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User:Jnestorius/The Coloured Earl

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Epithet Irish Dates Notes Other people
The White Earl James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond 1393–1452 The Book of the White Earl
The Black Earl Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond c.1531–1614 From his dark complexion James Carnegie, 2nd Earl of Southesk; William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1469); Thorfinn Sigurdsson, Earl of Orkney
The Red Earl Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster; Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory 1259–1326 The Hall of the Red Earl, Galway; John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer; Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon (left-winger); Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester
The Yellow Earl Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale;
The Green Earl Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy, the "Green Count" (clothes, armour, and livery);
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The Grey Earl zzz 1–1 John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland. Distinguish Earl Grey.
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In the Sutherland dynasty the colour of the hair decided this point, and they had “ The Red Earl, the Grey Earl, and the Black Earl;”