James Home, 2nd Earl of Home (died 1633) was a Scottish nobleman. Harington Dudley family tree

Biography

James was the son of

Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home Sir Alexander Home of that Ilk, 1st Lord Home ( – ) was in 1448 Sheriff Deputy for Berwickshire, and was made a Lord of Parliament on 2 August 1473. He is an ancestor of the Earls of Home. Family Alexander Home's father, Sir Alexander Home of ...

and Mary, Countess of Home. He became Earl of Home when his father died in London in April 1619. His mother wrote to

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on his behalf in negotiations over the properties formerly belonging to

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. The Earl of Home attended the funeral of James VI and I at

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on 7 May 1625. James married firstly, Catherine Cary (1609–1626) eldest daughter of

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and the playwright Elizabeth Tanfield Cary author of '' The Tragedy of Mariam''. John Chamberlain reported that King James had arranged the marriage which took place in the King's chamber or presence chamber at

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in May 1622. 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,

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, Hutton Hall, and

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. 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. Friends of Elizabeth, Lady Falkland, who may have supported the marriage plans, include Mary, Countess of Buckingham, and mother of the royal favourite, the

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, her stepmother Cecily, Lady Manners, wife of

Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, KG (1578–1632) was an English nobleman. Despite a brief imprisonment for his involvement in the Essex Rebellion of 1601, he became prominent at the court of James I. He lived at Belvoir Castle in Leices ...

, and Margaret Butler, Viscountess Mountgarret. In December 1622, the Earl of Home had a serious infection in the mouth, and his wife also had a tooth pulled out. The ''Life of Lady Falkland'' relates that Catherine, Countess of Home, had a religious vision in Scotland. Catherine's death in childbirth in 1625 and the vision were said to have caused her mother's conversion to Catholicism. One of Catherine's maids, Bessie Poulter, returned to England to serve Lady Falkland and was said to have been affected by preaching about witchcraft and Catholic priests in Scotland. In 1626 James married Grace Fane (d. 1633), eldest daughter of

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1 February 158023 March 1629), (styled Sir Francis Fane between 1603 and 1624) of Mereworth in Kent and of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Com ...

and

Mary Mildmay Mary Fane, Countess of Westmorland ( Mildmay; c. 1582 – 9 April 1640) continued her mother Grace Mildmay's interest in physic and was a significant author of spiritual guidance and writer of letters. Family background Mary was the daughter an ...

. She also had connections with the Villiers family. An account of expenses mentions his dogs and his horse "Sweepstakes" and money in gold sent to England for his expenses. James died in London without an heir in 1633, attended by the court physician Théodore de Mayerne,Marilyn M. Brown & Michael Pearce, 'The Gardens of Moray House, Edinburgh', ''Garden History'', 47:1 (2019), p. 6. and Grace died soon afterwards at

Apethorpe Apethorpe (pronounced "Ap-thorp") is a village, civil parish,

. The next Earl of Home was Sir James Home of Coldenknowes.

References

External links

Physic and Lace Bonnets: Letters to the Countess of Home
{{DEFAULTSORT:Home, James 1633 deaths Earls of Home 17th-century Scottish peers Members of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland 1630