John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk

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Coat of arms of the Earls of Northesk

John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk (around 1579 - January 8, 1667 ) was a Scottish nobleman who was on the royalist side during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms .

Life

John Carnegie was the second son of David Carnegie, of Panbride and Colluthie, and his second wife Eupheme Wemyss, daughter of Sir John Wemyss, and a younger brother of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk (1575-1658). He lived at Inglismaldie Castle ( Marykirk , Kincardineshire ).

Carnegie was named Earl of Ethie and Lord Lour in 1617 , but gave up these titles in 1662 and exchanged them for that of Earl of Northesk. As Earl of Ethie, he was fined £ 6,000 under Cromwell's Act of Grace .

family

He married twice, first Magdalen Haliburton (* around 1508, † 1650), daughter of Sir James Halyburton , then on April 29, 1652 Margaret (Marjory) Maule, daughter of Andrew Maule, of Gourdie / Guildie, and Margaret Durham (s .  Le Riche (family) )

He had six children from his first wife:

  • David Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Northesk (before 1627 - 12 December 1679)
  • John Carnegie; ∞ Margaret Erskine, daughter of Sir Alexander Erskine of Dun
  • Anna Carnegie; ∞ Patrick Wood, son of Sir Henry Wood of Bonnington
  • Marjorie Carnegie; ∞ (1) James Scott, son of Sir John Scott of Scotstarvit ; ∞ (2) John Preston of Aldrie
  • Jean Carnegie; ∞ (1) Alexander Lindsay, son of Alexander Lindsay, 2nd Lord Spynie ; ∞ (2) John Lindsay of Edzell
  • Magdalene Carnegie; ∞ William Graham of Claverhouse

literature

  • Peter Beauclerk Dewar, Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment , 19th edition, Volume 1 ( Burke's Peerage ), p. 199. ISBN 0-9711966-0-5 . ( online )
  • Charles Harding Firth, Robert Sangster Rait (Ed.), April 1654: An Ordinance of Pardon and Grace to the People of Scotland. In: Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660 (1911), pp. 875-883 ( online )

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dewar 2001, p. 199
  2. ↑ Related to the North Esk River , which in its lower reaches forms the border between Angus and Aberdeenshire . Dewar 2001, p. 199
  3. ↑ More: Act of Pardon and Grace to the People of Scotland, an Act of Parliament of England, where it was stated that the people of Scotland were awarded (with certain exceptions) for crimes they during the kingdoms wars of the Three committed could have.
  4. ↑ Firth & Rait 1991, pp. 875-883
  5. ↑ Dewar 2001, p. 199
personal data
SURNAME Carnegie, John, 1st Earl of Northesk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH around 1579
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1667