Earl of Eglinton

Earldom of Eglinton
Blazon Quarterly 1st and 4th grand quarters counterquartered 1st and 4th Azure three fleur-de-lys Or (Montgomerie); 2nd and 3rd Gules three annulets Or stoned Azure (Eglinton), all within a bordure Or charged with a double treasure flory counter-flory Gules; 2nd and 3rd grand quarters counterquartered 1st and 4th Or three crescents within a double treasure flory counterflory Gules (Seton); 2nd and 3rd Azure three garbs Or (Buchan) over all an escutcheon parted per pale Gules and Azure the dexter charged with a sword in pale proper pommelled and billed Or supporting an imperial crown the sinister charged with a star of twelve points Argent, all within a double treasure flory counterflory Gold.
Creation date	1507[1]
Created by	James IV of Scotland
Peerage	Peerage of Scotland
First holder	Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Lord Montgomerie[2]
Present holder	Hugh Archibald William Montgomerie, 19th Earl of Eglinton, 7th Earl of Winton
Heir apparent	Rhuridh Seton Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie
Subsidiary titles	Lord Montgomerie
Seat(s)	Balhomie House
Former seat(s)	Eglinton Castle Skelmorlie Castle

Earl of Eglinton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.^[a] It was created by James IV of Scotland in 1507 for Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Lord Montgomerie.^[2][1]

In 1859, the thirteenth Earl of Eglinton, Archibald Montgomerie, was also created Earl of Winton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords, and both earldoms have been united since. Furthermore, other titles held with the earldoms are: Lord Montgomerie (created 1449), Baron Ardrossan (1806) and Baron Seton and Tranent (1859). The first is in the Peerage of Scotland, while the latter two are in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

William Dunbar mentions a Sir Hugh of Eglinton in his Lament for the Makaris, citing him as a fellow poet. He has sometimes been tentatively identified as Huchown, but this is not certain.

The Earl of Eglinton is the hereditary Clan Chief of Clan Montgomery. The ancestral seat was Eglinton Castle in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.

• Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie (died c. 1470)^[4]
  • Alexander Montgomerie, Master of Montgomerie (1404–1452)
• Alexander Montgomerie, 2nd Lord Montgomerie (died c. 1483)
• Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Lord Montgomerie (c. 1460–1545) (created Earl of Eglinton in 1507)^[2]

• Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton (c. 1460–1545)
• Hugh Montgomerie, 2nd Earl of Eglinton (died 1546)
• Hugh Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton (c. 1531–1585)
• Hugh Montgomerie, 4th Earl of Eglinton (1563–1586)
• Hugh Montgomerie, 5th Earl of Eglinton (died 1612)
• Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton (1588–1661)^[5]
• Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton (1613–1669)
• Alexander Montgomerie, 8th Earl of Eglinton (died 1701)
• Alexander Montgomerie, 9th Earl of Eglinton (c. 1660–1729)
• Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton (1723–1769)
• Archibald Montgomerie, 11th Earl of Eglinton (1726–1796)
• Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglinton (1739–1819)
• Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton, 1st Earl of Winton (1812–1861)
• Archibald William Montgomerie, 14th Earl of Eglinton, 2nd Earl of Winton (1841–1892)
• George Arnulph Montgomerie, 15th Earl of Eglinton, 3rd Earl of Winton (1848–1919)
• Archibald Seton Montgomerie, 16th Earl of Eglinton, 4th Earl of Winton (1880–1945)
• Archibald William Alexander Montgomerie, 17th Earl of Eglinton, 5th Earl of Winton (1914–1966)
• Archibald George Montgomerie, 18th Earl of Eglinton, 6th Earl of Winton (1939–2018)
• Hugh Archibald William Montgomerie, 19th Earl of Eglinton, 7th Earl of Winton (born 1966)

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Rhuridh Seton Archibald Montgomerie, Lord Montgomerie (born 2007).

• Barony and Castle of Giffen
• Eglinton Castle
• Eglinton Country Park
• Eglinton Tournament Bridge
• Industry and the Eglinton Castle estate
• Polnoon Castle
• Robert Burns and the Eglinton Estate
• Seagate Castle

• Burke, John (1832). A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. 1. H. Colburn and R. Bentley.^{[page needed]}
• Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1894). "Montgomerie, Alexander (1588-1661)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 298–300. (6th Earl)

• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eglinton, Earls of" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 17–18.
• Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Seton" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 703.
• Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1894). "Montgomerie, Alexander (1660?-1729)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 2300. (9th Earl)
• Kidd, Charles (1903). Debrett's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage. London: Dean & Son. p. 348.
• Hesilrige, Arthur G. M. (1921). Debrett's Peerage and Titles of courtesy. London: Dean & Son. p. 333.

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