William GRAHAM, 1st Earl of Montrose

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• Office: ; Member of the House of Lords
• Name: William GRAHAM
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• TitleOfNobility: 1472, Scotland; 3rd Lord Graham
• Occupation: 1488, Scotland; Scottish Lord of Parliament
• Find a Grave: 9 Sep 1513, Flodden, Northumberland Unitary Authority, Northumberland, England
• MilitaryService: 9 Sep 1513, Branxton, Northumberland, England; Battle of Flodden Field

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Annabella DRUMMOND on 25 Nov 1479 in Graham, Angus, Scotland, Great Britain. Annabella (daughter of John DRUMMOND, First Lord of Drummond and Elizabeth LINDSAY) was born in 1463 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom; died in 1492 in Muthill, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Jonet GRAHAM was born in 1480 in Kincardine, Fife, Scotland; died in 1506 in Stirlingshire, Scotland.
2. Jean GRAHAM was born in 1485 in Montrose, Angus, Scotland; died in Mar 1568 in Scotland.
3. William GRAHAM, 2nd Earl of Montrose was born on 12 Jan 1494 in Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; died on 24 May 1571 in Kincardineshire, Scotland; was buried in Saint Kattan Chapel & Montrose Mausoleum, Auchterarder, , Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

William married Christian Of Stevinstoun WAWANE before 1511. Christian (daughter of Thomas WAWANE) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Patrick Of Inchbrakie GRAEME died in 1536.

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Origins
Graham was the eldest son and heir of William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose by Annabel, a daughter of John Drummond, 1st Lord Drummond. The Grahams were a long-established family of Norman origin, who first rose to prominence in the reign of David I.

Career in the reign of James V
Montrose succeeded to the earldom as a minor, following the death of his father at the Battle of Flodden. In 1525, he was one of a number of lords selected to attend personally on the King and in June 1535 he was appointed an ambassador to France in connection with the King's marriage. On 29 August 1536, he was named as one of the Commission of Regency during the King's absence in France until the King returned in 1537 with Madeleine of Valois.[1]

Montrose supported the King in his struggles with the pro-English faction led by Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus and was rewarded on 29 May 1542 with a grant in feu of the King's lands of Rathernes and Blacksaugh, in Strathearn. (He afterwards also acquired the neighbouring lands of Orchill and Garvock.)[1]

Career in the reign of Queen Mary
Following the King's death, Montrose was present at the Parliament held at Edinburgh on 15 March 1543 and voted for the election of the Earl of Arran as regent for the infant Mary, Queen of Scots. However, when differences arose between the Regent and Cardinal Beaton, Montrose supported the latter.[1]

Montrose remained a leading member of the Regent's Council and was rewarded on 11 January 1546, for his personal attendance on the Queen, with a charter of many of the lands forfeited by the Earl of Lennox (at least until Lennox's restoration to favour in 1564). In November 1547, Montrose took part with the Regent in the unsuccessful siege of Broughty Castle, following its surrender to the English after the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.[1]

Montrose was not present at the Reformation Parliament of 1560 and was the only nobleman to attend the Queen's first mass on her return from France in 1561. In 1563, the Bishop of Dunblane identified Montrose to Pope Pius IV as remaining true to the Catholic faith.[1]

Although Montrose was made a member of the Privy Council on 6 September 1561, he is not recorded as having attended any of the Queen's Parliaments after her return from France. He favoured the Queen's marriage to Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, but steered a middle course during the tumultuous upheavals that followed. Thus, he dissented from the deposition of the Queen and her imprisonment at Loch Leven Castle between 1567 and 1568, and joined the Queen at Hamilton, following her escape; but he did not take the field in her support and his grandson and heir was on the other side.[1]

Montrose died at Kincardine on 24 May 1571.

Family
In December 1515 Montrose married Janet Keith, daughter of William, 3rd Earl Marischal. She died between 27 August 1546 and 25 August 1547. They had numerous children:[1][2]

Robert Graham, Master of Graham, who was killed at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh on 10 September 1547. By his wife, Margaret Fleming, daughter of Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming, he had a posthumous son, John Graham, 3rd Earl of Montrose, who succeeded to the earldom on Montrose's death.
Alexander Graham of Wallaceston, who married Marion, the daughter of George Seton, 3rd Lord Seton and widow of Hugh Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton.
William Graham, the Rector of Killearn, who died in about 1597
Mungo Graham of Rathernis, who married (contract 26 March 1571) Marjorie, daughter of Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath, was Master of the Household to James VI for many years and died before 15 May 1590
Margaret Graham, who married (contract 17 February 1535) Robert, Master of Erskine
Elizabeth Graham, who married George Sinclair, 4th Earl of Caithness
Agnes Graham, who married (contract 15 April 1547) Sir William Murray of Tullibardine
Janet Graham, who married Sir Andrew Murray of Balvaird, their children included David Murray, 1st Viscount of Stormont and Patrick Murray
Christian Graham, who married Robert Graham of Knockdolian
References
Sir John Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, volume VI (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1909), at pages 226-230
Gordon A. MacGregor, The Red Book of Perthshire (Perthshire Heritage Trust, 2006)

