GRAHAM, James 5th Earl, then Marquis, of Montrose ¹

   Cause of his death was execution by hanging.

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James married Magdalene CARNEGIE, daughter of David CARNEGIE Earl of Southesk, Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird and Leuchars and Margaret LINDSAY, on 10 November 1629.^{1 2} (Magdalene CARNEGIE was born about 1613 and died in November 1645 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The first Marquess of Montrose married, at Kinnaird, 10 November 1629, Magdalen Carnegie, daughter of David, Lord Carnegie, afterwards first Earl of Southesk. Not fully in sympathy, it is said, with the political views of her illustrious husband, she, in 1644, withdrew from Kincardine to Forfarshire and lived with her two youngest children, partly at her jointure-house of Old Montrose and partly with her father at Kinnaird."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)




"Magdalene, the youngest daughter, married, 10 November 1629, to James, Earl and afterwards Marquess of Montrose, to whom Lord Southesk was guardian. By their marriage-contract, dated 1 November of that year, she was infeft in the liferent of the lands and barony of Old Montrose, the lands of Fullartone, and 'thrid pairt landis of Ananie,' and the lands of Marietoun with fishings, etc. Her tocher was £40,000 Scots. It was further arranged that the young Marquess and his wife should live at Kinnaird for the first three years after their marriage. The Marquess was only seventeen years of age at the timeof his marriage. His portrait by George Jameson, painted in his wedding suit, is at Kinnaird. The Marchioness predeceased her husband in November 1645, five years before the date of his execution in Edinburgh."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8) ^{1 2}