User:Jnestorius/The Coloured Earl

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);
The Blue Earl	zzz	1–1
The Grey Earl	zzz	1–1		John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland. Distinguish Earl Grey.
The zzz Earl	zzz	1–1

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;”