Christina Stewart, 4th Countess of Buchan
Christina Stewart Douglas, Countess of Buchan (c. 1548 – 20 September 1580), also known as Christian,
Career
She succeeded her grandfather
In January 1549–1550, though Christina was only a young child, a contract of marriage was arranged between her and
When Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in Lochleven Castle in July 1567, Robert Douglas, Earl of Buchan, was one of the few people allowed to visit her.[3]
In 1574, Christina Stewart and her husband obtained a charter of the family estates, heritable offices, and the Earlshill in conjunct fee, with remainder to the heirs-male of the marriage, heirs female, heirs of the body of the Countess, and finally, to the nearest lawful heirs of the Earl. Her husband, as Earl of Buchan, took a prominent part in the political movements made in the minority of
Family
Her children included one son and three daughters:
- James Douglas, 5th Earl of Buchan;
- Christian, who married to William Douglas of Whittinghame;
- Mariota, who married Alexander Irvine of Drum;
- Elizabeth, who married, in 1592, Andrew Fraser of Muchals, and had issue.
The Earl of Buchan died at Mills of Drum, near Aberdeen, 18 August, and the Countess at Aberdeen 20 September 1580.[2]
References
- ^ Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility. Saunders and Otley. p. 67. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ^ a b c d Paul, James Balfour (1904). The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas. pp. 268–269. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ^ Joseph Bain, Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1563–1569, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 350.