Earl of Orkney, historically Jarl of Orkney, is a title of nobility encompassing the archipelagoes of Orkney and Shetland, which comprise the Northern...
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Earl of Orkney, sometimes known as Magnus the Martyr, was Earl of Orkney from 1106 to about 1117. Magnus's grandparents, Thorfinn the Mighty, Jarl of...
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Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney and Lord of Zetland (Shetland) (spring of 1533 – 4 February 1593) was a recognised illegitimate son of James V, King of Scotland...
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(1410–1480), 1st Earl of Caithness (1455–1476), last Earl (Jarl) of Orkney (1434–1470 de facto, –1472 de jure), 2nd Lord Sinclair and 11th Baron of Roslin was...
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Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin (c. 1345 – c. 1400) was a Scottish noblesse. Sinclair held the title Earl of Orkney (which refers to Norðreyjar...
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James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell (c. 1534 – 14 April 1578), better known simply as Lord Bothwell, was a prominent Scottish nobleman...
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The Earldom of Orkney was a Norse territory ruled by the earls (or jarls) of Orkney from the ninth century until 1472. It was founded during the Viking...
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Field Marshal George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, KT (9 February 1666 – 29 January 1737), styled Lord George Hamilton from 1666 to 1696, was a British...
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Orkneyinga saga (redirect from The History of the Earls of Orkney)
ˈsɑɣɑ]; also called the History of the Earls of Orkney and Jarls' Saga) is a narrative of the history of the Orkney and Shetland islands and their relationship...
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Sigurd the Stout (redirect from Sigurd Hlodvirsson, Earl of Orkney)
known as Sigurd the Stout from the Old Norse Sigurðr digri, was an Earl of Orkney. The main sources for his life are the Norse Sagas, which were first...
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Thorfinn the Mighty (redirect from Thorfinn II, Earl of Orkney)
in making Orkney and Shetland part of mainstream Christendom. On his death in the latter half of the 11th century he was followed as earl by his sons...
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Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney (c. 1375 – 1420) was the Jarl (Earl) of Orkney, Baron of Roslin and Pantler of Scotland. According to Roland Saint-Clair...
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Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson (redirect from Torfinn Hausakljuv, Earl of Orkney)
Skull-splitter (from the Old Norse Þorfinnr hausakljúfr) was a 10th-century Earl of Orkney. He appears in the Orkneyinga saga and briefly in St Olaf's Saga, as...
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Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney (born 27 February 1938) is the current Earl of Orkney, and the son of Frederick Oliver St John whose parents were...
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Stewart, 2nd Earl of Orkney, Lord of Zetland (c. 1566 – 6 February 1615) was a Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert, Earl of Orkney, a bastard son of King James...
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Countess of Orkney (née Villiers; 1657 – 19 April 1733) was an English courtier from the Villiers family and the reputed mistress of William III, King of England...
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held, presumably always as fief of Scotland, by the Norse earls of Orkney, at least since the days of the childhood of Thorfinn Sigurdsson in c.1020, but...
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Rögnvald Kali Kolsson (redirect from Rognvald Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney)
Saint Ronald of Orkney (c. 1100 – 1158), was a Norwegian earl of Orkney who came to be regarded as a Christian saint. Two of the Orkney Islands are named...
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Orkney (/ˈɔːrkni/; Scots: Orkney; Old Norse: Orkneyjar; Norn: Orknøjar), also known as the Orkney Islands (archaically "The Orkneys"), is an archipelago...
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Erengisle Sunesson of Hultboda, jarl of Orkney (died 26 December 1392) was an important Swedish magnate in the 14th century. In his later life, he was...
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Rognvald Eysteinsson (redirect from Ragnvald, Earl of Moer)
king "gave Sigurd the title of earl". However, the Heimskringla states specifically that Sigurd was the first Earl of Orkney. According to the Orkneyinga...
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Cliveden (category Frederick, Prince of Wales)
was purchased in 1696 by George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, a soldier and colonial official.:2-3 The Earl employed the architect Thomas Archer to add...
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Gilbert, son of Magnus (1210–1256) was jarl of Orkney (which, at the time, included Caithness and Sutherland). Although this was a Norwegian title, some...
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Earl of Orkney in 1284–c. 1312. Jón Magnússon was the son of Magnus III of Orkney, and succeeded his brother to the Earldom of Orkney and Earldom of Caithness...
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Torf-Einarr (redirect from Einar, Earl of Orkney)
Torf-Einarr (sometimes anglicised as Turf-Einar), was one of the Norse earls of Orkney. The son of the Norse jarl Rognvald Eysteinsson and a concubine, his...
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Girl", had abandoned the stage by the time of her marriage in 1892 to Edmond Walter FitzMaurice, 7th Earl of Orkney. Constance MacDonald Gilchrist was born...
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Malise V, Earl of Strathearn and Caithness, Jarl of Orkney (Scottish Gaelic: Maol Íosa; died c. 1357) was the last of the native Gaelic earls of Strathearn...
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the crown of Norway (either directly or through their vassal the Earl of Orkney) were recurring themes. The Laxdaela Saga contains mention of several persons...
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Magnus the Good (redirect from Magnus I (of Norway and Denmark))
III of Denmark. Ragnhild married Paul Thorfinnsson, Earl of Orkney, and together they were the parents of Haakon Paulsson, who also became an earl of Orkney...
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northernmost part of Western Norway. The earls of Møre and the Norse earls of Orkney were very closely related. The first sitting earl of Orkney was Sigurd Eysteinsson...
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