of Earl of Wigtown (or Wigton or Wigtoun) has been created twice in the Peerage of Scotland. The peerage title has been dormant since the passing of the...
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Mormaer or Earl of Angus was the ruler of the medieval Scottish province of Angus. The title, in the Peerage of Scotland, is held by the Duke of Hamilton...
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Earl and the 3rd were both present at the Battle of Poitiers, and the future 5th Earl Archibald, Earl of Wigtown was a deputy of John Stewart, Earl of...
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Wigtown (/ˈwɪɡtənˌ -taʊn/ (both used locally); Scottish Gaelic: Baile na h-Ùige) is a town and former royal burgh in Wigtownshire, of which it is the...
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Earl of Forfar is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Scotland and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The name of the...
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Erskine. He was created Earl of Wigtown in 1606. He died in 1619. John Fleming married Lilias Graham, daughter of John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose in 1586....
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Archibald Douglas, Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Douglas and Bothwell (c. 1330 – c. 24 December 1400), called Archibald the Grim or Black...
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The Earl or Mormaer of Ross was the ruler of the province of Ross in northern Scotland. In the early Middle Ages, Ross was part of the vast earldom of Moray...
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6th Earl of Douglas (c. 1424 – 24 November 1440) was a Scottish nobleman. In addition to his Earldom of Douglas, he was Earl of Wigtown, Lord of Galloway...
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Dumbarton Castle (redirect from Governor of Dumbarton Castle)
David II created Fleming the First Earl of Wigtown (the first new Scottish earldom created in more than a century). Wigtown was still Governor in 1361 when...
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Drummond, by her husband John [Fleming], 3rd Earl of Wigtown [...] which failing (iii) of the eldest daughter of Hon Harry Ker, styled Lord Ker, without division...
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of John, Earl of Buchan, and Archibald, Earl of Wigtown, and from late 1419 to 1421 the Scottish army became the mainstay of the Dauphin’s defence of...
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Clan Fleming (section Origins of the clan)
the Comyn in 1306. In 1342 Sir Malcolm Fleming of Cumbernauld was created Earl of Wigtown by David II of Scotland for helping to keep him safe from Edward...
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Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown (died c. 1363) was the son of Robert Fleming, a Stewart vassal and holder of the lands of Fulwood and Cumbernauld, who...
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Thomas Fleming, Earl of Wigtown (died c. 1382) was the second person to hold the title earl of Wigtown. He was the grandson of the previous earl, Sir Malcolm...
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Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, Duke of Touraine (c. 1369 – 17 August 1424), was a Scottish nobleman and warlord. He is sometimes given the epithet...
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Clan Douglas (redirect from House of Douglas)
Douglas of Kilmount, Middlebie and Dornock (1682) Earl of Mar (c. 1114) Earl of Wigtown (1341) Earl of Douglas (1358) Earl of Angus (1389) Earl of Avondale...
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Dunbartonshire (redirect from County of Dumbarton)
part of Stirlingshire, but had been annexed to Dunbarton in the reign of David II at the request of Malcolm Fleming, Earl of Wigtown, the owner of the...
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the second Earl. He had already been created a Baronet, of Corsewell in the county of Wigtown, in 1627. This title is in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia...
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Drummond, the husband of Douglas's sister, while Fife sided with the successful appellant, Sir Archibald Douglas, Earl of Wigtown and Lord of Galloway who possessed...
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Earl of Ormond was a title twice created in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for members of the Douglas family. The related title Marquess of Ormond...
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Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown. His paternal grandparents were William Livingstone, 6th Lord Livingston and Agnes Fleming (second daughter of Malcolm Fleming...
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Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Robert III. He was Earl of Douglas and Wigtown, Lord of Galloway, Lord of Bothwell,...
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England consisted exclusively of earls and barons. It remains a matter of debate whether early Anglo-Norman counts/earls held their title by tenure (as...
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List of feudal baronies. List of baronies in the Peerage of England List of baronies in the Peerage of Great Britain List of baronies in the Peerage of Ireland...
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Lord Chancellor of Scotland, the Earl of Seafield. The English commissioners included the Lord High Treasurer, Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin, the...
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married John Fleming, 2nd Earl of Wigtown, son of John Fleming, 1st Earl of Wigtown. Helenor died in 1627. William Fraser, Memorials of the Montgomeries, vol...
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Pibroch (category Music of Scotland)
"Cumh Ioarla Wigton (Lament for the Earl of Wigtown)" and "Cumha Eachainn Ruaidh nan Cath (Lament for Red Hector of the Battles)", on The Silver String...
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1731, to designs by William Adam (1689–1748), for John Fleming, 6th Earl of Wigtown. In the later 20th century the house was used as offices, first by...
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2019. "Roxburghe, Duke of (S, 1707)". cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 21 August 2019. "Wigtown, Earl of (S, 1606 - 1747)". cracroftspeerage...
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