William married Elene (Helen) DOUGLAS in 1460 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland. Elene (daughter of William DOUGLAS, 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret HAY, of Yester) was born on 17 May 1425 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland; died on 20 Nov 1486 in Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Title (Nobility): ; Countess of Montrose
• TitleOfNobility: ; Baroness
• Name: Helen
• Name: Helen Eleanor DOUGLAS
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NOTE
In many of the Histories she is also referred as Eleanor or Elene and also Ann. With all the histories she remains with the same Husbands and Children.

Helen, daughter of 2nd Earl, identified as William's wife by both Burkes Peerage 1932 (Hamilton) and Burkes Peerage 1932 (Montrose) but The Scots Peerage shows Anne, dau of 4th Earl, as William's wife as does MacGregor's Landed Families of Perthshire.


The Life Summary of Helen
When Helen Douglas was born on 17 May 1425, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, her father, Sir William the Red Second Baron Of Drumlanrig, Second Earl Of Angus, was 25 and her mother, Margaret Hay, was 21. She married Sir William Graham 2nd Lord of Montrose and 2d Lord of Graham and Baronet of Bruce in 1460, in Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. She died on 20 November 1486, in Perthshire, Scotland, at the age of 61.

About Helen Douglas of Angus
1. Lady Helen Douglas (d. after 20 Nov 1486), mar. (1) bef. 1460 William [Graham], 2nd Lord Graham, and (2) bef. 1478 as his second wife James [Ogilvy], 1st Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, and had issue by her first husband.

Notes
Helen, dau of 2nd Earl, identified as William Graham's wife by both Burkes Peerage 1932 (Hamilton) and Burkes Peerage 1932 (Montrose) but The Scots Peerage shows Anne, dau of 4th Earl, as William's wife as does MacGregor's Landed Families of Perthshire.

"William, the second Lord Graham, married Lady Ann Douglas, daughter of George, fourth Earl of Angus, "the Red Douglas" of James II.?us time, who in Scottish tradition is remembered as having "put down the Black. "Another account of the clan... Patricks only son[?], William, second Lord Graham, married lady Anne Douglas, eldest daughter of the fourth Earl of Angus, and had two sons, William, third Lord Graham, and George, ancestor of the Grahams of Calendar. [http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/dtog/graham2.html]"

[This is disputed by Stirnet Graham02 using as its sources both The Scots Peerage and Burkes Peerage 1934 who say he married Helen Douglas daughter of the 2nd Earl of Angus]

AKA

Lady Helen Anne GRAHAM (1425 - 1486)

Children of Elene Douglas and William Graham, 2nd Lord Graham

William Graham, 1st Earl of Montrose+4 d. 9 Sep 1513
Jean Graham+2
Christian Graham+4
George Graham+4 d. 9 Sep 1513
unknown Graham4
Children of Elene Douglas and Sir James Ogilvy of Airlie, 1st Lord Ogilvy of Airlie

Isabel Ogilvy5
Oliver Ogilvy6
Malcolm Ogilvy7 d. a 1501
John Ogilvy of Craig5 d. a Apr 1505
Archibald Ogilvy7 b. b 1494, d. b 1504
Alexander Ogilvy7 b. b 1494
Links

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http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/angus1389.htm#ANGUS_1389_10
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10962.htm#i109612
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Helen Douglas of Angus's Timeline

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Patrick married Christian ERSKINE. Christian (daughter of Robert Of Mar ERSKINE and Elizabeth LINDSAY) was born in 1407 in Glenesk, Angusshire, Scotland; died in 1479 in Mugdock Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland; was buried in 1479 in Scotland, United Kingdom. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William married Margaret HAY, of Yester. Margaret was born on 20 May 1400 in Yester Castle, Yester, Haddingtonshire, Scotland; died on 22 Apr 1484 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sir Robert claimed the earldom of Mar through his mother's mother's mother Elyne/Elen, daughter of Gartney/Gratney, Earl of Mar. The claim was not formally accepted until the time of John, 6th Lord Erskine. Even then, however, there was uncertainty as to whether or not the identification of that lord as Earl of Mar was acceptance of his family's longstanding claim or a new appointment. The intervening lords are nevertheless sometimes referred to as 'de jure Earls of Mar'." From http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ee/erskine01.htm#link1 at Stirnet Genealogy

Robert married Elizabeth LINDSAY after 20 Dec 1400. Elizabeth (daughter of David LINDSAY and Princess Elizabeth Or Catherine STEWART) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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