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Documents relating to the St Clair family
Most of the extant documents relating to the St Clair (Sinclair) family have recently been reproduced, and translated, by the Grand Lodge of Scotland in the book: The Genealogie of the St Clairs of Rosslyn. To go to a page with information regarding that book please click here.
Here the Rosslyn Templars intend to reproduce the relatively few documents about the Sinclair family not contained within the book: The Genealogie of the St Clairs of Rosslyn by Father Richard Augustine Hay. To read more about that book click here.
The documents in the Genealogie... are paramount in understanding the history of the Sinclair family, Rosslyn Chapel and Scottish Freemasonry. The documents cannot be reproduced here as the book is © copyright of the Grand Lodge of Scotland but we can, and will in due time, list them in order that you might have an insight into why this book is so important.
Installation of Henry St Clair as Earl of Orkney, 1379 The first document we reproduce in full is dated 1379 written more than 300 years after the first document in the Genealogie of the St Clairs of Rosslyn. This document was not kept by the Sinclair family at Rosslyn Castle but with the papers of the Caithness branch of the family and is why it does not appear in the work of Father Hay.
Charter Earl Henry granting land to his brother David, 1391 Documents such as these although rather mundane and, at first glance, are meat and drink to the historian sometimes for what they do not reveal.
Acquisition of the Orkney and Shetland Isles, 1468-9 The charter of King Christian pledging the Orkney Islands as part of the dowry of his daughter - and what happened afterwards...
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