The title Earl of Newburgh was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1660 for James Levingston. Levingston was previously created Viscount of Newburgh in 1647, and received, along with the earldom, the titles Viscount of Kynnaird and Lord Levingston, all in the Peerage of Scotland.
The title can be inherited by women, and has therefore passed to several different families by marriage. The present Earl, who is Italian, also holds several Continental titles of nobility. He is also Prince Rospigliosi, Prince Castiglione, Duke of Zagarolo, Marquis of Giuliana, Count of Chiusa, Baron of Valcorrente and La Miraglia and Lord of Aidone, Burgio, Contessa and Trappeto.
A Priory of the Augustinian Order was founded in 1145 through an original grant of the Newburgh lands by William the Conqueror to Robert de Mowbray.
Anthony's nephew William, having converted the Priory, set the scene for Newburgh as it is today and, except for the alterations and building work carried out between 1720-1760, the Priory remains very similar to what it was during the Tudor/period.
So today, Newburgh, unspoilt and retaining so much of its charm, is still lived in, and cared for, by the present Baronet and his wife, Sir George and Lady Wombwell and their two children Stephen born 1977 and Sarah born 1980.
S.E. of Newburgh, was the home for more than 250 years of the Balfour family, of which the two brothers, Sir James (1600-1657), the annalist and Lyon King, and Sir Andrew (1630-1694), founder of the Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, were the most distinguished members.
Of the Benedictine abbey, founded in 1178 by, David, earl of Huntingdon, brother of William the Lion, there only remain the groined arch of the principal entrance, a portion of the west tower and other Early English fragments, but the ground plan of the whole structure can still be traced.
At Blackearnside, a forest of alders, to the east of the village, Wallace defeated the earl of Pembroke in 1298.
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