John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes (died 1547) was a Scottish landowner. He was the son of William Forbes, 3rd Lord Forbes and Christian Gordon, daughter of

Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Huntly (died 15 July 1470), who adopted the family name of Gordon from about 1457, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish magnate. He was knighted in 1439/1440 and was Lord of Badenoch, Gordon, Strathbogie and Cluny. ...

. He became Lord Forbes after the death of his brother Arthur in 1493. In 1528 he accompanied

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to Edinburgh from

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and swore the "great oath" against the Douglas family. He was involved in a feud in Aberdeen and the killing of Alexander Seton of Meldrum. In 1530 he was ordered to compensate Lord Elphinstone for an attack on

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in 1525. In 1536 he was charged with treason and was imprisoned in

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and was released in 1538. In 1542 Forbes and the

Earl of Huntly Marquess of Huntly (traditionally spelled Marquis in Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: ''Coileach Strath Bhalgaidh'') is a title in the Peerage of Scotland that was created on 17 April 1599 for George Gordon, 6th Earl of Huntly. It is the oldest existing ...

fought in the north of Scotland. He died in 1547.

Marriages and children

John Forbes married Catherine Stewart, daughter of

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl (15 September 1512), also known as Sir John Stewart of Balveny, was a Scottish nobleman and ambassador. Life He was the oldest child of Joan Beaufort, widow of James I of Scotland, and her second husband, Sir ...

and Eleanor Sinclair. Their children included: * Elizabeth Forbes, who married

John Grant of Freuchie (died 1585) John Grant of Freuchie (died 1585) was a Scottish landowner. He was a son of James Grant of Freuchie (died 1553), and Elizabeth Forbes, a daughter of John Forbes, 6th Lord Forbes, or Christina Barclay. His home was Freuchie, sometimes called Balla ...

John Forbes married secondly Christian Lundie or Lundin. Their children included: * John Forbes, Master of Forbes (d. 1537), who married Elizabeth Lyon, daughter of

John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis (died 1528) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the second son of John Lyon, 4th Lord Glamis, and succeeded his brother as Lord Glamis in 1505. He married Janet Douglas (died 17 July 1537) Janet was falsely charged with ...

and Janet Douglas. He was executed for treason on three counts, plotting to kill the king with a handgun, sedition at Jedburgh, and assisting the English against the king's army in 1533. *

William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes William Forbes, 7th Lord Forbes (1513-1593) was a Scottish landowner. William was the son of John, 6th Lord Forbes and Christian Lundie. His eldest son John, Master of Forbes, and his half-brother "Black" Arthur Forbes signed a band on 27 April 1 ...

(d. 1593) * Margaret Forbes * Elizabeth Forbes * Marjory Forbes John Forbes' third wife was

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, widow of

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. Their children included: * Arthur Forbes of Putachie, known as "Black Arthur", who was killed at the

battle of Tillieangus The Battle of Tillieangus was fought on 10 October 1571 between the Clan Gordon and the Clan Forbes near White Hill of Tillyangus, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was part of the Marian civil war in which the Gordons supported Mary, Queen of Scots ...

in October 1571. * Jean or Janet Forbes, who married (1)

John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl (1507–1542) was the son of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Lady Janet Campbell, a daughter of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart. The Scottish chronicle writer Robert Lindsay of Pit ...

, (2) Alexander Hay of Delgatie, (3) William Leslie of Balquhain. His daughter with Helen Rutherford, Annabell Forbes, married the family genealogist Matthew Lumsden.Matthew Lumsden, ''Genealogy of the Family of Forbes'' (Inverness, 1819), p. 12.

References

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