Duke of Fife is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom that has been created twice, in both cases for the Earl of Fife. In 1889, Lord Fife married...
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Macduff (Macbeth) (redirect from Thane of Fife)
coronation of Macbeth and will instead return to his home in Fife. However, Macduff flees to England to join Malcolm, the slain King Duncan's elder son...
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She was the only child of Duncan, Earl of Fife, by his wife Mary de Monthermer, daughter of Ralph, Lord Monthermer and Joan of Acre. Scotland in the fourteenth...
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of the Earl of the Fife. By Helen, he had three sons and two daughters: Gartnait, his eldest son and successor, became the 8th Earl of Mar Duncan of Mar...
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titles of Earl of Menteith (28 February 1361), Earl of Fife (1361; resigned in 1372), Earl of Buchan (1394; resigned in 1406) and Earl of Atholl. In...
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and Fife. Lundie Castle, once stood seven miles south-east of Coupar Angus, but there are no remains. The lands were held by the Duncans and many of them...
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(Donnchad) Grant of Freuchie, ancestors of the Earls of Seafield Matilda or Maud, married Malcolm (Máel Coluim), who became Earl of Fife Cecilia, married...
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was the loss of his powerful ally, Douglas, that saw a turnaround in magnate support in favour of his younger brother Robert, Earl of Fife, to whom the...
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Countess Fife (née Hay; 12 May 1829 – 18 December 1869) was a Scottish aristocrat. Hay was born 12 May 1829 in Dublin, Ireland, the third child of William...
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Culross (redirect from Culross, Fife)
being founded by Malcolm, Earl of Fife. Part of this became the parish church in 1560 and was restored in 1905. A Chapel of St. Mungo (now wholly lost)...
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Mary de Monthermer (category Daughters of barons)
wed Donnchadh IV, Earl of Fife (1289–1353). A papal dispensation was granted on 4 November 1307. A posthumous child, Duncan had spent his minority in...
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Clan MacDuff (category Stone of Scone)
Lyon Court. The early chiefs of Clan MacDuff were the original Earls of Fife, although this title went to the Stewarts of Albany in the late fourteenth...
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Cupar (redirect from Cupar, Fife)
of Cupar Castle, which was the seat of the sheriff and was owned by the earls of Fife. The area became a centre for judiciary as the county of Fife and...
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Dunbar, Earl of Moray and James who would become the 2nd Earl of Douglas. Robert's sons John, Earl of Carrick, the king's heir, and Robert, Earl of Fife, were...
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Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus and 5th Earl of Morton (1555 – 4 August 1588) was a Scottish aristocrat. He was the son of David, 7th Earl of Angus. He succeeded...
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reign of his half-brother David II, Robert and Duncan IV, Earl of Fife, attempted to prevent Balliol's forces from landing at Kinghorn in Fife on 6 August...
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5th Earl of Moray, married after 1658 Emilia Balfour (? - January 1683) Hon. Francis Stuart of Cullello, Fife Hon. Archibald Stuart of Dunearn, Fife (?...
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probably the son of Duncan of Kilconquhar, son of Adam (son of Duncan, Earl of Fife), who appears frequently as a witness in the documents of St Andrews Cathedral...
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development of the medieval village, with workers and artisans. When King Malcolm donated the royal hunting estate of Falkland to Duncan, Earl of Fife in 1160...
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Duff (surname) (category Surnames of Irish origin)
Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (1729–1809) Alexander Duff, 3rd Earl Fife (1731–1811) James Duff, 4th Earl Fife (1776–1857) James Duff, 5th Earl Fife (1814–1879)...
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Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin (1849–1917) Hon. Robert Preston Bruce (1851–1893), MP for Fife and W. Fife Hon. Frederick John Bruce (1854–1920), Page of Honour...
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magnates like Earl Donnchadh II of Fife, the latter's son Máel Coluim, Gille Brigte, Earl of Strathearn, as well as probable members of Donnchadh's retinue...
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000 tons a year to 4.3m. in 1911. Although it became the largest coal company in Scotland, Fife Coal never regained that level of output in the inter-war...
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Donada, and thus a cousin to Duncan I, whom he succeeded. He was possibly also a cousin to Thorfinn the Mighty, Earl of Orkney and Caithness. When Cnut...
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James Drummond, 1st Baron Perth (redirect from James Drummond, 11th Earl of Perth)
Fife, as James Lundin. He was the son of James Lundin (1707–1781) and the former Lady Rachel Bruce (d. 1769), a daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of...
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Duncan Macduff, 7th Earl of Fife; (2nd) Gervase Avenel. After his marriage to Alice de Lusignan was annulled in 1285, Gilbert married (2nd) Joan of Acre...
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mormaers and earls of Fife from the 11th to the mid-14th century, noting that Giric could be the actual founder of the house, following a pattern of several...
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near Leuchars in Fife, which his father had used. He wrote to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England, in January...
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William Douglas, 7th Earl of Morton (1582 – 7 August 1648) was a grandson of the 6th Earl of Morton. He was Treasurer of Scotland, and a zealous Royalist...
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Kirkcaldy (redirect from Kirkcaldy, Fife)
royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. It is about 11.6 miles (19 km) north of Edinburgh and 27.6 miles (44 km) south-southwest of Dundee. The...
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