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Sir Henry Sinclair
(1375 - 1 Feb 1419)
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[[Category:Earl of Orkney]]
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[[Category:Lord Sinclair]]
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== Biography ==
Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney (circa 1375 – 1418/19) was a Scottish nobleman, a son of Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney by his wife Jean, daughter of John Halyburton of Dirleton.
He succeeded his father in 1404. In about 1407 he married Egidia Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland; they were the parents of William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, and Beatrix Sinclair, who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
== Vitals[[S-19]] Pages 570-571]] ==
Sir Henry Sinclair aka 2nd Earl of Orkney
Born 1375 in Rosslyn Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
Knight Templar
Died before May 1418, probably in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland, as that is when his wife received dispensation to marry Alexander Stewart.
=== Sources ===
: Source S994: Text: This individual (or object) is the subject of an article or stub at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_Sinclair,_Earl_of_Orkney Wikipedia]].
* Source S-19 Title: The Scots peerage, founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Vol. VI Editor: Sir James Balfour Paul. Publication: Published D Douglas in Edinburgh 1909. Available without charge at [[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6961214M/The_Scots_peerage Open Library]]
* Source: S2 Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Abbreviation: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
* Source: S3 Title: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SAINTS Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: [[#R1]]
* Source S-1991858457 Title: The history of the Sinclair family in Europe and America, for eleven hundred years : giving a genealogical and biographical his : Repository: [[#R-1992163608]]
* Source S-1992136522 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Repository: [[#R-1992163608]] Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=24279608&pid=1501967406
* Repository R-1992163608 Name: Ancestry.com
* It is The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair Saint-Clair, Roland William, 1862-
https://archive.org/details/saintclairsofisl00sain
The details are contained in page 296ff
The numbering depends upon who is called first Lord. The above genealogy has Henry (1375 – 1420 as first Lord Sinclair stating that he was the first bearer of the title in public documents. The book uses as a major source another book "Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn. Including the chartulary of Rosslyn by Hay Richard 1661-1735/6" (1835)
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10813.htm#i108129
https://archive.org/stream/saintclairsofisl00sain#page/296/mode/2up
This book contains lots of the charters from the archives of Roslyn castle; mostly in Latin. The editor (can't find his name) of the volume suggests that Hay doesn't always translate or interpret these correctly but he supports Hay on his assertion that the Earldom unusually went to the youngest son. I did find one indenture dated 1419, on page 60 which uses the phrase Henry Earl of Orkney, Lord Sinclair and Niddersdale which is presumably the document that is being used as evidence.
Apparently Burke changed it's numbering for this title after the 1970 edition and if that is accepted by most modern authorities ; then that's probably right
More important is the paternity of Henry ( http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sinclair-181 )that matters. At the moment wiki tree has his mother correctly as Christine Sinclair but his father as William the Earl (ie William the younger) This according to the above source and elsewhere such as http://www.thepeerage.com/p2844.htm#i28440 is incorrect. These sources have his father as William of Newburgh (aka the 'Waster' ) the elder son who was declared incompetent but was still Lord Sinclair (the 2nd or 3rd depending on source)
see also the background to a document in the archives of St Andrew's https://pacific.st-andrews.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='IM%2FLC%2FmsDA783.8L4%2Fms668')
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[[Category: Earls of Orkney]]
[[Category:Lord Sinclair]]
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== Biography ==}
Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney (circa 1375 – 1418/19) was a Scottish nobleman, a son of Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney by his wife Jean, daughter of John Halyburton of Dirleton.
He succeeded his father in 1404. In about 1407 he married Egidia Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland; they were the parents of William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, and Beatrix Sinclair, who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
== Vitals ==:Sir Henry Sinclair aka 2nd Earl of Orkney James Balfour Paul, [http://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul ''The Scots Peerage��: Founded on Wood’s Ed. of Sir Robert Douglas’s Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom''] (Archive.org) (Edinburgh : D. Douglas, 1904), [https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul/page/570/mode/2up Vol. VI, pp. 570-571.]
:Born 1375 in Rosslyn Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
:Knight Templar:Died before May 1418, probably in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland, as that is when his wife received dispensation to marry Alexander Stewart.
==Research Notes==*Saint Clair, Roland William, [https://archive.org/details/SaintClairRWTheSaintClairsOfTheIsles1898 ''The Saint Clairs Of The Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair Saint-Clair,''] ( Auckland, N. Z., H. Brett, 1898), [https://archive.org/details/SaintClairRWTheSaintClairsOfTheIsles1898/page/n315/mode/2up p. 297]. ([https://archive.org/details/saintclairsofisl00sain Also, older scan on Archive.org]):The numbering depends upon who is called first Lord. The above genealogy has Henry (1375 – 1420 as first Lord Sinclair stating that he was the first bearer of the title in public documents. The book uses as a major source another book "Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn. Including the chartulary of Rosslyn by Hay Richard 1661-1735/6" (1835) https://archive.org/stream/saintclairsofisl00sain#page/296/mode/2up
:This book contains lots of the charters from the archives of Roslyn castle; mostly in Latin. The editor (can't find his name) of the volume suggests that Hay doesn't always translate or interpret these correctly but he supports Hay on his assertion that the Earldom unusually went to the youngest son. I did find one indenture dated 1419, on page 60 which uses the phrase Henry Earl of Orkney, Lord Sinclair and Niddersdale which is presumably the document that is being used as evidence.
