Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney

Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney (c. 1375 – 1420) was the Jarl (Earl) of Orkney, Baron of Roslin and Pantler of Scotland.[1][2]

Henry Sinclair
Earl of Orkney
Sinclair Earl of Orkney Coat of Arms
PredecessorHenry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
SuccessorWilliam Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and 1st Earl of Caithness
Bornc. 1375
Diedc. 1420
Noble familyClan Sinclair

Early life
Rosslyn or Roslin Castle, seat of the Sinclairs who were Barons of Roslin, reconstruction image

He was son of Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, by his wife Jean, daughter of John Halyburton of Dirleton. He married Egida Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland. Sir William Douglas was murdered by a group of assassins who had been employed by Lord Clifford and as a result Sinclair inherited through his wife the whole of the Lordship of Nithsdale.[2]

Earl of Orkney

Sinclair was one of those captured following the Battle of Homildon Hill in 1402, but released on ransom.[2][3] He had succeeded his father, de facto, as Jarl by 1404; there is no record that he was ever officially installed as Jarl, and no certain record that he ever visited his jarldom.[4]

He was one of those who accompanied James Duke of Rothesay on his journey to France aboard the Maryenknyght, which was captured by English pirates off Flamborough Head in 1406. He followed the prince into captivity, but was soon released. Subsequently he was often in England on business connected with the king's imprisonment.[2]

Henry Sinclair died of influenza on 1 February, 1420.[3]

Marriage and issue

In about 1407 he married Egidia Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland.[2]

Preceded by
Henry Sinclair		 Jarl of Orkney
1404–1422		 Succeeded by
William Sinclair

References
  1. Fraser vol I, p.358
  2. Saint-Clair, Roland William (1898). The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair. Auckland, New Zealand: H. Brett. pp. 103-111. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  3. Paul, James Balfour (1909). The Scots Peerage. VI. Edinburgh: David Douglas. pp. 570-571. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
  4. Thomson, William P.L., The New History of Orkney (Edinburgh, 2008) p 172-175

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