Lord Oliphant
| Lord Oliphant | |
|---|---|
| Creation date | July 1455 |
| Peerage | Peerage of Scotland |
| First holder | Laurence Oliphant |
| Last holder | Francis Oliphant, 10th Lord Oliphant |
| Extinction date | 19 April 1748 |
Lord Oliphant was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created at least twice and possibly four times. The first creation is dormant and the others are all extinct. The third and fourth creations have not been defined in law.
The title was certainly established by 1455 for Laurence Oliphant, 1st or 4th Lord Oliphant, but this creation became dormant on the death of the fifth (or eighth) lord in 1631. It was created again that same year for Patrick Oliphant (second creation), but this second creation became extinct in 1748 on the death of the tenth lord (or, fifth of second creation).
The first mention of Lord Oliphant is in the Great Seal of Scotland (Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum) where John Oliphant is cited as brother germain to Lord Oliphant, on 2 February 1394-5. The monks of Pluscarden record that in 1408, two brothers of Lord Oliphant, William and Arthur, had assisted in the murder of Sir Patrick Graham, Earl of Strathearn. These two brothers were drawn, beheaded and hanged.Walter Bower, who continued John of Fordun's chronicles is also cited to have made reference to the same incident circa 1408.
The first Lord Oliphant and his brothers John, Arthur and William were nephews of King David II of Scotland and first cousins of King Robert II of Scotland, as evidenced by their mother being described in numerous charters issued by King David II of Scotland as "beloved sister."
By 1398 only five Lordships had been created in Scotland but between 1429 and 1500 at least forty six Lordships are known to have been created and that of Laurence, Lord Oliphant reappears then. The interim lack of any mention of a Lord Oliphant can be explained by Laurence’s father having died young in a feud between the Ogilvies and the Lindsays at Arbroath in 1445 and Laurence's grandfather William, although retoured heir to his father in 1417, spending some twenty years, being most of his adult life, imprisoned in England in the Tower of London from 1424, where he either died or did so within a year of his release., which precluded either from having the opportunity to have acted politically and be known as Lord Oliphant.
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