:Apparently Burke changed it's numbering for this title after the 1970 edition and if that is accepted by most modern authorities ; then that's probably right
:More important is the paternity of [[Sinclair-181|Henry]] that matters. At the moment wiki tree has his mother correctly as Christine Sinclair but his father as William the Earl (ie William the younger) This according to the above source and elsewhere such as http://www.thepeerage.com/p2844.htm#i28440 is incorrect. These sources have his father as William of Newburgh (aka the 'Waster' ) the elder son who was declared incompetent but was still Lord Sinclair (the 2nd or 3rd depending on source)
:see also the background to a document in the archives of St Andrew's https://pacific.st-andrews.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='IM%2FLC%2FmsDA783.8L4%2Fms668')
== Sources ==
See also:* Wikipedia contributors, [[Wikipedia:Henry_I_Sinclair,_Earl_of_Orkney|Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney]] Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed August 1, 2020).* Morrison, Leonard Allison, ''The history of the Sinclair family in Europe and America, for eleven hundred years ... '' (Boston : Damrell & Upham, 1896),[https://archive.org/details/cihm_40556/page/n45/mode/2up p. 37]*[http://www.thepeerage.com/p10813.htm#i108129 ThePeerage.com #108129], citing G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant,'' new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume X, page 95.
[[Category:Earl of Orkney]]
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[[Category:Lord Sinclair]]
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== Biography ==
Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney (circa 1375 – 1418/19) was a Scottish nobleman, a son of Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney by his wife Jean, daughter of John Halyburton of Dirleton.
He succeeded his father in 1404. In about 1407 he married Egidia Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland; they were the parents of William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, and Beatrix Sinclair, who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
== Vitals[[S-19]] Pages 570-571]] ==
Sir Henry Sinclair aka 2nd Earl of Orkney
Born 1375 in Rosslyn Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
Knight Templar
Died before May 1418, probably in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland, as that is when his wife received dispensation to marry Alexander Stewart.
=== Sources ===
: Source S994: Text: This individual (or object) is the subject of an article or stub at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II_Sinclair,_Earl_of_Orkney Wikipedia]].
* Source S-19 Title: The Scots peerage, founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, Vol. VI Editor: Sir James Balfour Paul. Publication: Published D Douglas in Edinburgh 1909. Available without charge at [[https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6961214M/The_Scots_peerage Open Library]]
* Source: S2 Title: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Abbreviation: Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002)
* Source: S3 Title: Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SAINTS Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: [[#R1]]
* Source S-1991858457 Title: The history of the Sinclair family in Europe and America, for eleven hundred years : giving a genealogical and biographical his : Repository: [[#R-1992163608]]
* Source S-1992136522 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Repository: [[#R-1992163608]] Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=24279608&pid=1501967406
* Repository R-1992163608 Name: Ancestry.com
* It is The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair Saint-Clair, Roland William, 1862-
https://archive.org/details/saintclairsofisl00sain
The details are contained in page 296ff
The numbering depends upon who is called first Lord. The above genealogy has Henry (1375 – 1420 as first Lord Sinclair stating that he was the first bearer of the title in public documents. The book uses as a major source another book "Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn. Including the chartulary of Rosslyn by Hay Richard 1661-1735/6" (1835)
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10813.htm#i108129
https://archive.org/stream/saintclairsofisl00sain#page/296/mode/2up
This book contains lots of the charters from the archives of Roslyn castle; mostly in Latin. The editor (can't find his name) of the volume suggests that Hay doesn't always translate or interpret these correctly but he supports Hay on his assertion that the Earldom unusually went to the youngest son. I did find one indenture dated 1419, on page 60 which uses the phrase Henry Earl of Orkney, Lord Sinclair and Niddersdale which is presumably the document that is being used as evidence.
Apparently Burke changed it's numbering for this title after the 1970 edition and if that is accepted by most modern authorities ; then that's probably right
More important is the paternity of Henry ( http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sinclair-181 )that matters. At the moment wiki tree has his mother correctly as Christine Sinclair but his father as William the Earl (ie William the younger) This according to the above source and elsewhere such as http://www.thepeerage.com/p2844.htm#i28440 is incorrect. These sources have his father as William of Newburgh (aka the 'Waster' ) the elder son who was declared incompetent but was still Lord Sinclair (the 2nd or 3rd depending on source)
see also the background to a document in the archives of St Andrew's https://pacific.st-andrews.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='IM%2FLC%2FmsDA783.8L4%2Fms668')
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
[[Category: Earls of Orkney]]
[[Category:Lord Sinclair]]
}
}
}
== Biography ==}
Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney (circa 1375 – 1418/19) was a Scottish nobleman, a son of Henry Sinclair, 1st Earl of Orkney by his wife Jean, daughter of John Halyburton of Dirleton.
