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378 BUCHAN XIII. 1444 ? I. Lady Mary Stewart, da. of James I, by Joan, to da. of John (Beaufort), Earl of Somerset, m., at ter 1465. Veere In Zealand, in i444,() Wolfart van BorsselEjC') 1st s. and h. ap. of Hendrick van Borssele, Count of Grandpre in Champagne, Heer van der Veere in Zealand, by his 2nd wife, Jenne, da. of Olivier van Halewyn, Heer van Lacken and Hemserode. She appears to have been granted the Earldom of Buchan, probably on the occasion of her marriage, her husband thus becoming jure uxorisi^) EARL OF BUCHAN [S.], and being spoken of as having "hadthecomplimentmadehimofthetitle of Earl of Buchan. "('*) She d. s.p.s., 20 Mar. 1465, and was bur. at Sandenburg, at ter Veere, in Zealand. M.I. He w., 2ndly (cont. 17 June 1468), Charlotte de Boureon, da. of Louis I, Count of Montpensier, of Clermont, and of Sancerre, Dauphin of AuvERGNE, by his 2nd wife, Gabrielle, da. of Bertrand VI, Seigneur de la Tour, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne.() She d. 14 Mar. 1478, and was I'ur. at Sandenburg afsd. M.I. He is called in 1464 Marshal of France and Chamberlain to the King, but is never afterwards so described. He sue. his father, 17 Feb. 1474, as Count of Grandpre, &'€.,{") was Gov. of Holland, Zealand and Friesland 1477-80, and was cr. a Knight of the Golden Fleece at Bruges, 1-2 May 1478. He d. s.p.m.s., at Ghent, 29 Apr. 1487, and was bur. at Sandenburg afsd. M.I., in which he is styled " Grave van Grootvelt, Bouchane,(') Heere van ter Vere," (sfc. XIV. 1469. I. Sir James Stewart (called " Hearty James "), 2nd s. of Sir James S., of Lorn (" the Black Knight 0/ Lorn "), by Jane, Queen Dowager of Scotland, da. of John (Beaufort), Earl of Somerset (being uncle to James III, to whose father he was uterine brother), was cr. (it is said in 1469) EARL OF BUCHAN and LORD AUCHTER- (*) This date is expressly given by Johan Reigersbergen, who adds that the marriage was "met grooter triumphe." The passage from this writer's Chmnijck van Zeelandt is given in a note by G. W. Watson in The Genealogist^ N.S., vol. xvi, p. 136. V.G. C') See an able article by G. W. Watson, in The Genealogist, N.S., vol. xiv, pp. lo-ii, entitled "Wolfart van Borssele, Earl of Buchan." This gives full particulars of him and his ancestry, and furnishes almost entirely the facts and state- ments in the above notice. (') He is thus spoken of in Burnett's Genealogy of the Stewart family in the preface to vol. iv of the Exchequer Rolls [S.] 1880, and on the M.I. his wife is described as "Marie van Schotland dochter van Jacop, Koning van Schotland, Gravinne van Bouchane," a description which suggests a suo jure Countess, and which is not given to her husband's Ji-caW wife. See also note " f" below. (^) Yair's Account of the Scotch Trade in the Netherlands, p. 80, as quoted in an article by A. W. C. H. Alien in the Scottish Antiquary, vol. iii, p. 141 (1889). (') In 1487 he sold the Comte of Grandpre, which his father had purchased. (') In 1469, or certainly in 1476 (that is to say after the death [1465] of the Countess Mary, but long before that of her husband, Wolfart [1487]), the Earldom of Buchan was undoubtedly again disposed of, being then conferred on James Stevi^art.