Paternal Family Tree: Wyntoun aka Seton
In 1546 Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland was born to George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley [aged 32].
Before 1549 [her brother-in-law] John Stewart 4th Earl Atholl and [her sister] Elizabeth Gordon Countess Atholl were married. She by marriage Countess Atholl. She the daughter of [her father] George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley [aged 34]. He the son of John Stewart 3rd Earl Atholl and Grizzell Ratray Countess Atholl. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
In September 1556 Patrick Hepburn 3rd Earl Bothwell [aged 44] died. His son [her future husband] James [aged 22] succeeded 4th Earl Bothwell.
In 1557 [her sister] Elizabeth Gordon Countess Atholl died.
On 12th March 1558 [her brother] George Gordon 5th Earl Huntley and [her sister-in-law] Anne Hamilton Countess Huntley [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of James Hamilton 2nd Earl Arran [aged 42] and Margaret Douglas Duchess Châtellerault. He the son of [her father] George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley [aged 44]. They were second cousins.
On 28th October 1562 [her father] George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley [aged 48] died. His son [her brother] George succeeded 5th Earl Huntley. [her sister-in-law] Anne Hamilton Countess Huntley [aged 27] by marriage Countess Huntley.
In February 1566 James "Lord Bothwell" Hepburn 1st Duke Orkney [aged 32] and Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland [aged 20] were married. She by marriage Countess Bothwell. She the daughter of George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley. He the son of Patrick Hepburn 3rd Earl Bothwell and Agnes Sinclair Countess Bothwell. They were third cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 7th May 1567 James "Lord Bothwell" Hepburn 1st Duke Orkney [aged 33] and Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland [aged 21] were divorced.
On 12th May 1567 [her former husband] James "Lord Bothwell" Hepburn 1st Duke Orkney [aged 33] was created 1st Duke Orkney, 1st Marquess Fife.
On 15th May 1567 [her former husband] James "Lord Bothwell" Hepburn 1st Duke Orkney [aged 33] and Mary Queen of Scots [aged 24] were married in the Great Hall Holyrood House. She the daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland. He the son of Patrick Hepburn 3rd Earl Bothwell and Agnes Sinclair Countess Bothwell. They were half third cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 23rd June 1567 John Gordon 11th Earl Sutherland [aged 42] died at Dunrobin Castle, Dunrobin. His son [her future husband] Alexander [aged 15] succeeded 12th Earl Sutherland. Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland [aged 21] by marriage Countess Sutherland.
On 4th September 1571 supporters of Mary Queen of Scots [aged 28] led by [her brother] George Gordon 5th Earl Huntley attacked Stirling Castle [Map].
Matthew Stewart 4th Earl Lennox [aged 54] was shot. His son Charles [aged 14] succeeded 5th Earl Lennox.
Alexander Stewart [aged 39] was killed
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On 13th December 1573 Alexander Gordon 12th Earl Sutherland [aged 21] and Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland [aged 27] were married at Huntly Castle, Huntly. She the daughter of George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley. He the son of John Gordon 11th Earl Sutherland and Helen or Eleanor Stewart Countess Erroll and Sutherland. They were second cousin once removed. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 19th October 1576 [her brother] George Gordon 5th Earl Huntley died. His son [her nephew] George [aged 14] succeeded 6th Earl Huntley.
In April 1578 [her former husband] James "Lord Bothwell" Hepburn 1st Duke Orkney [aged 44] died at Dragsholm Castle. His nephew Francis [aged 15] succeeded 5th Earl Bothwell at Great Hall Stirling Castle.
In 1594 [her husband] Alexander Gordon 12th Earl Sutherland [aged 42] died. His son John [aged 18] succeeded 13th Earl Sutherland.
On 10th December 1599 Alexander Ogilvy and Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland [aged 53] were married. She the daughter of George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley.
On 14th May 1629 Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland [aged 83] died at Dunrobin Castle, Dunrobin.
Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings Godwinson: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England
Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great Grand Daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Philip IV of France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 20 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Kings Spain: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon
Great x 4 Grandfather: Alexander Seton 8 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 1st Earl Huntley 9 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Gordon
Great x 2 Grandfather: George Gordon 2nd Earl Huntley 10 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Crichton 1st Lord Crichton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Crichton Countess Huntley
Great x 1 Grandfather: Alexander Gordon 3rd Earl Huntley 11 x Great Grandson of King John of England
Grandfather: John Gordon 4 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Stewart of Innermeath 3rd of Lorn 
6 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: James "Black Knight of Lorn" Stewart 7 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Macdougall
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Stewart 1st Earl Atholl 2 x Great Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset 
Grandson of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Holland Duchess Clarence 
2 x Great Granddaughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Jean Stewart Countess Huntley 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry Sinclair 2nd Earl Orkney
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Sinclair 3rd Earl Orkney 1st Earl Caithness Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Egidia "Fair Maid of Nithsdale" Douglas Countess Orkney Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Sinclair Countess Atholl 2 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Marjory Sutherland Countess Orkney and Caithness
father: George Gordon 4th Earl Huntley Grandson of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: King James I of Scotland 
son of King Robert III of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: King James II of Scotland son of King James I of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Queen Consort Scotland Great Granddaughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: King James III of Scotland son of King James II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Arnold Egmont Duke Guelders
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland 3 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine de la Marck 2 x Great Granddaughter of King John "The Good" II of France
Great x 1 Grandfather: King James IV of Scotland son of King James III of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: Dietrich Count of Oldenburg 
Great x 3 Grandfather: Christian I King of Denmark
Great x 4 Grandmother: Helvig of Schauenburg
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Oldenburg Queen Consort Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: John "The Alchemist" Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
Great x 3 Grandmother: Dorothea of Brandenburg
Great x 4 Grandmother: Barbara of Saxe-Wittenberg
Grandmother: Margaret Stewart daughter of King James IV of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Drummond 1st Lord Drummond
Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Drummond 4 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: David Lindsay 3rd Earl Crawford Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandfather: Alexander Lindsay 4th Earl Crawford 2 x Great Grandson of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Lindsay Lady Drummond 3 x Great Granddaughter of King Robert II of Scotland
Great x 4 Grandfather: David Dunbar 
7 x Great Grandson of King David I of Scotland
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Dunbar Countess Crawford 8 x Great Granddaughter of King David I of Scotland
Jean Gordon Countess Bothwell and Sutherland Great Granddaughter of King James IV of Scotland