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Stewart, Margaret (fl. 1460–1520)Scottish princess. Name variations: Margaret Stuart. Flourished between 1460 and 1520; daughter of Mary of Guelders (1433–1463) and James II (1430–1460), king of Scotland (r. 1437–1460); abducted by William Crichton; married William Crichton, 3rd lord Crichton (divorced 1520); children: Margaret Crichton (d. before 1546, who married William Todrik ...
Jul 19, 2017 · Margaret of Scotland (Stewart) was born on 25 December 1424 as the eldest daughter of James I of Scotland and Joan Beaufort. She was betrothed to the future King Louis XI of France from an early age as part of a political alliance for Scottish assistance in the war between France and England. Margaret sailed for [read more]
When Countess Margaret Stewart was born about 1373, in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Alexander Stewart 1st Earl of Buchan, was 31 and her mother, Mariota Athyn Mackay, was 25. She married Earl Robert Sutherland in 1389, in Scotland, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter.
Margaret Stewart was called the "Mistress of Ochiltree" after she married Andrew Stewart, Master of Ochiltree in 1567, eldest son of Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree and Agnes Cunningham. After his death in 1578 she married Uchtred Macdowall of Garthland, but was still called, and signed her name, "Margaret, Mistress of Ochiltree".
1 The Stewart Realm: Changing the Landscape; Part I Lords and Men; 2 Lords and Women, Women as Lords: The Career of Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus and Mar, c.1354–c.1418; 3 Bastard Feudalism in England in the Fourteenth Century; 4 Tame Magnates? The Justiciars of Later Medieval Scotland
Feb 1, 2013 · Margaret Stewart of Scotland, Dauphine of France. By all accounts, Charles VII of France was a weak king. In all fairness, his kingdom was ravaged by war with England. And there were self-employed bandits, called Écorcheurs, who were pillaging, ransacking and plundering the French countryside, forcing people to run and hide for their lives.
The daughter of Lady Margaret Tudor by her second husband Archibald, earl of Angus, Lady Margaret was niece to Henry VIII. If Elizabeth was bastardized, the countess was near the throne. Source for information on Lennox, Margaret Stewart, countess of: The Oxford Companion to British History dictionary.
