substates.htm   (3083 words)

  
 Tom's Place - Caldwells of the World
Bear in mind that David was now Earl of Northumbria, an area that the Scot's Kings traditionally thought was "theirs" and the area of Cumbria south of the present border was part of the See of Glasgow and still regarded as part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde that was now attached to the Scottish throne.
Earl Duncan was a native Scot and not a Norman so there might be something in the fact that Thomas Colville might have been called "le Scot" to distinguish him from his conntemporary Philip de Colville who may well have been of Norman ancestry.
The Earl and Countess were taken back to Normandy 8.Aug., but the treaty of oeace between the King and his sons, 30.10.1174, stipulated for their release.
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 thePeerage.com - John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss and others
She was the daughter of Sir James Wemyss, Lord Burntisland and Margaret Wemyss, Countess of Wemyss.
She married James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray, son of Francis Stuart, 7th Earl of Moray and Jean Elphinstone, on 24 April 1740.
     James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray was born in 1708.
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 Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
James V escaped his captor in 1528 and Archibald was forced to flee to England in exile.
Their descendents became Earls not only over much of Lothian but also of Moray, though over the next few decades the territorial autonomy enjoyed by the regional lords was greatly reduced.
The Royal Stuarts became extinct with the death of Henry Cardinal Stuart in 1809 (though descendents in other dynasties retain a pretension to the throne), though numerous collateral branches and branches stemming from illegitimate descendants and their heirs exist today.
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 Clan Grant
This chief of the Grants was in such high favour with King James V that he obtained from that monarch a charter, dated 1535, exempting him from the jurisdiction of all courts of judicature, except the court of session, then newly instituted.
His elder son, James, joined the Covenanters on the north side of the Spey in 1638, and on 19th July 1644, was, by the Estates, appointed one of the committee for trying the malignants in the north.
This bred bad blood between the two earls, and later, when the Earl of Bothwell, after an attempt on the life of Chancellor Maitland, was said to be harboured by Moray in his house of Dunibristle, Huntly willingly accepted a commission to attack that place.
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 Aberdeenshire - 999 Aberdeenshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 4th earl of Huntly offered some resistance, on behalf of the Catholics, to the influence of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, who was regent during the reign of James VI, but was defeated and killed at Corrichie on the hill of Fare in 1562.
Her death dissipated these dreams, and as George I, her successor, was antipathetic to the clergy, it happened that Jacobitism and episcopalianism came to be regarded in the shire as identical, though in point of fact the non-jurors as a body never countenanced rebellion.
The earl of Mar raised the standard of revolt in Braemar (September 6, 1715); a fortnight later James Francis Edward Stuart was proclaimed at Aberdeen cross; the Pretender landed at Peterhead on December 22, and in February 1716 he was back again in France.
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 Ancestors of Jerry Landers Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Under his guidance, in the autumn of 1562, she made a progress to the north, which ended in the defeat and death of the Earl of Huntly, the chief of the Roman Catholic party.
Meanwhile, the kings of Sweden, Denmark and France, the Archduke Charles of Austria, Don Carlos of Spain, the Dukes of Ferrara, Nemours and Anjou, the Earl of Arran, and the Earl of Leicester were proposed as candidates for her hand.
It was carried into effect on the 8th, when Mary laid her head upon the block with the dignity of a queen and the resignation of a martyr, evincing to the last her devotion to the church of her fathers.
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 James VI, King of Scots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
James IV defeated his father, James III at Sauchieburn and crowned king at the age of 15.
He was the only Stuart King of the 15th century to not need a regent.
James was survived by his wife, Margaret and son James V.
www.royalstuarts.org /james_4.htm   (171 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Eleanor Lamborne and others
He was the son of James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray and Margaret Wemyss.
     Lieutenant David Stuart was the son of James Stuart, 8th Earl of Moray and Margaret Wemyss.
She married Francis Stuart, 10th Earl of Moray, son of Francis Stuart, 9th Earl of Moray and Jean Gray, on 26 February 1795.
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 Worldroots.com
Anastasia Bidenbach James Stewart 1557-1630 1st Earl of Moray
Johann Jacob Moser von Filseck James Stewart 1620-1666 3rd Earl of Moray
Rosine Dorothea Hummel James Stuart 1731-1798 8th Earl of Moray
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 || En Ma Fin Git Mon Commencement - The Mary Stuart Fanlisting ||   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
On 19th August 1561, Mary landed at Leith and immediately took the advice of the moderates James Stuart (her half-brother, later earl of Moray) and William Maitland of Lethington.
This marriage was unacceptable to the Protestants, and Moray, with the aid of other nobles, raised a rebellion which Mary quickly suppressed.
Various schemes were concocted; it seems unlikely, however, that Mary was aware of the actual plot to eliminate her husband.
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 James I Descendants News, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
James Michael Ross Saunders-Watson and his wife, the former Elizabeth Brown, had their third child and first son, Lewis Henry Thomas Michael, on 12 January.
Charles John Pelham, 8th Earl of Yarborough, and his wife, the former Anna-Karin Zecevic, had their fourth son and fifthe child.
She was daughter of the 5th Earl Grey and had married in 1935 Evelyn Baring, who was made a peer as Lord Howick of Glendale.
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 List of Grand Masters of the Grand Lodge of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
(Lord Provost of Edinburgh) 1800–1802: Charles Montagu-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (afterwards 4th Duke of Buccleuch) 1802–1804: George Gordon, 5th Earl of Aboyne (afterwards 9th Marquess of Huntly) 1804–1806: George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie 1806–1820: The Duke of Rothesay (afterwards King George IV).
William Maule (afterwards 1st Baron Panmure) 1810–1812: James St Clair-Erskine, 2nd Earl of Rosslyn 1812–1814: Robert Haldane-Duncan, Viscount Duncan (afterwards 1st Earl of Camperdown) 1814–1816: James Duff, 4th Earl of Fife 1816–1818: Sir John Majoribanks, Bt.
James Hozier (afterwards 2nd Baron Newlands) 1904–1907: Hon.
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