Earl John Sutherland

- Aft 1455    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Sutherland
  Prefix	Earl
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 22 Feb 1455
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  + 1. NN Sutherland,   b. Abt 1389   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Alexander Murray + 2. Earl John Sutherland   d. Aft 22 Feb 1455 ▻ Margaret Baillie,  m. Abt 1432 + 3. Baron Alexander Sutherland,   b. 1395   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Mariota MacDonald;   Catherine Chalmers
  Person ID	I451291	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	31 May 2006

  
  

  Father	Earl Robert Sutherland,   b. 1348   d. 1427 (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Margaret Stuart,   b. 1373   d. Abt 1439 (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	1389
  Family ID	F48936	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Baillie,   b. Abt 1414   d. 1510 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1432
  Children	+ 1. Janet Sutherland   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Earl John Sutherland,   b. 1437   d. Abt 1508 (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F133600	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 May 2006

  
  

• Notes

  7th Earl of Sutherland At the age of about seventeen John was one of the esquires of his maternal uncle, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, who commanded a Scottish detachment in the campaign of Jean, Duke of Burgundy, against the burghers of Liège. Probably on 23 September 1408, after the defeat of the burghers, his uncle knighted him. In 1427 as Earl of Sutherland he relieved Patrick Dunbar as one of the hostages for the payment of the ransom of King James I who had been released on 28 March 1424, and he was interned in Pontefract Castle with several Scottish hostages. In or before 1432 he married Margaret Baillie. He was at Dunrobin in May 1448 and on 29 April 1451 he and his wife received a Crown charter of lands in the parish of Loth, Sutherland, which were reserved in life-rent for them when, on 22 February 1456 in the garden of St.Mary's Chapel at Inverness. He then resigned his Earldom into the hands of King James II, who next day re-granted it to John, Master of Sutherland. Apparently he died in 1460 while his widow died between 30 April 1509 and 19 May 1510, aged ninety-five or more.