Hawise Fitz Alan

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Also called Hawise Stewart. Sister of James Stewart, also called James Fitz Alan, steward of Scotland. "She had from [him] two thirds of the town of Old Roxburgh, which property then descended to the Lovels. This is the primary evidence that she was the mother of Muriel." [Tim Powys-Lybbe]

Family/Spouse: John de Soules. John (son of Nicholas de Soules and Annora de Normanville) was born about 1250 in of Roxburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland; died before 4 Jan 1311. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Muriel Soules died in Feb 1318; was buried on 25 Feb 1318.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1220
• Alternate death: 1282

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Also called Alexander of Dundonald. 4th High Steward of Scotland. "4th High Steward of Scotland, 1246-1283 and Baron of Garlies from 30 Nov 1263. [...] Councillor in 1255 to the underage King of Scotland, Alexander III, and one of the regents of Scotland. Upon his marriage he seized the Isles of Bute and Arran and as a result fought and defeated the Norwegians at the battle of Largs, in Cunningham, 2 Oct 1263, ceding the Isles to Scotland. In 1264 he invaded the Isle of Man which was then annexed to the Crown." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

"He seems to have commanded the armed force which, at Largs, in October 1263, successfully defended Scotland against attempted invasion by Hákon IV, king of Norway. It seems to have been in Alexander's time that the Stewarts acquired the lordship of Cowal, with a castle at Dunoon. Moreover, the style senescallus Scotie, 'stewart of Scotland', now replaced the older dapifer regis Scotie, 'steward of the king of Scotland', thus indicating a major office of state, significant in a national context." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Alexander married Jean Macrory. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Jean of Bute.

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Also spelled Walter Steward; also called Walter Fitz Alan. 3rd High Steward. Justiciar of Scotia (i.e. Scotland north of the Forth), 1232-1241. First to use Stewart as a surname.

"He was appointed Justiciar of Scotland by Alexander II in 1230, and negotiated that king's second marriage. He is said by Duncan Stewart to have married Beatrix, daughter of Gilchrist, Earl of Angus, but no proof has been found of this." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

The Complete Peerage entry for Walter Stewart's son-in-law Maldouen, third earl of Lennox (7:589-90), states without qualification that Maldouen's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Walter Steward, High Steward of Scotland, by Beatrice, daughter of Gilchrist, Earl of Angus, but although no correction to this appears in CP 14, the corrigenda volume, it would appear that the modern consensus is that the identity of Walter Stewart/Steward's wife is unproved.

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"James, the son of Angus, had a daughter Jean, who married Alexander, eldest son of Walter, Steward of Scotland." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz calls him "James of Bute" and says he was "[k]illed in 1210 in Scotland with his father and brothers by the men of Skye", which accords with SP's sketch of his father.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1150

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Also called Alan the Steward. 2nd High Steward. Accompanied Richard on the Third Crusade; returned to Scotland in July 1191. Patron of the Knights Templar.

Alan married Eva. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to Andrew B. W. MacEwen (citation details below), it was Eva, first wife of Alan Fitz Walter, who was the mother of his children, not his second wife Alesta, daughter of Morggán, Earl of Mar.

Eva has been said to be a daughter of Swain, son of Thor, the latter having been the first recorded sheriff of Lothian. The truth of this is the subject of inconclusive controvery stretching back at least a century.

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"Angus, who inherited Bute, with a part of Arran, and the Rough Bounds (Garmoran) extending from Ardnamurchan to Glenelg. Angus and his three sons were killed in 1210 by the men of Skye." [The Scots Peerage, citation details below]

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1st High Steward of Scotland. Founder of Paisley Abbey. Described by A. M. Mackenzie as "a Norman by culture and a Breton by blood." A supporter of the Empress Matilda, he came to Scotland in 1136 and fought for it at the Battle of the Standard, following which David I made him Steward of Scotland and later confirmed the title as a hereditary office.

Walter married Eschyna de London. Eschyna (daughter of Uhtred fitz Liulf and (Unknown) de London) died after 1197. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1202

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Also called Eschina of Huntlaw; Eschyna de Molle.

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"Somerled, a Celtic chief, who is said to have acquired the Western islands, assumed the designation of King of the Isles." [Complete Peerage, citation details below]

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Sheriff of Shropshire from 1101 onwards. Founded Sporle Priory in Norfolk.

"[A] favoured supporter of Henry I, who was descended from the hereditary stewards of Dol in Brittany." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Alan married Aveline de Hesdin. Aveline (daughter of Ernulf de Hesdin and Emmeline) died after 1148. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Uhtred married (Unknown) de London. (Unknown) (daughter of William de London and Emma de Falaise) was born between 1115 and 1131. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]