William St Clair | |
|---|---|
| Baron of Roslin | |
 Baron of Roslin coat of arms | |
| Predecessor | William St Clair, 15th Baron of Roslin |
| Successor | John St Clair, 17th Baron of Roslin |
| Died | 1650 |
| Noble family | Clan Sinclair |
| Father | William St Clair |
| Mother | Jean or Janet Edmondstone |
William St Clair (died 1650) was a Scottish nobleman and the 16th Baron of Roslin.
He was the son of William St Clair, 15th Baron of Roslin and his wife Jean or Janet Edmondstone, daughter of the Laird Of that Ilk. [1] He succeeded to the estates of Roslin upon the death of his father in 1610. [2]
William St Clair, 16th Baron of Roslin received a charter of the Hereditary Protectorate from the Scottish Freemasons in 1630. [3] He objected to the appointment of Anthonie Alexander to be the Master of Work to the Crown of Scotland as being in prejudice to his hereditary charge of the Masons of the Kingdom. [1]
He added to his family's ancestral halls at Roslin Castle and built a structure over the vaults. He was a loyalist and supported the cause of Charles I of England. [2]
He died during the Civil War and was interred in Rosslyn Chapel on the same day that the Battle of Dunbar was fought on 3 September 1650. [1]
His tomb was excavated at the start of the 18th century and the findings recorded by a Father Hay and kept at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh. This states the body was buried in full armour wearing a red velvet cap and resting on a stone slab, with no coffin, as were his ancestors. [4]
Wiliam St Clair, 16th Baron of Roslin married, in 1609, to Dame Anna Spotswood, daughter of John Spottiswoode who was then the Archbishop of Glasgow and later the Archbishop of St Andrews and Chancellor of Scotland. [1] [2] They had the following children:
Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin was a Scottish noblesse. Sinclair held the title Earl of Orkney and was Lord High Admiral of Scotland under the King of Scotland. He was sometimes identified by another spelling of his surname, St. Clair. He was the grandfather of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, the builder of Rosslyn Chapel. He is best known today because of a modern legend that he took part in explorations of Greenland and North America almost 100 years before Christopher Columbus. William Thomson, in his book The New History of Orkney, wrote: "It has been Earl Henry's singular fate to enjoy an ever-expanding posthumous reputation which has very little to do with anything he achieved in his lifetime."
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Rosslyn Chapel, formerly known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew, is a 15th-century chapel located in the village of Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland.
Lord Sinclair is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. According to James Balfour Paul's The Scots Peerage, volume VII published in 1910, the first person to be styled Lord Sinclair was William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney and 1st Earl of Caithness. However, according to Roland Saint-Clair writing in the late 19th century, William Sinclair's father, Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, who died in 1420, is the first person recorded as Lord Sinclair by public records.
Clan Sinclair is a Highland Scottish clan which holds the lands of Caithness, the Orkney Islands, and the Lothians. The chiefs of the clan were the Barons of Roslin and later the Earls of Orkney and Earls of Caithness.
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Baron of Roslin or Rosslyn was a Scottish feudal barony held by the St Clair or Sinclair family.
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George Sinclair was a Scottish nobleman, the 4th Earl of Caithness and chief of the Clan Sinclair, a Scottish clan of the Scottish Highlands.
William St. Clair, 6th Baron of Roslin was a Scottish nobleman of the late 13th century.
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William St Clair was a Scottish noble and the 13th Baron of Roslin.
William St Clair was a Scottish nobleman and the 14th Baron of Roslin.
William St Clair was a Scottish nobleman and the 15th Baron of Roslin.
John St Clair was a Scottish nobleman and the 17th Baron of Roslin.
James St Clair was a Scottish nobleman and the 18th Baron of Roslin.
John Sinclair was a Scottish nobleman and the 10th Lord Sinclair. In The Scots Peerage by James Balfour Paul he is designated as the 9th Lord Sinclair in descent starting from William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness and 3rd Earl of Orkney, but historian Roland Saint-Clair designates him as the 10th Lord Sinclair in descent from the father of the 1st Earl of Caithness and 3rd Earl of Orkney, Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, who is the first person recorded as Lord Sinclair in public records. Roland Saint-Clair references this to an Act of the Scottish Parliament in which the 4th Lord Sinclair was made Lord Sinclair based on his descent from his great-grandfather, Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, the first Lord Sinclair. Bernard Burke, in his a Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, agrees with the numbering by Roland Saint-Clair and says that Henry Sinclair and William Sinclair were "in reality" the fourth and fifth Lords Sinclair respectively.
Lord Herdmanston was a title in the Peerage of Scotland that was held by the Sinclair or St Clair family.
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