19-496: The title of Lord Maderty was created in 1609 for James Drummond, a younger son of the 2nd Lord Drummond of Cargill . The titles of Viscount Strathallan and Lord Drummond of Cromlix were created in 1686 for William Drummond, a younger son of the 2nd Lord Madderty. Both creations were in the Peerage of Scotland , and are now held by the Earl of Perth . title passes to a descendant of
38-552: A Jacobite dukedom. The 10th Duke, who also held the Melfort titles, was a prelate of Catholic Church, known as the Abbé de Melfort. Upon his death in 1840, he was succeeded in his peerage titles by his nephew, George Drummond, who had embraced the Protestant faith. In 1853, the sixth Duke of Melfort, George Drummond, was by Act of Parliament deemed the 5th Earl of Perth, and the previous attainder
57-414: A daughter, Juna Violet (born 2012), and a son, Jaego Alexander (born 2016). The Earl also has an older half-sister, Anne Wilson (née Lennox) who was born in 1952. Earldom of Melfort The titles of Viscount of Melfort and Lord Drummond of Gillestoun were created in the Peerage of Scotland on 14 April 1685 for John Drummond , second son of James Drummond, 3rd Earl of Perth , with remainder to
76-628: A descendant of the 2nd Lord Drummond ). Because some writers do not count the de jure holders of the Earldom in the numbering, the 14th Earl is sometimes referred to as the 5th Earl, and so on. The present Earl of Perth considers himself the 19th holder of the title. The subsidiary titles held by the Earl of Perth are: Viscount Strathallan (created 1686), Lord Drummond of Cargill (1488), Lord Drummond of Stobhall (1605), Lord Maderty (1609) and Lord Drummond of Cromlix (1686). The title Viscount Strathallan
95-508: A similar remainder to the 1685 viscountcy. The 1st Earl and titular 1st Duke of Melfort was outlawed by the de facto régime in England on 23 July 1694 and was attainted by Act of Parliament on 2 July 1695, when his honours became forfeit. In 1701, after the death of James II and VII, the Duke of Melfort was granted the honours and precedence of a French peer by Louis XIV . He and his descendants used
114-420: Is the courtesy title of the Earl's eldest son and heir. All titles are in the Peerage of Scotland . The Earl of Perth is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Drummond . The family seat is at Stobhall , near Perth , from the early 14th century. The heir presumptive to the earldom is the present earl's younger brother Hon. Robert Eric Drummond (born 1967). He married Lara Baumann in 2012, with whom he has
133-594: The rising of 1715 . He had been created Duke of Perth, Marquess of Drummond, Earl of Stobhall, Viscount Cargill, and Lord Concraig in 1701 by the exiled Jacobite claimant to the British thrones, recognised by adherents of the Royal Stuarts as King James III and VIII . This creation, in the Jacobite Peerage , was never recognised by the de facto British government. He and his successors nonetheless continued to claim
152-542: The " Glorious Revolution " which installed William of Orange and Mary II on the English and Scottish thrones. Drummond was further created Baron Cleworth in the Jacobite Peerage of England by the exiled monarch, on 7 August 1689, and Duke of Melfort , Marquess of Forth , Earl of Isla and Burntisland , Viscount of Rickerton and Lord Castlemains and Galston in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland 17 April 1692, all with
171-458: The 1st Viscount Strathallan, who becomes 4th Lord Maderty (below) Lord Drummond of Cargill Earl of Perth is a title in the Peerage of Scotland . It was created in 1605 for James Drummond, 4th Lord Drummond. The Drummond family claim descent from Maurice, son of George , a younger son of King Andrew I of Hungary . Maurice arrived in Scotland on the ship which brought Edgar Ætheling ,
190-668: The 2nd Duke of Melfort had been married in 1707 to Marie Gabrielle d'Audebert, widow of the Duke of Albemarle and only daughter of Jean d'Audebert, Comte de Lussan). The titular 6th Duke of Melfort proved to the incumbent British authorities his descent from the 1st Earl of Melfort in 1848, and by a reversal of his ancestors' attainder on 28 June 1853 became 5th Earl of Perth and Lord Drummond of Stobhall, Earl of Melfort, Viscount of Forth and Lord Drummond of Riccartoun, Castlemains and Gilstoun, Viscount of Melfort and Lord Drummond of Gillestoun and Lord Drummond of Cargill. He died on 28 February 1902, when
