Earl of Mar - Wikipedia
Mars Wark: The Earl of Mar's house in Stirling, situated on the approach to Stirling Castle, the Earl of Mar was governor of the castle during the mid-16th century.
John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732) - Wikipedia
John Erskine, 23rd and 6th Earl of Mar and 1st Duke of Mar KT (1675 – May 1732), was a Scottish nobleman and a key figure in the Jacobite movement. He held the title of the 23rd Earl of Mar from the earldom's first creation and was the sixth earl in its seventh creation (of 1565). [1]
Earldom of Mar | Holders of the Earldom
He was restored to the ancient Earldom of Mar by Act of Parliament on 17 June 1824 as 24th Earl of Mar: he was specifically restored to the Earldom as “grandson and lineal representative” of the 23rd, being the son of the 23rd Earl’s daughter Lady Frances.
Domhnall I, Earl of Mar - Wikipedia
Domhnall I, Earl of Mar, also known by the name Domhnall mac Uilleim (Anglicized as "Donald, William's son"), was the seventh known mormaer of Mar in medieval Scotland, ruling from the death of his father, Uilleam of Mar, in 1276 until his own death sometime between 1297 and 1302.
John Erskine, 1st earl of Mar - Encyclopedia Britannica
2024年10月25日 · John Erskine, 1st earl of Mar (died Oct. 29, 1572, Stirling, Stirling, Scot.) was a Scottish lord who played a major role in deposing Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (reigned 1542–67), and gaining the crown for her infant son James VI (later James I of England); Mar was regent for James in 1571–72.
John Erskine, 2nd earl of Mar | Jacobite, Rebellion, Regent
2024年12月10日 · John Erskine, 2nd earl of Mar (born c. 1558—died Dec. 14, 1634, Stirling, Stirling, Scot.) was a Scottish politician and friend of King James VI; he helped James govern Scotland both before and after James ascended the English throne (as James I) in 1603.
John Erskine, 6th earl of Mar - Britannica
John Erskine, 6th earl of Mar was a Scottish noble who led the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, an unsuccessful attempt to gain the British crown for James Edward, the Old Pretender, son of the deposed Stuart monarch James II.
The Ancient Earldom of Mar - Electric Scotland
In support of the claim it was pleaded that the title of Earl of Mar, conferred by Queen Mary on John, Lord Erskine, in 1565, was not the restoration of an ancient peerage, but the creation of a new one; that the original earldom of Mar was purely territorial, one of the seven ancient earldoms of Scotland, and was therefore indivisible; that ...
John Erskine of Mar 1716-1730 | Order of the Fleur de Lys
The Mormaer* or Earl of Mar is recorded by Burke`s Peerage as “the most ancient title in Great Britain, perhaps in Europe.” It has been held in succession by members of the great historic houses of Douglas, Stewart, Drummond and Erskine …
Scotland - Earl of Mar - WikiTree
Owing to a nineteenth-century dispute, there are currently two Earls of Mar, with James Thorne Erskine, 15th Earl of Mar and 17th Earl of Kellie and Margaret of Mar, 31st Countess of Mar. The Earl of Mar and Kellie is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Erskine; the Countess of Mar is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Mar.