John Sinclair (-1573), Master of Caithness

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Parents
Father:1George Sinclair (-9 September 1582), 4. Earl of Caithness
Mother:2Elizabeth Graham (-)
Spouses and relationship events
Married:3around 1566Jane (Jean, Joanna, Janet) Hepburn (-)
They married between 10 December 1565 and 16 January 1566-67.
Children
Children with Jane (Jean, Joanna, Janet) Hepburn:
James Sinclair of Murchil/Murkle (-)4
Sir John Sinclair of Greenland (-)5
Marie Sinclair (-)6
George Sinclair (around 1565-February 1642-3), 5. Earl of Caithness7
Attributes
Occupation:8Master of Caithness
Events
Died:91573
Died:10around 1577-8
Personal Info
He had a charter of the earldom of Caithness to himself and his heirs-male and assignees, whom failing, to his father and his heirs whomsoever, 2 October 1545, as already mentioned. He was imprisoned in Girnigo Castle by his own father about 1570-71, and 'wes keiped in miserable captivitie for the space of seaven yeirs, and died at last in prison by famine and vermine' about 1577-78.11
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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), Caithness, p. 338-42, IV George Sinclair.
2 Ibid
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. 157-61, IV Patrick Hepburn.
4 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), Caithness, p. 338-42, IV George Sinclair.
5 Ibid
6 Ibid
7 Ibid
8 Ibid
9 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. 168-70, John Stewart.
10 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. 157-61, IV Patrick Hepburn.
11 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), Caithness, p. 338-42, IV George Sinclair.
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