James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran

James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran (* 1537, † 1609) was a Scottish nobleman.

James Hamilton, son of James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran, threw himself into France the Huguenots in his arms, why him the King of France withdrew his duchy Chatellerault. Hamilton lived thereon as a preacher in Scotland. He was as a possible husband for Mary Queen of Scots, and the English Queen Elizabeth in conversation, but fell in 1561 to the madness.

1575 Hamilton inherited after the death of his father the title. Because of his mental illness to him but his brother John was placed as guardian to the side. James Hamilton died in 1609.

After Morton had to climb in 1581 under James VI. , Afterwards the King James I of England, the scaffold, the goods of the Hamilton family titles of nobility were confiscated, they were ostracized, denied. The ancestral castle was destroyed in 1579. It was not until 1585 he was returned to his title.

The brother of the 3rd Earl of Arran, Claude was the founder of the branch of the Marquess of Abercorn.