| Spouses and relationship events |
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| Married:3 | in or before 1559 | Jonet Beaton (-) | |
| It's unclear whether they properly married or only were betrothed. |
| Betrothed:4 | around 1560 | Anna Tronds 'skottefruen' (-) | |
| Married:5 | 24 February 1565-6 | Jane Gordon (1546-14 May 1629) | |
| Contract dated 9 February 1565-66. |
| Dissolved:6 | 7 May 1567 | Jane Gordon (1546-14 May 1629) | |
| 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:7 | 15 May 1567 | Mary (7 or 8 December 1542-8 February 1586-7), Queen of Scots | Holyrood [district], Edinburgh [city/town], Edinburghshire (Midlothian) [county], Scotland [country], United Kingdom [country] |