Kwartierstaat Van der Sluis en De Oude » William Sinclair (1414-1480)

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   William St. Clair, Earl of Orkney, obtained a grant of the Earldom of Caithness in 1455 from James II. He was the first of this family who enjoyed the dignity. He held many high public offices, possessed extensive landed property, and had in his time great influence; and he appears to have lived in his castle at Roslyn in almost regal splendour. In personal appearance he is described as having been "a very fair man, of great stature, broad bodied, yellow haired, and well proportioned," and to be "much given to policy, as building of castles, palaces, and churches," among which were Roslyn Castle and its celebrated Chapel.
   He was twice married- first, to Margaret, daughter of Archibald, fourth Earl of Douglas,[1] by whom he had a son, William, named "Williame the Waster," ancestor of the Lords Sinclair, and a daughter, Catharine, married to Alexander, Duke of Albany. He married, secondly, Marjorie, daughter of Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath. In Gordon's "History of the Family of Sutherland," this Alexander Sutherlan is stated to have been the eldest son of John, Earl of Sutherland; and down to 1771 this was the general opinion of Scottish genealogists. But it was then proved in the Sutherland peerage case, by the production of his original will, that he was alive in 1456, and that he had several sons and daughters, whereas Alexander, Master of Sutherland, appears to have died about 1444, when the earldom went to his younger brother. It is uncertain of what family Alexander Sutherland of Dunbeath was, but it is probably that he was of the Thorboll or Duffus branch of the family of Sutherland. It is on the supposed descent of Sutherland of Dunbeath from the Earl of Sutherland, and on the belief that his daugher Marjorie was the Earl's granddaughter, that the close blood connection, assumed by Douglas and others to have existed between the Earls of Caithness and Sutherland, is founded.

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