HOME, George of Berwick, then Earl of Dunbar, Sir ^{1 2 3}

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George married Elizabeth GORDON, daughter of George GORDON 3rd of Gight and Agnes BETON (BETHUNE), by 22 May 1596(grant).^{1 2} (Elizabeth GORDON was born about 1570.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The Earl of Dunbar married Elizabeth, only child of George Gordon of Gight, by his wife Agnes, a natural daughter of Cardinal Beaton. They had two daughters"

from Scots Peerage (vol 3)




"By her husband, the laird of Gight, she (Agnes Beaton) had only one child, a daughter, Elizabeth, and from her many noblemen of to-day are descended. [....]

On May 22, 1596, Elizabeth Gordon and her husband, Home, were granted the lands of Derington (Great Seal). Home was created Baron Hume of Berwick in 1604, and advanced to the Earldom of Dunbar in 1605. He attended King James VI. into England, and was made K.G. in 1608. He died suddenly at Whitehall on January 29, 1611-2. Some say he was poisoned, which ought just to have been a Gordon's luck, for her father and her step-father had been killed and her maternal grandfather murdered. Lord Dunbar left no male issue, and his earldom became dormant (G. E. C.'s Complete Peerage, iii., 201). His barony seems to have vested in his two daughters and co-heirs, Anne and Elizabeth."

from Gight ^{1 2}