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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1525 in Pittendreich, Midlothian, Scotland.

  Sir James Balfour trouwde met Margaret Balfour, dochter van Michael Balfour, 4e van Burleigh en Christina Bethune.2 Hij stierf in 1583.1,3 Hij bekleedde het ambt van President van de Court of Sessions [Schotland] .1 Hij woonde in Pittendriech, Fife, Schotland .1 Hij woonde in Monquhany, Fife, Schotland.
  Kinderen van Sir James Balfour en Margaret Balfour
  Sir Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour van Burleigh + 1 d. 15 maart 1619
  James Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour, Baron van Glenawley + 4 d. 18 oktober 1634
  Mary Balfour + 5
  Citations [S6] G.E. Cokayne; met Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H.White, Duncan Warrand en Lord Howard de Walden, redacteuren, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910 -1959; herdruk in 6 delen, Gloucester, VK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), deel I, pagina 379. Hierna aangehaald als The Complete Peerage. [S8] BP1999 deel 1, pagina 174. Zie link voor volledige details voor deze bron . Hierna aangehaald als. [S8]
  [S8] BP1999. [S8]
  [S6] Cokayne en anderen, The Complete Peerage, deel I, pagina 383. [S15] George Edward Cokayne, redacteur, The Complete Baronetage, 5 delen (geen datum (ca. 1900); herdruk, Gloucester, VK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), deel II, pagina 365. Hierna aangehaald als The Complete Baronetage.
  Sir James Balfour ... Hij stierf in 1583.
  
  == Bronnen == * * [https://archive.org/details/balfoursofpilrig00balf the Balfours of Pilrig, 1907] James_Balfour, _Lord_Pittendreich | James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich]]

• Titel: Lord Pittendreich
• Beroep: President van de Court of Sessions.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1583 in Burleigh Kinross Scotland, hij was toen 58 jaar oud.

  The son of Andrew Balfour of Montquhanny, he was educated for the legal branch of the Church of Scotland.
  
  Balfour was involved in the murder of Cardinal Beaton and the Siege of St Andrews Castle. In June 1547, following the capture of the castle by French forces he was condemned to be a galley-slave rowing galleys together with John Knox and others captured at St Andrews, Fife. He was released in 1549, denounced Protestantism, entered the service of Mary of Guise, and was rewarded with important legal appointments.
  
  He subsequently joined the Lords of the Congregation, a group of Protestant nobles who opposed the marriage of the young Mary, Queen of Scots, to the Dauphin of France (later to become Francois II of France), but betrayed their plans.
  
  After Mary's arrival in Scotland he became one of her secretaries, in 1565 being reported as her greatest favourite after David Rizzio. He obtained the parsonage of Flisk in Fife in 1561, was nominated an Extraordinary Lord of Session, and in 1563 one of the commissaries of the court which now took the place of the former ecclesiastical tribunal. In 1565 he was made a privy councillor, and in 1566 Lord Clerk Register, and was knighted.
  
  According to Mary his murder was planned together with Rizzio's in 1566. An adherent of Bothwell, he was deeply implicated in Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley's murder, though not present at the commission of the crime. By his means Darnley was lodged at Kirk o' Field, his brothers' house. He was supposed to have drawn up the bond at Craigmillar Castle for the murder; he signed it, was made under Bothwell deputy-governor of Edinburgh Castle,[1] and is said to have drawn up the marriage-contract between Bothwell and Mary. When, however, the fall of Bothwell was seen to be impending he rapidly changed sides and surrendered the castle to James Stewart, Earl of Moray, stipulating for his pardon for Darnley's murder, the retention of the priory of Pittenweem, and pecuniary rewards. He was appointed Lord President of the Court of Session on resigning the office of Lord Clerk Register. He was present at the battle of Langside, and was accused of having advised Mary to leave Dunbar Castle to her ruin, and of having betrayed to her enemies the Casket Letters. The same year, however, in consequence of renewed intrigues with Mary's faction, he was dismissed, and next year was imprisoned on the charge of complicity in Darnley's murder.
  
  He escaped by means of bribery, which he is said to have paid by intercepting money sent from France for Mary's aid. In August 1571, during the regency of Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, an act of forfeiture was passed against him, but next year he was again playing traitor and revealed the secrets of his party to James, Douglas, Earl of Morton. He obtained a pardon from Morton in 1573 and negotiated the pacification of Perth the same year. Distrusted by all parties, he fled to France, where he seems to have remained till 1580. In 1579 his forfeiture was renewed by act of parliament. In January 1580 he wrote to Mary offering her his services, and in June made a similar offer to Queen Elizabeth I of England, in which he criticised the influence of the Jesuits, and proposed to make a journey to Dieppe to attend Protestant services.
  
  On 27 December the same year he returned to Scotland and effected the downfall and execution of Morton by producing a bond, probably that in defence of Bothwell and to promote his marriage with Mary, and giving evidence of the latter's knowledge of Bothwell's intention to murder Darnley. In July 1581 his cause was reheard; he was acquitted of murder by assize, and shortly afterwards in 1581 or 1582 he was restored to his estates and received at court. His career ended shortly before 24 January 1584. He was the greatest lawyer of his day, and part-author at least of Balfour's Practicks, the earliest textbook of Scottish law, not published, however, till 1754.
  
  He wrote a major work on Scots law, called Practicks. This was completed about 1579 and was widely circulated in manuscript copies. It was published in 1754, and republished in 1962: Peter G B McNeil (ed), The Practicks of Sir James Balfour of Pittendreich (1962, Stair Society).
  
  He married Margaret, daughter and heir of Michael Balfour of Burleigh, by whom, besides three daughters, he had six sons, the eldest of whom, Sir Michael Balfour, was created Lord Balfour of Burleigh in 1607. His second son, Sir James Balfour, was created Baron Balfour of Clonawley in 1619.[2]
  
  References Edit
  
  ^ HMC Report on the Manuscripts of Earls of Mar and Kellie, vol. 2 (London, 1930), pp. 21-27.
  ^ Burke, John-Bernard (1846). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, Extinet, Dormant and in Abeyance. E. Ed. Henry Colburh. p. 634. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Balfour, Sir James (judge)" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  "Balfour, James (d.1583)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  
  Nederlands

• Een kind van Andrew Balfour 2e Baron of Munquhanny Balfour en Janet Bruce

Gezin van James Balfour

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Balfour.

Zij zijn getrouwd.

Kind(eren):

1. David Balforts (balfoort) Balfour of Balgay  1566-1638 

Notities over James Balfour

Sir James Balfour married Margaret Balfour, daughter of Michael Balfour, 4th of Burleigh and Christina Bethune.2 He died in 1583.1,3 He held the office of President of the Court of Sessions [Scotland].1 He lived at Pittendriech, Fife, Scotland.1 He lived at Monquhany, Fife, Scotland.
Children of Sir James Balfour and Margaret Balfour
Sir Michael Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour of Burleigh+1 d. 15 Mar 1619
James Balfour, 1st Lord Balfour, Baron of Glenawley+4 d. 18 Oct 1634
Mary Balfour+5
Citations[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 379. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.[S8] BP1999 volume 1, page 174. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
[S8] BP1999. [S8]
[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 383.[S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, page 365. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
Sir James Balfour ... He passed away in 1583.

== Sources ==* * [https://archive.org/details/balfoursofpilrig00balf the Balfours of Pilrig, 1907]James_Balfour,_Lord_Pittendreich|James Balfour, Lord Pittendreich]]

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