HAMILTON, John 4th of Cadzow, Sir ^{1 2 3}

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John married Jacoba DOUGLAS, daughter of Sir James DOUGLAS Lord of Dalkeith and Agnes DUNBAR, by 8 November 1388.¹ (Jacoba DOUGLAS was born about 1375.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Jacoba, to whom her father bequeathed a gold circlet valued at 40 merks. She was contracted on 1, and married before 8, November 1388, to Sir John Hamilton of Cadzow, by whom she had issue... She survived him, and on 12 June 1410 had a dispensation to marry, as his second wife, Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig. They are said to have been in the fourth degree of affinity, while Joanna Murray, Sir William's late wife, and Jacoba from divers stocks, and Sir John and Sir William from one stock, were in the fourth degree of consanguinity."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6)




"He (Sir John Hamilton) married Janet, or, as some term her, Jacoba, daughter of Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, by whom he had three sons and one daughter."

from Memoirs of House of Hamilton ^{1 3}