209-455: The Earldom together with the Dukedom. Upon the death of the sixth Duke in 1760, he was succeeded by a second cousin, descended from the younger brother of the 4th Earl and 1st Jacobite Duke, John Drummond, first Earl and Jacobite Duke of Melfort , by his first wife. He, in turn, was succeeded by his third but only surviving son, as the 8th (Jacobite) Duke and 11th de jure Earl, who obtained in 1783
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#1733084589745228-623: The Hungarian Prince as a myth likely formed to give status to the Drummond origins. The Drummonds in the 12th century were allied to the Menteiths – their early fortunes developed through the relationship. Indeed, one "Johannes De Drumon", said to have died in 1301, was buried in Inchmahome Priory which was founded by the Menteiths. His successor John Drummond, the 7th Steward, was deprived of
247-552: The Saxon claimant to the crown of England after the Norman Conquest , and his sister Margaret to Scotland in 1068. Maurice was given lands in Lennox ( Dunbartonshire ), together with the hereditary stewardship of the county. The Hungarian Prince theory has been discounted as no evidence of any relationships exists in written records or DNA. "The Red Book of the Menteiths" clearly discounts
266-592: The death of his second cousin once removed , James Drummond, Lord Perth and Baron Drummond of Stobhall, a descendant of the 1st Earl and Duke of Melfort from his first marriage, to Sophie Maitland. In 1841 the titular 6th Duke of Melfort established his right before the French Council of State and the Tribunal de la Seine to the French titles of Duc de Melfort , Comte de Lussan and Baron de Valrose (his great-grandfather
285-431: The heirs male of his body by his second marriage, to Euphemia Wallace, failing whom to the heirs male of his body whatsoever. He was further created, on 12 August 1686, Earl of Melfort , Viscount of Forth and Lord Drummond of Riccartoun, Castlemains and Gilstoun , also in the peerage of Scotland, and with a similar remainder. A supporter of King James II and VII , Melfort escaped to France on 16 December 1688, following
304-471: The lands and retired into Perthshire . John Drummond, Justiciar of Scotia , was created a Lord of Parliament as Lord Drummond of Cargill in 1487–8 by King James III of Scotland . His direct descendant, James, 4th Lord Drummond, Ambassador to Spain, was created Earl of Perth and Lord Drummond of Stobhall in 1605. James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth was attainted for supporting the Jacobites during
323-577: The restoration of the estates, forfeited as a result of the Jacobite rising of 1745 . He did not succeed, however, in removing the attainder of 1716, but was created by George III of the Hanoverian dynasty, in 1797, Lord Perth, Baron Drummond of Stobhall , in the Peerage of Great Britain , which title became extinct on his death in 1800. He was succeeded, as 9th Jacobite Duke of Perth by his cousin, James Lewis Drummond, fourth Duke of Melfort, another holder of
342-489: The title "Duc de Melfort" in France, but this was a French translation of their Jacobite dukedom and not a French dukedom. The dukedom was never recognised by the governments of England and later of Great Britain . On 2 July 1800 the titular 4th Duke of Melfort succeeded as heir male to the attainted Earldom of Perth and as titular 9th Duke of Perth, Marquess of Drummond, Earl of Stobhall, Viscount of Cargill and Lord Concraig, on
361-553: Was reversed. Drummond also dropped the use of the dukedom of Melfort, although he had been recognised in French law courts as the duc de Melfort , comte de Lussan and baron de Valrose . At his death in 1902, several titles held by him, such as the Earldom of Melfort , became dormant because no-one could prove a claim to the title. The Earldom of Perth, however, as well as the titular Jacobite Dukedom, passed to William Huntly Drummond, 11th Viscount Strathallan (his 7th cousin twice removed,
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