The best of the Hamilton’s: 14th Great Grandfather James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, 6th Lord of Cadzow (c. 1415 - 6 November 1479)

The best of the Hamilton’s: 14^th Great Grandfather James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, 6th Lord of Cadzow (c. 1415 - 6 November 1479) was a Scottish nobleman, scholar and politician.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton,_1st_Lord_Hamilton

Hamilton was intimately connected with the powerful House of Douglas: his mother was a daughter of the Douglas Lord of Dalkeith, and also through his marriage in 1439/1440 with Lady Euphemia Graham, the youthful widow of Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas and daughter of Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn. Hamilton became stepfather to the young 6th Earl of Douglas, his brother David, both who would be murdered in November 1440 at the 'Black Dinner' at Edinburgh Castle in the presence of James II. Furthermore he was the stepfather of Margaret Douglas, known as the "Fair Maid of Galloway", who was to marry her cousins William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas, and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas.