earl of Marr I need to find the history,Help!

[matthew wright]

please help me,my great grandad whos last name was wright,he was the earl of Marr for queen mary of the scotts,and before she was beheaded she sent her son into exile with my great x 4 grandad can somebody help me who was he? i know the ivans were in the family tree.please help i need to find my people!

i want to know more about what kinda relationship the earl was to queen mary of the scotts before she was beheaded and what went on after she was beheaded with her son....what was my great grandads real name other than the earl of Marr. ???

[observer]

There was never an Earldom of Marr (sic) held by the Wright family in the Scots peerage at the time of Mary Queen of Scots.

At the time of Mary Queen of Scots the Earldom of Mar (note spelling) of the First Creation was held de jure by the Erskine family. There was also an Earldom of Moray and Mar held at the time by her illegitimate half brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray and Mar.

At the present time, both the Earldom of Mar and the Earldom of Mar and Kellie are held by descendants of the Erskine family.

You can read about these peerages on Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Mar#Earls_of_Mar.2C_sixth_creation_.281562.29

The title of Lord and Lady of the Manor of Marr was purchased by Ewa Lucas-Gardiner in 1996 from the Manorial Society of Great Britain. She and her husband Robert Lucas-Gardiner apparently are known by the shortened title of Lord and Lady Marr,

You can read about this at findarticles.com/p/news-articles/scotsman-edinburgh-scotland-the/mi_7951/is_2001_Jan_20/countess-castle-fake-faberge-eggs/ai_n33005354/

You can read about the Manor of Marr at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marr,_South_Yorkshire

Mary Queen of Scots' son was King James VI of Scotland and King James I of England.

[hovite]

Some history here:

www.electricscotland.com/webclans/earldoms/chapter1s5.htm