MONTGOMERIE, Hugh Lord Montgomerie, 3rd Earl of Eglinton 2
- Born: About 1533
- Marriage (1): HAMILTON, Jane or Jean 13 February 1554(1555)(contract) 1 2
- Marriage (2): DRUMMOND, Agnes 8 June 1562(contract) 2
- Died: 3 June 1585 2
User ID: W140.
General Notes:
"HUGH, third Earl of Eglintoun, succeeded his father in September 1546, while still under sixteen years of age. He entered St. Mary's College, St. Andrews, as a student in 1552, and was still under curatory at the date of his marriage-contract in 1554, perhaps also later."
from Scots Peerage (vol 3) 2
Hugh married Jane or Jean HAMILTON, daughter of James HAMILTON 2nd Earl of Arran, Duke of Chatelherault and Margaret DOUGLAS Countess of Arran, 13 February 1554(1555)(contract).1 2 The marriage ended in divorced 30 may 1562. (Jane or Jean HAMILTON was born about 1540.)
Marriage Notes:
"He (Hugh Montgomerie) married, first (contract dated 13 February 1554), Jane, second daughter of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran and Duke of Chatelherault, but by her had apparently no issue. The Earl raised in 1562 an action of divorce on the ground of consanguinity, and this was followed by an action on her part for other reasons. The marriage was dissolved under the laws of the Church of Rome on 30 May 1562, and a second divorce was pronounced by John Knox and his elders on 25 June 1562. Between these two dates, on 31 May, 7 and 14 June, the banns of marriage between the Earl and his second wife were proclaimed in the church of Eaglesham, and on 11 June at Innerpeffray and Monzie."
from Scots Peerage (vol 3)
"Jean or Jane, contracted on 18 January 1553-54 to George, Lord Gordon, younger brother of Alexander, named above. She then assigned to her younger sister Anne her rights over the marriage of Hugh, Earl of Eglinton. But this arrangement was afterwards reversed, and Jean was married (contract dated 13 February 1554-55) to the Earl of Eglinton."
from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1 2
Hugh next married Agnes DRUMMOND, daughter of Sir John DRUMMOND 2nd of Innerpeffray and Margaret STEWART, 8 June 1562(contract).2 (Agnes DRUMMOND was born about 1533 and died 21 January 1589(1590) 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"Between these two dates, on 31 May, 7 and 14 June, the banns of marriage between the Earl (Hugh Montgomerie) and his second wife were proclaimed in the church of Eaglesham, and on 11 June at Innerpeffray and Monzie. His second wife was Agnes, daughter (by Margaret Stewart, illegitimate daughter of King James IV.) of Sir John Drummond of Innerpeffray, and widow of Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudoun; their contract of marriage was signed at Innerpeffray 8 June 1562, and they were married before 10 August 1562, when they received a dispensation for the fact from Archbishop Hamilton. The date of the marriage is not stated, but they may have been married before the date of the divorce by Knox, a curious conflict between the old and new ecclesiastical authorities. By his second wife, who survived him, .... the Earl had issue .... "
from Scots Peerage (vol 3) 2
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