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The Master of Caithness died at Castle Sinclair Girnigoe in 1576. [3] [2] George, 4th Earl of Caithness also obtained a remission to imprison his younger brother David Sinclair in Castle Sinclair Girnigoe. [3] George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness died at Edinburgh on 9 September 1582 and was buried in Rosslyn Chapel. [1]
George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness received charters from the Crown on 17 December 1591, 18 June 1606, 3 November 1612 and 9 June 1615. [2] He resigned the earldom of Caithness on 3 April 1592, with the consent of his wife, Jean Gordon, Countess of Caithness, into the hands of James VI of Scotland.
Alexander Sinclair, 9th Earl of Caithness; George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness; George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness; George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness; George Sinclair, 7th Earl of Caithness; James Sinclair, 12th Earl of Caithness; John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness; John Sinclair, 8th Earl of Caithness; John Sinclair, 11th Earl of ...
The Battle of Altimarlach was a Scottish clan battle that took place on 13 July 1680, near Wick, Caithness, Scotland.It was fought in a dispute between Sir John Campbell of Glenorchy and George Sinclair of Keiss over who had the right to the title and lands of the Earl of Caithness.
George Sinclair was the only son of James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness and his first wife Louisa Georgiana Philips (1827-70), daughter of Sir George Philips, 2nd Baronet. He was educated privately and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. [3] On 28 March 1881 he succeeded his father as 15th Earl of Caithness and 2nd Baron Barrogill.
John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness (1490–1529) died at the Battle of Summerdale in May 1529 in Orkney. He was succeeded by his son George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness. William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair was taken prisoner. [12] [13] At the Battle of Solway Moss in 1552, Scots commanded by Oliver Sinclair of Pitcairns were beaten by the ...
George Sinclair, 6th Earl of Caithness married Mary, daughter of Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, but had no children.He died at Thurso Castle in 1676. The Earldom of Caithness being much in debt, he had transferred the estates and the title to his principal creditor, John Campbell of Glenorchy, who upon Sinclair's death was created Earl of Caithness by patent.
The castle was built possibly on the site of an earlier fort in the late 16th or early 17th century by George Sinclair, 5th Earl of Caithness (1582-1643). It seems the castle was in existence in 1623 when James VI commissioned Sir Robert Gordon to enter Caithness with an armed force. [ 3 ]