Lord Balmerino
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The title of Lord Balmerino (or Balmerinoch) was a title in the Peerage of Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...

; it was created in 1606 and forfeited in 1746 on the attainder and execution of the 6th Lord Balmerino in the Tower of London
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The title of Lord Coupar was a title in the Peerage of Scotland
Peerage of Scotland
The Peerage of Scotland is the division of the British Peerage for those peers created in the Kingdom of Scotland before 1707. With that year's Act of Union, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England were combined into the Kingdom of Great Britain, and a new Peerage of Great Britain was...

; it was created on 20 December 1607 for James Elphinstone. The second lord succeeded in the lordship of Balmerino in 1649. From his succession to the lordship of Coupar in 1669 to the attainder and forfeiture in 1746, both lordships were merged.

Lords Balmerino (1606)

  • Sir James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino
    James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino
    James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Balmerino was a Scottish nobleman and politician, disgraced in 1609.-Life to 1605:He was the third son of Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone, by Margaret, daughter of Sir John Drummond of Innerpeffray, and was born about 1553...

      (d. 21 June 1612)
  • John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino
    John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino
    John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino was a Scottish aristocrat, convicted in a celebrated trial of the 1630s which became a crux of the religious issue of the time.-Early life:...

      (d. 28 February 1649)
  • John Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Balmerino (18 February 1632 – 10 June 1704)
  • John Elphinstone, 4th Lord Balmerino (26 December 1652 – 13 May 1736)
  • John Elphinstone, 5th Lord Balmerino (24 November 1675 – 5 January 1746)
  • Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino (1688 – 18 August 1746) (forfeit 1746)

Lords Coupar (1607)

  • James Elphinstone, 1st Lord Coupar (c. 1590–1669)
  • John Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Balmerino, 2nd Lord Coupar (see above, also for further lords)
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