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MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF HAMILTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 879 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DUKES OF See also:HAMILTON  . The holders of these titles descended from See also:Sir See also:James See also:Hamilton of Cadzow, who was made an hereditary See also:lord of See also:parliament in 1445, his lands and baronies at the same See also:time being erected into the " lordship " of Hamilton . His first wife Euphemia, widow of the 5th See also:earl of See also:Douglas, died in 1'468, and probably See also:early in 1474 he married See also:Mary, daughter of See also:King James II. and widow of See also:Thomas See also:Boyd, earl of See also:Arran; the consequent nearness of the Hamiltons to the Scottish See also:crown gave them very See also:great See also:weight in Scottish affairs . The first Lord Hamilton has been frequently confused with his See also:father, James Hamilton of Cadzow, who was one of the hostages in See also:England for the See also:payment of James I.'s See also:ransom, and is sometimes represented as surviving until 1451 or even 1479, whereas he certainly died, according to See also:evidence brought forward by J . See also:Anderson in The Scots See also:Peerage, before May 1441 . James, and Lord Hamilton, son of the 1st lord and Princess Mary, was created earl of Arran in 15o3; and his son James, who was See also:regent of See also:Scotland from 1542 to 1554, received in See also:February 1549 a See also:grant of the duchy of See also:Chatellerault in See also:Poitou .

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