Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: First Earl of Buchan
• Appointments / Titles: Lord Auchterhouse (by marriage)
• FSID: LZJ2-RSB
• Appointments / Titles: 1457, Scotland; 1st Earl of Atholl
• Life Event: 1484; Scottish Nobleman and Ambassador to England
• Possessions: 1 Apr 1517; Redeemed by Purchase

Notes:

PAF - RIN: 34592.

Sir John Stewart, first Earl of Atholl, was the son of Sir James Stewart, Black Knight of Lorn, and Lady Joan Beaufort. He was married to Beatrix (Margaret) Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway who died before 1470. Their daughter, Janet Stewart, was married to Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntley. After Beatrix's death, he married Eleanor of Nithsdale Sinclair by April 19, 1470

Their children are:

Lady Jean or Janet Stewart Arbuthnott
Sir John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl
Anne Stewart (married to John Stewart, 3rd Earl of LennoxO
Andrew Stewart, Bishop of Caithness
Catherine Stewart
Christina Stewart
Margaret Stewart Murray
Elizabeth Stewart
Marjory Stewart
Isabel Stewart

John married Sinclair, Lady Eleanor on 19 Apr 1470 in Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. Eleanor was born on 19 Apr 1457 in Ravenscraig Castle, Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland; died on 21 Mar 1518 in Laighwood Castle, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland; was buried on 31 Mar 1518 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Scotland; 2nd Earl of Auchleuchries
• Appointments / Titles: Lennox, Scotland; 2nd Earl of Lennox
• Appointments / Titles: Restalrig, Midlothian, Scotland; 4th Baron
• Appointments / Titles: Earl of Marr
• Appointments / Titles: Darnley Mill, Renfrewshire, Scotland; Lord Darnley
• House: Stewart
• FSID: LZNF-SRR
• Residence: Coldingham, Berwickshire, Scotland
• Appointments / Titles: 19 Apr 1475, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland; 2nd Earl
• Appointments / Titles: 1497, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Lord Provost of Glasgow
• Appointments / Titles: Between 1509 and 1513, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland; Lord Provost of Glasgow
• Military: 9 Sep 1513, Battle of Flodden Field, Branxton, Northumberland, England

Notes:

II. John, second Earl of Atholl, succeeded his father. He is usually stated to have fallen at Flodden, but in reality he died after 1520, and before 1522. On 3 May 1522 his son was infeft as heir by a precept from chancery dated 4 January 1521-22. He married Janet, daughter of Archibald Campbell, second Earl of Argyll, who survived him, and died about Candlemas 1545-46. Had issue:-
1. John, third Earl.
2. Janet, married, first, about 1520, to Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland, eldest son of Adam Earl of Sutherland; secondly, before 1532, to Sir Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains; thirdly, before 1544, to Henry Stewart, Lord Methven; fourthly, in 1557, to Patrick, Lord Ruthven.
3. Helen, married to John, fifth Lord Lindsay of the Byres. She was married, secondly, to Thomas Moncur, a dependant, and died May 1577. Her son Patrick, Lord Lindsay, attempted to stop this marriage in January 1564.
4. Jean, married, August 1507, to James Arbuthnott of that Ilk.
5. Elizabeth, stated to have been married to Colin Mackenzie of Kintail.
6. Isabel, stated to have been married to James Hering of Lethendy.

Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol I, Edinburgh, 1906, p. 443.
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Death: Battle of Flodden Field,

John married Campbell, Lady Janet Mary in 1500 in Scotland. Janet was born on 23 Jun 1478 in Eglinton Castle,, Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland; died on 2 Feb 1546 in Castle Balveny, Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland; was buried after 2 Feb 1546 in Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Sutherland
• FSID: LJLL-LF2
• Residence: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Notes:

Henry was discovered to have been keeping a mistress in one of Margaret's castles. Margaret Tudor wished to divorce him but James V was reluctant to allow it. After she died in 1541, Methven was able to marry his mistress, Janet Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Lady Janet Campbell. Her maternal grandparents were Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll and Elizabeth Stewart. Elizabeth was a daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox and Margaret Montgomerie. Margaret was a daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie and Margaret Boyd.

Janet married Stewart, Sir Henry after 1541 in Scotland. Henry (son of Stewart, Lord Andrew and Kennedy, Lady Margaret Jane) was born in 1497 in Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 15 Oct 1551 in Battle of Pinkie Cleough, Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried after 15 Oct 1552 in Avondale, Lanarkshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janet married Kennedy, Sir Hugh in 1530 in Scotland. Hugh was born in 1502 in Girvan, Ayrshire, Scotland; died on 16 Aug 1565 in Tofts, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Janet married Rathven, Patrick in 1557 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland. Patrick was born in 1497 in Ruthven Castle, Huntingtower, Perthshire, Scotland; died in DECEASED in Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Gordon, Alexander. Alexander was born in 1505 in Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland; died on 13 Jan 1530 in Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland, Scotland; was buried after 13 Jan 1530 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: MZC2-LLV

