Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar (c.1556–1611) – died without male issue; Subsequent claimants to the title [7] [8] John Home, de jure 2nd Earl of Dunbar (a 1628), brother of 1st Earl, according to the Lord Advocate [9] in 1634, he “conceiving his fortune too mean, forebore to assume the dignity”. He died without male issue.
In 1266 when Magnus V of Norway ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to King Alexander III of Scotland, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the Treaty of Perth, signed in Norway in 1266. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, was second in the list of thirteen earls who signed the marriage contract of Princess Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway in
George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar, KG, PC (ca. 1556 – 20 January 1611) was, in the last decade of his life, the most prominent and most influential Scotsman in England. His work lay in the King's Household and in the control of the State Affairs of Scotland and he was the King's chief Scottish advisor.
Patrick II (1185–1249), called "6th Earl of Dunbar", [1] [2] was a 13th-century Anglo-Scottish noble, and one of the leading figures during the reign of King Alexander II of Scotland. Said to be aged forty-six at the time of his father's death, this Patrick was the eldest son of Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar and Ada, daughter of King William I of ...
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar; This page was last edited on 20 July 2017, at 20:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Patrick I (c.1152 [1] – 1232), Earl of Dunbar and lord of Beanley, was a 13th-century Anglo-Scottish noble.. He was the eldest son of Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar and Alina, and succeeded to his father's titles upon the latter's death in 1182.
(In 1605 he was further created Earl of Dunbar). [1] Some sources say that it was created in the Peerage of England. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The second edition of the Complete Peerage , however, states that "In vol iv [of the first edition of that work], sub DUNBAR, this was regarded as an English creation, following Crawfurd, who treats ...