Lord Holyroodhouse

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Lord Holyroodhouse was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland .

The title was granted as the hereditary Lordship of Parliament on December 20, 1607 by King James VI. bestowed on the lawyer John Bothwell, Lord Holyroodhouse . As a judge at the Court of Session, he was awarded the non-hereditary title of Lord Holyroodhouse as Law Lord on July 2, 1593 . The name of the title refers to the former Augustinian canons of Holyrood Abbey near Edinburgh , whose guest house had meanwhile been expanded to the Holyroodhouse . Bothwell had acquired this property in 1582, which was converted into secular rule for him in 1607.

His only son, the 2nd Lord, died in 1638 unmarried and childless and his lands reverted to the Crown. In the following years the Holyroodhouse property was expanded to Holyrood Palace . Since male relatives of the two lords tried (albeit unsuccessfully) in 1704 and 1734 to be officially recognized as the heir to the title, the title is not considered to have expired, but rather dormant.

List of Lords Holyroodhouse (1607)

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