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Earl of Carrick (or Mormaer of Carrick) is the title applied to the ruler of Carrick (now South Ayrshire ), subsequently part of the Peerage of Scotland. The position came to be strongly associated with the Scottish crown when Robert the Bruce, who had inherited it from his maternal kin, became King of Scots in the early 14th century.
Arion Thomas Piers Hamilton Butler, 11th Earl of Carrick (born 1 September 1975) is the elder son of the 10th Earl and his wife Philippa Janice Victoria Craxton. Styled as Viscount Ikerrin from birth, on 8 January 2008 he succeeded as Earl of Carrick and to the other peerages.
Edmund Butler (died 1321), 6th Chief Butler of Ireland and nominally Earl of Carrick, was an Irish magnate who served as Justiciar of Ireland during the difficult times of the Scottish invasion from 1315 to 1318 and the great famine of 1316 to 1317.
Jun 2, 2024 · He was proclaimed High King of Ireland, but was eventually defeated and killed in battle. He also held the Scottish title of Earl of Carrick. Edward was a son of Robert de Brus, jure uxoris Earl of Carrick and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick.
Duncan is said to have been created EARL OF CARRICK by King Alexander II. between 1225 and 1230, on condition that he resigned all claim to the lordship of Galloway. The descendants of Duncan and his son Neil appear to have taken the name of de Carrick. Earl Duncan died 13 June 1250.
Sep 18, 2018 · Robert the Bruce, Earl of Carrick and seventh Lord of Annandale, is best known to history as Robert I, King of the Scots (r.1306-1329). His dramatic rise to fame, a consequence of war, murder and political astuteness, against the backdrop of the First Scottish Wars of Independence, is well known.
The Earl of Carrick was the head of a comital lordship of Carrick in southwestern Scotland. The title emerged in 1186, when Donnchad, son of Gille Brigte, Lord of Galloway, became Mormaer or Earl of Carrick in compensation for exclusion from the whole Lordship of Galloway.
Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick and 6th Chief Butler of Ireland (1268-September 13 1321) was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was the second son of Theobald Butler, 4th Chief Butler of Ireland. Edmund went on pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in 1321 but died in London on September 13, 1321.
Mar 16, 2023 · Duncan, a grandson by a junior line of Fergus, the Celtic ruler of Galloway, was recognised by King William (The Lion) of Scots as overlord of the area of Galloway known as Carrick and made Earl of thereof by 1196.
May 4, 2021 · Alexander Bruce, Earl of Carrick (died 1333) was the Natural son of Edward Bruce and his mistress, Isabel, daughter of John de Strathbogie, 9th Earl of Atholl. He played an ambivalent role during Edward Balliol's first invasion of Scotland.
