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Lord Sempill Of Dykehead
Lord Sempill of Dykehead was a title of the Jacobite peerage in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 11 May 1712 by James Francis Edward Stuart for Robert Sempill, a grandson of Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord Sempill. James issued a "declaration of nobility" recognising Robert as the legitimate holder of the 1489 creation of Lord Sempill, despite that title being extant in the Peerage of Scotland. The Lords Sempill of Dykehead were never recognised by the British authorities, with the original creation remaining the only legal title. The Jacobite title became dormant on the death of the second holder.Marquis of Ruvigny''The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour''(T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1904), p.164. Lords Sempill of Dykehead (Jacobite Peerage, 1712) *Robert Sempill, ''1st Lord Sempill of Dykehead'' (1672–1737) *Francis Sempill Francis Sempill (c. 1616 – March 1682) was a Scottish poet, the son of Robert Sempill the younger. No details of his education ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peerage Of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland ( gd, Moraireachd na h-Alba, sco, Peerage o Scotland) is one of the five divisions of peerages in the United Kingdom and for those peers created by the King of Scots before 1707. Following that year's Treaty of Union, the Kingdom of Scots and the Kingdom of England were combined under the name of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was introduced in which subsequent titles were created. Scottish Peers were entitled to sit in the ancient Parliament of Scotland. After the Union, the Peers of the old Parliament of Scotland elected 16 representative peers to sit in the House of Lords at Westminster. The Peerage Act 1963 granted all Scottish Peers the right to sit in the House of Lords, but this automatic right was revoked, as for all hereditary peerages (except those of the incumbent Earl Marshal and Lord Great Chamberlain), when the House of Lords Act 1999 received the Royal Assent. Unlike most peerages, many Scottish titles have been gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart (10 June 16881 January 1766), nicknamed the Old Pretender by Whigs, was the son of King James II and VII of England, Scotland and Ireland, and his second wife, Mary of Modena. He was Prince of Wales from July 1688 until, just months after his birth, his Catholic father was deposed and exiled in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. James II's Protestant elder daughter (the prince's half-sister) Mary II and her husband (the prince's cousin) William III became co-monarchs. The Bill of Rights 1689 and Act of Settlement 1701 excluded Catholics such as James from the English and British thrones. James Francis Edward was raised in Continental Europe and known as the Chevalier de St. George. After his father's death in 1701, he claimed the English, Scottish and Irish crowns as James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland, with the support of his Jacobite followers and Louis XIV of France, a cousin of his father. Fourteen years late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sempill (Jacobite)
Robert Sempill (1672 – 11 November 1737), styled Lord Sempill from 1712, was a Scottish Jacobite and soldier in French service. Sempill was born at Castle Semple, Scotland, the son of Hon. Archibald Sempill of Dykehead and the grandson of Hugh Sempill, 5th Lord Sempill. Being a Roman Catholic, he was sent to be educated in France and by 1688 was an ensign in the French royal Scottish Guards. In 1708 he became a captain in the Regiment of Galmoy before transferring to the Regiment of Dillon in the Irish Brigade in 1715. On 11 May 1712, Sempill was the subject of a "declaration of nobility" by the exiled James Francis Edward Stuart, which recognised Semphill as the legitimate heir of his Lord Semphill ancestors and thereby created him Lord Sempill of Dykehead in the Jacobite peerage.Marquis of Ruvigny''The Jacobite Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Grants of Honour''(T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1904), p.164. This was despite the title in the Peerage of Scotland remaining extant with Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Sempill
Lord Sempill (also variously rendered as Semple or Semphill) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in circa 1489 for Sir John Sempill, founder of the collegiate Church of Lochwinnoch. Sempill was killed at the Battle of Flodden in 1513. His grandson, the third Lord, was known as "The Great Lord Sempill". His grandson, the fourth Lord, was Ambassador from King James VI of Scotland to Spain in 1596. The male line failed on the death of his great-grandson, the eighth Lord, in 1684. He was succeeded by his sister Anne, wife of Robert Abercromby, who in 1685 was created ''Lord Glassford'' for life. In 1688 she obtained a new charter settling the lordship of Sempill in default of male issue, upon her daughters without division by her then and any future husband. Her younger son, the twelfth Lord, commanded the left wing of the government army at the Battle of Culloden in 1746. His great-grandson, the fifteenth Lord, died unmarried in 1835 and was succeeded by his youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Sempill (Jacobite)
Francis Sempill (1708 – 1748), styled 2nd Lord Sempill from 1737, was a Jacobitism, Jacobite of Scottish descent who became a leading agent for James Francis Edward Stuart in Paris. Sempill was the son of Robert Sempill (Jacobite), Robert Sempill and Elizabeth Abercromby. In 1712 his father had been created Lord Sempill of Dykehead in the Jacobite peerage and Sempill would use this title after his father's death in 1737. He was born at the exiled Stuart court at Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and educated at the Scots College, Douai. From 1730, Sempill became one of the most prominent and active Jacobite agents in France, and acted as the unofficial Stuart ambassador to Louis XV at Versailles after the Stuarts were forced to leave France for Rome due to the Anglo-French Alliance (1716–1731), Anglo-French Alliance. Reflecting the confused nature of Jacobite politics at the time, Sempill worked alongside, and sometimes against, Daniel O'Brien (Jacobite), Daniel O'Brien and Geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
