Viscount of Kenmure

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Family coat of arms of the Viscounts of Kenmure

Viscount of Kenmure was a hereditary British title in the Peerage of Scotland .

The Viscount family residence was Kenmure Castle in Kirkcudbrightshire .

Award and history of the title

The title was bestowed on May 8, 1633 by King Charles I on Sir John Gordon, 2nd Baronet . Together with the Viscount title he was awarded the subordinate title of Lord Lochinvar . Both titles were awarded with the special addition that, in the absence of male descendants, they could also be passed on to the next male heir who bore the name and coat of arms of the Gordon family . Already in 1628 he had from his father, Sir Robert Gordon, 1st Baronet (1565-1628 to) the title of Baronet , of Lochinvar , inherited in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, who this May 1, 1626 the barons days of Nova Scotia awarded had been.

When the 2nd Viscount, the only son of the 1st Viscount, died childless in 1639, the Baronetcy became extinct, while the Viscountcy and the Lordship fell to his second-degree uncle as the 3rd Viscount due to the special inheritance regulation of his second-degree uncle. When he also died childless in 1643, his brother followed him as the 4th Viscount. When he also died childless in 1663, the title fell to his third-degree nephew as the 5th Viscount. His son, the 6th Viscount, was accused of having participated in the Jacobite revolt of 1715 and was ostracized and executed by parliament for high treason in February 1716 , which forfeited his titles. His grandson, House of Commons , John Gordon , obtained on June 17, 1824, that the ostracism of 1716 was revoked and the titles restored retrospectively. When he died childless in 1840, his nephew inherited him as the 11th Viscount and since his childless death on September 1, 1847, the titles have been suspended, as none of his relatives has so far been able to effectively prove his title to the House of Lords .

List of Viscounts of Kenmure (1633)

literature

Web links