BLAZON OF ARMS:
SHIELD: Quarterly:1st and 4th Argent, on a bend Azure three buckles Or, (for Leslie); 2nd and 3rd Or a lion rampant Gules surmounted of a ribbon Sable, (for Abernethy).
SOURCE, NOTES & CREDITS: The illustration of arms (for background) is from The Scots Peerage (Sir James Balfour Paul) Volume 7, Edinburgh, 1910. The text is adapted from information from the Wikipedia website.
The Earldom of Rothes is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1458 for George Leslie, 1st Lord Leslie. He had already been created Lord Leslie in 1445, also in the Peerage of Scotland. His grandson, the third Earl, having only succeeded his elder brother in March 1513, was killed at the Battle of Flodden on 9 Sep 1513. His son, the fourth Earl, served as an Extraordinary Lord of Session. Lord Rothes was also tried for the murder of Cardinal Beaton but was acquitted.
The nineteenth Earl, sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between 1906 and 1923. The wife of the 19th Earl, Lucy Noël Martha Leslie, Countess of Rothes, is best known as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912 His son, the twentieth Earl, was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1931 to 1959. As of 2023 the titles are held by his grandson, the twenty-second Earl, who succeeded his father in 2005.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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