Count Alexander Hamilton

COUNT ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Count Alexander Hamilton settled at the Court of Philip William, Elector Palatine, who sent him as envoy extraordinary to King James VII. He accompanied the Elector's daughter, Eleanora Magdalena, to Vienna, on her marriage with the Emperor Leopold, which took place on 14 December 1676, and was created a Count of the Empire with a grant of the County of Neuburg, near Passau, and other estates in Moravia and Hungary. The Scots Peerage I: pp. 47-8

Genealogy

The Scots Peerage I: pp. 47-8