IV Earl of Angus George Douglas

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  1. 1.  IV Earl of Angus George Douglas was born 1428, Scotland (son of William Douglas and Margaret Hay); died , Scotland; was buried , Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 4261

    Notes:

    George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus was the son of William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret Hay. He was born before 1429. He married Isabel Sibbald, daughter of Sir John Sibbald, before 1446. He died on 14 November 1462. He was also reported to have died on 12 March 1462/63.2 He was buried at Abernethy, Perth & Kinross, Scotland.

    He succeeded to the title of 4th Earl of Angus before 9 September 1446. He was a Commissioner to conclude a treaty with England in 1449. He held the office of Ambassador to England in 1451. In 1454 he adherred to King James II during the Douglas rebellion, and was rewarded with large grants of lands of that family. He was a Commissioner to conclude a treaty with England in 1459. In 1460 he was accounted the head of the party known as the 'Old Lords' during the minority of King James III. He fought in the Battle of Alnwick in 1462, where he obtained a victory over the English.

    George — Isabel Sibbald. Isabel (daughter of John Sibbald) was born 1431; died 1501. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. Archibald Douglas, V was born 1453.
    2. Janet Douglas

Generation: 2

  1. 2.  William Douglas was born 1402 (son of George Douglas and Mary Stewart); died Oct 1437.

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    • Reference Number: 4263

    Notes:

    William Douglas, 2nd Earl of Angus was the son of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus and Lady Mary Stewart. He was born circa 1398. He married Margaret Hay, daughter of Sir William Hay and Alice (?), on 3 December 1414. He and Margaret Hay were engaged on 12 December 1410. He died in October 1437.

    He succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Angus in 1402. In 1423 he was one of the negotiators for the release of King James I. He held the office of Ambassador to England in 1430. He held the office of Warden of the Middle Marches in 1433. He fought in the Battle of Piperdon on 10 September 1436, where he defeated the English.

    William — Margaret Hay. [Group Sheet]


  2. 3.  Margaret Hay (daughter of William Hay and Alice (Unknown)).

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    • Reference Number: 6414

    Children:
    1. 1. George Douglas was born 1428, Scotland; died , Scotland; was buried , Abernethy, Perthshire, Scotland.


Generation: 3

  1. 4.  George Douglas was born 1378, Scotland (son of William Douglas and Margaret Stewart); died 1412, England.

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    • Reference Number: 4260

    Notes:

    George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus was the son of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas and Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus. He was born before 1378 illegitimately. A contract for the marriage of George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus and Lady Mary Stewart was signed on 24 May 1397. He died after September 1402 at England, from the Bubonic Plague.

    He was created 1st Earl of Angus [Scotland] on 9 April 1389. He fought in the Battle of Homildon Hill on 14 September 1402, where he was captured by the English.

    George married Mary Stewart 24 May 1397. Mary (daughter of Robert III of Scotland and Anabella Drummond) was born 1380, Fife, Scotland; died 1458. [Group Sheet]


  2. 5.  Mary Stewart was born 1380, Fife, Scotland (daughter of Robert III of Scotland and Anabella Drummond); died 1458.

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    • Reference Number: 13599

    Children:
    1. 2. William Douglas was born 1402; died Oct 1437.

  3. 6.  William Hay was born 1379 (son of Thomas Hay and Johanna Gifford); died 1421.

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    • Reference Number: 6418

    William — Alice (Unknown). Alice was born 1386; died 1451. [Group Sheet]


  4. 7.  Alice (Unknown) was born 1386; died 1451.

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    • Reference Number: 25

    Children:
    1. 3. Margaret Hay


Generation: 4

  1. 8.  William DouglasWilliam Douglas was born 1327, Scotland (son of Archibald of Douglas and Beatrice Lindsay); died May 1384, Douglas, Lanarkshire, Scotland; was buried , Melrose, Roxburghshire, Scotland.

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    • Reference Number: 4262

    Notes:

    William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas (c. 1327-1384) was a Scottish magnate.

