Biography of James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle 1580-1636
Paternal Family Tree: Hay of Locherworth
Around 1580 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle was born to James Hay of Fingask.
In 1603 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 23) was appointed Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to King James IV of Scotland.
Around 06 Jan 1607 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 27) and Honora Denny were married. She the daughter of Edward Denny 1st Earl Norwich (age 37) and Mary Cecil Countess Norwich.
On 09 Feb 1608 John Ramsay 1st Earl Holderness (age 28) and Elizabeth Radclyffe Viscountess Haddington were married at Whitehall Palace [Map]. She by marriage Viscountess Haddington. She the daughter of Robert Radclyffe 5th Earl of Sussex (age 34) and Bridget Morrison Countess Sussex.
James I (age 41) gave the bride away and sent the bride a gold cup containing a grant of lands worth an income of £600 per year, also paid off Ramsay's debts of £10,000.
The marriage was celebrated with the Masque of The Hue and Cry After Cupid in the evening of 09 Feb 1608 at the Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace [Map] written by Ben Johnson (age 36).
The principal masquers, nobles and gentlemen of the Court, appeared in the guise of the twelve signs of the Zodiac; the men, five English and seven Scottish courtiers, were:
Ludovic Stewart 2nd Duke Lennox 1st Duke Richmond (age 33).
Thomas Howard 21st Earl Arundel 4th Earl Surrey 1st Earl Norfolk (age 22).
Philip Herbert 4th Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Montgomery (age 23).
William Herbert 3rd Earl Pembroke (age 27).
Esmé Stewart 3rd Duke Lennox (age 29).
Theophilus Howard 2nd Earl Suffolk (age 25).
James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 28).
Robert Crichton 8th Lord Sanquhar.
John Kennedy, Master of Mar.
Robert Rich 2nd Earl Warwick (age 20).
Mr Erskine.
In 1610 [his father] James Hay of Fingask died.
In 1612 [his son] James Hay 2nd Earl Carlisle was born to James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 32) and [his wife] Honora Denny.
On 16 Aug 1614 [his wife] Honora Denny died.
In 1617 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 37) and Lucy Percy Countess Carlisle (age 17) were married. The difference in their ages was 20 years. She the daughter of Henry "Wizard Earl" Percy 9th Earl of Northumberland (age 52) and Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland (age 53).
Diary of Anne Clifford 1617. 20 Jan 1617. Upon the 20th I and my Lord (age 27) went presently after dinner to the Court, he went up to the King’s side about his business, I went to my Aunt Bedford in her lodging where I stay’d in Lady Ruthven’s chamber till towards 8 o’clock about which time I was sent for up to the King into his Drawing Chamber when the door was lock’d and nobody suffered to stay here but my Lord (age 27) and I, my Uncle Cumberland, my Coz. Clifford, my Lords Arundel, Pembroke, Montgomery, Sir John Digby. For lawyers there were my Lord Chief Justice Montague and Hobart Yelverton the King’s Solicitor, Sir Randal Crewe that was to speak for my Lord (age 27) and I. The King asked us all if we would submit to his judgment in this case. My Uncle Cumberland, my Coz. Clifford, and my Lord (age 27) answered they would, but I would never agree to it without Westmoreland at which the King grew in a great chaff. My Lord of Pembroke and the King’s Solicitor speaking much against me, at last when they saw there was no remedy, my Lord (age 27) fearing the King would do me some public disgrace, desired Sir Fohn Digby would open the door, who went out with me and persuaded me much to yield to the King. My Lord Hay (age 37) came to me to whom I told in brief how this business stood. Presently after my Lord (age 27) came from the King when it was resolved that if I would not come to an agreement there should be an agreement made without me. We went down, Sir Robert Douglas and Sir George Chaworth bringing us to the coach, by the way my Lord (age 27) and I went in at Worcester House to see my Lord (age 27) and Lady and so came home this day. I may say I was led miraculously by God’s Providence, and next to that I trust all my good to the worth and nobleness of my Lord's (age 27) disposition for neither I nor anybody else thought I should have passed over this day so well as I have done.
Diary of Anne Clifford 1617. 16 Mar 1617. The 16th my Lord (age 27) sent for John Cook to make broths for him and Josiah1 to wait in his chamber, by whom I wrote a letter to entreat him that if he were not well I might come down to Buckhurst to him. This day I spent in walking in the Park with Judith2, carrying my Bible with me, thinking on my present fortunes and what troubles I have passed through3.
Note 1. Mr. Josiah Cooper, a Frenchman, Page.
Note 2. Mrs. Judith Simpton of the Laundry Maids’ Table.
Note 3. Upon the 17th the woman made an end of the sheet of Lady Sussex’s work that is for the pallet which was begun in April, presently after I came out of the North from my Mother.
About this time my Lord Hay (age 37) was sworn a Privy Councillor.
About this time my Lord (age 27) took Adam a new barber to wait on him in his Chamber.
Diary of Anne Clifford 1617. 04 Aug 1617. The 4th in the morning my Lord (age 28) went to Penshurst but would not suffer me to go with him although my Lord (age 28) and Lady Lisle sent a man on purpose to desire me to come. He hunted and lay there all night, there being my Lord of Montgomery, my Lord Hay (age 37), my Lady Lucy, and a great deal of other company, yet my Lord (age 28) and I parted reasonable good friends, he leaving with me his grandmother’s ring. The 8th I kept my chamber all day and at night Mr Ran came and persuaded me to be friends with Mathew, but I told him that I had received so many injuries from him that I could hardly forget them.
