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Earls and Galloway
She brought with her a large retinue of Scottish gentlemen, including the Earls of Huntly, Cassillis, Sutherland, Marischal, and Wigtown, plus Lords Home and Maxwell, and the Bishops of Caithness and Galloway.
* Morton Castle, a seat of the Earls of Morton in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
* History of the Earls of Galloway
* Ferrers, Earls of Derby: This line bifurcates from the Galloway line and leads to George Washington ( chart 2 above ).
Patrick Maclellan of Bombie ( d. c. 1450 Sheriff of Galloway, then the head of his family, and a staunch royalist declined an invitation to join William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, along with the Earls of Ross and Crawford and Ormond in a powerful alliance against the young King James II of Scotland.
The Earls of Douglas were commonly known as the Black Douglases and usually descend from Sir Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway and Earl of Wigtown, a son of ' the Good ' Sir James Douglas.
Archibald Douglas, Lord of Galloway, with the assistance of the Earls of March and Douglas, after a siege of nine days, took Lochmaben Castle from the English and " razed it to the ground " on 4 February 1384 / 5.

Earls and are
Notable are the parts, still largely roofed, built by the Earls of Morton, with refined Renaissance detail, in the second half of the 16th century.
Other recusants and martyrs are represented in the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales and amongst the Jacobites, such as the Earls of Derwentwater, particularly those ennobled in the Jacobite Peerage.
Marquesses and Earls whose titles are based on place names normally use of, while those whose titles are based on surnames normally do not.
The Earls and Dukes of Cornwall ( to whom the castle belonged ) were never resident at Tintagel though a few of them are known to have visited.
Also part of this family are the Earls Manvers, whose title became extinct in 1955 due to the last earl having no sons.
The Folkestone Parks and Pleasure Grounds Charities are lands which were donated to the people of Folkestone for perpetual recreational use by the Earls of Radnor during the 19th century.
" Other architects, well known ( Frank Lloyd Wright, for example ) and not so well known, also contributed significant modern houses that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing today ... New Canaan came to be the locus of the modern movement's experimentation in materials, construction methods, space, and form ", according to an online description of The Harvard Five in New Canaan: Mid-Century Modern Houses, by William D. Earls.
Several Earls of Derby are buried in St. Mary's Church, Knowsley.
His eldest son John Temple acquired the Stowe estate in Buckinghamshire and founded the English branch of the family from whom the Viscounts Cobham, the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos and the Earls Temple of Stowe are descended.
He did have an illegitimate son by Joan Hill, who was alive in 1493, Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester ( later legitimized ), from whom descend the Earls and Marquesses of Worcester and later the Dukes of Beaufort, who are currently the last male line descendants of the Plantagenets and the Second House of the Counts of Anjou.
Several restaurants and clubs are located here including Boston Pizza with BP's Lounge, Hooters, Tony Roma's Ribhouse, The Old Spaghetti Factory, Albert's Family Restaurant, Moxie's, Earls, Jungle Jim's and the Comedy Club.
Montgomery and two of his sons are counted by many as being the first incarnation of the Earldom, but are often not counted amongst the Earls.
There are some impressive examples of early-to mid-Victorian architecture in the Earls Court ward.
Other Earls Courts are located across the world, some places include:
# That the Robertsons are lineal descendants of the Celtic Earls of Atholl, whose progenitor was King Duncan I ( Donnchadh in Scottish Gaelic ), eldest son of Malcolm II.
Earls, Viscounts, and Barons are addressed as Lord X.
Among old castles are those of Lochslin, in the parish of Fearn, said to date from the 13th century, which, though ruinous, possesses two square towers in good preservation ; Balone, in the parish of Tarbat, once a stronghold of the Earls of Ross ; the remains of Dingwall Castle, their original seat ; and Eilean Donan in Loch Alsh, which was blown up by English warships during the abortive Jacobite rising in 1719.
* Britain's Real Monarch-In the Channel 4 documentary Earls or Countesses from # 7 to # 15 are considered the real monarchs of England.
Various references use at least three different sequences of numbers for the Earls ; the ones shown here are those used in the individual articles on the 12 Earls.
William Courtenay duly succeeded his cousin as 10th Earl in 1835, and from him the later Earls are descended.
The principal seat of the Earls of Devon until the expiry of the senior line in 1556 was Tiverton Castle in Devon, and as a subsidiary seat Colcombe Castle, Devon, both of which are now largely demolished.
The arms shown are those of Newburgh, the family of his predecessors the Beaumont Earls of Warwick.