    Early Life:

    He was the son of Sir Archibald Douglas and Beatrice Lindsay, and nephew of "Sir James the Good", Bruce's trusted deputy. From the time of his father's death at Halidon Hill, he is decribed as being a ward of his kinsman and godfather, William Douglas, Knight of Liddesdale and being educated in France. In 1342 under pressure from Liddesdale, his uncle Hugh the Dull resigned the Lordship of Douglas to him, though Liddesdale rapaciously administered his estates while in his wardship, and assumed direct ownership of some of the Douglas territories. Douglas returned to Scotland, upon reaching his majority in 1348, and immediately started to put his house in order. In 1346/47 following the Battle of Neville's Cross, King David II, and other nobility, including Liddesdale, were held captive by the English. Edward Baliol was using the opportunity to ravage the whole of the south of Scotland. Douglas gathered his men and drove the English out from his ancestral lands of Douglasdale. Douglas went in in the style of his uncle the Good Sir James for the following few years to wage guerrilla war against the English in the Ettrick and Jedforests. Douglas is next heard of being one of the commissioners to treat with the English for the release of King David.

    Death of the Knight of Liddesdale:

    In 1353 Baliol was ensconced at Buittle in his ancestral territories in Galloway, Douglas lead a raid there to eject him as due to Baliol's forfeiture those lands had been made over to Sir James Douglas in 1324. Following this raid, returning through the Forest, Douglas came across Liddesdale hunting on what Douglas viewed as his desmesne. This was the match that lit the fuse of years of resentment at Liddesdale's assumption of the Douglas patrimony not withstanding Liddesdale's murder of Sir Alexander Ramsay of Dalhousie. Liddesdale once in high standing with the Crown, had fallen into disfavour following his murder of Ramsay and another Knight, Sir David de Barclay. Liddesdale was set upon and killed. In February 1354, William of Douglas received a new charter from King David bestowing all the lands held by his uncle Sir James, his father Sir Archibald, and Liddesdale itself.

    War with England and Battle of Poitiers:

    In 1355 the truce with England expired and Douglas with the Earl of Dunbar and March, whose lands had been ravaged, decided to take Norham Castle in retaliation. One of Douglas' captains, Sir William Ramsay of Dalhousie, was instructed to despoil the lands around Norham and burn the town in an effort to entice the garrison out to battle. Ramsay did so and the English under the castle's constable, Sir Thomas Grey of Heaton and Lord Dacre, gave chase. Douglas and March meanwhile were encamped seven miles away in woodland to the south of Duns, when Ramsay had reached them. The English pursuers were ambushed by the Scots force, and completely overwhelmed. Following this Battle of Nesbit Moor, Douglas and March joined with the Earl of Angus in making an assault upon Berwick, but the Scots had to retire from there before the advancing army of Edward III. King Edward laid waste to the Lothians in an event that would be known as the "Burnt Candlemas". His supply lines were overstretched, and following the sinking of his fleet, and the Scots scorched earth policy, Edward had to turn homewards, but not before being ambushed and nearly taken by Lord Douglas's men outside Melrose. Following Edward's retreat into England, Douglas arranged a truce with William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton that would last until Michaelmas.

    He also arranged a Safe conduct to visit the captive King David. Following this Douglas crossed with a large following to France and took up arms with Jean le Bon against the Black Prince. Douglas was present at the Battle of Poitiers where he was knighted by the French King. Douglas fought in the King's own Battle, but when the fight seemed over Douglas was dragged by his men from the melee. Froissart states that "... the Earl Douglas of Scotland, who fought a season valiantly, but when he saw the discomfiture he departed and saved himself; for in no wise would he be taken by the Englishmen, he would rather there be slain". After the defeat there Douglas escaped, but left a number of his men either slain or captive, including his first cousin latterly the 3rd Earl of Douglas, Archibald the Grim.

