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Personal data Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart Earl of Menteith 

• He was born between 1225 and 1230 in Scotland.
• He died about June 29, 1294 in Inchmoh Island, Loch Rusky, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
• He is buried in Inchmahome Priory, Lake Of Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland.
• A child of Walter (FitzAlan) Stewart and Beth√≥c (Beatrix) nic Gille Crist MacGILCHRIST
• This information was last updated on November 26, 2021.

Household of Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart Earl of Menteith

He is married to Mary I of Menteith.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Alexander de Menteith (Stewart)  ± 1240-< 1306 
2. John Menteith of Ruskie & Knapdale (Stewart)  ± 1275-± 1323 
3. Elena Stewart, of Menteith  ± 1254-± 1351 

Notes about Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart Earl of Menteith

Maternal
Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith is your 22nd great grandfather.
You
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your mother ·Üí Henry Loyd Smith Sr.
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his mother ·Üí Stephen T Collier
her father ·Üí Catherine Collier (Roberts)
his mother ·Üí Sarah Katherine Roberts (Turner)
her mother ·Üí John Turner, Sr.
her father ·Üí Thomas Turner of Frederick County
his father ·Üí Anne Turner (Greer)
his mother ·Üí Sir James Greer of Lag, of Capenoch
her father ·Üí Nichola Grierson (Maxwell)
his mother ·Üí John Maxwell, Lord Herries of Terregles
her father ·Üí Robert Maxwell, 5th Lord Maxwell
his father ·Üí Agnes Stewart, of Garlies
his mother ·Üí Elizabeth Douglas of Cavers
her mother ·Üí Sir Archibald Douglas of Cavers, Kt.
her father ·Üí William Douglas, 2nd of Cavers
his father ·Üí Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
his father ·Üí Joanna Moray, Lady of Drumersgard
his mother ·Üí Joan Menteith
her mother ·Üí Sir John Menteith of Ruskie & Knapdale (Stewart)
her father ·Üí Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith
his father

Paternal
Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith is your 23rd great grandfather.
You
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her father ·Üí Sir Lewis Stukley
his father ·Üí Frances Culpepper
his mother ·Üí Catherine Saint Leger
her mother ·Üí Sir George Neville, 5th and de jure 3rd Baron Bergavenny
her father ·Üí George Neville, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny
his father ·Üí Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny
his mother ·Üí Lady Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester
her mother ·Üí Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
her father ·Üí Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despencer
his father ·Üí Anne le Dispenser
his mother ·Üí Elen de Menteith
her mother ·Üí Alexander, Earl of Menteith
her father ·Üí Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith
his father

Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith is your 23rd great grandfather.
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your father ·Üí Heny Marvin Welborn, Sr.
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his father ·Üí Edward Dykes
his father ·Üí Thomas Dykes
his father ·Üí Edward Dykes
his father ·Üí Thomas Dykes
his father ·Üí Leonard Dykes
his father ·Üí Isabelle Dykes
his mother ·Üí Sir John Pennington IV
her father ·Üí Sir John Pennington, Sheriff of Cumberland
his father ·Üí Sir John Pennington, of Muncaster, Knight
his father ·Üí Katherine Pennington, of Thurland
his mother ·Üí Sir Thomas Tunstall, Kt.
her father ·Üí Alice Tunstall
his mother ·Üí Philip de Lindsey
her father ·Üí Mary Abernethy
his mother ·Üí Margaret Abernathy Stewart, de Menteith
her mother ·Üí Sir Alexander Stewart, Earl of Menteith
her father ·Üí Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith
his father

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Walter "Bailloch-Freckled" Stewart, Earl of Menteith
Gender:
Male
Birth:
between 1225 and 1230
Scotland, (Present UK)
Death:
circa June 29, 1294 (59-73)
Inchmoh Island, Loch Rusky, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Place of Burial:
Inchmahome Priory, Lake Of Menteith, Perthshire,, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Immediate Family:
Son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland and Bethóc nic Gille Crist, Countess of Angus

Husband of Mary of Menteith, Countess of Menteith

Father of Alexander, Earl of Menteith; Elena Stewart, of Menteith and Sir John Menteith of Ruskie

Brother of Euphemia Stewart; Sybella Stewart; Margaret Stewart, Countess of Carrick; Christian Stewart; Beatrix Stewart, of Monteith; John Stewart; Robert Stewart, Knight and Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland

