Arms:Quarterly, 1st & 4th: Per pale argent and sable a chevron and a crescent in base counterchanged (Alexander of Menstrie); 2nd & 3rd: Or, a lymphad sable between three crosses crosslet bottony fitchée gules 2 and 1 (Stirling). In the point of honour, an escutcheon argent, a cross saltire azure charged with an escutcheon of the arms of Scotland (Nova Scotia)
Creation date
14 June 1633
Created by
Charles I of England
Peerage
Peerage of Scotland
First holder
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
Last holder
Henry Alexander, 5th Earl of Stirling
Subsidiary titles
Viscount of Canada Lord Alexander of Tullibody Baronet Alexander of Menstrie
Status
Dormant
Extinction date
1739
Seat(s)
Menstrie Castle
William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
Earl of Stirling was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 14 June 1633 for William Alexander, 1st Viscount of Stirling.[1] He had already been created a Baronet, of Menstrie, Clackmannanshire in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 12 July 1625, then Lord Alexander of Tullibody and Viscount of Stirling on 4 September 1630, then Earl of Dovan in 1639.[1][2] He was made Viscount of Canada at the same time that he was granted the earldom of Stirling.[3] The other peerage titles were also in the Peerage of Scotland. The titles became dormant upon the death of the fifth Earl in 1739.
^ abGrosart, Alexander Balloch (1885). "Alexander, William (1567?-1640)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 01. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 275.
^"NOTES AND COMMENTS - Canada and the Peerage". Volume XLV. No. 13843. New Zealand Herald. 1 September 1908. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^"William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling". Britannica.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
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Lord Alexander of Tullibody in 1630. Upon the coronation of Charles I in 1633, Alexander was further created EarlofStirling and Viscount of Canada. On the...
town of Menstrie, Clackmannanshire, near Stirling, central Scotland. From the early 17th century, it was home to Sir William Alexander, 1st Earlof Stirling...
the colony at Port Royal; son of the 1st EarlofStirling William Alexander (judge) (c. 1754–1842), Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir William Alexander...
on the River Forth, Stirling is the administrative centre for the Stirling council area, and is traditionally the county town of Stirlingshire. Proverbially...
Alexander EarlofStirling; Charles Rogers; Scotland. Sovereign (1567-1625: James VI) (1885). Rogers, Charles (ed.). The EarlofStirling's Register of Royal...
controlled the area from 1621 to 1632 (see William Alexander, 1st EarlofStirling) and again from 1654 until 1670 (see William Crowne and Thomas Temple)...
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1621, when James VI and I (King of Scotland and England) conferred the land to William Alexander, 1st EarlofStirling, via royal charter and gave it the...
obvious that the English would continue their advance on Stirling. In an effort to "rescue" Stirling, Edward II continued to hurry his troops: they marched...
Sir Ferdinando Gorges and the EarlofStirling. This enabled him to transfer his business operations there. With the help of his son Thomas, a settlement...
the 1636 deed to William Alexander, Earl of Stirling by King Charles I in which Alexander received all of Long Island and adjacent islands. Alexander...
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