    Douglas returned to Scotland by mid Autumn, and was involved in peace negotiations with the English, one aspect of the treaty was the creation of March Wardens of which Douglas was one. Under the auspice of this office, Douglas seized Hermitage Castle in Liddesdale from the English in response to their depredations on Eskdale. Douglas was part of the parliament that met at Berwick in 1357, which finalised the release of King David through the Treaty of Berwick, Douglas himself being one of the securities for his release.

    Earl of Douglas and Mar:

    Douglas was created Earl of Douglas on the 26th January 1358. In 1364, he joined David II in seeking a treaty with England which would have written off Scotland's debt to England in return for depriving his nephew, Robert the Steward, formerly an ally of Douglas, of the succession. Edward III's son, Lionel of Antwerp, would have taken the Scottish throne, although the independence of Scotland was to be guaranteed, and a special clause provided for the restoration of the English estates of the Douglas family.

    The plan never succeeded and, on the accession of Robert II, Douglas was nevertheless reconciled and appointed Justiciar South of the Forth in 1372. The last years of his life were spent in making and repelling border raids. He died at Douglas in May 1384.

    Marriage and Issue:

    William, Earl of Douglas married in 1357, Margaret, Countess of Mar and had two children:

    James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas (1358-1388)
    Isabel Douglas, Countess of Mar (1360-1408)

    The Earl of Douglas also fathered an illegitimate son by his wife's sister-in-law, Margaret Stewart, widow of Thomas, Earl of Mar and Countess of Angus in her own right:

    George Douglas, inherited the estates of Angus and was later created Earl of Angus.
    Margaret Douglas, received in 1404 the lands of Bonjedward from her sister Isabel of Mar.

    From: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas,_1st_Earl_of_Douglas)

    Buried:
    Melrose Abbey

    William — Margaret Stewart. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Stewart and Margaret St. Clair) died 1417. [Group Sheet]


  2. 9.  Margaret Stewart (daughter of Thomas Stewart and Margaret St. Clair); died 1417.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 13601

    Notes:

    Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus was the daughter of Thomas Stewart, 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret St. Clair. She was born before 1360. She married Thomas, 9th Earl of Mar, son of Donald, 8th Earl of Mar and Isabella Stewart, between 1361 and 1374. She died before 23 March 1417/18.

    She succeeded to the title of Countess of Angus in 1361, suo jure. Through her marriage, Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus gained the title of Countess of Mar. She resigned as Countess of Angus, in favour of the father of her children, George Douglas, reserving for herself the frank tenement thereof for life on 9 April 1389.

    Children:
    1. 4. George Douglas was born 1378, Scotland; died 1412, England.

  3. 10.  Robert III of ScotlandRobert III of Scotland was born Abt 1337 (son of Robert II of Scotland and Elizabeth Mure); died Apr 1406, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland; was buried , Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

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    • Name: John Stewart
    • Reference Number: 37165

    Notes:

    Robert III (c. 1337-April 1406) was King of Scots from 1390 to his death. His given name was John Stewart, and he was known primarily as the Earl of Carrick before ascending the throne at age 53. He was the eldest son of Robert II and Elizabeth Mure and was legitimated with the marriage of his parents in 1347.

    John joined his father and other magnates in a rebellion against his grand-uncle, David II early in 1363 but submitted to him soon afterwards. He married Anabella Drummond, daughter of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall before 31 May 1367 when the Steward ceded to him the earldom of Atholl. In 1368 David created him Earl of Carrick. His father became king in 1371 after the unexpected death of the childless King David. In the succeeding years Carrick was influential in the government of the kingdom but became progressively more impatient at his father's longevity. In 1384 Carrick was appointed the king's lieutenant after having influenced the general council to remove Robert II from direct rule. Carrick's administration saw a renewal of the conflict with England. In 1388 the Scots defeated the English at the Battle of Otterburn where the Scots' commander, James, Earl of Douglas, was killed. By this time Carrick had been badly injured by a horse-kick but the loss of his powerful ally, Douglas, saw a turnaround in magnate support in favour of his younger brother Robert, Earl of Fife and in December 1388 the council transferred the lieutenancy to Fife.