Half brother of Margaret Stewart, Countess of Carrick; NN Stewart; John Stewart; Walter "Bailloch/Freckled" Stewart; Robert Stewart; and Elizabeth Stewart

Walter Bailloch or Walter Bailloch Stewart (1225 x 1230·Äì1293 x 1294), was third son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland, and Earl of Menteith jure uxoris. His wife was Mary I, Countess of Menteith. Characteristically of the Stewart family by the thirteenth century, he was distinguished by the sobriquet Bailloch or Balloch, a Gaelic nickname roughly translated as "the freckled". He is said to have gone to Egypt under Louis IX of France, but there is no certain evidence of this. After the death of King Alexander II of Scotland he favoured the Durward faction, and by a stratagem in 1255 secured the persons of the young King and Queen, but he was not at this time admitted to a share in the government. It was about 1260, when the Countess Isabella and her husband were forced to renounce the earldom, that the King and barons of Scotland declared the lands and title to belong to the wife of William Stewart, and he was invested therein. He was certainly using the title "comes" (earl or mormaer) before 17 April 1261, when he was witness to a grant to the Paisley Abbey. In the following year Dughall MacSuibhne granted to the Earl the lands of Skipnish, Killislate, and others, being that part of Kintyre called South Knapdale and the parish of Kilcalmonell. Following on this, the Earl granted the church of Kilcalmonell to the monks of Paisley. He also made grants to Kilwinning Abbey of churches in Knapdale, which show that he had possession of North Knapdale also. About 1263 the Earl was Sheriff of Ayr, and aided in making preparations to repel the expected invasion of King Haakon IV of Norway. He is said to have taken part in the battle of Largs. The Earl was Sheriff of Dumbarton in 1271. On 25 July 1281 he was one of the witnesses to and guarantors of the marriage contract of the Princess Margaret with Eirik II of Norway. In 1285 he and his Countess were again attacked by the rival claimants William Comyn and his wife, their claim having been in 1282 pressed upon King Alexander III of Scotland by the English King, and in a Parliament at Scone it was decided that the earldom should be divided into two portions. One half was retained by Walter Stewart, with the title of Earl, he having the principal residence on the territory, and the other half was erected into a barony in favour of William Comyn and his wife. The component parts of the earldom which remained to Walter Stewart are not known. The death of King Alexander in 1286 threw the kingdom again into confusion, and during the rivalry which ensued between the parties of Bruce and Balliol, the Earl of Menteith supported the cause of Bruce. In 1289 he was present at Birgham, and approved of the marriage proposed between Prince Edward of England and the young Margaret, Maid of Norway as she was called, the heiress of the Scottish Crown. Her unhappy death renewed the contest between Bruce and Balliol, and when it was proposed that the King of England should arbitrate, Menteith was one of those named by Bruce as his commissioners. He was present at Norham on 20 November 1292 when the new king John Balliol swore fealty to Edward I of England. This is the last certain record of him, as although letters were addressed by the English King to Walter, Earl of Menteith, on 29 June 1294, it is not clear that he was then alive. He may even have been dead by 10 February 1293, when Balliol's Parliament directed the lands of Knapdale belonging to the Earl to be incorporated in the sheriffdom of Lorn under Alexander of Argyll. The Countess Mary predeceased her husband, but at what date is not certain. Their tombstone is preserved in the Priory of Inchmahome, bearing the effigies of husband and wife, the former bearing on his shield the Stewart fess chequy with a label of five points, a device which also appears on his seal of arms in the Public Record Office, London. They had issue two sons named together by their father in a charter :
Alexander, Earl of Menteith, who succeeded to the earldom.
Sir John de Menteith, who has achieved an unenviable notoriety as the taker or betrayer of Sir William Wallace
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Walter Bailloch or Walter Bailloch Stewart (1225 x 1230·Äì1293 x 1294), was third son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland, and Earl of Menteith jure uxoris. His wife was Mary I, Countess of Menteith. Characteristically of the Stewart family by the thirteenth century, he was distinguished by the sobriquet Bailloch or Balloch, a Gaelic nickname roughly translated as "the freckled". He is said to have gone to Egypt under Louis IX of France, but there is no certain evidence of this. After the death of King Alexander II of Scotland he favoured the Durward faction, and by a stratagem in 1255 secured the persons of the young King and Queen, but he was not at this time admitted to a share in the government. It was about 1260, when the Countess Isabella and her husband were forced to renounce the earldom, that the King and barons of Scotland declared the lands and title to belong to the wife of William Stewart, and he was invested therein. He was certainly using the title "comes" (earl or mormaer) before 17 April 1261, when he was witness to a grant to the Paisley Abbey. In the following year Dughall MacSuibhne granted to the Earl the lands of Skipnish, Killislate, and others, being that part of Kintyre called South Knapdale and the parish of Kilcalmonell. Following on this, the Earl granted the church of Kilcalmonell to the monks of Paisley. He also made grants to Kilwinning Abbey of churches in Knapdale, which show that he had possession of North Knapdale also. About 1263 the Earl was Sheriff of Ayr, and aided in making preparations to repel the expected invasion of King Haakon IV of Norway. He is said to have taken part in the battle of Largs. The Earl was Sheriff of Dumbarton in 1271. On 25 July 1281 he was one of the witnesses to and guarantors of the marriage contract of the Princess Margaret with Eirik II of Norway. In 1285 he and his Countess were again attacked by the rival claimants William Comyn and his wife, their claim having been in 1282 pressed upon King Alexander III of Scotland by the English King, and in a Parliament at Scone it was decided that the earldom should be divided into two portions. One half was retained by Walter Stewart, with the title of Earl, he having the principal residence on the territory, and the other half was erected into a barony in favour of William Comyn and his wife. The component parts of the earldom which remained to Walter Stewart are not known. The death of King Alexander in 1286 threw the kingdom again into confusion, and during the rivalry which ensued between the parties of Bruce and Balliol, the Earl of Menteith supported the cause of Bruce. In 1289 he was present at Birgham, and approved of the marriage proposed between Prince Edward of England and the young Margaret, Maid of Norway as she was called, the heiress of the Scottish Crown. Her unhappy death renewed the contest between Bruce and Balliol, and when it was proposed that the King of England should arbitrate, Menteith was one of those named by Bruce as his commissioners. He was present at Norham on 20 November 1292 when the new king John Balliol swore fealty to Edward I of England. This is the last certain record of him, as although letters were addressed by the English King to Walter, Earl of Menteith, on 29 June 1294, it is not clear that he was then alive. He may even have been dead by 10 February 1293, when Balliol's Parliament directed the lands of Knapdale belonging to the Earl to be incorporated in the sheriffdom of Lorn under Alexander of Argyll. The Countess Mary predeceased her husband, but at what date is not certain. Their tombstone is preserved in the Priory of Inchmahome, bearing the effigies of husband and wife, the former bearing on his shield the Stewart fess chequy with a label of five points, a device which also appears on his seal of arms in the Public Record Office, London. They had issue two sons named together by their father in a charter : ·Ä¢Alexander, Earl of Menteith, who succeeded to the earldom. ·Ä¢Sir John de Menteith, who has achieved an unenviable notoriety as the taker or betrayer of Sir William Wallace

