Isabella was summoned as a Lady to the Coronation of King George II and recognised in the lordship of Ruthven of Freeland.

The lordship of Ruthven of Freeland, which could be passed on through female lines, was inherited by his eldest daughter Bridget, the eleventh holder.

On the latter's death in 1956 the Scottish lordship of Parliament devolved on his daughter, Bridget, Lady Ruthven of Freeland, while the barony of Ruthven of Gowrie created in 1919 ( which could only descend through male lines ) devolved on his great-nephew, Grey Ruthven, 2nd Earl of Gowrie, who became the third Baron.

The Earl is in remainder to the lordship of Ruthven of Freeland ( now hold by the Earl of Carlisle ).

He succeeded in the earldom of Gowrie on the death of his grandfather on 2 May 1955, and also succeeded his great-uncle ( his grandfather's elder brother ) the 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland as 3rd Baron Ruthven of Gowrie on 16 April 1956 ( the Scottish lordship of Ruthven of Freeland passed instead via the female line ).

A list of the council for policy of the Lords of October 1559 includes ; the former Regent Arran ; his son the 3rd Earl of Arran ; the Earl of Argyll ; the Prior of St Andrews ; the Earl of Glencairn ; Lord Ruthven ; Robert, 4th Lord Boyd ; Lord Maxwell ; Erskine of Dun ; Wishart of Pitarrow ; Henry Balnaves of Halhill ; Kirkcaldy of Grange ; and James Halyburton Provost of Dundee.

The 17th century historian David Calderwood named the Ruthven Raiders as the Earls of Mar and Gowrie, the Master of Glamis, the Laird of Easter-Wemyss, Lewis Bellenden, Lord Boyd, Lord Lindsay, the Abbots of Dunfermline, Dryburgh, and Paisley, the Prior of Pittenween, and the Constable of Dundee.

In 1919 he was created Baron Ruthven of Gowrie, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords.

His descendant Walter Hore-Ruthven, 9th Lord Ruthven of Freeland ( see Lord Ruthven of Freeland for further details of the descent of this title ), was created Baron Ruthven of Gowrie, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1919.

By this time the strategic importance had been enhanced by the building of military roads from Perth, Fort Augustus and Inverness that came together at Fort Ruthven.

* Ruthven Castle, also known as Huntingtower Castle, north of Perth

Huntingtower Castle once known as Ruthven Castle or the Place of Ruthven is located near the village of Huntingtower beside the A85 and near the A9, about 5km NW of the centre of Perth, Perth and Kinross, in central Scotland, on the main road to Crieff.

He succeeded his paternal grandfather, William Ruthven, 1st Lord Ruthven, sometime before 10 September 1528, when the king bestowed on him the office of custodian and constable of the king's hospital, near the Speygate, Perth.

Lord Patrick Ruthven ( c. 1520 – 1566 ) was provost of Perth ( 1553 – 66 ) and Protestant privy councillor to Mary, Queen of Scots.

In the so-called Gowrie conspiracy, Ruthven was killed in Gowrie House in Perth, possibly in an abortive attempt to take James VI prisoner.

Sutcliffe ( 5 – 5 with the Indians ) immediately joined Sanderson ( 8 – 5 3. 14 ), Eckersley ( 10 – 8 3. 03 ), Steve Trout ( 13 – 7 3. 41 ) and Dick Ruthven ( 6 – 10 5. 04 ) in the starting rotation.

After drinking at the White Horse, a pub he had found through Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, Thomas returned to the Hotel Chelsea, declaring, " I've had 18 straight whiskies.

This latter story revives Lamb's Byronic ' Lord Ruthven ', but this time as a vampire.

* August 5 – John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator ( b. 1577 )

Heinrich Marschner's 1828 opera, Der Vampyr, involves a Lord Ruthven who must abduct and sacrifice three maidens or die.

Old Adam, Robin's faithful servant, arrives and addresses Robin as Sir Ruthven ( pronounced " Rivven ") Murgatroyd.

Robin reveals that he is indeed Sir Ruthven, having fled his home twenty years previously to avoid inheriting the Baronetcy of Ruddigore and its attendant curse.

Despard explains that he is baronet only because of the death of his elder brother, Ruthven.

Richard approaches him, and under a poor guise of moral soul-searching, discloses that Robin Oakapple is Despard's long-lost brother Ruthven, in disguise.

" Robin leaves to take up his rightful identity as Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd.

At Ruddigore Castle, Robin ( now Sir Ruthven ) tries to come to grips with being a bad baronet, a task at which he proves to be spectacularly lacking.

She demonstrated an independent streak and a willingness to use factional Scottish politics in her conflicts with James over the custody of Prince Henry and his treatment of her friend Beatrix Ruthven.

The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.

In 1602, after discovering that Anne had smuggled Beatrix Ruthven into Holyrood, James carried out a cross-examination of the entire household ; in 1603, he finally caved in to Anne's campaign and granted Beatrix Ruthven a pension of £ 200.

Murray managed to lead a group of Jacobites to Ruthven, intending to continue the fight.

On 27 March the Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthven, who were both present at Rizzio's murder and had fled to England, wrote to Cecil explaining that Darnley had initiated the murder plot and recruited them, because of his " heich quarrel " and " deadly hatred " of Rizzio.

Mary's husband, Lord Darnley, is said to have been jealous of their friendship, because of rumours that he had made Mary pregnant, and joined in a conspiracy of Protestant nobles, led by Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven, to murder him.

The King's gratitude to Cromwell was expressed in a grant of the lordship of Romney in Newport in Wales and appointment to three relatively minor offices: Master of the Jewels on 14 April 1532, Clerk of the Hanaper on 16 July, and Chancellor of the Exchequer on 12 April 1533.

The Aumale lordship had also passed to the crown and was obtained along with some former monastic lands by the Constable family of Burton Constable in the 16th century.

On King Henry IV's coronation he was appointed Constable of England and granted the lordship of the Isle of Man.

Without legitimate sons to succeed him, Alan's lands and dignities were divided between the husbands of his three daughters, so Roger acquired Alan's position as Constable of Scotland, and one-third of the lordship of Galloway ( although the actual title of Lord of Galloway went through Helen's half-sister Devorguilla to her husband John I de Balliol ), and part of the de Morville lands in Lauderdale.

The survey shows Knowle as being under the lordship of Eadnoth the Constable who had 30 holdings in Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire before the Norman conquest.

* Gilbert de Bohun ( c. 1303-1381 ); heir to the titles of Lord High Constable of England, Earl of Hereford, Earl of Essex, Earl of Northampton, four castles, and over one-hundred lordship manors ; had issue Joan de Bohun.

He already held the castles of Brancepeth, Raby, Middleham and Sheriff Hutton when he received from Henry IV the honour and lordship of Richmond for life.

The Stewarts greatly increased their holdings in the west, in Atholl and in the far north: the earldoms of Fife and Menteith went to Robert II's second surviving son Robert, the earldoms of Buchan and Ross ( along with the lordship of Badenoch ) to his fourth son Alexander and the earldoms of Strathearn and Caithness to the eldest son of his second marriage, David.

By 1170 he had married Orabilis, heiress of the Scottish lordship of Leuchars and, through her, he became lord of an extensive complex of estates north of the border which included lands in Fife, Strathearn and Lothian.