    In 1390, Robert II died and Carrick ascended the throne as Robert III but without authority to rule directly. Fife continued as lieutenant until February 1393 when power was returned to the king in conjunction with his son David. At a council in 1399 owing to the king's 'sickness of his person', David, now Duke of Rothesay, became lieutenant of the kingdom in his own right but supervised by a special parliamentary group dominated by Fife, now styled Duke of Albany. After this, Robert III withdrew to his lands in the west and for a time played little or no part in affairs of state. He was powerless to interfere when a dispute between Albany and Rothesay arose in 1401 which led to Rothesay's arrest and imprisonment at Albany's Falkland Castle where Rothesay died in March 1402. The general council absolved Albany from blame and reappointed him as lieutenant. The only impediment now remaining to an Albany Stewart monarchy was the king's only surviving son, James, Earl of Carrick. In February 1406 the 11 year-old James and a powerful group of followers clashed with Albany's Douglas allies resulting in the death of the king's counsellor Sir David Fleming of Cumbernauld. James escaped to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth accompanied by Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and remained there for a month before boarding a ship bound for France. The vessel was intercepted near Flamborough Head and James became the prisoner of Henry IV of England and would remain captive for the next 18 years. Robert III died in Rothesay Castle on 4 April 1406 shortly after learning of his son's imprisonment and was buried at Paisley Abbey.

    Heir apparent:

    John, then styled Lord of Kyle, first appeared in the 1350s as the commander of a campaign in the lordship of Annandale to re-establish Scottish control over English occupied territory. In 1363, John joined his father Robert the Steward along with the earls of Douglas and March in a failed insurrection against King David II. The reasons for the rebellion were varied. In 1362, David II supported several of his royal favourites in their titles to lands in the Stewart earldom of Monteith and thwarted Stewart claims to the earldom of Fife. The king's involvement with Margaret Logie (née Drummond) and soon to be his queen may also have represented a threat in the Steward's own earldom of Strathearn where the Drummonds also had interests, while Douglas and March mistrusted David's intentions towards them.

    These nobles were also unhappy at the king's squandering of funds provided to him for his ransom and with the prospect that they could be sent to England as guarantors for the ransom payments. The dissension between the king and the Stewarts looked to have been settled before the end of spring 1367. On 31 May the Steward gave the earldom of Atholl to John, who by this time was already married to Annabella Drummond, the daughter of the queen's deceased brother, Sir John Drummond and (probably) Mary, heir of William Montefichet, lord of Auchterarder. David II reinforced the position of John and Annabella by providing them with the earldom of Carrick on 22 June 1368 and the tacit approval of John as the king's probable heir. A Stewart succession was suddenly endangered when David II had his marriage to Margaret annulled in March 1369 leaving the king free to re-marry and with the prospect of a Bruce heir.

    On 22 February 1371 David II (who was preparing to marry the earl of March's sister, Agnes Dunbar) unexpectedly died, presumably to the relief of both John and his father. Robert was crowned at Scone Abbey on 27 March 1371 and before this date had given John-now styled Steward of Scotland-the ancestral lands surrounding the Firth of Clyde. The manner in which the succession was to take place was first entailed by Robert I when female heirs were excluded and David II attempted unsuccessfully on several occasions to have the council change the succession procedure. Robert II quickly moved to ensure the succession of John when the general council attending his coronation officially named Carrick as heir-in 1373 the Stewart succession was further strengthened when parliament passed entails defining the manner in which each of the king's sons could inherit the crown. After the coronation John Dunbar who had received the lordship of Fife from David II now resigned the title so that the king's second son, Robert, earl of Monteith could receive the earldom of Fife-Dunbar was compensated with the provision of the earldom of Moray.

