Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English military leader

Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle

English military commander (1270–1323)

Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, alternatively Andreas de Harcla, was an important English military leader in the borderlands with Scotland during the reign of Edward II. Coming from a knightly family in Westmorland, he was appointed sheriff of Cumberland in 1311. He…