HOME, Elizabeth 1
- Born: About 1485
- Marriage (1): HAMILTON, James 2nd Lord Hamilton, Earl of Arran by 28 April 1490(charter) in Divorced 1504 1
- Died: 1544 1
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Elizabeth married James HAMILTON 2nd Lord Hamilton, Earl of Arran, son of Sir James HAMILTON Lord Hamilton, 6th of Cadzow and Mary STEWART, by 28 April 1490(charter) in Divorced 1504.1 The marriage ended in divorce. (James HAMILTON 2nd Lord Hamilton, Earl of Arran was born about 1477.)
Marriage Notes:
"The first Earl of Arran was only twice married. His first wife was Elizabeth Home, daughter of Alexander, second Lord Home ; she is distinctly called his spouse in a Crown charter of date 28 April 1490, to James, Lord Hamilton, and Elizabeth Home of the lands of Kinneil, to be held in conjunct fee, and to the heirs lawfully born betwixt them. It is usually said that the Earl's first wife was Beatrix Drummond, daughter of John, first Lord Drummond. His relations with her will be noticed later, but there are two independent and contemporary testimonies to the fact that Elizabeth Home was the Earl's first wife." (page 358)
"Sometime before November 1504 the Earl of Arran raised an action against his wife, stating that though they were married and had lived as man and wife, he was not bound to adhere to her or show her a husband's affection, because a marriage had formerly been solemnised between her and the above-named Thomas Hay. The latter was dead before the divorce was pronounced, but it was proved by the depositions of witnesses that he had appeared before a notary to object, and had asserted that Elizabeth Home was his lawful wife, and therefore could not rightly be joined in marriage to Hamilton. The date when this assertion was made is not given, but there is evidence that Thomas Hay, whether he had been abroad or not, was in Scotland on 20 June 1491, a year after his alleged wife's marriage to Hamilton. If he took proceedings then, it is strange that the divorce was not pronounced until 1504. Further, the sentence of divorce, though pronounced in that year, was repeated in similar terms on 11 March 1509-10, which corroborates a statement made by Sir George Douglas in 1542 that the Governor's father lived with his first wife twenty years, a period represented by the years between 1490 and 1510. It is thus evident that the divorce of 1504 was considered doubtful by contemporaries, and that the parties separated finally only after the renewal of the sentence." (pages 359 and 360)
from Scots Peerage (vol 4) 1
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