James Home, 2nd Earl of Home

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James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (d. 1633) was a Scottish nobleman.

Harington Dudley connections

James was the son of Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and Mary, Countess of Home. He became Earl of Home when his father died in London in April 1619. His mother wrote to James I on his behalf in negotiations over the properties formerly belonging to Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell.[1]

James married firstly, Catherine Cary (1609–1626) eldest daughter of Viscount Falkland and the playwright Elizabeth Tanfield Cary author of The Tragedy of Mariam.[2] John Chamberlain reported that King James had arranged the marriage which took place in the King's chamber or presence chamber at Whitehall Palace in May 1622.[3] The king wanted the marriage concluded before Viscount Falkland become Lord Deputy of Ireland. In Scotland, on the king's orders, the lawyer Thomas Hamilton had convened the six lairds of the Home name; Wedderburn, Ayton, Blackadder, Polwarth, Manderston, Hutton Hall, and North Berwick. He told them the details of the earl's marriage, and that King James wished them to be "instruments of peace and love between him and his lady." The lairds hoped that Home's mother would consult with them about the earl's business and consider their advice. Otherwise they would not be content to intervene in the earl's affairs.[4]

Catherine's death in childbirth was said to have caused her mother's conversion to Catholicism.[5] In 1626 James married Grace Fane (d. 1633) daughter of Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Mary Mildmay.

An account of expenses mentions his dogs and his horse "Sweepstakes" and money in gold sent to England for his expenses.[6]

James died in London without an heir in 1633, attended by the court physician Théodore de Mayerne,[7] and Grace died soon afterwards at Apethorpe. The next Earl of Home was Sir James Home of Coldenknowes.

References[]

  1. ^ J. Maidment, Letters and State Papers of the Reign of James VI (Edinburgh, 1838), pp. 297-8, from National Library of Scotland Adv.33.1.1 vol. 10.
  2. ^ Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Writing Women in Jacobean England (Cambridge MA, 1993), 184-5, 189.
  3. ^ N. E. McClure, Letters of John Chamberlain, vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1939), 437, noting her name as 'Anne' rather than 'Catherine'.
  4. ^ The Melros Papers, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1837), pp. 403-4.
  5. ^ G. Fullerton, The Life of Elisabeth Lady Falkland, 1585-1639 (London, 1883), pp. 48-53: The Lady Falkland, Her Life (London, 1861), p. 18.
  6. ^ HMC Report on the Manuscripts of the Duke of Athole & Earl of Home (London, 1891), pp. 108-9 no. 59
  7. ^ Marilyn M. Brown & Michael Pearce, 'The Gardens of Moray House, Edinburgh', Garden History, 47:1 (2019), p. 6.
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