    A son, David, the future Duke of Rothesay, was born to Carrick and Annabella on 24 October 1378. In 1381, Carrick was calling himself 'lieutenant for the marches' sustained by his connections to border magnates such as his brother-in-law, James Douglas son of William, Earl of Douglas who he succeeded in 1384.

    Lieutenant of the kingdom:

    Robert II's policy of building up Stewart domination in Scotland through the advancement of his sons saw Carrick as the pre-eminent Stewart magnate south of the Forth-Clyde line just as his younger brother Alexander, earl of Buchan, lord of Badenoch and Ross was in the north. Buchan's use of cateran supporters drew criticism from Northern nobles and prelates and demonstrated Robert II's inability or reluctance to control his son and resulted in him losing council support. The king's failure to take a leading role in prosecuting the war with England and Buchan's abuse of royal power in the north was the backdrop to the general council meeting at Holyrood Abbey in November 1384 where the decision was taken to sideline the king and provide the ruling powers to Carrick. In July 1385, under Carrick's lieutenancy, a Scottish army that included a French force commanded by Admiral Jean de Vienne penetrated into the north of England without any serious gains but provoked a damaging retaliatory attack by Richard II. In 1385, the general council sharply condemned Buchan's behaviour and sat with the intention of maneuvering Carrick into firmly intervening in the north.

    Despite this, Carrick did not bring Buchan under control and many of the lieutenant's supporters although pleased at the resumption of hostilities with England were unhappy at the continued northern lawlessness. Carrick had been made the king's lieutenant partly on the need to curb Buchan's excesses yet despite this by February 1387 Buchan had become even more powerful and influential when he was appointed Justiciar north of the Forth.

    A series of truces halted any further significant fighting but on 19 April 1388, English envoys sent to Scotland to again extend the ceasefire returned to Richard's court empty-handed-by 29 April Robert II was conducting a council in Edinburgh to authorise renewed conflict with England. Although the Scots army defeated the English at the Battle of Otterburn in Northumberland in August 1388, its leader James, earl of Douglas was killed. Douglas died childless triggering a series of claims on his estate-Carrick backed his brother-in-law Malcolm Drummond, the husband of Douglas's sister while Carrick's brother Fife took the side of Sir Archibald Douglas, lord of Galloway who held an entail on his kinsman's estates and who ultimately succeeded to the earldom. Fife, with his powerful Douglas ally together with those loyal to the king ensured at the December 1388 council meeting that the lieutenancy of Scotland would pass from Carrick (who had recently been badly injured from a horse-kick) to Fife.

    There was general approval of Fife's intention to properly resolve the situation of lawlessness in the north and in particular the activities of Buchan his younger brother. Buchan was stripped of his position of justiciar which would soon be given to Fife's son, Murdoch Stewart. In January 1390 Robert II was in the north-east perhaps to strengthen the now changed political outlook in the north of the kingdom. He returned to Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire in March where he died on 19 April and was buried at Scone on 25 April.

    Kingship:

    In May 1390 parliament granted John permission to change his regnal name to Robert, probably in part to maintain the link back to Robert I but also to disassociate himself from King John Balliol. The four month delay in the crowning of Robert III can be seen as a period when Fife and his affinity sought to ensure their future positions and which also saw Buchan's opportunistic attack on Elgin Cathedral, settling an old score with the bishop of Moray and possibly also a protest at Fife's reappointment as the king's lieutenant.

    In 1392, Robert III strengthened the position of his son David, now earl of Carrick, when he endowed him with a large annuity that allowed the young prince to build up his household and affinity and then in 1393 regained his right to direct rule when the general council decided that Fife's lieutenancy should end and that Carrick now of age should assist his father. This independence of action was demonstrated in 1395-6 when he responded to Carrick's unauthorised marriage to Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of George earl of March by ensuring its annulment. The king appears to have also taken over the conduct of foreign affairs, preserving the peace with Richard II and managing to increase the power of the Red Douglas Earl of Angus in the southeast of the country as a counter-balance to Fife's Black Douglas ally. He further showed his authority when in an attempt to reduce inter-clan feuding and lawlessness, he arranged and oversaw a gladiatorial limited combat between the clans of Kay and Quhele (Clan Chattan) in Perth on 28 April 1396. David of Carrick progressively acted independently of his father taking control of the Stewart lands in the south-west while maintaining his links with the Drummonds of his mother and all at a time when Fife's influence in central Scotland remained strong.

