Brief Life History of Jean
When Lady Jean Ruthven was born in 1564, in Ruthven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Sir William Ruthven of Ruthven - 1st Earl of Gowrie, was 23 and her mother, Dorothea Stewart - Countess of Gowrie, was 13. She married Lord James Ogilvy 6th Lord of Airlie on 11 November 1581, in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. She died on 6 January 1620, in Scotland, United Kingdom, at the age of 56, and was buried in Scotland, United Kingdom.
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1588
Philip launched the Spanish Armada which the English defeated.
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Scottish: habitational name, traditionally pronounced ‘Ri-ven’, from Ruthven by Huntingtower (Perthshire); also possibly from Ruthven (Angus) and various other places of that name throughout Scotland, named either with Gaelic ruadh ‘red’ + mhaighin ‘place’ or with a cognate of Welsh rhudd faen ‘red stone’. The oldest family of this name, the lords of the barony of Ruthven by Perth, were descended from Thor, son of Swain, lord of Tranent in Lothian and first sheriff of Edinburgh on record in the mid 12th century. The family eventually gained the title of Earl of Gowrie, but because of what became known as ‘the Gowrie Conspiracy’ the title was forfeited and from 1600 to 1641 the surname itself was proscribed. The title was later restored to the family, and the present Earl of Gowrie bears the surname Ruthven.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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