Stewart, Princess Mary

Female 1380 - 1458  (78 years)


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  • Name Stewart, Mary  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Title Princess 
    Birth 1 Jan 1380  Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Christening 1384  Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Gender Female 
    Appointments / Titles Princess of Scotland, Countess of Angus  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
    FSID LTVF-MNF  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Burial Mar 1458  Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Death 20 Mar 1458  Duntreath Castle, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Person ID I34747  The Thoma Family
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

    Father of Scotland, King Robert Stewart III,   b. 14 Aug 1337, Dundonald Castle, Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Apr 1406, Rothesay Castle, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Drummond, Annabella,   b. 1350, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Oct 1401, Scone Palace, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 13 Mar 1367  Kyle, Aryshire (Historical), Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F13752  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Douglas, Sir George,   b. 1376, Tantallon Castle, North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1402, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 26 years) 
    Marriage 24 May 1397  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15
    Children 
     1. Douglas, Lady Elizabeth Mary,   b. 24 Feb 1398, Mar Lodge, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1460, Yester Castle, Yester, East Lothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)  [natural]
    Family ID F13751  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 20 Sep 2023 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1 Jan 1380 - Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 1384 - Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 24 May 1397 - Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Mar 1458 - Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 20 Mar 1458 - Duntreath Castle, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Mary was the daughter of Robert the III, King of Scotland and Annabella Drummond.[1] As such, she had was styled as Princess Mary of Scotland. She was born about 1380 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland.

      She was married four times:

      George Douglas in 1397, 1st Earl of Angus, As a result of her marriage, Lady Mary Stewart was styled as Countess of Angus after 24 May 1397
      Sir James Kennedy the Younger of Denure in 1405. The issue by Sir James Kennedy younger of Dunure, were the ancestors of the Marquesses of Alisa
      William Graham of Kincardine. The product of her marriage to this William were the ancestors of the Viscounts Dundee and the Dukes of Montrose
      Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath (or Culloden) in 1425.[2][1]
      She was betrothed to Sir William Cunningham, Earl of Carrick, Lord of Glengarnock, Kilmaurs and Glencairn in 1409. It appears they were never married.

      She died in Strathblane, possibly in 1458, and is interred in the parish church in Strathblane. [2][1]

      MARY (or MARION) STEWART, born in or after 1378. She married (1st) GEORGE DE DOUGLAS. GEORGE DE DOUGLAS, 1st Earl of Angus, was taken captive at the Battle of Homildon Hill 14 Sept. 1402. He remained a prisoner in England, and died there of the plague. His widow, Mary (or Marion), married [2nd] before 27 Jan. 1405/6 JAMES KENNEDY, Knt. SIR JAMES KENNEDY was killed in a quarrel with his illegitimate brother, Gilbert Kennedy, shortly before 8 Nov. 1408. Following his death, his widow, Mary (or Marion), married (3rd) by dispensation dated 7 July 1409 (she and his 1st wife, Margaret de Danielston, being related in the 2nd and 3rd degrees of kindred) (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM DE CUNNINGHAM, Knt. [see BRUS 10.vii.a.1], of Kilmaurs, Lambroughton, Skelmorlie, Kilbride (in barony of Cunningham) and Polquhairn (in Kyle), Ayrshire, and Ranfurley (in the barony of Renfrew), Lanarkshire, Sheriff of Ayr, 1406, and, in right of his 1st wife, of Danielston and Finlaystown, Renfrewshire, Kilmarnock, Dumbartonshire, and Glencairn, Dumfriesshire, 2nd son but eldest surviving son and heir of William de Cunningham, Knt., of Kilmaurs, Lambroughton, Skelmorlie, Kilbride (in barony of Cunningham), and Polquhairn (in Kyle), etc. SIR WILLIAM DE CUNNINGHAM died before 27 Dec 1415, when he is referred to as "the late Sir William Cunningham Lord of Kilmaurs." His widow, Mary (or Marion), married (4th) before 15 May 1416 (as his 2nd wife) WILLIAM GRAHAM, Knt. WILLIAM, Lord Graham, died in 1424. His widow, Mary (or Marion) married [5th] in 1425 WILLIAM DE EDMONSTONE, Knt., They had one son, William, and one daughter, Elizabeth (wife of Humphrey Cunningham, of Glengarnock). SIR WILLIAM DE EDMONSTONE, died about 1460. His wife, Countess Mary (or Marion), appears to have been living in Feb. 1461/2. At her death, she was buried in Strathblane, Stirlingshire.
      Sources
      ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sir James Paul Balfour, The Scots Peerage (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904), p. 18, digital images, http://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun01pauluoft#page/18/mode/2up. Internet Archive (http://archive.org: accessed 9 August 2016).
      ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Genealogical account of the family of Edmonstone of Duntreath (Edinburgh: privately printed, 1875), p. 29-32, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=mSoAAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA29. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 3 July 2015).
      See also:

      http://www.thepeerage.com/p10533.htm#i105322
      Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 636
      Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. I page 653-654

      - Marriage to George Douglas possibly 1387 same day

      2 - Mary Stewart, second daughter of King Robert III and widow of George Douglas (d. 1403), 1st Earl of Angus, and of Sir James Kennedy, by whom she had James Kennedy (1408-65), Bishop of St Andrews and Lord Chancellor of Scotland (after Graham's death she acquired a fourth husband).
      [http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/dtog/graham2.html]

      3 - Mary Stewart, married, 1st, to George Douglas, first earl of Angus, in 1397, and bore to him;
      1. William ;
      2. George, both earls of Angus in succession;
      3. Lady Elizabeth, who married, 1st, Sir David Hay of Locharret and 2ndly, Alexander Lord Forbes.
      Mary married 2ndly in 1402, to Sir James Kennedy of Dunonure, and had to him,
      1. Gilbert, created Lord Kennedy in 1450;
      2. James Kennedy, promoted to the see of Dunkeld in 1438, translated to the
      bishoprick of St. Andrew's in 1440, one of the privy council to James II. and chancellor of Scotland in 1444. He was one of the regents of the kingdom in the minority of James III. and was the noble founder of St. Salvator's college in St. Andrew's ;
      Mary married 3rdly, in 1406, to Sir William Graham of Kincardine, and bore to him,
      1. Sir Robert of Strathcarron and Fintry;
      2. Patrick, bishop of Brechin, and then of St. Andrew's;
      3. William of Garvock and Balgowan;
      4. Harry
      5. Walter of Wallacetown.
      And Mary married 4thly, in 1425, to Sir William Edmonstone of Duntreath, and had issue.
      (Drummond-Genealogical memoir of the most noble and ancient house of Drummond 1808 by David Malcolm.pdf)

      4 - Mary Stewart (widow of George Douglas, Earl of Angus, among others) had a kinship to her proposed husband Sir William Cunningham of Kilmaurs requiring a dispensation for their marriage (dated at Perpignan, 7 July 1409) for affinity, as Mary was related to William's first wife Margaret Danielstoun in the 2nd and 3rd degrees".
      (The Scottish Genealogist Dec 2015 - The Ancestry of Elizabeth Mure, first wife of Robert ll, King of Scots by John P. Ravilious)

      https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I252&tree=CC

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