FENTON, Janet ¹

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Janet married James DOUGLAS of Ralston, son of Sir William DOUGLAS of Lugton and Lochleven and Christian LINDSAY.¹ (James DOUGLAS of Ralston was born about 1412.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (James Douglas of Ralston) was one of the three Scottish knights who took part in a joust at Stirling with a similar number of knights of Burgundy who had come to Scotland on the occasion of the marriage of Marie of Gueldres with the King in February 1448-49. He was probably a supporter of the Earl of Douglas's faction, as his name occurs in an English safe-conduct obtained by the Earl, 12 May 1451, at which time the latter was intriguing with the Yorkists. Notwithstanding this he was employed by King James II. on an embassy to the French Court in 1456. Both he and his wife were attainted for complicity in the Douglas rising, and they escaped to England. He married Jonet, daughter and co-heiress of Walter Fenton of Baky, and with her got the lands of Drumblate and Towie, which were forfeited in 1458. They had a son, Henry, designed of Kilbrony or Culbirney in Inverness-shire."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ¹