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The Earl of Doncaster: 1663 Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the Peerage of Scotland: The Earl of Shaftesbury: 1672 The Earl of Nottingham: 1681 Held with the Earl of Winchilsea in Peerage of England The Earl of Abingdon: 1682 Held with the Earl of Lindsey in Peerage of England The Earl of Portland: 1689 The Earl of Scarbrough: 1690 The ...
The title Earl of March (etymologically identical to 'Earl of Mercia') was created in the western Midlands for Roger Mortimer in 1328. It has fallen extinct, and been recreated, three times since then, and exists today as a subsidiary title of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox .
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
This group ranks below a duke but above an earl, count and a baron. The rank was acknowledged in European countries like Scotland, Germany, Italy and Spain and was adopted in imperial China and Japan.
Duke of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Leicester: Joan of Lancaster c. 1312 –1349: John (II) de Mowbray 1310–1361 3rd Baron Mowbray: Eleanor of Lancaster 1318–1372: Mary of Lancaster c. 1320 –1362: Earl of Worcester (2nd creation), 1397: John of Gaunt 1340–1399 Duke of Lancaster, 5th Earl of Lancaster, (6th) Earl of ...
George FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, an illegitimate son of king Charles II, was created Duke of Northumberland in the Peerage of England in 1683.He had already been created Baron of Pontefract, Viscount Falmouth and Earl of Northumberland in 1674, also in the Peerage of England.
2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Earl of Hereford: Edward II 1284–1327 King of England: Elizabeth of Rhuddlan 1282–1316: Humphrey de Bohun 1276–1322 3rd Earl of Essex, 4th Earl of Hereford: Edward III 1312–1377 King of England: John de Bohun 1306–1336 4th Earl of Essex, 5th Earl of Hereford: Humphrey de Bohun 1309–1361 5th Earl of Essex, 6th ...
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