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Earl Robert Sutherland

Earl Robert Sutherland

Male 1348 - 1427  (79 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Robert Sutherland 
    Prefix Earl 
    Birth 1348 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1427 
    Person ID I120593  Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father Earl William Sutherland,   b. Bef 1312   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Joan Menteith   d. Aft 21 Mar 1367 
    Marriage 9 Nov 1347 
    Family ID F178978  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret Stuart,   b. 1373   d. Abt 1439 (Age 66 years) 
    Marriage 1389 
    Children 
    +1. NN Sutherland,   b. Abt 1389   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Earl John Sutherland   d. Aft 22 Feb 1455
    +3. Baron Alexander Sutherland,   b. 1395   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F48936  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

  • Notes 
    • 6th Earl of Sutherland

      In 1389 he married a daughter of the 'Wolf of Badenoch', King Robert III's ferocious brother. Dunrobin, which means 'Robin's Castle' was named after him, and it has ever since remained the chief stronghold of the earldom of Sutherland. There may have been an earlier castle on the same site, and not far away are the remains of a Pictish broch or dry-stone tower.

      In 1395 he was parleying with the chief of the Mackays, in an attempt to settle their inevitable differences by negotiation, when he lost his temper and murdered Mackay and his son with his bare hands, which continued the feud between the two families.



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