Diary of Anne Clifford 1617. 05 Nov 1617. The 5th I carried Mr Davis to Gray’s Inn to the attorney, when I told him His Majesty’s pleasure. From thence I went to Mr Walton’s lodgings to entreat his advice and help in this business, and so I came down this night to Knole. The next day my Lord Hay (age 37) was married to Lady Lucy Percy (age 17).
Note 1. Sister of Lady Dorothy Sidney.
In 1618 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 38) was created 1st Viscount Doncaster.
Before 29 Sep 1619 Robert Naunton (age 56) and [his sister-in-law] Penelepe Perrot (age 29) were married. The difference in their ages was 27 years. She the daughter of Thomas Perrot and Dorothy Devereux Countess Northumberland.
On 08 Jan 1621 Mountjoy Blount 1st Earl Newport (age 24) took part in a Masque before King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (age 20) staged by James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 41) at Essex House.
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. Sep 1621. This month of September and the two foregoing months I may well reckon amongst the worst parts of my life, in respect of my loss of time, and my not laying to heart the public miseries of Christendom as I ought to have done, the enemies of God and his Truth preTailing wonderfully all this summer both in Germany and France; nay, when our King sent over the Lord Hayes (age 41), Viscount Doncaster, his extraordinary ambassador to the French King, to intercede for peace to be made between him and his Protestant subjects, he was most scornfully and slightingly entertained.
In 1622 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 42) was created 1st Earl Carlisle. [his wife] Lucy Percy Countess Carlisle (age 22) by marriage Countess Carlisle.
Autobiography Simon D'Ewes. 17 Feb 1623. There happened on Monday, the 17th day of the month, so strange an accident as after ages will scarce believe it. For Charles Prince of Wales (age 22) began his journey from London into Spain on Monday, the 17th day of February, with the beloved Marquis of Buckingham (age 30), Sir Francis Cottington (age 44), and Mr. Endimion Porter (age 36), only in his campaign; who only, besides the King himself, were the alone men aquainted with the Prince's resolution. Their going was so secretly carried as none, I believe, knew of it in England till they were landed in France, through which kingdom they passed by posthorse into Spain.1 The journey was thought so dangerous, being above 1100 English miles by land, besides the crossing of the seas between Dover and Calais, as all men were generally ensaddened at the ad- venture, often wishing it had been better advised upon; although they knew the Spaniards durst do the Prince no harm, so long as his royal sister and her illustrious oflspring survived. Soon after followed the Lord Hays (age 43), Earl of Carlisle, and passed into France to excuse to that King the Prince's sudden and secret passing through his kingdom without giving him a visit. All men now took it for granted, that the Prince's marriage with the Infanta Maria, the King of Spain's sister, was concluded on, and that he went over only to consummate it; no man imagining that he would take up such a resolution upon uncertainties, especially occasioning so vast and unnecessary expense at a time when the King's wants pressed him much. But God, whose decree binds princes as well as peasants, had otherwise disposed, so as our royal suitor, arriving at Madrid in Spain on Friday the 7th (or 17th) of March, about three weeks later his departure from London, and taking ship for his return to England on the 18th (or 28th) of September, then next ensuing, stayed in Spain about seven months; in all which time he seldom saw or spoke with the Spanish Princess, nor could ever receive a fair or sincere denial from her brother, although her marriage had been absolutely disposed of by her father's last will and testament; he bequeathing her to Ferdinand, son and heir of Ferdinand the Second, Emperor of Germany, who afterwards did accordingly espouse her.
Note 1. "And now behold a, strange adventure and enterprise! The Prince and the Marquis of Buckingham, accompanied with Cottington and Endimion Porter, post in disgiuse to Spain to accelerate the marriage. The 17th of February they went privately from Court, and the next day came to Dover, where they embarked for Boulogne, and from thence rode post to Paris, where they made some atop. The Prince, shadowed under a bushy peruque, beheld the splendour of that court, and had a full view of the Princess Henrietta Maria (age 13), who was afterwards his royal consort. For, besides the great privacy of the journey, they had so laid the English ports, that none should follow or give the least advertisement, until they had got the start of intelligencers, and passed the bounds of France. Howbeit they escaped narrowly, and a swift intelligence sent to the King of Spain from Don Carlos Coloma was even at their heels before they arrived at Madrid. The Prince and Buckingham being in the territories of Spain, to make but little noise, rode post before their company. The 7th of March they arrived at Madrid, the royal residence, and were conveyed with much secrecy into the Earl of Bristol's (age 43) house-Rushworth, i. p. 76. A fuller account of this extraordinary adventure will be found elsewhere.
1624. Unknown Painter. Portrait of James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 44).
In 1632 [his son] James Hay 2nd Earl Carlisle (age 20) and [his daughter-in-law] Margaret Russell Countess Manchester and Carlisle were married. She the daughter of Francis Russell 4th Earl Bedford (age 39) and Catherine Brydges Countess Bedford (age 52). He the son of James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 52) and Honora Denny. They were fourth cousins.
In Mar 1636 James Hay 1st Earl Carlisle (age 56) died. His son [his son] James Hay 2nd Earl Carlisle (age 24) succeeded 2nd Earl Carlisle, 2nd Viscount Doncaster. [his daughter-in-law] Margaret Russell Countess Manchester and Carlisle by marriage Countess Carlisle.
On 05 Nov 1660 [his former wife] Lucy Percy Countess Carlisle (age 60) died.
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Hay of Lochorwart and Yester
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Hay
Great x 2 Grandfather: Peter Hay 1st of Megginch
Great x 1 Grandfather: Edmund Hay 2nd of Megginch
GrandFather: Peter Hay 3rd of Megginch
Father: James Hay of Fingask