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Earl of Traquair
Arms: Quarterly: 1st, Or a Fess chequy Argent and Azure (Stewart); 2nd, Azure three Garbs Or (Buchan); 3rd, Sable a Mullet Argent (Traquair); 4th, Argent an Orle Gules in chief three Martlets Sable beaked of the second (Rutherford).
Crests: On a Garb Or a Crow proper.
Supporters: On either side a Bear proper armed Argent](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Coronet///of///a///British///Earl.svg%0AArms///of///Stewart///of///Traquair.svg)
Name: Earldom of Traquair
Creation Date: 23 Jun 1633
Creation: First
Monarch: Charles I
Peerage: Peerage of Scotland
First Holder: John Stewart, 1st Earl of Traquair
Last Holder: Charles Stewart, 8th Earl of Traquair
Remainder To: the 1st Earl's heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
Subsidiary Titles: Lord Stewart of Traquair Lord Linton and Caberston
Status: Extinct
Extinction Date: 2 August 1861
Family Seat: Traquair House
Motto: JUDGE NOUGHT
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Earl of Traquair (pronounced "Tra-quare") was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 23 June 1633 for John Stewart, Lord Stewart of Traquair. The family seat was Traquair House. Stewart had been created Lord Stewart of Traquair in 1628, and was made Lord Linton and Caberston at the same time as he was given the earldom in 1633. These titles were also in the Peerage of Scotland. The titles became extinct or dormant on the death of the 8th Earl of Traquair, Charles Stewart (b. 1781), 2 August 1861.
Earls of Traquair (1633-1861)
Significant Events
Stewart v. Riddoch, Scottish Court of Session (1675).
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