The title Earl of Rutland fell in to disuse upon his death at the Battle of Agincourt, and was assumed by other members of the House of York including first earl's nephew Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, the father of King Edward IV, and his second son Edmund.

Prior to the creation of the Earldom of Ormond, the 1st earl's father had been created the first Earl of Carrick.

However, when her father was raised to an earldom her precedence remained the same, because the higher courtesy rank of an earl's daughter cannot be claimed by the wife of a man who ranks as a peer in his own right.

By the entail of 1290, the lands could only be inherited by direct descendants of the late earl's father.

Although Elizabeth was personally sympathetic to the earl's plight, for English policy the rescue was a step towards the objective of ending the Auld Alliance, knowing that on Arran's return his father as ' second person ' of the realm would become leader of the Lords of the Congregation.

The earl's most trusted retainer, Robert de Holland, then defected to the king, and as the royal army crossed the River Trent after the Battle of Burton Bridge, Lancaster was forced to flee north.

The earl's son Robert rebelled and forfeited his property in 1102, and Wykey, as with many other of his manors, was given to Alan Fitz Flaald, hereditary Sheriff of Shropshire and ancestor of the Stewart Kings of Scotland.

The earl's estates, including Warwick Castle, were given to the Earl of Galloway and John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, in 1806, but the castle was returned to the earls of Warwick in 1813.

The earl's third son of his second marriage, William Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Caithness, became the designated heir of the Earldom of Caithness and continued that title.

The Earl of Arundel, Sir Edmund Fitz Alan, an old enemy of Roger Mortimer, was beheaded on 17 November, together with two of the earl's retainers, John Daniel and Thomas de Micheldever.

However, upon HRH The Earl of Wessex's marriage in 1999, it was announced that his children would be styled as an earl's children.

The Earl of Chester rebuilt Deganwy, and Llywelyn retaliated by ravaging the earl's lands.

The king did have a small household of Scots paid for by the English — these included Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming's nephew, Alexander Seton and Orkney's brother John Sinclair following the earl's return to Scotland.

* A central event in the fantasy novel Titus Groan is the burning of the library of Earl Sepulchrave, which was the earl's sole pleasure in life-leading to his madness and eventual death.

In December 1489 Henry VII accepted £ 4000 from the estate of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland for Buckingham's hand for the earl's eldest daughter, Lady Alianore ( Eleanor ) Percy.

In 1905 the estate was bequeathed on the death of the 7th Earl of Stamford's wife to the earl's niece, Mrs Arthur Duncombe.

The destruction of the earl's castles of Airlie and of Forther in 1640 by the Earl of Argyll, who " left him not in all his lands a cock to crow day ," gave rise to the song The Bonnie House of Airlie.

After Nicolls ' sudden death in 1616, Dudley took a position with Theophilus Clinton, 4th Earl of Lincoln, serving as a steward responsible for managing some of the earl's estates.

With the failure of the second de Warenne male line in 1347, the earldom passed to Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, who was a nephew of the last de Warenne earl, although he did not assume the title until after the death of the previous earl's widow in 1351.

At the age of fifteen he first obtained a post in the household of Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland ; then he entered the service of Lord Percy, the earl's brother, and was present with the royalist army at the Battle of Worcester as Lord Percy's deputy at the ordnance board.

On one occasion he threatened to excommunicate the Earl of Arundel or the earl's men for hunting on land the bishop considered to be his own.

His son succeeded to his kinsman's title of Earl Howe in 1984 ( long after the death of Curzon himself in 1976 ) and his daughter was granted the rank of an earl's daughter a year later ( i. e. Lady Emma ).

By the 4th earl's will, on the death of Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus in 1588, William Douglas succeeded to the earldom of Morton, which brought him additional lands and houses including Dalkeith Palace, Aberdour Castle, Auchterhouse and Drochil Castle.

1963 ) was married from 1984 to 2005 to the present Earl of Strathmore, and is mother of the earl's three elder surviving sons.

Edward was supported by Earl Godwin of Wessex, and married the earl's daughter.

His eldest son, Edward, was put on his trial in 1589 on the curious charge of having contrived the death of the Earl of Leicester by witchcraft, in revenge for the earl's supposed hostility to Sir James Croft.

Clark argues that the earl's impecunity was caused by his lending money to the exiled Stuart Court.

This displeasure was exacerbated by the earl's elevation to the new title of Duke of Ireland in 1386.

According to a graphic description in the chronicle the Brut, Hereford was killed as he crossed the bridge by a pikeman hiding underneath, who thrust his spear up through the earl's anus.

The rest of the earl's life was mainly occupied by endeavours to maintain his influence, and by an undying feud with his younger son Shane, arising out of his transaction with Henry VIII.

Clinton further secured his position by starting work on the great castle of Kenilworth, only two miles from the earl's central fortress at Warwick.

The earl's gardener produced the first Camperdown Elm by grafting it to the trunk of a Wych Elm Ulmus glabra.

The earl's claims were apparently met by the promoters, and the bill was amended accordingly.

The earl's estate in Lincolnshire was a center of Nonconformist thought, and Dudley was already recognized for his Puritan virtues by the time he entered the earl's service.

The word Jellicoe was seen in Levy's notebook, and a connection was assumed to the Minister rather than the building ; a structure named after the earl's distant cousin, and one that may have been opened by the Admiral himself in June 1928.

It was occupied by the 6th earl's niece, Lady Catherine Ashburnham ( 1890-1953 ), until her death in 1953, and subsequently the contents were sold in 1953 and the land in 1953-57.

On 18 January 1760, Johnson called at the earl's mansion at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, by appointment, and was directed to his lordship's study.

The late earl's sisters, Eleanor, Margaret ( now widowed after the death of Piers Gaveston ) and Elizabeth were by 1317 all married to favourites of Edward II: Hugh Despenser the Younger, Hugh de Audley and Roger d ' Amory respectively.

The earldom descended by special remainder to the earl's son-in-law, George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham, and so to his successors, the dukes of Buckingham and Chandos.

The earl's absolute control over Warwickshire's administration caused a large number of people to depart the county, not ' willing to be judged by ' the earl, or his officials, chief amongst, them being de Herle.

Inhabited mostly by immigrants from Gorski Kotar, the town got its name " Španovica " from the title of earl's superintendent-“ Span ”.

Foucault then notices a point of departure pointing out the idea of sedition and revolt starts to enter texts, but ' the people ' proved elusive to define all around Europe, and never entered popular discussion, at first point of juncture was the privileged titled nobles appointed and rewarded through the honors system created by the monarch and sanctioned through the legal system of the day ; the entire nobility: Knights, Lords, count's, barons, dukes, earl's and their rivals began to become seen and known as ' the people '.