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Personal data John Stewart 10th (1st) Earl of Lennox 

• Alternative name: John Stewart 1st Earl of (John Stewart, 1st Earl of) Lennox
• He was born in the year 1408 in Darnley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (87) when child (Janet Stewart) was born (??-??-1495).

• (Title (Facts Pg)) in the year 1439 in Created 1St Earl Of Lennox.
• He died on September 11, 1495 in Darnley, Renfrew, Scotland, he was 87 years old.
• A child of Alan Stewart and Catherine Seton
• This information was last updated on December 4, 2022.

Household of John Stewart 10th (1st) Earl of Lennox

(1) He is married to Margaret Montgomery.

They got married on May 15, 1438 at Indenture Of, Ayrshire, Scotland, he was 30 years old.

Marriage arranged by Contract

Child(ren):

1. Matthew Stewart  1444-1513 
2. Elizabeth Stewart  ± 1450-????
3. Robert Stewart  1445-1544
4. Marion Stewart  1455-1488 
5. Janet Stewart  1495-???? 
6. William Stewart  1446-????
7. Janet Stewart  1457-????
8. Alexander Stewart  1450-????
9. John Stewart  1448-1512 
10. Allan Stewart  1451-????
11. Alan Stewart  ± 1475-????
12. Elizabeth Countess Argyll Stuart  1453-1521 
13. Margaret Stewart  1458-???? 
14. Mary Elizabeth (Margaret) Stewart   

(2) He is married to Nn Nn.

They got married at Not Married.

Child(ren):

1. Alan Stewart  ± 1475-????

Notes about John Stewart 10th (1st) Earl of Lennox

TITLE: Lord Derneley, Baron of Torbolton.

     He succeeded his father in 1439, and appears to have been created a
Lord of the Scottish Parliament by the title of Lord of Darnley, probably at the Coronation of King James III, who succeeded to the Scottish throne on August 3, 1460.  He was the Governor of Rothesay Castle, from February 4, 1465 to 1466, and again on May 8, 1477. Being heir to one-half of the Earldom of Lennox, he claimed also the superiority of the earldom, alleging that his grandmother Elizabeth was the elder of the two sisters of the Countess Isabel. His claim was disputed by Sir John Haldane of Gleneagles on the ground that his wife's grandmother Margaret was senior to her sister Elizabeth. All attempts at arbitration failed, and on July 27, 1473 Darnley, during the absence of Haldane in Denmark, obtained "seisin of the capital messuage and half the earldom on a retour as descendant of Earl Duncan's elder daughter, the feftment thereupon, 6 August 1473, calling him Earl of Lennox".  He sat as Earl in the Parliament of November 1475, and was so styled in a commission of "Lieutenancy, Renfrew, &c., 4 December 1475".  Haldane, however, on his return procured a reconsideration of the evidence and a revocation by privy seal of Darnley's charter on January 12, 1476, in which revocation Haldane is called of Lennox principal and of Ruskie. Thereafter Darnley was reduced to the lower title. In 1481 he was Warden of the West Borders, and in 1482 was one of the lords who seized James III at Lauder; he was, however, pardoned by the King, and continued in attendance on him. Lord Avondale, the life renter of the earldom, died in 1488, and Darnley, who presumably had by then come to some arrangement with Haldane, took his seat as Earl of Lennox in the first Parliament of the young King James IV on October 6, 1488, and continued to enjoy the dignity without disturbance. The custody of Dunbarton Castle was granted to him and his eldest son on October 20, 1488, but the next year they rebelled against the King and were defeated at Tillymoss, and forfeited in June 1489, the sentence being annulled February 5, 1490.

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