Marjory SINCLAIR, Of Orkney

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• Clan: ; Clan Sinclair
• FamilySearch ID: LCCN-H49
• Name: William SINCLAIR
• _UID: A16D21FEEAE945E29CD2A7FC7AB46F21F63D
• MilitaryService: 1436, Scotland; Sinclair was high admiral of Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: Between 1454 and 1456, Scotland; Chancellor of Scotland
• TitleOfNobility: 16 Sep 1476, Fife, Scotland; Feudal Baron of Ravenscraig and Dysart

William married Marjory SUTHERLAND before 15 Nov 1456. Marjory was born in 1424 in Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland; died on 29 Apr 1480 in Dunbeath Castle, Caithness, Scotland; was buried in Dunkeld Cathedral Graveyard, Dunkeld, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• MilitaryService: ; captured following the Battle of Homildon Hill in 1402,
• TitleOfNobility: ; 10th Baron Of Roslin
• TitleOfNobility: ; 2nd Earl of Orkney
• Occupation: ; Chief Justice of Scotland
• Occupation: ; Pantler of Scotland
• _UID: 4D35D17117344B008864C1356354C788427D

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The Life Summary of Henry
When Sir Henry Sinclair II, Baron Of Roslin, 2nd Earl Of Orkney was born in 1389, in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Henry 1st Earl of Orkney Baron of Rosslyn Sinclair, was 37 and his mother, Jean Haliburton, was 39. He married Countess Egidia Jill Douglas of Orkney on 17 February 1404, in Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 1 February 1422, in Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, at the age of 33, and was buried in Midlothian, Scotland.


Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney (c. 1375 ? 1420) was a Norwegian nobleman and Planter of Scotland.

He was son of Henry Sinclair, the Earl of Orkney, by his wife Jean, daughter of John Halyburton of Dirleton. Sinclair was one of those captured following the Battle of Homildon Hill in 1402, but released on ransom. He had succeeded his father, de facto, as Earl by 1404; there is no record that he was ever officially installed as Earl, and no certain record that he ever visited his Earldom.

He was one of those who accompanied James Duke of Rothesay on his journey to France aboard the Maryenknyght, which was captured by English pirates off Flamborough Head in 1406. He followed the prince into captivity, but was soon released. Subsequently he was often in England on business connected with the king's imprisonment. He also spent some time in the service of the Duke of Burgundy.
In about 1407 he married Egidia Douglas, daughter of Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale and maternal granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland.

*William Sinclair, last Jarl of Orkney, and first Earl of Caithness
*Beatrix Sinclair, who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
Henry Sinclair died of influenza c. 1420.

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The son: William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, 3rd Earl of Orkney and founder of Rosslyn Chapel married three times - Elizabeth Douglass Dowager Countess of Buchan (who was also a wife of a Douglas previously) Marjory Sutherland of Dunbeath (the wife which shows up in the genealogy here) and Janet Yeman.

Henry married Egidia (Jill) DOUGLAS on 17 Nov 1407 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Egidia (daughter of Sir William DOUGLAS and Princess Egidia STUART, Of Scottland) was born about 1375 in Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died about 1438 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland; was buried about 1438 in Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: ; Countess of Orkney
• Name: Jill DOUGLAS
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Henry married Jean HALYBURTON. Jean and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale (c. 1370-1391 AD) was a Scottish knight and Northern Crusader.

Early life
William Douglas was an illegitimate son of Archibald the Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas and an unknown mother.

A man of apparently dashing bearing, Douglas was with the Franco-Scots army when it unsuccessfully besieged Carlisle Castle in 1385, the defending Governor being Lord Clifford. He is recorded as there performing feats of valour and killing many Englishmen.

According to Andrew of Wyntoun:

"A yhowng joly bachelere
Prysyd gretly wes off were,
For he wes evyr traveland
Qwhille be se and qwhille be land
To skathe his fays rycht besy
Swa that thai dred him grettumly"

Marriage
Douglas certainly had gained his spurs by 1387 when he married Egidia (or Gelis) Stewart, princess of Scotland, a daughter of King Robert II. According to the Liber Pluscarden, Egidia Stewart's beauty was well renowned. Charles V of France had "sent a certain most subtle painter to do her portrait and portray her charms, intending to take her to wife." But the King of France and all other of Egidia's admirers had lost out to the chivalric charms of Douglas. As part of her marriage portion went the lands of Nithsdale in south-western Scotland, Herbertshire in the county of Stirling and an annuity of ?300.

