James Hamilton 
James was born in 1476 in Brodick Castle, Arran, Scotland. James' father was James Hamilton and his mother was Mary Stewart. His paternal grandfather was James Hamilton and his paternal grandmother is Janet Livingston; his maternal grandparents were James II Stewart and Maria of Guelders. He had two sisters named Elizabeth and Jean. He was the youngest of the three children. He had a half-sister named Elizabeth. He died at the age of 53 on March 26th, 1529 in Kinneil, Lothian, Scotland.General Notes
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First wife of James Hamilton was Elizabeth HOME, they were divorce d.
Second wife was Janet Beaton. Third wife was Margaret Livingston. James
also had illegimate children with Beatrix Drummond and Margaret Boyd but
was not married to either.
born 1475?
died July 1529, Kinneil, West Lothian [now in Falkirk], Scotland
son of James, 1st Lord Hamilton, and of Mary, daughter o f James II of
Scotland; he was created earl of Arran in 1503 on the occasion of the
marriage of James IV to Margaret Tudor.
Arran commanded a naval exped ition against England in 1513 but failed
lamentably and returned to find his rival, the earl of Angus, supreme at
court. He therefore allied with the duke of Albany, regent for James V,
and was himself from 1517 to 1520 one of six vice-regents. But in the
feuds of these years he had no fixed allegiance. His most spectacular
encounter was the fierce fight between the Hamiltons and th e Douglases in
the streets of Edinburgh, known as “Cleanse the Causeway” (152 0). When
James V freedhimself from the power of Angus in 1528, Arran joined h im at
Stirling.
James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran (M)
b. circa 1475, d. bet ween 26 March 1529 and 21 July 1529, #102118
Pedigree
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James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran was the son of Ja mes Hamilton, 1st
Lord Hamilton and Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland. He wa s born circa
1475.1 He married, firstly, Elizabeth Home, daughter of AlexanDe r Home,
2nd Lord Home and Nichola Ker, before 28 April 1490.2 He and Elizabet h
Home were divorced on 16 November 1504 on the grounds that her first
husb and, Thomas Hay, previously thought dead, was in fact still alive at
the time of her marriage to James.2 He married, secondly, Janet Beaton,
daughter of S ir David Beaton, between 11 November 1516 and 23 November
1516.2 He died betw een 26 March 1529 and 21 July 1529 at Kinneil,
Scotland.2
He succeeded to th e title of 2nd Lord Hamilton [I., 1617] on 6
November 1479.1 He fought in the naval expedition by Denmark against
Sweden in 1502.3 He was invested as a Pr ivy Counsellor (P.C.) [Scotland]
in 1503.3 He was created 1st Earl of Arran [ Scotland] on 11 August 1503.3
He was commanded of the a Scottish fleet agains t England, but
accomplished nothing in 1513.3 He held the office of a Lord of Regency
[Scotland] in 1517.3 He fought in the Battle of Linlithgow on 4 Sept ember
1526,, where he commanded the army for the King against Lennox.3
Child of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran:
Lady Elizabeth Hamilton b. bt 1491 - 1528
Children of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran and Beatrix Drummond:
Marg aret Hamilton+ b. b 1505
Sir John Hamilton+ b. b 1512
Children of James H amilton, 1st Earl of Arran and Janet Beaton:
Lady Helen Hamilton+ b. b 1513
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran+ b. 1515, d. 22 Jan 1574/75
Citations
[S 6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White,
Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard De Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage
of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom,
Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint
in 6 volumes, Gloucest er, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI,
page 256. Hereinafter cit ed as The Complete Peerage.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, vo lume I, page 221.
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, pa ge 220.
