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  2. Women in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Agnes Douglas, Countess of Argyll (1574–1607), attributed to Adrian Vanson. Women in early modern Scotland, between the Renaissance of the early sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation in the mid-eighteenth century, were part of a patriarchal society, though the enforcement of this social order was not absolute in all aspects.

  3. Margaret Knox - Wikipedia

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    Margaret Knox (née Stewart; 1547 – after 1612) was a Scottish noblewoman and the second wife of Scottish reformer John Knox, whom she married when she was 17 years old and he 54. The marriage caused consternation from Mary, Queen of Scots, as the couple had married without having obtained royal consent. [1]

  4. Anne Home, Countess of Lauderdale - Wikipedia

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    Anne Home was a daughter of Mary (Dudley) Sutton, Countess of Home and Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home.. She was born and christened in 1612. Anne of Denmark sent instructions to the chamberlain of her Dunfermline estates, Henry Wardlaw of Pitreavie, to distribute presents of money at the baptism, and Anna Hay, Countess of Winton was to be her representative.

  5. Family in early modern Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Sir Francis Grant, Lord Cullen, and His Family, by John Smybert (1688–1751). The family in early modern Scotland includes all aspects of kinship and family life, between the Renaissance and the Reformation of the sixteenth century and the beginnings of industrialisation and the end of the Jacobite risings in the mid-eighteenth century in Scotland.

  6. Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray - Wikipedia

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    Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray (c. 1540 – 16 July 1588) was a Scottish noblewoman. She was the wife of James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland and the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, making her a sister-in-law of the Scottish queen. As the wife of the regent, Agnes was the most powerful woman in Scotland from ...

  7. Jessie Campbell - Wikipedia

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    Gravestone for the Campbell family, including James and Jessie Campbell. Campbell was born Janet Black on 26 March 1827 in Cross-Arthurlie in Renfrewshire. [1] [2] She died the 10th of February 1927. [3] It is said that the idea of lectures for women in Glasgow arose out of her suggestion at a dinner party. [4]

  8. Elizabeth Keith, Countess of Huntly - Wikipedia

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    She succeeded to the title of Countess of Huntly at her marriage on 27 March 1530, but like all Scottish married women in the sixteenth century would never have used her husband's surname. [2] [3] Her daughter, Lady Jean Gordon, Countess of Bothwell was the first wife of James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.

  9. Agnes Campbell - Wikipedia

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    A major factor in Turlough marrying Campbell was to recruit her family's Redshanks to attack the Pale - however, she did not always comply with Turlough's wishes. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 12 ] Her loyalty to the MacDonald and Campbell families strained her marriage to Turlough, and rumours of a divorce spread shortly after their honeymoon.

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