He succeeded his father in 1404. In about 1407 he married Egidia Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland; they were the parents of William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney, and Beatrix Sinclair, who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
== Vitals ==:Sir Henry Sinclair aka 2nd Earl of Orkney James Balfour Paul, [http://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul ''The Scots Peerage��: Founded on Wood’s Ed. of Sir Robert Douglas’s Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of That Kingdom''] (Archive.org) (Edinburgh : D. Douglas, 1904), [https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul/page/570/mode/2up Vol. VI, pp. 570-571.]
:Born 1375 in Rosslyn Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
:Knight Templar:Died before May 1418, probably in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland, as that is when his wife received dispensation to marry Alexander Stewart.
==Research Notes==*Saint Clair, Roland William, [https://archive.org/details/SaintClairRWTheSaintClairsOfTheIsles1898 ''The Saint Clairs Of The Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair Saint-Clair,''] ( Auckland, N. Z., H. Brett, 1898), [https://archive.org/details/SaintClairRWTheSaintClairsOfTheIsles1898/page/n315/mode/2up p. 297]. ([https://archive.org/details/saintclairsofisl00sain Also, older scan on Archive.org]):The numbering depends upon who is called first Lord. The above genealogy has Henry (1375 – 1420 as first Lord Sinclair stating that he was the first bearer of the title in public documents. The book uses as a major source another book "Genealogie of the Sainteclaires of Rosslyn. Including the chartulary of Rosslyn by Hay Richard 1661-1735/6" (1835) https://archive.org/stream/saintclairsofisl00sain#page/296/mode/2up
:This book contains lots of the charters from the archives of Roslyn castle; mostly in Latin. The editor (can't find his name) of the volume suggests that Hay doesn't always translate or interpret these correctly but he supports Hay on his assertion that the Earldom unusually went to the youngest son. I did find one indenture dated 1419, on page 60 which uses the phrase Henry Earl of Orkney, Lord Sinclair and Niddersdale which is presumably the document that is being used as evidence.
:Apparently Burke changed it's numbering for this title after the 1970 edition and if that is accepted by most modern authorities ; then that's probably right
:More important is the paternity of [[Sinclair-181|Henry]] that matters. At the moment wiki tree has his mother correctly as Christine Sinclair but his father as William the Earl (ie William the younger) This according to the above source and elsewhere such as http://www.thepeerage.com/p2844.htm#i28440 is incorrect. These sources have his father as William of Newburgh (aka the 'Waster' ) the elder son who was declared incompetent but was still Lord Sinclair (the 2nd or 3rd depending on source)
:see also the background to a document in the archives of St Andrew's https://pacific.st-andrews.ac.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='IM%2FLC%2FmsDA783.8L4%2Fms668')
== Sources ==
See also:* Wikipedia contributors, [[Wikipedia:Henry_I_Sinclair,_Earl_of_Orkney|Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney]] Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed August 1, 2020).* Morrison, Leonard Allison, ''The history of the Sinclair family in Europe and America, for eleven hundred years ... '' (Boston : Damrell & Upham, 1896),[https://archive.org/details/cihm_40556/page/n45/mode/2up p. 37]*[http://www.thepeerage.com/p10813.htm#i108129 ThePeerage.com #108129], citing G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant,'' new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume X, page 95.
Events
| Birth | 1375 | Rosslyn Castle, Midlothian, Scotland | |||
| Birth | Abt 1375 | Rosslyn Castle, Edinburghshire, Scotland | |||
| Death | 1 Feb 1419 | Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland | |||
| Marriage | Egidia Douglas | ||||
| Alt name | 2nd Earl of Orkney | ||||
| Reference No | 1014278 | ||||
| Reference No | 1035599 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Egidia Douglas (1391 - 1438) |
| Child | William "3rd Earl of Orkney" Sinclair (1404 - 1480) |
| Child | Lady Beatrice Sinclair ( - 1463) |
| Father | Henry "1st Earl of Orkney, Baron of Pentland and Cousland, Baron of Roslin" Sinclair (1330 - 1400) |
| Mother | Jean Haliburton (1350 - 1400) |
| Sibling | Beatrice "Beatrix" Sinclair (1390 - 1428) |
| Sibling | Helen Sinclair (1360 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Sinclair (1363 - ) |
| Sibling | Marjory Sinclair (1382 - 1415) |
| Sibling | Jean Sinclair (1390 - 1422) |