Jane Gordon (1546-14 May 1629)

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Parents
Father:1George Gordon (-28 October 1562), 4. Earl of Huntly
Mother:2Elizabeth Keith (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:324 February 1565-6James Hepburn (in or before 1535-14 April 1578), 4. Earl of Bothwell
Contract dated 9 February 1565-66.
Dissolved:47 May 1567James Hepburn (in or before 1535-14 April 1578), 4. Earl of Bothwell
On 26 April 1567, a week after the Earl of Bothwell's project of marrying the Queen had been made public, and two days after he carried her off to Dunbar, a suit was begun in the Commissariot Court of Edinburgh, at the instance of Lady Jane Gordon, his spouse, for the dissolution of their marriage, on tlie ground of his adultery with one of her maidservants ; and proof having been led, the Court pronounced sentence of divorce on 3 May. On 27 April a suit was instituted on the part of the Earl before the Court of the Archbishop of St. Andrews for a declaration of nullity of marriage ; the dispensation which legalised the union was withheld ; and on 7 May sentence was given that the marriage was and had been null from the beginning in respect of the contiugence in blood of the parties, which liiudered their lawful marriage without a dispensation obtained of befoir.
Married:513 December 1573Alexander Gordon (1552-6 December 1594), 11. Earl of SutherlandHuntly (Strathbogie) [city/town], Aberdeenshire [county], Scotland [country], United Kingdom [country]
Married:61599Alexander Ogilvy of Boyne (around 1530-before 1606), 4. Laird of Boyne
Contract dated at Elgin 10 December 1599.
Children
Children with Alexander Gordon:
Alexander Gordon (-)7
Adam Gordon (-)8
John Gordon (20 July 1576-11 September 1615), 12. Earl of Sutherland9
Jane Gordon (1 November 1574-)10
Sir Robert Gordon (14 May 1580-March 1656)11
Mary Gordon (14 August 1582-1605)12
Sir Alexander Gordon (5 March 1585-)13
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Born:141546
Died:1514 May 1629Dunrobin Castle [building], Golspie [Unknown/Unspecified], Sutherland [county], Scotland [country], United Kingdom [country]
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1 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume II: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1905), Bothwell, p. 161-67, V James Hepburn.
2 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume IV: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1907), Huntly, p. 533-39, IV George Gordon.
3 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume II: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1905), Bothwell, p. 161-67, V James Hepburn.
4 Ibid
5 Ibid
6 Ibid
7 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume VIII: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1911), Sutherland, p. 343-46, XIII Alexander.
8 Ibid
9 Ibid
10 Ibid
11 Ibid
12 Ibid
13 Ibid
14 Ibid
15 Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms, The Scots Peerage Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom, Volume II: (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1905), Bothwell, p. 161-67, V James Hepburn.
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