James Hamilton, 2nd Lord Hamilton, b ca 1475, Privy Councillor, create d
Earl of Arran 11 Aug 1503, Admiral of the Scottish Fleet 1513, Lord of
Re gency under the Duke of Albany 1517, commanded the Royal army against
the Ear l of Lennox September 1526. He is supposed to have m 1st 1490 (he
was 15 and the briDe 13) Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Hay of Hoprew, Master
of Yester, dtr of Alexander Home, 2nd Lord Home, and is believed to have
divorced her subse quently in 1504 on the grounds that the Maste
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1310 in Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1374 in Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1335 in Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.<14 May 1392 in Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.1310 in Ross, Scotland
- b.~ 1361 in Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.14 Sep 1402 in Homildon Hill, Lancashire, England
- b.< 1340 in Scotland
- b.~ 1340 in Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland d.~ 1406 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1321 in Touch Fraser, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.< 1410
- b.1398 in Cadzow Castle, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.1460 in Scotland
- b.1303 in Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland d.<25 Jan 1350 in Brechin, Scotland
- b.~ 1336 in Hermiston, Midlothian, Scotland d.1420 in Dalkeith, MIdlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1315 in Kinross, Scotland d.<01 Aug 1377
- b.~ 1367 in Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.1282 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.1357 in Candia, Crete, Greece
- b.~ 1339 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland d.<Oct 1378
- b.~ 1300 in Stranith, Dumfrieshire, Scotland d.> 1367
- b.1415 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland d.12 Nov 1479 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1310 in Callendar, Scotland d.30 Nov 1364
- b.~ 1356 in Callendar, Scotland d.14 Sep 1402 in Homildon Hill, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1310 in Scotland
- b.1375 in Callendar, Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland d.<06 Nov 1451
- b.1332 in Kerse, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.1358 in Kerse, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.1332 in Kerse, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1399 in Callendar House, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.1331 in Dundas, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.1358 in Dundas, West Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1337 in Stirlingshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1375 in Dundas, Scotland
- b.1337 in Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotland d.21 Apr 1421 in Scotland
- b.~ 1359 in Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1362 in Lorne, Argyll, Scotland d.21 Dec 1430
- b.1476 in Brodick Castle, Arran, Scotland d.26 Mar 1529 in Kinneil, Lothian, Scotland
- b.02 Mar 1316 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.19 Apr 1390 in Dundonald Castle, Ayrshire, Scotland
- b.1348 in Dundonald, Ayrshire Scotland d.04 Apr 1406 in Stirling Castle, Scotland
- b.1320 in Rowallan, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland d.1355 in Scotland
- b.Dec 1394 in Dumferline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.20 Feb 1437 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.1328 in Inchmahome, Scotland d.1373
- b.1352 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland d.1401 in Scone, Scotland
- b.1328 in Scotland
- b.16 Oct 1430 in Edinburgh, MIdlothian, Scotland d.03 Aug 1460 in Roxburgh Castle, Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
- b.24 Jun 1340 in St Bavo Abbey, Ghent, Flanders d.03 Feb 1399 in Leicester Castle, Leicester, England
- b.1373 in Chateau De Beaufort, Maine-35-Loire, France d.16 Mar 1410 in St Catherine by the Tower Hospital, London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1349 in Picardy, Somme, France d.10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1398 in Westiminster, Middlesex, England d.15 Jul 1445 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1350 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England d.1397 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
- b.1385 in Upholland, Lancashire, England d.30 Dec 1439 in St Savior's Monastery, Bermondsey, Surrey, England
- b.~ 1345 in England d.17 Mar 1416 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
- b.<16 May 1452 in Scotland d.May 1488
- b.1337 in Slot Hoef, Egmond-Binnen, Noord Holland, Netherlands d.09 Apr 1409 in Ijsselstein, Utrecht, Netherlands
- b.~ 1385 in Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands d.04 Jan 1451
- b.~ 1350 in Leiningen, Pfalz, Bavaria
- b.1409 in Slot O D Hoef, Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland d.23 Feb 1473 in Slot Grave, Grave, Noord Brabant, Netherlands
- b.~ 1385 d.18 Jul 1415
- b.1432 in Grave, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands d.16 Nov 1463 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1390
- b.25 May 1417 in Kleve, North Rein-Westphalia, Prussia d.10 Feb 1479
- b.~ 1395
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James and Elizabeth were married in a religious ceremony before April 28th, 1490 in Scotland. They had a daughter named Janet.
Family Notes
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James and Beatrix were married in a religious ceremony about 1493. They had a daughter named Margaret.
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James and Margaret were married in a religious ceremony about 1501. They had a son named John.
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James and Janet were married in a religious ceremony on November 23rd, 1516 in Scotland. They had three sons and two daughters, named John, James, Gavin, Jean and Helen.
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Children
James Hamilton
James was born in 1517 in Brodick Castle, Arran, Scotland. He died at the age of 58 on January 22nd, 1575 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Family Notes
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