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Earl Patrick Hepburn

Earl Patrick Hepburn[1, 2, 3]

Male 1512 - 1556  (44 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Patrick Hepburn  [4
    Prefix Earl 
    Birth 1512  [5
    Gender Male 
    Death Sep 1556  Dumfries Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID I113862  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2020 

    Father Earl Adam Hepburn,   b. Abt 1492   d. 9 Sep 1513 (Age 21 years) 
    Mother Countess Agnes Stewart,   b. Abt 1480, Traquair, Peeblesshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Feb 1557, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years) 
    Marriage Aft 28 Aug 1511  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F39845  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Agnes Sinclair,   b. Aft 1512   d. Aft 21 Mar 1571-21 Mar 1572 (Age 59 years) 
    Marriage 1533-1534  [4
    Children 
     1. Earl James Hepburn,   b. 1536   d. 14 Apr 1578, Dragsholm Slot, Zealand, Danmark Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
    +2. Jean Hepburn,   b. Abt 1540, Hailes, Prestonkirk, East Lothian Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1578 (Age 39 years)
     3. Jane Hepburn,   b. 1540   d. 1599 (Age 59 years)
    Family ID F45603  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Aug 2022 

    Marriage
    • partner unknown
    Children 
     1. Margaret Hepburn
    Family ID F334263  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Nov 2020 

  • Notes 
    • 3rd Earl of Bothwell

      Banished for treasonous correspondence with Henry VIII of England.
    • He was a child when his father died and his tutor has already been mentioned above.

      On 26th April 1531 he was appointed a Lord of the Articles but in December of that years he entered into treasonable correspondence with Henry VIII which upon being discovered he was imprisoned in Edinburgh castle.

      He was still there in July 1533.

      At the end of 1540 he was banished from the Kingdom.

      Following the death of Kg. James V he returned and on 14th December 1542 he commenced proceedings which resulted in him regaining properties forfeited previously.

      It was rumoured that he was interested in marrying Mary of Lorraine, the Queen-Dowager, and doubtless in the hope of this union he procured a divorce from his wife before October 1543. His expectation was disappointed.

      He again intrigued with the English, traitorously corresponded with the Earl of Hertford during the latter's invasion of Scotland in 1544 and was summoned for treason in Parliament in November of that year. He nevertheless had a remission the following month. One of the charges against him was the acceptance of great gifts and money from henry VIII. He was said to be heavily in debt at the time and this may account for his actions.

      Notwithstanding his remission he again underwent a term as State prisoner and was only released after the battle of Pinkie, which took place on 10th September 1547. He was subsequently deprived of his castle of Hailes and Earl Patrick promptly renounced his allegiance and adhered to England. Although again arraigned for treason he appears again to have been rehabilitated, as he died at Dumfries in September 1556 ''Lieutenant in the honourable service of the realm.'

      He married circa 1533 Agnes, daughter of Henry Lord Sinclair and his wife Margaret Hepburne, daughter of Adam Hepburn Master of Hailes. This lady, as already noted, was divorced by Earl Patrick before 16th October 1543, whereupon he settled on her a charter of the lands of Morham in Haddingtonshire. She was subsequently styled 'The Lady of Morham' for the rest of her life.

  • Sources 
    1. [S190] Peter Barns-Graham, British Pedigrees, (Stirnet), Hepburne of Beinston, Hepburn of Bothwell, Hepburn of Hailes, Hepburn of Humbie, Hepburn of Monkrig, Hepburne of Rollanston, Hepburn of Smeaton Hepburn, Hepburn of Wauchton (Waughton), Hepburn of Whitsome (Reliability: 2).

    2. [S610] Brian Tompsett, Royal and Noble Genealogical Data, (http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk).

    3. [S1998] Boehn, Siegfried von, Geschichte der von Hebron (Hepburn), (Familiengeschichtliche Mitteilungen der Pommerschen Vereinigung für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, N. F. Bd. 4, 20. Jg. 1974), 207 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S11] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, (4th ed, Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore , , Repository: J.H. Garner), line 91D p 103, line 92B pp 105-106 (Reliability: 0).

    5. [S11] Frederick Lewis Weis, Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, (4th ed, Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore , , Repository: J.H. Garner), line 91D p 103 (Reliability: 0).



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