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Beatrix Sinclair The following is copied from The Genealogist, Volume 2,Number1(Spring,1981). Thanks to Sewell Vincent Sample for thisinformation.
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SOME CORRECTIONS TO THE SINCLAIR PEDIGREE Andrew B. W. MacEwen
Beatrix Sinclair, Countess of Douglas. She was marriedbefore7March1425/6 to James Douglas of Balveny, called 'theGross',afterwards7thEarl of Douglas,1 and is described on his monumentasdaughter ofHenry;Earl of Orkney.2 According to The Scots Peerage3 shewasthe onlydaughterof Henry, 2nd Earl of Orkney of that name, by hiswifeEgidia,daughter ofSir William Douglas of Nithsdale and granddaughterofKingRobert II. TheComplete Peerage is unsure which Earl Henrywasherfather.4
This is not really a question, however, for the second EarlHenrymarriedaniece of James the Gross. Had Beatrix been a daughterofthismarriage,she would have been her husbandus grandniece (ofthehalfblood), sinceSir William Douglas of Nithsdale was a naturalsonofArchibald 'theGrim', 3rd Earl of Douglas.5 Such arelationshipisinherently unlikely,and two dispensations disprove italtogether.Thesons of Beatrix,William and James, the 8th and 9th EarlsofDouglas,were successivehusbands of their cousin Margaret, onlydaughterofArchibald, 5th Earl ofDouglas. Her mother, Euphemia Graham,wasadescendant of Robert II,while her father the 5th Earl washimselfagrandson of Robert III.
The dispensations6 are dated 24 July 1444 and 27 February1452/3,andineach the relationship dispensed is the 2nd and3rdofconsanguinity(representing the common descent from ArchibaldtheGrim).Had theCountess Beatrix also been descended both from RobertIIandfromArchibald the Grim, her sons would have been related toMargaretinthreeadditional ways (4th and 3rd, 4th and 4th, and 4thand4thofconsanguinity), but this is clearly not the case. Beatrixwasthusadaughter of the first Earl Henry, slain in 14O4,7 andshewasprobablyhis youngest, or even posthumous, child.
Although Countess Beatrix was not her husbandus grandniece, itisperhapsofinterest to note that both her brother, the second EarlHenry,and hisson,Earl William (of Orkney, afterwards ofCaithness),marriedgranddaughters ofthe same man, Archibald the Grim,Earl ofDouglas.
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1 She may have been his second wife, unless he remainedabachelorfortwenty to twenty-five years after attaining his majority.Ifhe didhavean unknown first wife, she was not a daughter of Robert,DukeofAlbany.
2 Inscription printed in Sir William Fraser, TheDouglasBook,2(Edinburgh, 1885) p. 623.
3 6: 570-71.
4 4: 435, n.(c.)
5 The Scots Peerage 3: 163-64.
6 Callendar of Papal Letters 9: 467, 10: 130-31. CommunicatedbyDr.ILorne Campbell of London, who had also noticed theproblemsofBeatrix'sparentage.
7 The Scots Peerage 6: 596.
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