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Earldom of Eglinton
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Quarterly 1st and 4th grand quarters counterquartered 1st and 4th Azure three fleur-de-lys Or (Montgomerie); 2nd and 3rd Gules three annulets Or stoned Azure (Eglinton), all within a bordure Or charged with a double treasure flory counter-flory Gules; 2nd and 3rd grand quarters counterquartered 1st and 4th Or three crescents within a double treasure flory counterflory Gules (Seton); 2nd and 3rd Azure three garbs Or (Buchan) over all an escutcheon parted per pale Gules and Azure the dexter charged with a sword in pale proper pommelled and billed Or supporting an imperial crown the sinister charged with a star of twelve points Argent, all within a double treasure flory counterflory Gold.
Creation date
1507[1]
Created by
James IV of Scotland
Peerage
Peerage of Scotland
First holder
Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Lord Montgomerie[2]
Present holder
Hugh Archibald William Montgomerie, 19th Earl of Eglinton, 7th Earl of Winton
Heir apparent
Rhuridh Seton Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie
Subsidiary titles
Lord Montgomerie
Seat(s)
Balhomie House
Former seat(s)
Eglinton Castle Skelmorlie Castle
Earl of Eglinton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.[a] It was created by James IV of Scotland in 1507 for Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Lord Montgomerie.[2][1]
In 1859, the thirteenth Earl of Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, was also created Earl of Winton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords, and both earldoms have been united since. Furthermore, other titles held with the earldoms are: Lord Montgomerie (created 1449), Baron Ardrossan (1806) and Baron Seton and Tranent (1859). The first is in the Peerage of Scotland, while the latter two are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
William Dunbar mentions a Sir Hugh of Eglinton in his Lament for the Makaris, citing him as a fellow poet. He has sometimes been tentatively identified as Huchown, but this is not certain.
The Earl of Eglinton is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Montgomery. The ancestral seat was Eglinton Castle in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.
^ ab"Earl of Eglinton". Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage. 1878. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
^ ab"Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton". The Book of Scotsmen Eminent for Achievements. 1881. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
^Burke 1832, p. 425.
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