SINCLAIR, John Master of Caithness 1
- Born: About 1540
- Marriage (1): HEPBURN, Jean by 16 January 1565(1566) 1
- Died: 1577(1578)(dvp), Girnigoe Castle, near Wick, Caithness, Scotland 1
Cause of his death was 'by famine and vermine'.1
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John married Jean HEPBURN, daughter of Patrick HEPBURN 3rd Earl of Bothwell, 'the fair earl' and Agnes SINCLAIR, by 16 January 1565(1566).1 (Jean HEPBURN was born about 1537 and died before 27 July 1599 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Jane Hepburne was married secondly, between 10 December 1565 and 16 January 1566-67, to John Sinclair, Master of Caithness, eldest son of George, (fourth) Earl of Caithness, who died about 1577-78." (page 161)
"He (John Sinclair) was imprisoned in Girnigo Castle by his own father about 1570-71, and 'wes keiped in miserable captivitie for the space of seaven yeirs, and died at last in prison by famine and vermine' about 1577-78, having married, about 1566, Jean Hepburn, only daughter of Patrick, third Earl of Bothwell, widow of John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham, who died 1563, and mother of Francis (Stewart), Earl of Bothwell (testament, Edinburgh, 27 July 1599), and had issue by her ... " (page 340)
from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1
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