Ireland
Within his first year of marriage the young Nithsdale led a punitive raid against Irish raiders who had been troubling the tenantry of his father's Fiefdom of Galloway. In early summer 1388, with a party of 500 well prepared veteran men-at-arms he sailed into Carlingford Lough, landed outside the town and summoned their leaders. The chief of the townsfolk offered a sum for a temporary truce, to which Nithsdale agreed. Secretly the townsfolk sent off to Dundalk for reinforcements, with which they were obliged. 800 spearmen from Dundalk surprised the Scots camp by night, and were supported by a sortie from Carlingford town. The Scots, veterans of years of brutal Border warfare, drove the Irishmen off, captured the town and burnt it, seized the Castle and captured 15 ships in the harbour. En route back to Scotland Nithsdale "ravaged" the Isle of Man. Nithsdale's expeditionary force sailed back into Loch Ryan with enough time to participate in the raiding of Northern England that was to culminate in the Battle of Otterburn on 19 August, in which he fought with distinction.

Feuding, Crusading and Death
The year after Otterburn a truce was called between Scotland and England. Nithsdale on a knightly quest for glory decided, about 1389, to join the Teutonic Knights, who were fighting the Lithuanians in Baltic region. Nithsdale had previously quarrelled with Lord Clifford, a former adversary at Carlisle and whose forebear had claimed Douglasdale under Edward I of England's oppression. While both were abroad, it is alleged that Clifford challenged Nithsdale to single combat, and that Douglas even went to France to obtain special armour for the fight. Clifford, however, died on 18 August 1391, but Nithsdale is said to have kept their 'tryst', and whilst walking upon the bridge leading to the main gate at Danzig was "killed by the English". The burghers of Danzig decided that "upon account of a signal service which the Douglas family did to this city in relieving it in its utmost extremities against the Poles, the Scotch were allowed to be free burghers of the town". Subsequently, the stone fascia of the Hohe Thor (High Gate) was adorned with the coat of arms of this nobleman and for centuries it was commonly referred to as the Douglas Port or Douglas Gate, described as such as late as 1734.

In 1391, Douglas was in the Baltic, and became involved in a brawl with Sir Thomas de Clifford, in which Douglas was killed.

Issue
By Princess Egidia, Nithsdale had two children:

1.)Egidia Douglas, known as the "Fair Maid of Nithsdale" married:
a.) Henry Sinclair, 2nd Earl of Orkney (d. 1422)

b.) Sir Alasdair Stewart (executed 1425) son of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany

2.) Sir William Douglas, Knt., Lord of Nithsdale (d.c.1419), knighted when very young as he is described as chevalier in a safe-conduct dated 30 January 1406, when he could not have been more than nineteen.

William married Princess Egidia STUART, Of Scottland in 1387 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland. Egidia (daughter of King Robert II Of SCOTLAND and Euphemia De ROSS) was born in 1368 in Dundonald Castle, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland; died in 1388 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland; was buried in 1388 in Ayr, Strathclyde, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• TitleOfNobility: Scotland; Princess
• Name: Egidia STEWART
• Name: Nithsdale Jill Egidia STEWART
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Egidia is a daughter of Robert II Stewart and Euphemia Ross.[1] She was known for her great beauty, which was so renown that the King of France was said to have offered for her hand and sent an artist to Scotland to paint her likeness. Egidia, however, fell in love with one of the most famous knights in Scotland at that time, Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale, the illegitimate son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd earl of Douglas, by an unknown mistress, and in 1387 she married him.[1][2][3][4] On their marriage, an annuity of ?300 was granted to "Douglas, and the king's daughter, Egidia" and the first of these payments appears in the Exchequer Rolls of 1388.[2]

There were two children from this marriage:[5]

William Douglas, Knt. of Nithsdale[1][5]
Giles Douglas; m(1) c.1407 Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney;[1][5] m(2) aft. 29 Apr 1418 Alexander Stewart;[1] she succeeded her brother in the territory of Nithsdale[1]
Sir William Douglas was assassinated (probably) in 1392.[1][2] The date of Egid