Helen Sinclair, Baroness Ogilvy of Airlie

Disambiguation

Different Helen Sinclair’s.

This Helen Sinclair (daughter of Henry Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair) was married ONLY to Lord James Ogilvy of Airlie. had 4 sons and 4 daughters.

Helen Sinclair (Alexander Sinclair of Sempster's daughter) was married ONLY to Donald Mackay, 11th Chief of the Mackays They had 1 son and 2 daughters.

A third Helen Sinclair married Alexander Hamilton. 11 sons and 1 daughters.

Biography

Helen Sinclair1
F, #109282, b. circa 1490, d. between 1552 and 1562
Last Edited=8 Nov 2015
Consanguinity Index=0.2%
Helen Sinclair was born circa 1490.2 She was the daughter of Henry Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair and Margaret Hepburn.1 She married James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie, son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Ogilvy of Airlie and Margaret Lindsay.1 She died between 1552 and 1562.3
She was also known as Elinor.4 Her married name became Ogilvy. After her marriage, Helen Sinclair was styled as Baroness Ogilvy of Airlie.
Children of Helen Sinclair and James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie
1. James Ogilvy, Master of Ogilvy+5 d. 10 Sep 1547
2. Helen Ogilvy+1
3. John Ogilvy of Inverkeiler+6 d. b 1603
4. Archibald Ogilvy6
5. Margaret Ogilvy+6
6. Agnes Ogilvy6
7. Marion Ogilvy+ b. b 1520
8. Thomas Ogilvy of Westercraig+5 b. b 1547, d. b 1577
9. Alexander Ogilvy6 b. b 1548
Citations
1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 140. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
2.[S6286] Clan MacFarlane and associated clans genealogy, online http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info. Hereinafter cited as Clan MacFarlane.
3.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 70.
4.[S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 117. Hereinafter cited as The Scots Peerage.
5.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 71.
6.[S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, volume I, page 118.
From: https://www.thepeerage.com/p10929.htm#i109282
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Elinor Sinclair1
Last Edited 4 Apr 2020
F, #2999, d. before 2 January 1562
Father Henry Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair d. 9 Sep 1513
Mother Margaret Hepburn d. 8 Nov 1543
Charts Pedigree of James Irvine
Elinor Sinclair married James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy, Lord Airlie, son of James Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Ogilvy and Isobel Lindsay. Elinor Sinclair died before 2 January 1562.
Family
James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy, Lord Airlie d. bt 27 Nov 1547 - 13 Jul 1548
Children

• James Ogilvy, Master of Ogilvy+2
• John Ogilvy d. b 1603
• Archibald Ogilvy3
• Alexander Ogilvy3 d. a 13 Jul 1548
• Margaret Ogilvy4
• Anne (Agnes) Ogilvy+3
• Helen Ogilvy+3
• Marion Ogilvy+ d. a 1569
• Thomas Ogilvy3 d. b 1577

Citations
1.[S217] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. I, p. 70; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 93.
2.[S11563] The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 117-119.
3.[S11563] The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 118.
4.[S11566] The Scots Peerage, Vol. IV, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 118.
From: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p100.htm#...
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Notes

Helen married about 1519 to James Ogilvy son of James Ogilvy of Airlie and Isobel Lindsay.

On 11 July 1519, Andrew [Forman], archbishop of St. Andrews, commendator of Dunfermline, granted to James Ogilvy, son and heir apparent of Sir James Ogilvy of Airlie, and to Helen Sinclair, his wife, and their heirs, of the lands of Kinnell in the barony of Rescobie, regality of St. Andrews and sheriffdom of Forfar.[2]

Her husband the Master of Airlie died about 1548.

Her sister-in-law, ane of the sisteris of umquhil James, Lord Ogilvy,' grants a discharge with Andrew Gray her spouse to Elinor Sinclair, Lady Ogilvy, in 1552.

