GORDON, Jean 1
User ID: N918. Jean married George SINCLAIR 5th Earl of Caithness, son of John SINCLAIR Master of Caithness and Jean HEPBURN, shortly after 29 July 1585.1 (George SINCLAIR 5th Earl of Caithness was born about 1566 and died February 1642(1643) 1.) Marriage Notes: "George (Sinclair), fifth Earl of Caithness, the eldest son, succeeded his grandfather in 1582, being then a minor, and under the wardship of the Earl of Gowrie. On 19 May 1585, he and twenty-two others had a remission under the Great Seal for the slaughter of David Hume of Crenschawis and two brothers of the name of Sinclair. He had charters from the Crown on 17 December 1591, 18 June 1606, 3 November 1612, and 9 June 1615. On 3 April 1592, he, with consent of Jean Gordon, Countess of Caithness, his spouse, resigned the earldom into the hands of King James VI., upon which a charter thereof, with a novodamus, was granted to William Sinclair, his eldest son and heir, and his heirs-male and assignees whomsoever, under reservation of his own liferent and his spouse's terce. He died in February 1642-43, in the seventy-eighth year of his age, and was succeeded by his great-grandson. He married, shortly after 29 July 1585, Jean Gordon, only daughter of George, fifth Earl of Huntly, and by her, who was living 10 December 1606, had issue" |