Robert Carnegie, 3rd Earl of Southesk (b. before 1649–1688) was a Scottish nobleman. [1]
Life
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
Southesk married before 1664, Lady Anna Hamilton, eldest daughter of William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton and had issue:
- Charles Carnegie, 4th Earl of Southesk (1661–1699) [1]
- William Carnegie, (1662–1681) killed in Paris during a duel by William Tollemache youngest son of Sir Lionel Tollemache, 3rd Baronet. [1]
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ William Fraser (1867). History of the Carnegies, Earls of Southesk, and of their kindred. Vol. 1.
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