George married Margaret (of Frendraught) Crichton in 1517 in Divorced Then Remarried. Margaret (daughter of William (3rd Lord) Crichton and Princess Margaret Stewart) died before 1546. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
1 _FA1
2 DATE 27 DEC 1520
1 _MEND Divorce

William + Margaret Balfour. Margaret (daughter of Sir Michael (of Monquhanny) Balfour) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William Crichton, 3rd Lord (d before 23.10.1493)
William forfeited his title because he joined the Duke of Albany inrebellion against King James III. It was rumoured that he helped formentthat rebellion because the King had seduced his wife Marion. It was alsorumoured that he seduced Margaret Stewart, the King's younger sister, tospite the King.
m1. (before 1478) Marion Livingston (d c1484, dau of James Livingston,1st Lord)
m2/p. Margaret Stewart (dau of James Stewart, King James II of Scots)
It is not certain that William's marriage to Margaret Stewart wasformalised. Sources conflict as to whether his son James was by his firstwife (reported by TSP) or by Margaret (reported by BE1883).
A. Sir James Crichton of Frendraught (d c1536)
From Stirnet Genealogy athttp://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/cc4rz/crichton02.htm

(G E Cokayne's "The Complete Peerage" does not even mention Margaret inconnection to William 3rd Lord Crichton)
"He sat in Parl. on 14 Oct 1467. Joining the rebellion of the Duke ofAlbany against James III he was "forfeited" by Parl 24 Feb 1483/4, whenall his honours became extinct." (Vol 1, III page 539)

William + Princess Margaret Stewart. Margaret (daughter of James II (The Fiery Face) King of Scotland and Marie of Gueldern) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
1 _MSTAT Friends

Andrew + Marjory (of Orkney) Sinclair. Marjory (daughter of William (3rd Earl of Orkney & Caithness) Sinclair and Marjory Sutherland) and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In her {his wife's] right Sir James Crichton is generally designed Lord of Frendraught ,


In Complete Peerage under "Crichton", Vol 1 (# III, page 537-539)
THE COMPLETE PEERAGE
Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain & theUnited
Kingdom. Extant, Extinct or Dormant. By G. E. Cokayne. 2000,SuttonPublishing Ltd, Gloucester.

James married Janet (of Moray) Dunbar between 1442 and 1446. Janet (daughter of James (4th Earl of Moray) Dunbar and Katherine Or Janet Seton) was born about 1423; died between 1494 and 1506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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had as her portion (of her father's estate) the barony of Frendraught , as well as Brawl and other lands in Caithness, with other property in the south of Scotland

Jonet Dunbar, who was dead be fore 19 January 1505- 6 , when her grandson obtained a charter of Kirkpatrick- Irnegray

In March 1494 , when under the style of Joneta Dunbar domina de Frendrach, she was served heir to her sister Elizabeth in the lands of Dunbeath and Brawl in Caithness , a fact which proves the extinction of the issue of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray.

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In 1449 James II reached adulthood, yet in many ways his "active kingship" differed little from his minority. The Douglases used his coming of age as a way to throw the Livingstons out of the shared government, as the young king took revenge for the brief arrest of his mother (a means to remove her from political influence) that had taken place in 1439. Douglas and Crichton continued to dominate political power, and the king's ability to rule without them remained arguably limited.

But James did not acquiesce with this situation without argument, and between 1451 and 1455 he struggled to free himself from the power of the Douglases. Attempts to curb the Douglases' power took place in 1451, during the absence of the Earl of Douglas from Scotland, and culminated with the murder of Lord Douglas at Stirling Castle on 22 February 1452.

The main account of Douglas's murder comes from the Auchinleck Chronicle, a near contemporary but fragmentary source. According to its account, the king accused the Earl (probably with justification) of forging links with John Macdonald, 11th Earl of Ross (also Lord of the Isles), and Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Crawford. This bond, if it existed, created a dangerous axis of power of independently-minded men, forming a major rival to royal authority. When Douglas refused to break the bond with Ross, James broke into a fit of temper and stabbed Douglas to his death. His court officials (many of whom would rise to great influence in later years, often in former Douglas lands) then joined in the bloodbath, one allegedly striking out the Earl's brain with an axe.

This murder did not end the power of the Douglases, but rather created a state of intermittent civil war between 1452 and 1455. James attempted to seize Douglas lands, but his opponents repeatedly forced him into humiliating climbdowns, whereby he returned the lands to James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, and a brief and uneasy peace ensued.

Military campaigns ended indecisively, and some have argued that James stood in serious danger of being overthrown, or of having to flee the country. But James's patronage of lands, titles and office to allies of the Douglases saw their erstwhile allies begin to change sides, most importantly the Earl of Crawford after the Battle of Brechin, and in May 1455 James struck a decisive blow against the Douglases, and they were finally defeated at the Battle of Arkinholm.

In the months that followed, the Parliament of Scotland declared the extensive Douglas lands forfeit and permanently annexed them to the crown, along with many other lands, finances and castles. The Earl fled into a long English exile. James finally had the freedom to govern as he wished, and one can argue that his successors as Kings of Scots never faced such a powerful challenge to their authority again. Along with the forfeiture of the Albany Stewarts in reign of James I, the destruction of the Black Douglases saw royal power in Scotland take a major step forward. - Wikipedia

James married Marie of Gueldern on 3 Jul 1449 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland. Marie (daughter of Arnold Duke of Gueldres and Catherine of Cleves) was born in 1432 in Grave; died on 1 Dec 1463 in Edinburgh, Scotland; was buried in Collegiate Church Of The Holy Trinity, Edinburgh. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]