General Notes

..A1 James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran, b 1537-8, Commander of the Scots
Guards in France, 1550-7, proposed by the Lords of the Congregation as husband
for Queen Elizabeth of England 1560, and proposed himself as husband for Mary,
Queen of Scots, 1561. Soon thereafter, in 1562, he was judged insane, although
he was probably only scatterbrained, and in this state he resigned the Earldom
of Arran to James Stewart of Bothwellhaugh, 1581, but this was reduced by the
Court of Session in 1586 "as the act of a person incompetent in consequence of
insanity," whereby he was restored to his honours. He dsp Mar 1609, his titles
passing to the heirs of his brother John.