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  2. Findlater Castle - Wikipedia

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    The castle remains that are still there are from the 14th-century rebuilding, when the castle was redesigned based on the Roslyn Castle model. James V of Scotland visited Findlater in November 1535 after a pilgrimage to Tain. [1] The Laird of Findlater, an Ogilvy, was Master of Household to Mary of Guise. He lost his inheritance following ...

  3. List of viscountcies in the peerages of Britain and Ireland

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    Viscounts of Ireland have precedence below peers of England, Scotland, and Great Britain of the same rank, and above peers of the United Kingdom of the same rank; but Irish peers created after 1801 yield to United Kingdom peers of earlier creation. A number of Speakers of the House of Commons have been elevated to the peerage as viscounts.

  4. List of earldoms - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Findlater - Wikipedia

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    James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Findlater (c.1592–1652), known as Lord Ogilvy of Deskford until 1638, was a Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His title was named after Findlater Castle , the ancient seat of the Ogilvies of Deskford and Findlater, a branch of Clan Ogilvy .

  6. James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater - Wikipedia

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    James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield (10 April 1750 – 5 October 1811) was a Scottish peer and an accomplished amateur landscape architect and philanthropist. He promoted the British landscape garden in mainland Europe, where he spent lavishly on public works and "improvements of the scenery."

  7. James Ogilvy, 3rd Earl of Findlater - Wikipedia

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    James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater (1663–1737), who succeeded and was made 1st Earl of Seafield in 1701. Col. Hon. Patrick Ogilvy (c.1665–1737) Lady Anna Ogilvy (c.1670–1735), married Sir George Allardice. The elderly Lord Findlater married, secondly in 1703, Lady Anne Hamilton, daughter of William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton. His ...

  8. Castles in Great Britain and Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Castles have played an important military, economic and social role in Great Britain and Ireland since their introduction following the Norman invasion of England in 1066. . Although a small number of castles had been built in England in the 1050s, the Normans began to build motte and bailey and ringwork castles in large numbers to control their newly occupied territories in England and the ...

  9. Banff, Aberdeenshire - Wikipedia

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    Banff's first castle was built to repel Viking invaders and a charter of 1163 AD shows that Malcolm IV was living there at that time. [4] During this period the town was a busy trading centre in the "free hanse" of Northern Scottish burghs, despite not having its own harbour until 1775.