Ross-shire

Ross -shire, or the County of Ross ( Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Rois), is one of the traditional counties of Scotland. Ross -shire borders on the traditional counties of Sutherland, Cromartyshire with some enclaves, Inverness- shire and an exclave of Nairnshire and enclosed the largest part of the territory Ross on the Scottish mainland and the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. Dingwall is the historical capital of the county.

Ross -shire and Cromartyshire were merged in 1889 by the Local Government Act 1889 (Scotland ) for managing county of Ross and Cromarty. This was divided in 1975 by a new administrative act of 1973 to the District of Ross and Cromarty Highland region and the new County Western Isles. 1996, the District of the Highland region were dissolved and from all over the region, the unitary authority Highland was formed.

The three original clans in the main land of Ross -shire were the Clan Ross, whose chiefs had the title of Earl of Ross, and the clan Munro and MacKenzie. The title of Earl of Ross was his son Malcolm Macbeth transferred, who died in 1168, after which he went out of the Scottish King Alexander I " the Wild " ( 1107-1124 ). The late around the year 1251 Ferquard MacTaggart was the first winner of the renewed permit, in whose family the new name De Ross he remained until 1372. About female line he then passed briefly to the family Leslie, who kept it until 1424. Again about female inheritance, the district went to the MacDonald family, who retained only to 1475, when the title of the Scottish Parliament the 11th Earl was withdrawn. From Queen Mary Stuart became her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, equipped in 1565 among other titles also with that of the Earl of Ross, the then Scottish and English kings after 1603 and remained until the execution of Charles I. 1649. One last time, was created in 1772 in the person of Ralph Gore a Earl of Ross, who died in 1802: Since the title is extinguished. In the families Lockhart and Deane Ross was and still is the title of a baronet Ross available.

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