(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Margaret Home.
Sie haben geheiratet am 4. Februar 1581 in Home Castle-Berwickshire, Scotland.
Kind(er):
(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Margaret Ogilvie.
Sie haben geheiratet im Jahr 1586.
Kind(er):
George succeeded as earl on 7 October 1581, upon the death of his grandfather, William Keith, 4th Earl Marischal.
George Keith was the founder of Aberdeens second university (Marischal College) was educated at its first (Kings College) and then in Calvinist Geneva.
After succeeding his grandfather as Earl Marischal [1581] he stood by James VI after the Ruthven Raid and in 1585 was involved in the defense of Stirling Castle against those nobles sympathetic to the Raiders and lately returned from exile.
In 1589 he was chosen as the royal emissary to arrange the marriage with Anne of Denmark and to fetch the bride. Bad weather, for which Keith was subsequently exonerated, forced the returning party to seek shelter in Norway. The impatient James sailed from Scotland to meet his bride and the wedding took place in Oslo.
Keith was subsequently a privy councilor and much concerned in the congenial (for a strict Calvinist) task of hunting down and prosecuting his northern rival, the Catholic Earl of Huntly.
The Reformation may also have triggered his foundation of Marischal College in 1593. In 1609 he became High Commissioner or Viceroy to the Parliament of Scotland.
He rebuilt his family seat of Keith Marischal in 1589, and also constructed new buildings at Dunnottar Castle.
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Margaret Ogilvie |
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