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==Primary Sources 1463/4. (7 Jan.) St. Peter's, Rome. (f. 175.) <br> To the bishop of St. Andrews. Mandate to absolve '''James Douglas, lord of Dalketh and Morton, and Janet (Joneta) Stewart''', of his diocese, from sentence of excommunication incurred by contracting marriage per verba legitime de presenti, by the persuasion of the late James king of Scots, they not being ignorant that they were related in the second and third degrees of kindred, and by having offspring, enjoining penance, and thereafter, and after temporary separation, to dispense them to contract marriage anew and remain therein, decreeing legitimate the offspring already born, and that to be born of the said marriage. Oblate nobis. 'Lateran Regesta 594: 1463', in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 12, 1458-1471, ed. J A Twemlow (London, 1933), pp. 204-206. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol12/pp204-206 [accessed 22 September 2017]. ---- '''James Douglas''', (1426 - 22 October 1493), the 4th Lord of Dalkeith, was created the 1st Earl of Morton in 1458. from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas,_1st_Earl_of_Morton Wikipedia] He was the son of James Douglas, 2nd Lord of Dalkeith and Elizabeth Gifford, daughter of James Gifford of Sheriffhall.[2] His father resigned all his estates to James in 1456 when James became the 4th Lord of Dalkeith.[3] James was created Earl of Morton in 1458 upon his marriage to Joan Stewart (1428-1493), the daughter of James I, King of Scots. She was a deaf-mute. They were ancestors of the later Earls of Morton, extinct in the male line in 1548. ===family=== He and his wife Joan were the parents of: * Sir John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton. * James, appeared in several writs 1466-1480. * Janet, married bef. 1 February 1490-1 to Sir Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell. * Elizabeth, she was mentioned in a charter of 1479. ===comments=== According to [https://archive.org/stream/historyofhouseof01maxw#page/n308/mode/1up page 308] of "The House of Douglas": >"Morton died about the year 1504, leaving two sons -- (1) John; who succeeded to the Earldom; (2) James; and one daughter, Janet, who married Patrick, Earl of Bothwell." ---- * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas,_1st_Earl_of_Morton * http://www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/james1stearlofmorton.htm * [https://archive.org/stream/historyofhouseof01maxw#page/n309/mode/2up Page 240] of "A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland" by Maxwell, Herbert Eustace, Sir, bart., 1845-1937 * [http://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun06paul#page/356/mode/2up The Scots Peerage,] Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland, Vol. VI, ed. James Balfour Paul (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1909), p. 356 * [http://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/pdf/ODA/DeafWithoutLimitsDeafandHOHPioneers.ppsx DEAF WITHOUT LIMITS - DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING PIONEERS] CDSS Office of Deaf Access * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Douglas,_2nd_Earl_of_Morton * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Hepburn,_1st_Earl_of_Bothwell * http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20LATER.htm#JamesDouglasMortondied1493A
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