Margaret married Stewart, Andrew in 1559 in Methven, Perthshire, Scotland. Andrew was born in 1535 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 20 Sep 1578 in Post Carrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland; was buried on 10 Sep 1578 in Post Carrick, Wigtownshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married McDowell, Uchtred in 1576 in Scotland. Uchtred (son of MacDowall, Lord John and Campbell, Lady Margaret) was born in 1546 in Garthland House, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 11 Jun 1600 in Larne, Antrim, Northern Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Ruthven, Perthshire, Scotland; Baroness Ruthven
• Appointments / Titles: Countess Gowrie

Notes:

Married 14 oct 1551 by contract to Colin Campbell "The Leach"

Notes:

Margaret Kennedy of Girvanmainly MP
Birth: circa 1535
Galloway, Scotland
Managed by: Justin Swanström

Daughter of Sir Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains, Knight and Janet Stewart, Countess Dowager of Sutherland
Wife of Uchtred MacDowall of Garthland
Mother of Uchtred MacDowall of Garthland; John MacDowell; Cathrine MacDowall of Garthland and Thomas MacDowall
Sister of Barbara Kennedy
Half sister of John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland; Janet Gordon-Sutherland; Beatrice Gordon-Sutherland; William Gordon-Sutherland; Alexander Gordon and 4 others

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: 11th Earl of Sutherland

Notes:

John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland (1525–1567) was a Scottish magnate. John Gordon supported the chief of his family, his cousin the Earl of Huntly against the Earl of Moray. After Huntly's defeat at Corrichie, he went into exile, and shortly after his return to Scotland he was murdered by a kinswoman.

Minority
John Gordon was the son of Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland and Lady Janet Stewart. His father Alexander was the son of Lady Elizabeth de Moravia, 10th Countess of Sutherland (sister of John de Moravia, 9th Earl of Sutherland) and Adam Gordon, younger son of George Gordon, 2nd Earl of Huntly. His mother Janet was the daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl and Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway. Elizabeth de Moravia and her husband Adam quashed a rival claimant to the earldom of Sutherland in 1518, at the Battle of Alltachuilain.

Alexander Gordon was made Earl of Sutherland in December 1527, when his mother, the Countess Elizabeth de Moravia, resigned her rights. Alexander died in 1530, and Lady Janet Stewart married Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains, and subsequently, Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven.

John, although still a minor, attended the Parliament of Scotland, in December 1543, that rejected the Treaty of Greenwich. Some time after May 1544, John married Lady Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Colin Campbell, 3rd Earl of Argyll. She was the Countess of Moray, being the widow of James Stewart, Earl of Moray, who was the son of King James IV of Scotland by his mistress, Janet Kennedy.

On 4 May 1546, John was formally made Earl of Sutherland. In the following year, he commanded part of the rear guard at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh.

His wife Elizabeth died in 1547, and in 1548, John married, as his second wife, Lady Helen Stewart, who had previously been married to William Hay, 6th Earl of Erroll. She was the daughter of John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox, and her sister, Lady Elizabeth Stewart, had a son with King James V of Scotland, Adam Stewart, Prior of Perth Charterhouse.

Regency of Mary of Guise
In the Autumn of 1554 Mary of Guise paid for a ship, troops and a cannon to be used by John, 11th Earl of Sutherland and his step-brother Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains to arrest Iye du Mackay, chief of the Clan Mackay, who had caused mischief in Sutherland. They sailed in the Lion and captured Borve Castle, Sutherland. Kennedy subsequently captured Iye Mackay and brought him to Edinburgh.

Exile and death
In September 1562, Mary, Queen of Scots and her half-brother James Stewart newly made Earl of Moray came north to Inverness and Aberdeen. Their discussions with John's cousin the Earl of Huntly led to armed conflict. After the battle of Corrichie, secret letters between John Gordon and the Earl of Huntly were discovered. John Gordon fled to Louvain in Flanders. At the Parliament of Scotland on 28 May 1563, in the presence of Queen Mary, Huntly and Sutherland were forfeited.[4] In 1565 Queen Mary of Scotland restored the Earls of Huntly, Sutherland and others of the name Gordon who had been forfeited.

The Earl of Sutherland was invited to return to Scotland. The Earl of Bedford, Governor of Berwick on Tweed sent a privateer called Wilson who carried Swedish letters of marque to intercept his ship, and the Earl was imprisoned at Berwick. Sutherland was considered a danger to English policy in Scotland. Mary, Queen of Scots, demanded the release of the Earl, who was now sick with an ague. Bedford wrote to Elizabeth on his behalf. The Earl was released in February 1566 after the assurance that he was reconciled with the Earl of Moray. On his return he married Marie Seton, daughter of Lord Seton. Both were poisoned at Helmsdale Castle by Isobel Sinclair, and died at Dunrobin Castle on 23 June 1567.