Earl of Southesk

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Original coat of arms of the Earls of Southesk

Earl of Southesk is a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland . The title is named after the River South Esk in Angus , Scotland . It has been a subordinate title of the Dukes of Fife since 1992 and is used as a courtesy title by the respective title heir.

The earl is also the hereditary chief of Clan Carnegie .

The Earls family seat is at Kinnaird Castle near Brechin in Angus .

Award and history of the title

The title of Earl of Southesk was bestowed on June 22, 1633, along with the subordinate title of Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars , to David Carnegie, 1st Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird , an honorary judge on the Court of Session , Scottish highest civil court . He had already been awarded the subordinate title Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird on April 14, 1616 . All three titles belong to the Peerage of Scotland.

His great-great-grandson, the 5th Earl, took part in the First Jacobite Rising in 1715 . He was therefore ostracized by a resolution of the parliament in 1715 , with which he was declared forfeit of his title and his lands were confiscated by the crown. Since the former 5th Earl left no male descendants when he died in French exile in 1730, his fourth nephew, Sir James Carnegie, 3rd Baronet , became head of the family. This already carried the title of 3rd Baronet , of Pitcarrow in the County of Kincardine , which had been bestowed on February 20, 1663 in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia to his grandfather, a son of the fourth son of the 1st Earl of Southesk. The 3rd Baronet fought on the British side against the Jacobites from 1741 and in 1746 acquired the confiscated lands of the 5th Earl.

His great-grandson, the 6th Baronet, achieved the retroactive annulment of the ostracism order of 1715 and thus, taking into account his de iure ancestors, the restoration of the forfeited title for him as 9th Earl. On December 7, 1869, he was raised in the Peerage of the United Kingdom to Baron Balinhard , of Farnell in the County of Forfar , which, in contrast to his Scottish titles, was linked to a direct claim to a seat in the British House of Lords .

His grandson, the 11th Earl, married Princess Maud of Fife , the younger daughter of Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife , and Princess Louise , the eldest daughter of King Edward VII. This dukedom had been bestowed with the express provision that it could also pass on to the dukes' daughters and their male descendants. After the death of his grandfather and his aunt Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife , the 11th Earl's only son became 3rd Duke of Fife in 1959 . His mother had died in 1945. In 1992 the 11th Earl died and his son, the 3rd Duke, also inherited his title of 12th Earl of Southesk. Since then, the earliest dignity and the other titles are subordinate titles of the respective Duke of Fife.

List of the Earls of Southesk and Carnegie Baronets

Earls of Southesk (1633)

Title heir ( Heir Apparent ) is the eldest son of the current title holder, Charles Carnegie, Earl of Southesk (* 1989).

Carnegie Baronets, of Pitcarrow (1663)

because of the other bearers of the baronet title see above

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