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Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk

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Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk (b. before 1649–1688) was a Scottish nobleman.[1]

Life

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Commissioned as a captain in Louis XIV's Scottish Guards at Chantilly, Oise, France in 1659,[1] he was later a colonel in the Forfarshire militia.[1] He attended the Parliament of Scotland sporadically in the 1670s but attended more regularly through the 1680s.[1]

In 1666 he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle for wounding George Livingston, 3rd Earl of Linlithgow in a duel.[1]

He inherited the earldom from James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk in 1669.[1]

King James VII of Scotland granted a charter for an area of moorland to the west of Kinnaird, Angus and Farnell, Angus called Monrommon to Carnegie.[2]

Family

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Southesk married before 1664, Lady Anna Hamilton, eldest daughter of William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton and had issue:

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h James Balfour Paul, ed. (1907). The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland. Vol. 8. p. 71.
  2. ^ William Fraser (1867). History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and of their kindred. Vol. 1.
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by Earl of Southesk
1669–1688
Succeeded by