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Name: James HEPBURN, Earl Of Bothwell
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1535 ^b
Death: 14 Apr 1578 in Draxholm ^d

Parents:

Father:
Patrick HEPBURN, Earl Of Bothwell Birth: Abt 1511 Death: Sep 1556 in Dumfries

Mother:

Agnes SINCLAIR

Family:
Marriage:

Jean GORDON on 24 Feb 1565/6 .^m1
Jean GORDON Birth: 1546 Death: 14 May 1629 in Dunrobin

Marriage:

Mary STUART, Queen Of Scots on 15 May 1567 at Holyrood Chapel .^m2
Mary STUART, Queen Of Scots Birth: 8 Dec 1542 in Linlithgow Palace, West Lothian Death: 8 Feb 1586/7 in Fotheringham, Northants

Bibliography

Burke, Sir John Bernard, Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage Baronetage and Knightage. 99th edition. London: Burke's Peerage, 1949. Available at http://archive.org/details/burkesgenealogic1949unse. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Burke Peerage [cx0-9]*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 02 Bass-Canning. London: St Catherine Press, 1912. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Vol 2 also available at http://archive.org/completepeerageo02coka Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP II [Ap][p0-9].*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 12-1, Skelmersdale-Towton. London: St Catherine Press, 1953. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP XII/1 [Ap][p0-9].*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1[pc][0-9]*].
Paul, Sir James Balfour, 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. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904. NYPL ARO (Scots Peerage) (too fragile to copy). Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/216265. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: SP VIII p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: abt 1535 [Ref: CP II p239]; prob in or before 1535 [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v1p676],
parents:: [Ref: CP II p239, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p676]

Sources for death Information

date:: [Ref: Burke Peerage ccxc, CP II p240],
place:: [Ref: CP II p240]

Sources with Information about marriage to Jean GORDON

date:: [Ref: CP II p239]; first marriage of Jean, disp 17 Feb 1565/6 [Ref: SP VIII p344]; first marriage of Jean, repudiated [Ref: CP XII/1 p554],
names:: [Ref: Burke Peerage p1056]

Sources with Information about marriage to Mary STUART, Queen Of Scots

date:: [Ref: Burke Peerage cclvii, Burke Peerage ccxc, CP II p239, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p676],
place:: [Ref: CP II p239, Richardson RoyalAnc v1p676]

1. James HEPBURN, Earl Of Bothwell m1. Jean GORDON m2. Mary STUART, Queen Of Scots

m. Jean GORDON father: George GORDON, Earl Of Huntley mother: Elizabeth KEITH

m. Mary STUART, Queen Of Scots father: James V King Of Scots mother: Marie De LORRAINE

Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 01-20-2025.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.

Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom available to be downloaded.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.

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