Earls and now
However, it is now very unlikely that the Dukedom will be passed to a woman or through a woman, since all the male-line descendants of Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland-including the line of the Earls Spencer as well as the Spencer-Churchill family-would have to become extinct.
The song, preceded by a recitative for Strephon (" My bill has now been read a second time ") appeared shortly after # 21, following the exit of the two Earls and the Lord Chancellor and the entrance of Strephon.
According to a story recorded by the 16th century antiquarian John Leland, and derived by him from a now lost book in the possession of the Earls of Rutland at Belvoir Castle, there was once a King Alfred III of Mercia, who reigned in the 730s.
* Castle Howard ( Earls of Carlisle ) ( now owned by The Hon.
The land, now called " the Covent Garden ", was seized by Henry VIII, and granted to the Earls of Bedford in 1552.
The Molineux name originates from Benjamin Molineux, a successful local merchant ( and a distant relative of the now extinct Earls of Sefton ) who, in 1744, purchased land on which he built Molineux House ( later converted to the Molineux Hotel ) and on which the stadium would eventually be built.
The Ideal Home Show ( formerly called the Ideal Home Exhibition ) is an annual event in London, now held at the Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
In the 1990s, Diana regularly returned to the area to work out at Earls Court Gym ( now part of the Soho Gyms chain ) next to Earls Court underground station.
* Bill Oddie, television actor and presenter, attended the former Halesowen Grammar School which is now Earls High School.
* Robert Plant, of Led Zeppelin, was born in West Bromwich but brought up in Halesowen and attended both Halesowen Grammar School and King Edward VI Grammar School, Stourbridge ( now Earls High and King Edward VI College respectively ).
The seat of the Earls of Shrewsbury was once Alton Towers until it was sold to The Tussauds Group, now Merlin Entertainments.
The ancestral family seat of the Earls of Darnley was Cobham Hall, near Gravesend, Kent, which was sold in 1955 and is now a boarding school for girls.
The Earl's own house, then known as Southampton House and later as Bedford House after the square and the rest of the Bloomsbury Estate passed by marriage from the Earls of Southampton to the Dukes of Bedford, occupied the whole of the north side of the square, where Bedford Place is now located.
It was home to the Earls of Sefton ( family name Molyneux ), whose house, Croxteth Hall, and the surrounding countryside estate now forms Croxteth Park, an attractive public space.
Cobham Hall was the former 17th-century home of the Earls of Darnley: its gardens were designed by Humphry Repton and the surrounding woods contain the Darnley Mausoleum, a Grade I listed building now undergoing restoration.
The car park for the service is now used by Earls Court Olympia for exhibition vehicles, & Europcar for car rental and is called " Olympia Motorail Car Park P4 ".
Shenstone received part of his formal education at Halesowen Grammar School ( now The Earls High School ).
The seat of the Earls of Linlithgow was Callendar House in Falkirk, now a museum.
His grandson, Robert, died in 1904, leaving no heir-for the first time in 600 years-but twin daughters, the elder of whom, Ella, married William Cunninghame, 14th Laird of Caprington, descendant of the Earls of Glencairn, in 1918, and their two sons, Robert and John Fergusson-Cuninghame, now live at Caprington, Robert, the elder, inheriting the castle and property.
The Castle was the traditional home of the Earls ( later Marquises, now Dukes ) of Atholl.
Thomas Attwood was born in Halesowen, then a detached part of Shropshire, and attended Halesowen Grammar School ( now Earls High School ) before being moved to Wolverhampton Grammar School.
Prior to the use of Cullen House by the Earls of Seafield, the castle of Findlater, now a ruin, on a rocky coastal outcrop approximately to the east, was the Earl's seat.

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