Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney
Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, Lord of Roslin was a Scottish and a Norwegian nobleman. Sinclair held the title Earl of Orkney under the King of Norway. He was sometimes identified by another spelling of his surname, St. Clair. He was the grandfather of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, the builder of Rosslyn Chapel. He was best known today because of a modern legend that he took part in explorations of Greenland and North America almost 100 years before Christopher Columbus. William Thomson, in his book The New History of Orkney, wrote: "It has been Earl Henry's singular fate to enjoy an ever-expanding posthumous reputation which has very little to do with anything he achieved in his lifetime."
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Date of Birth
November 30th, 1344
Age
679
Date of Death
November 30th, 1399
Died Aged
55
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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Jane Halyburton
Wife
Jean Sinclair
Daughter
Henry II Sinclair
Son
Margaret Sinclair
Daughter
Beatrice Sinclair
Daughter
Elizabeth Sinclair
Daughter
William St Clair, 8th Baron of Roslin
Father
Isabel of Strathearn
Mother
William Sinclair, 1st of Dryden
Son
Helen Sinclair
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