GORDON, Marjory 1
User ID: Z553. Marjory married Robert DUGUID 5th of Auchinhove, son of William DUGUID 4th of Auchinhove and Janet LESLIE, 29 July 1589(legitimised).1 (Robert DUGUID 5th of Auchinhove was born about 1547 and died before 1 July 1614 1.) Marriage Notes: "He (Robert Duguid) was afterwards, however, contracted in marriage with Marjory Gordon, as then held, incompetently ; but the king, James VI., feeling some indulgence towards him on account of his extreme youth (minime etatis existens), was induced to pass a remission and dispensation in his favour 29th July 1589, wherein, after pardoning the offence in a criminal view, he dispenses with the material objection arising from the survivance of Janet Forbes, his former spouse, and specially declares the marriage he was now to solemnise to be adeo fidele in omnibus respectibbus ac si eandem (Marjory Gordon) in primam uxorem duxisset; that is, to be as binding as if Marjory Gordon was his first wife. The grant, moreover, has an express legitimation of future issue, to the same effect and as fully as if they had been born of the said Robert's first wife." Marjory next married John LESLIE 11th of Balquhain, son of John LESLIE 10th of Balquhain and Elizabeth GRANT.2 (John LESLIE 11th of Balquhain was born about 1566 2 and died in 1638 2.) Marriage Notes: "John Leslie, eleventh Baron of Balquhain, married, first, Marjory Gordon, widow of Robert Duguid, fifth baron of Auchinhove, but he does not appear to have had any issue by this marriage." |