Notes ·ó¶Walter le Stewart (called Bailloch ~ freckled), was the third son of Walter, 3rd High Steward, and married Mary, daughter and co-heir of Maurice, 3rd Earl of Menteith, in whose right he acquired the earldom. Alexander succeeded his father and changed his surname to de Menteith.
Assumed the surname Menteth but retained the paternal coat of Stewart altering the fess to a bend. 5th Earl of Menteith (by right of his wife. Captured at Battle of Dunbar and executed in 1296.)The first Battle of Dunbar against the English occured in 1296 when Edward I of England (Longshanks) sent the Earl of Surrey to punish King John Balliol of Scotland for his refusal to help the King of England in a matter with the French. This motive of revenge was further fueled by the recent death of the Scottish Princess Margaret in 1290 who was betrothed to Edwards son and failure to unite the two lands Edward placed King John on the throne in 1292 and, though weak, as Edward intended, was the first king Scotland had had since 1286. King Edward I of England who had already conquered Wales was ready to take on the Guardians of Scotland. (Ross 2000: 1) Thus, the Earl of Warrene with 12,000 men were dispatched to lay siege on Dunbar. Knowing the importance of the fortress, the Scots begged cessation of the hostilities for three days to inform King John and gather their defenses. After this period the Scots advanced their army of 40,000 men. Warrene was, however, undaunted and continued his attack, scattering the Scottish forces whose losses were at least 20,000, of which 10,000 were slain. The castle was subsequently compelled to surrender and most were taken prisoner. Edward I went on to destroy the Great Seal and remove to London the Stone of Destiny, the sacred stone brought from Ireland to Dalriada and then to Scone, upon which Scottish kings had been crowned since the sixth century.

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