    The king was increasingly blamed for the failure to pacify the Gaelic areas in west and north. The general council held in Perth in April 1398 criticised the king's governance and empowered his brother Robert and his son David-now respectively the Dukes of Albany and Rothesay-to lead an army against Donald, Lord of the Isles and his brothers. In November 1398, an influential group of magnates and prelates met at Falkland Castle that included Albany, Rothesay, Archibald, earl of Douglas, Albany's son Murdoch, justiciar North of the Forth along with the bishops Walter of St Andrews and Gilbert of Aberdeen-the outcome of this meeting manifested itself at the council meeting held in January 1399 when the king was forced to surrender power to Rothesay for a period of three years.

    The kin of the border earls took advantage of the confusion in England after the deposition of Richard II by Henry duke of Lancaster and harried and forayed into England causing much damage and taking Wark Castle around 13 October 1399. A far reaching dispute between Rothesay and George Dunbar, earl of March occurred when Rothesay, rather than remarrying Elizabeth Dunbar as previously agreed, decided to marry Mary Douglas, daughter of the earl of Douglas-March, enraged by this wrote to Henry IV on 18 February 1400 and by July had entered Henry's service. In 1401, Rothesay took on a more assertive and autonomous attitude, circumventing proper procedures, unjustifiably appropriating sums from the customs of the burghs on the east coast before provoking further animosity when he confiscated the revenues of the temporalities of the vacant bishopric of St Andrews. Rothesay had also in conjunction with his uncle, Alexander Stewart, earl of Buchan, confronted Albany's influence in central Scotland-as soon his lieutenancy expired in 1402 Rothesay was arrested and imprisoned in Albany's Falkland Castle where he died in March 1402. Rothesay's death probably lay with Albany and Douglas who would have looked upon the possibility of the young prince acceding to the throne with great apprehension-they certainly fell under suspicion but were cleared of all blame by a general council, 'where, by divine providence and not otherwise, it is discerned that he departed from this life.

    Following Rothesay's death-with the restoration of the lieutenancy to Albany and the Scottish defeat at the battle of Humbleton-Robert III experienced almost total exclusion from political authority and was limited to his lands in the west. By late 1404 Robert, with the aid of his close councillors Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney, Sir David Fleming and Henry Wardlaw, had succeeded in re-establishing himself and intervened in favour of Alexander Stewart, the earl of Buchan's illegitimate son, who was in dispute with Albany over the earldom of Mar. Robert III again exhibited his new resolve when in December 1404 he created a new regality in the Stewartry for his sole remaining son and heir James now earl of Carrick-an act designed to prevent these lands falling into Albany's hands. By 28 October 1405 Robert III had returned to Dundonald Castle in Ayrshire. With the king's health failing, it was decided in the winter of 1405-6 to send the young prince to France out of the reach of Albany. Despite this, the manner of James's flight from Scotland was unplanned. In February 1406, the 12 year-old James together with Orkney and Fleming at the head of a large group of followers left the safety of Bishop Wardlaw's protection in St Andrews and journeyed through the hostile Douglas territories of east Lothian-an act probably designed to demonstrate James's royal endorsement of his custodians but also a move by his custodians to further their own interests in the traditional Douglas heartlands. Events went seriously wrong for James and he had to escape to the Bass Rock in the Firth of Forth along with the earl of Orkney after his escorts were attacked by James Douglas of Balvenie and which resulted in Sir David Fleming's death. Their confinement on the rock was to last for over a month before a ship from Danzig, en route for France picked them up. On 22 March 1406 the ship was taken by English pirates off Flamborough Head who delivered James to King Henry IV of England. Robert III had moved to Rothesay castle where, after hearing of his son's captivity, died 4 April 1406 and was buried in the Stewart foundation abbey of Paisley.

