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- BIOGRAPHY
At the age of about seventeen John was one of the esquires of his maternal uncle, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar, who commanded a Scottish detachment in the campaign of Jean, Duke of Burgundy, against the burghers of Liège. Probably on 23 September 1408, after the defeat of the burghers, his uncle knighted him.
In 1427 as Earl of Sutherland he relieved Patrick Dunbar as one of the hostages for the payment of the ransom of King James I who had been released on 28 March 1424, and he was interned in Pontefract Castle with several Scottish hostages. In or before 1432 he married Margaret Baillie. He was at Dunrobin in May 1448 and on 29 April 1451 he and his wife received a Crown charter of lands in the parish of Loth, Sutherland, which were reserved in life-rent for them when, on 22 February 1456 in the garden of St.Mary's Chapel at Inverness. He then resigned his Earldom into the hands of King James II, who next day re-granted it to John, Master of Sutherland. Apparently he died in 1460 while his widow died between 30 April 1509 and 19 May 1510, aged ninety-five or more.
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