Helen, in Jan 1554 was reserved a liferent of Wester Craigs[3]

Helen died eight months before 9 Aug 1558 when her son James Ogilvy was retoured heir to his grandfather in lands of Kinnell in barony of Rescobie. [4]

Reference

• 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 140. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 70.
• 3. [S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 117. Hereinafter cited as The Scots Peerage.
• 4. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 71.
• 5. [S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, volume I, page 118.
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Sinclair-1434 cites

1. Paul, James Balfour. "The Scots Peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom", Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1910, Vol. VII, Archive.org, p. 572
2. NRAS NRAS792/6/1 See Notarial copy of 1535, August 17 see [1]
3. NRS GD16/4/20 see [2]
4. Calendar of House of Lords Manuscripts Voil.vii. Pt2 p.721 South Esk Charters no. 46 [3]
5. Clan MacFarlane: Helen Sinclair < link >
6. The Peerage: Helen Sinclair < link >

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Henry Sinclair (died 1513) was a Scottish noble and the 4th Lord Sinclair.[1] In The Scots Peerage by James Balfour Paul he is designated as the 3rd Lord Sinclair,[2] but historian Roland Saint-Clair designates him the 4th Lord Sinclair and references this to an Act of the Scottish Parliament in which he was made Lord Sinclair based on his descent from his great-grandfather, Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, the first Lord Sinclair.[1] Bernard Burke, in his a Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire, agrees with Roland Saint-Clair and says that Henry Sinclair was "in reality" the fourth holder of the title of Lord Sinclair.[3]
Early life
He was the son of William Sinclair, 3rd Lord Sinclair and Christian Leslie, daughter of George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes. Immediately after the death of his father, an Act was passed by the Scottish Parliament in his favour and which recognised him as "Chief of yat blude" and willing "yarfor that he be callit Lord Saintclair in tyme to cum", dated 26 January 1488–89. This Act was only a recognition of the Barony of St. Clair existing in the person of his ancestor, Henry II Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and did not constitute a new creation.[1]
Notable offices
Henry Sinclair, 4th Lord Sinclair sat as a Baron of Parliament on 14 January 1488. On 4 December 1488, Confirmation issued to him and his wife Margaret, the lands of Cousland, house and fortalice, and Ravenscraig with the adjacent lands of Woolston, Carberry and Dubbo.[1]
Lord Sinclair is mentioned with frequent involvement in the Orcadian dominions. As the Tacksman of the Isles he granted an annuity to the Bishop of Orkney on 6 August 1485. On 28 May 1489 Lord Sinclair received several grants including a 13-year lease of Orkney and Shetland, the custody of Kirkwall Castle with the fortalices, and the Justicary, Folderie and Balliatus for 13 years.[4] It is also likely that through his influence an Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed in 1503 for the annulment of all foreign laws within that realm and to spare the native laws of Orkney and Shetland.[1] In 1503, he had sasine of the lands of Newburgh.[2]

Lord Sinclair was made Master of the Artillery on 13 March 1510, for a fee of £100 a year, deducted from his Orkney accounts. His main residence was at Ravenscraig Castle. He was on bad terms with the inhabitants of Dysart as shown by a complaint made against him by John Wynde, burgess of Dysart. In 1512, he was the captain of the Scottish flagship, the Great Michael.[1]
Shortly before his death his sold eight pieces of ordance to the King for £100 which was paid to his widow. He was killed at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513.[2][5][3][6]
Family
Henry Sinclair, 4th Lord Sinclair, married Margaret, daughter of Adam Hepburn, Master of Hailes and sister of Patrick Hepburn, 1st Earl of Bothwell.[3] They had the following children:[1]
1. William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair, heir and successor.
2. Catherine Sinclair, who in 1512 married Sir David Wemyss of Wemyss, ancestor of the Earls of Wemyss.[7]
3. Helen Sinclair, who married James Ogilvy, 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie.
4. Jean Sinclair, who married Sir Alexander Lindsay, Master of Crawford and son of David Lindsay, 8th Earl of Crawford.
5. Agnes Sinclair, who married Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell.
6. William Sinclair, a natural son who was legitimised on 20 February 1539–40. He was Chaplain, Rector of Olrig and later Vicar of Latheron.
etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sinclair%2C_4th_Lord_Sinclair
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