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  • ID: I7878
  • Name: John Stewart
  • Given Name: John
  • Surname: Stewart 1 2
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: Abt 1440 in Earlshill, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 3 2
  • Death: 15 Sep 1512 in Balvenie Castle, Glen Fiddich, Fifeshire, Scotland 3 2
  • Burial: Unknown Cathedral, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
  • Ancestral File #: 8J55-8X 4 5
  • Event: Alt. Birth Abt 1440 Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
  • _UID: 381CD2B47341413EBE0D6C62DA7CB525D6D3
  • Change Date: 10 Sep 2008 at 07:46
  • Note:
    John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, so created 1457; granted the Castle and Lordship of Balvenie (forfeited by his 1st wife's family) 1460; defeated and captured the last Lord of the Isles (see MacDonald) 1475; Ambassador to England 1484; married 1st 1459/60 Margaret "The Fair Maid of Galloway" Dowager Countess of Douglas (died by 1475), daughter of the 5th Earl of Douglas, widow of her cousin 8th Earl of Douglas and divorced wife of another cousin 9th Earl of Douglas, and had [Janet, married 3rd Earl of Huntly and d. 27 Oct 1510], with a younger daughter. The 1st Earl married 2nd c27 April 1475 Eleanor (d. 21 March 1518), daughter of 1st Earl of Caithness, and died 15 Sep 1512, having by her had [John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl], with nine daughters (including Margaret, married Sir William Murray of Castleton; Catherine, married as his 1st wife 6th Lord Forbes) and a younger son (Andrew, Bishop of Caithness). [Burke's Peerage]

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    Sir John Stewart of Balveny, Earl of Atholl, b. c 1440, d. 15 Sep 1512. [Magna Charta Sureties]


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    Father: James I Stewart b: Dec 1394 in Dumfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland
    Mother: Joan Beaufort b: Abt 1398 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England

    Marriage 1 Margaret "Fair Maid Of Galloway" Douglas b: 1438 in Falahill, Eddleston, Peebleshire, Scotland
    • Married: Bef Mar 1459-1460 in Scotland
    • Change Date: 10 Sep 2008
    Children
    1. Has Children Catherine Stewart b: Abt 1465 in Traquair, Peeblesshire, Scotland
    2. Has Children Elizabeth (Of Atholl) Stewart b: Abt 1458 in Traquair, Peeblesshire, Scotland
    3. Has Children Isabel Stewart b: Abt 1460
    4. Has Children Janet (Jean) Stewart b: Abt 1461 in Traquair, Perthshire, Scotland
    5. Has Children Margaret Stewart b: Abt 1464 in Of Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland

    Marriage 2 Eleanor Sinclair b: Abt 1457 in Ravenscraig Castle, Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, Scotland
    • Married: Bef 19 Apr 1475 in Dunkeld Cathedral, Perthshire, Scotland 6
    • Event: Alt. Marriage Abt 27 Apr 1475 in 2ND Wife
    • Change Date: 14 Sep 2008
    Children
    1. Has Children Margaret Stewart b: Abt 1477 in Of Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
    2. Has No Children Jean Stewart b: Abt 1481 in Of Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
    3. Has No Children Christian Stewart b: Abt 1476 in Of Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
    4. Has No Children Andrew Stewart b: Abt 1485 in Of Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
    5. Has Children John (2Nd Earl Of Atholl) Stewart b: Abt 1478
    6. Has Children Marjory Stewart b: Abt 1490 in Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
    7. Has Children Elspeth Stewart b: Abt 1492 in Of Balveny, Fifeshire, Scotland
    8. Has No Children Ann Jean Stewart b: Abt 1488

    Sources:
    1. Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
      Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
      Date: 2000
      Page: 1988, 133
      Quality: 3
    2. Abbrev: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
      Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
      Date: 2000
      Page: 41c-11
      Quality: 3
    3. Abbrev: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
      Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
      Date: 2000
      Page: 1988
      Quality: 3
    4. Abbrev: Ancestral File (TM)
      Title: Ancestral File (TM)
      Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      Publication: June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
      Date: 8 Dec 2000
      Repository:
        Name: Family History Library
        35 N West Temple Street
        Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
        Salt Lake City, Utah 84150
    5. Abbrev: visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter of Maurice Lord Berkeley
      Title: visitation of oxford , p 16 . quarterly shows Robert throckmorton married teh daughter of Maurice Lord Berkeley
      Author: harlien
      Date: 2000
    6. Abbrev: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
      Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999
      Date: 2000
      Page: 41c-11
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