    Family and issue:

    Robert III married Anabella Drummond, the daughter of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall and Mary de Montefichet. The marriage resulted in seven children:

    David Stewart (b. 24 Oct 1378- d. 26 Mar 140) who was betrothed to Elizabeth Dunbar but later married Marjory Douglas, the daughter of Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas and Jean Moray (or Joanna Moravia) of Strathearn.
    Robert Stewart (died young)
    James I of Scotland (b. Dec 1394 - d. 21 Feb 1437)
    Margaret Stewart (died between 1450 and 1456), married Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, the son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas and Jean Moray of Strathearn.
    Mary Stewart. 1) Married George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus. 2) Bethrothed to Sir William Cunningham 3) Married to Sir William Graham of Kincardine. 4) Married Sir William Edmonton of Duntreath.
    Elizabeth Stewart, married James Douglas, 1st Lord Dalkeith, son of Sir James Douglas and Agnes Dunbar
    Egidia Stewart (died young).

    Robert III also had at least two illegitimate children:

    James Stuart of Killbride.
    John Stewart of Ardgowan and Blackhall, who was an ancestor to the Shaw-Stewart Baronets.

    Buried:
    Paisley Abbey

    Died:
    Rothesay Castle

    Robert married Anabella Drummond 1367. Anabella (daughter of John Drummond and Mary Montifex) was born Abt 1350, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died Oct 1401, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried , Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet]


  4. 11.  Anabella DrummondAnabella Drummond was born Abt 1350, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland (daughter of John Drummond and Mary Montifex); died Oct 1401, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried , Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 37166

    Notes:

    Anabella Drummond (c. 1350-1401) was the Queen Consort of Scotland as the wife of Robert III of Scotland.

    Family:

    She was the daughter of Sir John Drummond, of Stobhall, near Perth, 11th Thane of Lennox and Chief of Clan Drummond, and Mary Montifex. Her father's sister was Margaret Drummond, the second wife of David II of Scotland.

    Life:

    She married John Stewart (the future Robert III of Scotland) in 1367. Soon, she was enveloped in a power struggle with her husband's brother, Robert. Since Annabella and John did have two daughters, but no sons for several years, he was a supporter of a law that would bar women from inheriting the throne.

    Annabella was crowned with her husband at Scone Palace when he came to the throne in 1390. She continued bearing children until she was past forty and had her last child, the future James I of Scotland, in 1394.

    She protected the interests of her oldest son David. In 1398, she arranged a great tournament in Edinburgh when her oldest son was knighted. She and her husband were also present when he was created Duke of Rothesay in the same year. Shortly after his mother's death he would be imprisoned by his uncle and died in a mysterious way.

    The Fife burgh of Inverkeithing was a favorite residence of the queen. Her presence is still recalled in the sandstone font, decorated with angels and heraldry, which she presented to the parish church of the town, one of Scotland's finest surviving pieces of late medieval sculpture.


    Buried:
    Dunfermline Abbey

    Died:
    Scone Palace

    Children:
    1. James I of Scotland was born Jul 1394, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland; died 21 Feb 1437.
    2. David Stewart was born 24 Oct 1378; died 26 Mar 1402, Falkland, Fife, Scotland.
    3. 5. Mary Stewart was born 1380, Fife, Scotland; died 1458.
    4. Margaret Stewart died 1451.
    5. Robert Stewart
    6. Elizabeth Stewart
    7. Egidia Stewart

  5. 12.  Thomas Hay

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 6417

    Thomas — Johanna Gifford. [Group Sheet]


  6. 13.  Johanna Gifford

    Other Events:

    • Reference Number: 5280

    Children:
    1. 6. William Hay was born 1379; died 1421.