John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox
John Stewart | |
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| 3rd Lady Elizabeth Stewart | |
| Issue | Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox Robert Stewart, 6th Earl of Lennox John Stewart, 5th Lord of Aubigny Helen Stewart, Countess of Erroll Elizabeth Stewart-Ross |
| Father | Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox |
| Mother | Lady Elizabeth Hamilton |
John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox (c. 1490 – 4 September 1526, Linlithgow, West Lothian) was a prominent
Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of King James II of Scotland
.
The Earl of Lennox led an army to Linlithgow with the intention of liberating the young King
James VI of Scotland
.
Family and issue
On 19 January 1511, he married Lady Elizabeth Stewart,William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney.[2] They had issue:
- Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
- Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox and March (1522–1586)
- John Stewart, 6th Lord of Aubigny (died c. 1567), father of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox
- Lady Helen (or Eleanor) Stewart, who married: firstly, to William Hay, 6th Earl of Erroll; secondly, to John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland.
- Lady Elizabeth Stewart, who married Ninian Ross. She was the mistress of King James V, and the mother of Adam Stewart, Prior of Perth Charterhouse.
Ancestors
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Sources
G. E. Cokayne
et al., eds. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Reprint ed. (Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000).
- ^ Richard D Oram in his article on John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox in the new Ox. DNB writes that he married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl on 19 January 1511.
- ^ Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, Volume I (Stewart, Earl of Atholl) and Volume VII (Ross of Halkhead)
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