SUTHERLAND, John 9th Earl of Sutherland ¹

   User ID: V573.

  General Notes:

"John, ninth Earl of Sutherland, though he was Earl de jure can scarcely be said to have been so de facto as he laboured under the same malady as his father did, yet he does not appear to have been completely fatuous, but was evidently weak and facile. It was probably he who, with his father, was taken to the presence of King James IV. in 1498. He succeeded, it is said, in the year 1508, and was retoured heir to his father on 24 July 1509, but did not complete his title in the usual form. He was considered a ward of the Crown .......
The Earl's mental weakness, however, increased, and in 1514 steps were taken to pronounce him legally incapable of managing his affairs."

from Scots Peerage ¹