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• Name: Sir William STEWART
• Sex: M


Parents:

Family:
Marriage:

• Isobel on 1 .^m1
  
• Isobel Death: After 1420

Children:

1. Sir John STEWART Birth: Abt 1381 Death: Before 28 Oct 1420
2. (Unk) STEWART Birth: 2

Bibliography

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

date:

second son [Ref: SP IV p145, SP V p345]

younger son [Ref: Burke Peerage p806],

father:

Alexander STEWART (#147678) [Ref: Burke Peerage p806, SP IV p145, SP V p345],

mother:

___ TURNBULL, sister of Sir John TURNBULL (#180891) [Ref: Burke Peerage p806]

unk first wife (#180891) [Ref: SP IV p145],

note:

parents NOT Alexander STEWART of Darnley and Jonetta KEITH [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/13/2009-110746]

Sources with Information about marriage to Isobel

date:

first marriage of Isobel [Ref: SP IV p149 (with corr in IX p93)],

names:

[Ref: SP V p346]

William STEWART & Isobel ___ [Ref: SP IV p149 (with corr in IX p93)],

child:

[Ref: SP IV p149 (with corr in IX p93)]

Research Notes:
Knight Banneret [Ref: Burke Peerage p806]

the affiliation shown for the 'first' William Stewart of Jedworth is as given in Scots Peerage (#I00006259 in Genealogics) but is erroneous [and Genealogics includes remarks "parents not Sir Alexander of Darnley or Jonetta Keith"]. This was established by Andrew MacEwen (and possibly others) some time ago, but this relationship is still supported by most descendants of the (Stewart) Earls of Galloway. Its presence in the Scots Peerage account will likely keep it living for some time to come.
The best evidence of the problem with the Jedworth/Galloway claim, and the failure of the traditional parentage assigned to this Sir William Stewart, is found in the Ragman Rolls for the homage at Berwick in 1296. The follower homagers are included [see http://www.rampantscotland.com/ragman/blragman_s.htm ]:
1. "Senefcalli, Dominus Johannes (Domini Jacobi Senefcalli Scocie germanus, miles) ; (Johan Senefechal frere Mon fire James Senefchal Defcoce)."
This is clearly Sir John Stewart of Bonkil, younger brother of James the Stewart.
2. "Senefchal de Jeddeworth, Johan le (del counte de Rokefburgh)."
This individual was another individual, probably grandfather of the 'first' Sir William Stewart of Jedworth.
There was a John Stewart of Jedworth who gave his homage at Berwick; there was also Sir John Stewart of Bonkil, #1 above. They were not the same individual.
Because of all the effort in forcing William Stewart of Jedworth onto the Darnley family tree, many errors have been created. It is very difficult to correct: my hope is that there will be a major re-writing of the Stewart pedigree, but the effort to do a quality job will be significant. [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/13/2009-110746]

account in SP for the family of Stewart, Earl of Galloway accords largely with the belief that the Stewarts of Jedworth (and the later Earls of Galloway) were the descendants of one Sir William Stewart, a younger brother of Sir John Stewart of Darnley [1]. Interestingly, at the same time that this article draws heavily on the documentation provided by Andrew Stuart [2], it relies on thin evidence (esp. heraldry) to create a connection between the said Sir William Stewart and the Darnley family.
The case made in the balance of the SP account (pp. 146-147) is that the Darnley and Jedworth Stewarts were descended from the alleged Turnbull marriage, relying on heraldry and documentary evidence that Sir William Stewart of Jedworth, allegedly a younger brother of Sir John of Darnley, was the nephew of the noted Sir John Turnbull "out wyth swerd", laird of Minto, from whom he received a grant of the lands of Minto.
Interestingly, documentation provided by Andrew Stuart clearly shows that Sir John Stewart was the son of Alexander Stewart's marriage to Janet Keith. Janet Keith, in her widowhood, granted lands in Galston to her son Andrew Hamilton (a younger son by her first marriage) in a charter dated 11 Dec 1406. The witnesses included ' Willielmus de Hamyltoun, filius meus, Miles; et Joannes Senescallus, filius meus, dominus de Cruickston ' [4]. It evidently escaped the SP author, as John Stewart was laird of Crookston [or Cruickston]
before receiving livery of the lands of Darnley: Crookston was one of the several holdings of the Darnley family, and is to be found in their holdings in subsequent generations.
There is in fact no evidence for a marriage of Alexander Stewart of Darnley to a wife other than Janet Keith; this connection was unfortunately created in order to support the alleged junior position of Sir William Stewart of Jedworth (an adult in 1385, and a combatant at the Battle of Otterburn in 1388) to Sir John Stewart of Darnley (evidently born say 1381-1390). While the Stewarts of Jedworth (and Minto) descend in the male line from the Sir William of Jedworth who was the nephew of Sir John Turnbull of Minto, their male-line ancestry does in fact trace back to one John le Seneschal of Jedworth, a signatory to the Ragman Roll of 1296, who was distinct from the Darnley ancestor Sir John le Stewart of Bonkil [5]. [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 4/27/2005-211251]



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