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HEPBURN, James 4th Earl of Bothwell, Duke of Orkney
(About 1535-1578) |
HEPBURN, James 4th Earl of Bothwell, Duke of Orkney 2 4
User ID: K225. James married Jean GORDON, daughter of George GORDON 4th Earl of Huntly, Lord Chancellor and Elizabeth KEITH, 9 February 1565(1566)(contract) 17 February 1565(1566)(dispensation) marriage 24 February 1565(.1 2 3 The marriage ended in annulled 7 may 1567. (Jean GORDON was born about 1547, died on 14 May 1629 in Dunrobin Castle, Sutherland, Scotland 1 2 and was buried in 1629 in Dornoch cathedral, Sutherland, Scotland 2.) Marriage Notes: "He (James Hepburn) married, contract dated 9 February 1565-66, the Lady Jane Gordon, daughter of the then deceased George, (fourth) Earl of Huntly, and sister of George, (fifth) Earl of Huntly. The latter, with Dame Elizabeth Keith, Countess of Huntly, his mother, was a party to the contract, which was passed with advice and express counsel of Queen Mary. The parties were related to each other within the degrees of consanguinity prohibited by the canon law. Earl James being fourth in descent from George, second Earl of Huntly, through Lady Margaret Gordon, wife of Patrick, first Earl of Bothwell (vide supra), while the bride was fourth in descent from the same Earl George in the male line, and also through her mother. Accordingly a dispensation for the marriage notwithstanding this impediment was granted by John, Archbishop of St. Andrews, dated 17 February 1565-66. The marriage took place on 24 February 1565-66. James next married Mary STEWART Queen of Scots, daughter of James V STEWART King of Scots and Marie DE LORRAINE, on 15 May 1567 in Holyrood, Edinburgh, Scotland.2 4 (Mary STEWART Queen of Scots was born on 8 December 1542,4 died 8 February 1586(1587) in Fotheringay Castle, Northamptonshire, Scotland 4 and was buried in Peterborough, England, then Westminster Abbey, London, England 4.). The cause of her death was execution by beheading. Marriage Notes: "Queen Mary fell under the power of James Hepburn, fourth Earl of Bothwell, to whom she was married at Holyrood, 15 May 1567, and created Duke of Orkney. Dissension with the nobility ensued, and the Queen was made prisoner and detained in the island castle of Lochleven, where she remained until 2 May 1568, when she effected her escape. During her captivity she abdicated 24 July 1567 in favour of her infant son, her half-brother, James Stewart, Earl of Moray, being appointed Regent. Her adherents met the Regent's troops in battle at Langside on 13 May 1568, but suffered a decisive defeat, following upon which the Queen fled into England. There, on various pretexts, she was detained prisoner by her cousin and rival, Queen Elizabeth, till 1586, when she was tried, condemned, and beheaded at Fotheringay Castle, in Northamptonshire, on 8 February 1586-87. Her remains, after being buried in Peterborough Cathedral, were afterwards removed to King Henry vn.'s chapel, Westminster Abbey." |
1 e-books, Transactions of Banffshire Field Club 1933 Ogilvies of Boyne: a paper presented by Alistair N. Tayler.
2 GRO Scotland, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 2 (1905).
3 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 4 (1907).
4 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).
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