John Erskine sixth Earl of Mar

Standard Name: Mar, John Erskine,,, sixth Earl of

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Lady Mary Wortley Montagu	LMWM 's closest sister, Frances , was married in 1714 to John Erskine, Earl of Mar . He led the first Jacobite rebellion to disaster in 1715 (leaving his wife and one-day-old daughter for this...
Family and Intimate relationships	Winifred Maxwell Countess of Nithsdale	Lord Nithsdale , husband of WMCN , was at first reluctant to join the badly planned and executed Jacobite rebellion of Lord Mar , which began when Mar raised his standard on 6 September 1715...

Timeline

6 September 1715

The first Jacobite Rebellion began when John Erskine, 6th Earl of Mar , raised his standard. He also issued a proclamation at Braemar, Scotland, declaring that James III was the rightful king.

Steinberg, Sigfrid Henry. Historical Tables: 58 BC-AD 1985. 11th ed., Garland Publishing, 1986.

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Gregg, Edward. “The Jacobite Career of John, Earl of Mar”. Ideology and Conspiracy: Aspects of Jacobitism, 1689-1759, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks, John Donald, 1982, pp. 179-94.

4 February 1716

The Pretender and Lord Mar embarked for France from Scotland, abandoning their rebellion and their Jacobite supporters.

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

210

Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History, 1714-1995. 3rd ed., Longman, 1996.

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