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unusual facts about Wars of the Three Kingdoms



Act of Settlement 1662

It was a partial reversal of the Cromwellian Act of Settlement 1652, which punished Irish Catholics and Royalists for fighting against the English Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms by the wholesale confiscation of their lands and property.

Airlie Castle

During the Wars of the Three Kingdoms the Ogilvies supported King Charles I and the Royalist cause.

Battle of Dalnaspidal

The Battle of Dalnaspidal was a battle during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and one of the last engagements of the Scottish Civil War, bringing an end to the Royalist rising of 1651 to 1654.

John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore

The Honours of Scotland had been placed at Dunnottar for safety during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and Robert Overton, commanding a force of the New Model Army besieged the Castle hoping to recover them.

John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss

Wemyss later supported the Scottish parliament against Charles I in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and died in 1649.

Worcester Cathedral

William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton (1616-1651), Scottish Royalist commander during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms


see also

James Livingston

James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar (~1590s–1674), army officer who fought on the Royalist side in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Lord Lisle

Philip Sidney, 3rd Earl of Leicester, played a major role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms including time as Lord Lieutenant and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland from 1646 to 1647 under the courtesy title Lord Lisle