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  2. Thane of Calder - Wikipedia

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    Thane of Calder was a title of nobility in the Kingdom of Scotland. [1] Hugh de Cadella (or Kaledouer) was a French nobleman mentioned in David Hume of Godscroft 's "The history of the house of Douglas" who gave influential support to Malcolm III of Scotland and was given lands in Nairn, which were renamed Calder. [2][3] In 1310 CE, Robert the ...

  3. Clan Calder - Wikipedia

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    For example, East Calder and West Calder that are both near Edinburgh, and also Calderwood near Glasgow. [3] Historian William Anderson asserted that the name came to prominence in Scotland through a French knight called Hugo de Cadella, who was created Thane of Calder, later known as Cawdor. [3]

  4. Thane of Cawdor - Wikipedia

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    Thane of Cawdor is a title in the Scottish nobility. [1] The current 7th Earl Cawdor , of Clan Campbell of Cawdor , is the 25th Thane of Cawdor . In William Shakespeare 's play Macbeth , this title was given to Macbeth after the previous Thane of Cawdor was captured and executed for treason against King Duncan. [ 2 ]

  5. Cawdor Castle - Wikipedia

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    Cawdor Castle is a castle in the parish of Cawdor in Nairnshire, Scotland. It is built around a 15th-century tower house, with substantial additions in later centuries. Originally a property of the Calder family, it passed to the Campbells in the 16th century. It remains in Campbell ownership, and is now home to Angelika Campbell, Dowager ...

  6. John Campbell of Cawdor (nobleman) - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Campbell (c. 1490 - 1 May 1546) was a Scottish nobleman and the eponymous ancestor of the Campbells of Cawdor. John was the third son of the Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth, a daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox. He married the daughter and heiress of Sir John Calder of Calder, in 1510, whom his father had ...

  7. Thane (Scotland) - Wikipedia

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    Thane (/ ˈ θ eɪ n /; Scottish Gaelic: taidhn) [1] was the title given to a local royal official in medieval eastern Scotland, equivalent in rank to the son of an earl, [2] who was at the head of an administrative and socio-economic unit known as a thanedom or thanage.

  8. Clan Campbell of Cawdor - Wikipedia

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    Sir John Campbell, 8th of Calder, married Mary, eldest daughter of Lewis Pryce (or Pryse) of Gogerddan in Cardiganshire. Campbell of Caddell/Calder died in 1777 and was succeeded by his son, Pryse Campbell of Calder, who was an MP for Cromartyshire and Nairnshire. His son, John, was made Lord Calder of Castlemartin in 1797.

  9. Mots d'Heures - Wikipedia

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    Mots D'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The D'Antin Manuscript (Mother Goose Rhymes), published in 1967 by Luis d'Antin van Rooten, is purportedly a collection of poems written in archaic French with learned glosses. In fact, they are English-language nursery rhymes written homophonically as a nonsensical French text (with pseudo-scholarly explanatory ...

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