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SIR WILLIAM SINCLAIR

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 141 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR WILLIAM SINCLAIR  , Or SAINT CLAIR (e . I260-c . 1303), was the descendant of a
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line of Anglo-Norman barons, one of whom obtained the
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barony of Rosslyn from King David I. in the 12th century .
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Sir William took
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part in the dispute over the succession to the
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crown of Scotland in 1292, and was one of the leaders of the Scots in their revolt against
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Edward I . One of his sons was William Sinclair (d . 1337), bishop of
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Dunkeld, who was responsible for the defeat of an
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English force at Donibristle in Fife in 1317 . Sir William's eldest son was Sir Henry Sinclair (d . 1330), the friend of Robert the Bruce; and Sir Henry's son was Sir William Sinclair, who was slain by the
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Saracens in August 1330, while journeying through Spain to
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Palestine with Sir James Douglas, the
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bearer of the heart of Bruce . This Sir William Sinclair married
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Isabel, daughter of Malise,
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earl of Strathearn,
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Caithness and Orkney (d. c . 1350), and their son Sir Henry Sinclair (d. c . 1400) obtained the earldom of Orkney by a
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judgment of the
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Norwegian kingHaakon VI. in 1379 . He then helped to conquer the Faeroe Islands, and took into his service the Venetian Travellers, Niccolo and Antonio
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Zeno, sailing with Antonio to Greenland .

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prince of Orkney, as he is sometimes called, was succeeded by his son Henry (d . 1418), who was
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admiral of Scotland, and then by his grandson William (c . 1404-1480), the founder of the beautiful
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chapel at Rosslyn .

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