The rank or title of an earl.
Henry VIII only had one legitimate son by his third wife Jane Seymore, Edward. He was incompetent and weak and died leaving his half sister Mary the throne. While married to his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, Henry had an eligitamet son with Elizabeth Blount named Henry Fitzroy. The king was very fond of the boy and created him and earldom and a dukedom. It is believed Mary Boleyn's son was Henry's but he never acknowledged it.
Warwick Castle remained the property of the Greville family until 1978 when David Greville, Lord Brooke sold the castle to the tussauds group for 1.5 million pounds. Lord Brooke had been in possession of the Castle and it's Estates since 1967 when his father the 7th Earl transferred ownership in order to avoid death duties. Only in 1984 did David Lord Brooke inherited the Earldom on the death of his father. David the 8th Earl of Warwick died in 1996 and his son Guy inherited the title and became the 10th Greville Earl of Warwick. He lives in Western Australia and has no links to his former ancestral home.
the Ui Neill were hereditary chiefs of tyrone in ulster. they accepted the title Earl of Tyrone from the tudors and later went into exile with most of the other chieftains in 1605 after defeat in the 9 year war against elizabeth 1. That's incorrect. The O'NEILL accecpted the Earldom. The ancestors of the O'Neill family were called the Ui Neill, but this was not a surname, just a dynastic term. The O'Neills take their surname from an ancestor called Niall Glundubh (as far as I recall) who lived and died in the 10th century. It was his grandson or great-grandsons who first used the surname O'Neill. The term Ui Neill describes the descendants of Niall Niogaillach mac Eochagh Mughmeadon (died about 450), but, as I said, was simply a descriptive term used to denote them as descendants of Niall; surnames would not be used in Ireland until hundreds of years later.
Only if his father was a duke. There are two types of marquess: 1) A marquess by right. Marquess is the family's senior title, held by the head of the family, e.g. the Marquess of Bath, owner of Longleat. 2) A marquess by courtesy. The eldest son of any peer above the rank of baron takes his father's second most senior title as a courtesy title. A courtesy title has never conferred the right to sit in the House of Lords, and the holder is not a peer of the realm. Usually, but not always, a duke also holds a marquessate, which can be used by his eldest son e.g.. the Duke of Bedford's eldest son is the Marquess of Tavistock. He will become the duke on his father's death. Where a duke does not hold a marquessate, his eldest son will not be a marquess, e.g. the Duke of Norfolk's eldest son is the Earl of Arundel, because the earldom of Arundel is the second most senior title held by the family.
The O'Beolairts (O Beollain) or Gillanders (Giolla Aindreas) of the Cineal Eoghain were co-arbs (hereditary abbots) of St. Maelrubha at Applecross in Ross-shire. They were a powerful princely family, and became earls of Ross in the early thirteenth century. Towards the end of the fourteenth century they inherited the chiefship of the Clann Aindreas, or Clann GiollaAindreas (Clan Gillanders), a native Pictish tribe related to the MacKenzies and Mathesons and among whom they had long been ecclesiastical and secular leaders. At about the same time they were artificially dispossessed of the Earldom of Ross by the King of Scots, and afterwards the family adopted as a surname what had for some time been the descriptive epithet of (de) Ross. They are also known by the patronymic of MacAndrew (Mac Gille Aindreas) from the clan name, while the original family name ofO Beollain survives as MacBeolain, following Scottish prefix usage. A branch of the O'Beolains became hereditary abbots (erenaghs) of the Columban church at Drumcliffe in Sligo, and were famous for their hospitality. Some of the MacAndrews settled in the Clan Chattan country, and sought the protection of the MacKintosh about 1400. The MacBeolains occupied Glenshiel and the south side of Loch Duich as far as Kylerhea. Fearcher MacTaggart (Mac an tSagairt-"the son of the priest") of Applecross was created Earl of Ross in 1234.
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Robert Blair Swinton has written: 'The proceedings in the case of the Earldom of Mar: 1867-1885' -- subject(s): Succession 'The proceedings in the case of Earldom of Mar' -- subject(s): Earldom of Mar, Succession
Earldom
Earl of Kent.
Earls of Dundonald has written: 'Charter chest of the Earldom of Dundonald, 1219-1672'
Robert Gordon has written: 'A genealogical history of the earldom of Sutherland from its origin to the year 1630'
Caithness is a registration country, lieutenancy area and historic local government area of Scotland. The name was used also for the earldom of Caithness.
John Francis Goodeve Erskine has written: 'Ancient and modern' -- subject(s): Earldom of Mar, Earls of Mar, Succession
An earl is the equivalent of the continental count. An earldom is a county. Not all counties are those of earls, however, as a marquess also had a county, though it was originally a border county, which was also called a march.
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl., A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire., A count; an earl or lord.
'Mrs'. Being the child of a Duke does not come with any particular titles, unless a title has been specifically granted by the sovereign, or, the duke himself allows the daughter to go by the name of a lesser rank that he also holds, such as an earldom.