INNES, Isabel ¹

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Isabel married James DUNBAR 4th Earl of Moray, son of Alexander DUNBAR and Matilda FRASER heiress of Frendraught.^{1 2} (James DUNBAR 4th Earl of Moray was born about 1401 and died about 10 August 1430 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Hector Boece, though not a reliable authority, seems to have known facts about the Dunbars which were overlooked by genealogists until lately discovered to be comparatively true. He wrote about 1527, and his continuation volume, printed in 1574, is closely followed by Pitscottie, who states that James Dunbar, Earl of Moray, was handfasted to Isobel Innes, daughter to the Laird of Innes, but she died before marriage. After her death the Earl married Katharine (or Janet), daughter to Alexander Seton of Gordon. This is a statement which is accepted in varying forms by all later writers, and nothing has been found to disprove it .....

By Isabel Innes the Earl had a son Alexander, afterwards Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfield." (pages 305-306)

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)




"He (James, Earl of Dunbar) was twice married ; first to his cousin, Isobel, daughter of Walter Innes of that ilk ,but as this union was within the degrees of consanguinity forbidden by the church, it was alleged the marriage was not valid without a dispensation from the Pope ; but she died before that could be obtained,
leaving issue, by the Earl, a son, Alexander, who, though he did not succeed to the
Earldom of Moray, got the lands of Westfield in Morayshire, Conzie in Forgue, and
many others."

from Thanage of Fermartyn ^{1 2}