Elizabeth Stewart

Notes:

Not to be confused with her older sister Elizabeth Stewart, who married Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll.

Elizabeth married John Colquhoun about 1480. John (son of Humphrey Colquhoun and Helen Erskine) was born in of Luss, Argyll, Scotland; died between 4 Aug 1535 and 22 Aug 1536. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Humphrey Colquhoun was born in of Luss, Argyll, Scotland; died in Jan 1538.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1428 and 1429, of Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
• Alternate death: 11 Sep 1495

Notes:

First Lord Darnley, and first Earl of Lennox of the Stewart line.

Direct paternal great-great-great grandfather of James VI and I of Scotland and England.

"[E]stablished his rights as Earl only after long controversy and then resigned the earldom's lands to his son in 1490, reserving his liferent […] [b]y which means he did not denude himself of the earldom but rather directed its destination." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

"Throughout his life Darnley's overriding ambition was to validate his claim to all or part of the earldom of Lennox. He was the grandson of John Stewart of Darnley and Elizabeth of Lennox, who were married shortly after 23 September 1406. Elizabeth was one of the three daughters of Duncan, earl of Lennox (executed in 1425). After 1437 Lennox had been held by Earl Duncan's eldest daughter, Isabella, duchess of Albany and countess of Lennox, the widow of Murdoch, duke of Albany. Isabella died without any legitimate heirs and in the years following her death Darnley pursued a claim to half of Lennox as the grandson of Countess Isabella's sister Elizabeth. The other half of the earldom was claimed by Sir John Haldane of Gleneagles and John Napier of Merchiston, husbands of the granddaughters of Earl Duncan's third daughter, Margaret of Lennox. Darnley's most serious rival, however, was Andrew Stewart, Lord Avondale, chancellor of the kingdom, who was the illegitimate son of Countess Isabella's son Walter." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

John married Margaret Montgomery before 20 Jul 1461. Margaret (daughter of Alexander Montgomery and Elizabeth Hepburn) was born about 1442; died before 1527. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Contrary to The Scots Peerage and other sources, she was not the Margaret Montgomery who was contracted to marry this John Stewart on 15 May 1438. That Margaret Montgomery was this Margaret Montgomery's great-aunt.

Notes:

"Sieur d'Aubigny […] never knighted, still in Scotland 21 September 1419, in French service until 1437, when he returned to Scotland, only to be slain by Sir Thomas Boyd the next year." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

Alan married Katherine Seton in 1428. Katherine (daughter of John Seton and Catherine Sinclair) was born about 1410; died before 7 Feb 1478. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: of Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland

Notes:

"Bailie of Cunningham 31 January 1447/8, which office was resigned by his father in his favor." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

Alexander married Elizabeth Hepburn about 1440. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Killed at the Battle of the Herrings.

"Constable of the Scots in French service, made a foundation in Orléans Cathedral in 1421, a knight banneret by 1 August 1425, granted by Charles VII the lordships of Aubigny and Concressault and the county of Évreux, with the right to bear his arms quartered with those of France, slain leading an attack on forces commanded by Sir John Fastolf." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

John married Elizabeth of Lennox after 23 Sep 1406. Elizabeth (daughter of Duncan of Lennox and Helen Campbell) died in Nov 1429 in France; was buried in Orléans, Loiret, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 1434

Notes:

"Master of the Household to King James I, a prisoner after the battle of Homildon Hill and a hostage in England in 1407, one of the commissioners appointed to treat for the liberation of James I and one of the named conservators of the truce of seven years concluded in 1424." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

John married Catherine Sinclair before 8 Mar 1393. Catherine (daughter of John Sinclair and Elizabeth Polwarth) was born in of Herdmanston, East Lothian, Scotland; died after 28 Mar 1450. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Catherine de Sant Clar.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1470

Notes:

Lord of Ardrossan and Eglinton.

"Created Lord Montgomery shortly before 3 July 1445, joint keeper of Kintyre and Knapdale, commissioner to conclude a truce with England 1437-38 and later, keeper of Brodick Castle." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

Alexander married Margaret Boyd. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Boyd and (Unknown) Stewart) died after 16 Sep 1453. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"[O]ne of the commissioners sent to England to treat for the release of King James I, who knighted him at his coronation the following year, a hostage for the payment of the king's ransom until 1427, keeper of Dunbar Castle in 1435, styled Steward of the earldom of March in 1444, surrendered Dunbar Castle to adherents of the Black Douglases the following year." [The Ancestry of Charles II, citation details below]

Adam married Janet Borthwick after 2 Nov 1411. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]