| | | | | | | | Edward Bruce of Blairhall (c. 1505–1565) |
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| | | | LORD KINLOSS, 1602 | | | | | | | | | |
| | | | Edward Bruce 1st Lord Kinloss (1548–1611) | | | | | | George Bruce of Carnock (c. 1550–1625) | | Margaret Primrose |
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| | | | | EARL OF ELGIN, 1633 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Edward Bruce 2nd Lord Kinloss (1594–1613) | | Thomas Bruce 3rd Lord Kinloss 1st Earl of Elgin (1599–1663) | | Mary Preston | | George Bruce (2nd) of Carnock (d. 1643) | | Robert Bruce of Broomhall (d. 1652) |
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EARL OF AILESBURY (1st creation), 1664 | | | | | | EARL OF KINCARDINE, 1647 | | | | | | | | | | |
Robert Bruce 2nd Earl of Elgin 1st Earl of Ailesbury (1627–1685) | | Thomas Brudenell 1st Earl of Cardigan (c. 1583–1663) | | Edward Bruce 1st Earl of Kincardine (d. 1662) | | Alexander Bruce 2nd Earl of Kincardine (c. 1629–1680) | | Alexander Bruce 4th Earl of Kincardine (died 1706) | |
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Thomas Bruce 3rd Earl of Elgin 2nd Earl of Ailesbury (1656–1741) | | Robert Brudenell 2nd Earl of Cardigan (1607–1703) | | Alexander Bruce 3rd Earl of Kincardine (c. 1666–1705) | | Robert Bruce 5th Earl of Kincardine (d. 1718) | | Alexander Bruce 6th Earl of Kincardine (1662–1721) | | Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Kincardine (1663–1739/1740) |
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Charles Bruce 4th Earl of Elgin 3rd Earl of Ailesbury (1682–1747) | | George Brudenell 3rd Earl of Cardigan (1685–1732) | | Elizabeth Brudenell (1689–1745) | | | | | | | | | | William Bruce 8th Earl of Kincardine (1710–1740) |
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Earldom of Ailesbury extinct, 1747 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | EARL OF AILESBURY (2nd creation), 1747 | | | | | | | | | |
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George Brudenell, later Montagu 4th Earl of Cardigan Duke of Montagu (1712–1790) | | James Brudenell 5th Earl of Cardigan (1725–1811) | | Robert Brudenell (1726–1768) | | Thomas Brudenell-Bruce 1st Earl of Ailesbury (1729-1815) | | | | | | Charles Bruce 9th Earl of Kincardine 5th Earl of Elgin (1732–1771) |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | MARQUESS OF AILESBURY, 1821 | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Robert Brudenell 6th Earl of Cardigan (1760–1837) | | Charles Brudenell-Bruce 2nd Earl of Ailesbury 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (1773–1856) | | William Robert Bruce 6th Earl of Elgin 10th Earl of Kincardine (1764–1771) | | Thomas Bruce 7th Earl of Elgin 11th Earl of Kincardine (1766–1841) |
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| | | | | | | | James Brudenell 7th Earl of Cardigan (1797–1868) | | George Brudenell-Bruce 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury 8th Earl of Cardigan (1804–1878) | | Ernest Brudenell-Bruce 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury (1811–1886) | | James Bruce 8th Earl of Elgin 12th Earl of Kincardine (1811–1863) |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Earldom of Cardigan became courtesy title of the Marquess of Ailesbury, 1868 | | | | | | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | George John Brudenell-Bruce (1839–1868) | | Henry Brudenell-Bruce 5th Marquess of Ailesbury (1842–1911) | | Victor Alexander Bruce 9th Earl of Elgin 13th Earl of Kincardine (1849–1917) |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | George William Thomas Brudenell-Bruce 4th Marquess of Ailesbury (1863–1894) | | George William James Chandos Brudenell-Bruce 6th Marquess of Ailesbury (1873–1961) | | Edward James Bruce 10th Earl of Elgin 14th Earl of Kincardine (1881–1968) |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brudenell-Bruce 8th Marquess of Ailesbury (b. 1926) | | Andrew Bruce 11th Earl of Elgin 15th Earl of Kincardine (b. 1925) |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | David Brudenell-Bruce (b. 1952) | | Charles Edward Bruce (b. 1961) |