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Personal data Margaret Stewart Countess Of Angus And Mar 

• Alternative name: Margaret [Stewart] van Scotland
• She was born in the year 1336 in Orkney Islands, Scotland.
• (Titled) .

  Princess of Scotland

• (Alt. Birth) about 1356: Alt. Birth.
• She died in the year 1438 in Angusshire, Scotland, she was 102 years old.

  Attention: Age above 100 years (102).

• A child of Robert II Stewart and Elizabeth Mure
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of Margaret Stewart Countess Of Angus And Mar

(1) She is married to John MacDonald.

They got married after June 14, 1350.

Child(ren):

1. Alexander Alasdair Carrach MacDomhuill  ± 1370-1440 
2. Donald MacDonald  ????-1432 
3. John MacIan Mor Tanistier MacDonald  ± 1380-1472 
4. Agnes MacDonald  1363-< 1413 
5. Mary MacDonald  ± 1350-???? 
6. Margaret MacDonald  ± 1365-???? 
7. Elizabeth MacDonald   

Notes about Margaret Stewart Countess Of Angus And Mar

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    Note: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus, in her own right; married9th Earl of Mar and died 1417 , having as mistress of her sisterin law's husband William, 1st Earl of Douglas, had an illegitimate son (George) to whom she resigned the Earldom in 1389.[Burke's Peerage]

    Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus, in her own right; married9th Earlof Mar and died 1417 , having as mistress of her sisterin law's husbandWilliam, 1st Earl of Douglas, had an illegitimate son (George) to whomshe resigned the Earldom in 1389.[Burke's Peerage]

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    EARLDOM of ANGUS (XVI, 3) 1361

    Margaret Stewart, suo jure Countess of Angus, eldest sister andheir ofthe line. She m. betw een 1361 and 1374, as his 2nd wife,Thomas, 13th(sic. 9th) Earl of Mar, the last Earl of Ma r in thedirect male line, whodsp. 1377. Probably in her husband'slifetime, but certainly v eryshortly afterwards, she becamemother of a son known as George Douglas,begotten by her lat ehusband's brother-in-law, William Douglas, 1st Earlof Douglas,whose wife Margaet, suo jur e Countess of Mar (being sisterandheir of Thomas, 13th Earl of Mar abovenamed), was then ali ve,andoutlived her husband. On 9 Apr 1389 the Countess of Angusresigned theEarldom (reserv ing for herself the frank tenementthereof for life) infavour of the said George Douglas, no thowever, then styling him her sonor alleging any relationship tohim; though in his marriag e contract withthe King's daughter,some eight years afterwards, she styles him "Lord ofAngus " andacknowledges him as her son. She, however, survived her saidson,and was living 1417 , being styled "Countess of Angus and Mar",(viz.Angus in her own right and Mar in right of h er longdeceased, and onlyhusband); but (of course) never styled"Countess of Douglas" as th e wifeof that Earl of Douglas (whowas the father of her children) survivedhim. She d. befor e 23Mar 1417/8. [Complete Peerage I:154]

    Note: According to BP (above) & CP VIII:406 (Earldom of Mar),Margaret'shusband was the 9th E arl.

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