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- I believe that Beatrix Sinclair, who married James the Gross 7th Earl ofDouglas, whom you show as the daughter of Henry (2nd Earl of Orkney)Sinclair, was in fact the daughter of Henry (1st Earl of Orkney)Sinclair. SP, at 6:570-571, assigns her to the second Earl Henry but CP,at 4:435 note c, is unsure which Earl Henry was her father. This doubtseems to have been resolved by Andrew B. W. MacEwen in his article SomeCorrections to the Sinclair Pedigree, which appears in THE GENEALOGIST,volume 2 (1981), at 51-53. MacEwen says, with regard to her parentage,that
[t]his is not really a question, however, for the second Earl Henrymarried
a niece of James the Gross. Had Beatrix been a daughter of thismarriage,
she would have been her husbands grandniece (of the half blood),since
William (Sir) Douglas of Nithsdale was the natural son of Archibaldthe
Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas. Such a relationship is inherentlyunlikely,
and two dispensations disprove it altogether. The sons of Beatrix,William
and James, the 8th and 9th Earls of Douglas, were successivehusbands
of their cousin Margaret, only daughter of Archibald, 5th Earl ofDouglas.
Her mother, Euphemia Graham, was a descendant of Robert II, whileher
father the 5th Earl was himself a grandson of Robert III.
The dispensations are dated 24 July 1444 and 27 February 1452/3, and
in each the relationship dispensed is the 2nd and 3rd ofconsanguinity
(representing the common descent from Archibald the Grim). Had
Countess Beatrix also been descended both from Robert II and from
Archibald the Grim, her sons would have been related to Margaret in
three additional ways (4th and 3rd, 4th and 4th, and 4th and 4th of
consanguinity), but this is clearly not the case. Beatrix was thus a
daughter of the first Earl Henry, slain in 1404, and she was probably
his youngest, or even posthumous, child.
From Douglas Hickling, Dhhic@comcast.net, 516 Blair Avenue, Piedmont, CA94611. 1 February 2002
SP=THE SCOTS PEERAGE was edited by James (Sir) Balfour Paul. 9 volumes.Volume 1 published in 1904 and volume 8 in 1911. Volume 9, before 1925(includes the index)
CP= THE COMPLETE PEERAGE
Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain & theUnited
Kingdom : by G. E. Cokayne (Hardcover - March 2001]
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