CALDER, Finvola ¹

   Another name for Finvola was CALDER, Fingole.^{2 3}

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Finvola married John MUNRO 11th Baron of Fowlis.¹ (John MUNRO 11th Baron of Fowlis was born about 1436 and died in 1490 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John (Munro) married Finvola, daughter of William Calder, Thane of Cawdor, 1442-1468, and Crown-Chamberlain ' beyond the Spey,' with issue -

1. William, his heir and successor, who was apparently named after his maternal grandfather. He is the first and indeed the only Chief of the Munros so named.

2. Thomas, described in a document dated the 20th of June, 1499, as 'Thomas Munro, brother german to William of Fowlis,' but there is no further trace of him."

from History of the Munros of Fowlis ¹

Finvola next married John SUTHERLAND 8th Earl of Sutherland, son of John SUTHERLAND 7th Earl of Sutherland and Margaret BAILLIE.^{2 3} (John SUTHERLAND 8th Earl of Sutherland was born about 1440 and died by 24 July 1509 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"His (John, 8th Earl of Sutherland's) second wife was apparently Fingole (said to have been a daughter of William of Calder, Thane of Cawdor), widow of John Monro of Fowlis, who died some time before April 1491. She must have been the mother of Alexander named below, as he had a brother, Mr. Robert Monro. In February 1497-98 there were preparations for a divorce between her and the Earl, which the Lords of Council referred to the Vicar-General of Caithness."

from Scots Peerage (vol 8)




"The question of the earl's marriage or marriages is complicated by facts which were unknown to Sir Robert (Gordon). In 1499, when the lords of council ordered tlie earl to be brought to Edinburgh, they refer to a divorce between him and his wife, thus -

'And as to the mater of diuorce betuix the sade Jhone, Erle of Sutherland and Fingole, his spouse, the lordis reservis that mattr to the vycare-generale of Cathnes, requerand him that he call the partiis bofor him, and with the consale of my lord of Moray and his cheptoure avise the process, and as he findis it and concludes in the samyn, that he send it to the lordis of consale, that the kings hienes may be veryfeit in the mater how it is procedit, and how scho sal haf hir [liv]ing and be sustenit in tyme to cum.'

Who this ' Fingole ' was has not been ascertained, but the fact that the wife of Celestine of the Isles bore a similar name suggests a descent from that family. On the other hand, in the years 1509 to 1512, during which period the rents of the earldom were administered by the Crown, a Catherine, Countess of Sutherland, is found drawing terce from the lands, a clear proof that she was the widow of Earl John, but who she was, or whether she was identical with Fingole, has not been ascertained."

from The Book of Sutherland ^{2 3}