AKRAN. 133 III. 1529? 2. James (Hamilton), Earl of Arran, &c [S.], s. and h. by 3rd wife. He ftCQomuaoie I James V [S.] into France in 1536. On 15 Sep. 1540 be bad n new charter of the Earldom of Arran, &c. [S.], to bim and the heirs undo of hid body, with rein, to hi.-i br. and other persons of the name of Hamilton, in like manner, successively, whom failing, to his nearest heirs bearing the amis and name of Hamilton. On the death of the King in 1542 he was chosen REGENT OF SCOTLAND, and, on 13 March 1542-3, was declared Second person of that realm and heir presumptive of THE Crown. In June 154 S, when the Queen was sent into France, be was made, in that Kingdom, a Knjoht of the Order of St. Michael, and on 5 Feb. 1543-9 received from Henry II of France the grant of the Duchy of Chatellherault in Poictou, by occasion of which he is supposed, by some, to have acquired a hereditary French title of Honour(<>) as DUC DE CHATELL- HERAULT. In 1554 he resigned the Regency to the Queen-mother. He opposed the match of the Queen with I'arnley, and consequently had to leave the Kingdom 1565-69, but he returned to oppose the Hegeucy of Moray and Lennox, though lin.illv he submitted to the Regent Morton, 23 Feb. 1572-3. He IH. before 23 Sep. 1532 Margaret, 1st da. of James ^ouolas), 1st Earl of Morton - [S.J, by Catharine, illegit. da. of James IV [S.] He d. at Hamilton 22 Jau. 1574-5. IV. 1074-5. o. James (Hamilton), Karl of Arkan &c. [S.], s. and h.(°) Being taken prisoner by the murderers of Cardinal Betoun, he was tlepiived, by Act. of Pari. 14 Aug. 1546, of all right of any succession, until he was free. Iu 1560 he nw) suggested by the Lords of the Congregation as a husband for Queen Elizabeth [E.], and, in 1561, he openly aspired to be husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Soon afterwards, however, he was declared to be insane, notwithstanding which, he, in 1579, was included in the attainder of bis brothers, whereby his titles became forjeited, and so continued for six years till the act of forfeiture was repealed 10 Dec. 15S5. During this period, however, ho, in 1581, resi/ncd the Earldom of Arran [S.] iu favour of James Stewart (as mentioned below), which resignation was "reduced" by the Court of Session( r ) in 1586 " as the act of a person incompetent in consequence of insanity," whereby he was restored to his honours. He d. s.p. March 1609. V. 1581 1. James Stewart, of BotliweUmuir, seconds, of Andrew, to 2nd Loud Ochiltree [S.], by Agnes, <H of John Cunningham of 1585. Capringtou, and grandson of Andrew, 1st Lord Ochiltree [S.],by Mar- garet da. (by Beatrix, his first wife) of James (Hamilton), 1st Earl of Arran [S.], served the States of Holland against the Spaniards, re- turned, in 1579, to Scotland and was made, by the King, a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, P.O., Capt. of the Guard, and tutor to the insane Earl of Arran [S.] above mentioned. Under pretence that he was the lawfid h. of that family, and that the children of the abovenamed James (Hamilton), Earl of Arran by his third wife (from whom sprang the succeeding Earls), were illegitimate, he obtained, 22 April 1 581, a grant of the Baronies of Hamilton, &c., and on 28 Oct. 1581 was er. EARL OF AUKAN, LOUD OF A VANE and HAMILTON [S.], to him and his heirs male. Shortly afterwards his influence over the King became supreme and he was appointed CIiancellok of Scotland, Lieut, of the Rbalm, &c. He fled, however, after the taking of Stirling and was declared an enemy to Ins country and was attainted in Nov. 1585. He m. 6 July 1583, Elizabeth, the ( d ) The matter of the Dukedom of Chiitellherault is fully discussed in note " a," page 5. The very able article on this French title alluded to at page 6, hue 31, which is there (erroneously) stated to have been written "by the late Mr. John Gough Nichols," should have been attributed to a higher authority, viz., Mr. U. U. Stodart, Lyon Clerk Depute, Edinburgh. (°) According to " Douglas," vol. i, p. 702, the French Dukedom of Chiitellherault ™' »»t descend in bim, having been resumed by tin- Crown of Kran.v. ( ) See " Hewlett's Jur.," p. 24, in which instance Mr. Hewlett fully admits the absolute supremacy of the Court of Session in adjudicating on Scotch Peerages, stating that "There can be no doubt that, ou sufficient cause, the Court of Session had luasdiction to reduce a resignation, and, if a resignation were reduced, to reduce all ttikt flowing from, or grounded upon it."
