HAMILTON, Jean ¹

   Another name for Jean was HAMILTON, Janet.¹

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Jean married Alexander CUNNINGHAM 5th Earl of Glencairn, son of William CUNNINGHAM 4th Earl of Glencairn and Catherine BORTHWICK, about November 1526 in divorced by 11 July 1545.¹ The marriage ended in divorce. (Alexander CUNNINGHAM 5th Earl of Glencairn was born about 1509 and died before 8 March 1574(1575) ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"The first Earl (of Arran, James Hamilton) had also a number of daughters, who, as Helen, Countess of Argyll, is the only daughter described as lawful, were probably all illegitimate....
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8 Jean, so called in her father's will, or Janet, married to Alexander Cunningham, Master of Glencairn, about November 1526, but separated from him before 11 July 1545, when he was ordered by the Court of Session to infeft her, formerly his spouse, in lands worth £100 yearly." (page 364, from 'Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton')


"The Earl married, first, about 1526, Janet, daughter of James Hamilton, first Earl of Arran. She was divorced from him before 11 July 1545, and she obtained from her husband and his father on 8 December 1552 three charters confirming to her certain lands and liferents in which she is styled 'olim conjux Alexandri magistri de Glencarne.' " (page 241 from 'Cunningham, Earl of Glencairn')

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