Sinclairs and Stewarts

[SusanG1400@aol.com]

  Sinclairs and Stewarts

        King Robert III of Scotland (around 1340 - 1406; King 1390 - 1406) 
sent his eight-year-old son  James, on a ship to France for safekeeping.  
France was the traditional ally of Scotland.  James was accompanied by Henry 
Sinclair (  - 1418), a son of Prince Henry Sinclair (around 1345 to 1400), 
Earl of Rosslyn and Jarl of the Orkney Islands who traveled to eastern Canada 
and the northeastern United States from 1398 - 1399.  An English ship 
captured the Scots ship.  James and Henry Sinclair were kept in prison in 
England.  Henry Sinclair was allowed to go back and forth between Scotland 
and England.  James had to remain in England until 1424, when he was 
permitted to return to Scotland.  He became King James I of Scotland (1394 - 
1437 He was assassinated by his own nobles; King 1406-1437).  He was the 
first of the Stewart Kings of Scotland.
    King James I sent his daughter, Princess Margaret, to France in 1436 so 
she could marry the Dauphin, the heir to the French throne.  She traveled on 
a ship to France with William Sinclair, the grandson of Prince Henry 
Sinclair.  The Scots ship narrowly escaped capture by an English ship which 
was diverted from pursuing the Scots ship because they (the English) were 
attacked by a Spanish sship.  This fortuitous event enabled the Scots ship to 
land safely at the port of La Rochelle, France.  William Sinclair built the 
Sinclairs' church, Rosslyn Chapel, in 1453.  William Sinclair was born in 
1404 and died in 1482.
    William Sinclair's daughter married Alexander, Duke of Albany, a son of 
King James II of Scotland (1430 - 1460; King 1437 - 1460 killed when a Scots 
cannon blew up while the Scots army was beseiging Roxburgh Castle in southern 
Scotland).
    There were many Sinclairs involved in the life of Mary Queen of Scots, 
daughter of King James V of Scotland.  Other people have already given 
information about this subject on the discussion list.


Susan M. Grady
Alexandria, Virginia
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