Harrower Family Tree » Jean Arran MacRory (± 1210-1267)

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1. Findagrave, Jean MacRory Stewart 1210-1267 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154367958/jean-stewart

   Jean MacRory Stewart
   BIRTH1210 Argyll and Bute, Scotland
   DEATH1267 (aged 56-57) Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland
   BURIALPaisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
   Died at Dundonald Castle
   
   Jean MacRory is the daughter of James MacRory, Lord of Bute (d. 1210), the granddaughter of Angus, Lord of Bute (d. 1210), and the great-granddaughter of Somerled, Lord of Man and the Isles (d. 1164).
   
   Family Members
   Spouse
   Alexander Stewart 1214-1283
   
   Children
   John Stewart 1246-1298
   Elizabeth Stewart Douglas 1250-1287
   James Stewart 1260-1309

2. FamilySearch Family Tree, FamilySearch.org, Alexander Stewart 1214-1283 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Stewart,_4th_High_Steward_of_Scotland

   Alexander Stewart (died 1283), also known as Alexander of Dundonald, was 4th hereditary High Steward of Scotland from his father's death in 1246.
   
   Origins
   
   He was a son of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland by his wife Bethóc, daughter of Gille Críst, Earl of Angus.
   Career
   
   He is said to have accompanied King Louis IX of France on the Seventh Crusade (1248–1254).[1] In 1255 he was one of the councillors of King Alexander III of Scotland, though under age.[2]
   
   He was the principal commander under King Alexander III at the Battle of Largs, on 2 October 1263, when the Scots defeated the Norwegians under Haakon IV. The Scots invaded and conquered the Isle of Man the following year, which was then, together with the whole of the Western Isles, annexed to the Crown of Scotland.[3][4]
   Marriage and issue
   
   He married Jean, heiress of the Isles of Bute and Arran, daughter of James Mac Angus (d.1210) (who, with his father and brothers, was killed by the men of Skye), son of Aonghus, Lord of Bute & Arran (younger son of Somerled, King of the South Isles). By his wife he had the following issue:[5][6]
   
   James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland (c. 1260–1309), eldest son and heir; grandfather of King Robert II of Scotland, the first Stewart King of Scots, and thus direct male ancestor of all seven subsequent Scottish monarchs until Mary, Queen of Scots (1542-1587) - who married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545-1567) (a male descendant of the 5th High Steward's younger brother Sir John Stewart (d.1298), founder of the Bonkyll line (see below)) by whom she had issue King James I & VI of England and Scotland, ancestor of the post-Tudor monarchs of England and Scotland, later of Great Britain, finally of the United Kingdom.
   Sir John Stewart (d. 22 July 1298), 2nd son, who married Margaret de Bonkyll, the heiress of Bonkyll Castle in Berwickshire, by whom he had seven sons and one daughter, thus founding the line of "Stewart of Bonkyll". He was the male line ancestor of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, who by his wife Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587), the heiress of the senior royal Stewart line descended from James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland (c. 1260–1309) (see above), was the father of King James VI and I of Scotland and England. He was killed in 1298 at the Battle of Falkirk.[7][8]
   
   Heraldic augmentation of honour (Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or) supposed to have been granted to Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce" by King Charles VI of France[9]
   
   Andrew Stewart,[10] third son,[11] who married the daughter of James Bethe. His son is supposed in many sources (possibly most notably the Heraldic Visitations of Cambridgeshire[12]) to have been Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce", whose existence has been questioned by some historians, and who is quoted in bogus ancient pedigrees as the ancestor of the English gentry family of "Steward" or "Styward", of the Isle of Ely in Cambridgeshire, from which family was the mother of Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell,[13][14][15] who (therefore ironically) tried to bring an end to the royal house of Stuart. However "the Lord Protector himself never took it seriously, though he did once joke that his mother was a Stuart at a drinking party in Edinburgh in 1651".[16] This family, of which the most influential was Robert Steward (d. 1557) Dean of Ely, assumed the coat of arms of the Scottish Stewarts, Or, a fess chequy argent and azure, as is visible on their elaborate monuments in Ely Cathedral.[17] In addition they bore a supposed augmentation of honour (Argent, a lion rampant gules debruised by a bend raguly or) said to have been granted to Sir Alexander Steward "The Fierce" by King Charles VI of France (1380-1422).[18] However the supposed familial connection between the Stewart family of Scotland, Hereditary High Stewards and kings of Scotland, and the English "Steward" or "Styward" family of the Isle of Ely, has been definitively disproven by the renowned genealogists Horace Round (Studies in Peerage and Family History, 1907)[19][20] and Walter Rye (Two Cromwellian Myths, 1925, and The Steward Genealogy and Cromwell's "Royal Descent").[21]
   Elizabeth Stewart (d. before 1288), who married Sir William Douglas the Hardy, Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed. She was the mother of the James Douglas, Lord of Douglas ("Good Sir James Douglas").[22]
   Hawise Stewart, who married John de Soulis (died 1310), who was the Guardian of Scotland and the brother of the Lord of Liddesdale.[23]
   Lady Beatrix Alice Stewart (Lady of Crawford) married Sir Alexander Lindsay (died 1308), Lord of Barnweill, Byres and Crawford

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3. Web Site Information, James Stewart 1260- 1309 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/151529631/james-stewart

   James Stewart
   BIRTH1260 Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland
   DEATH16 Jul 1309 (aged 48-49) Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland
   BURIALPaisley Abbey, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
   
   James, 5th High Steward of Scotland was High Steward of Scotland and a Guardian of Scotland during the First Interregnum.
   
   James was a son of Alexander Stewart, 4th High Steward of Scotland; the identity of Alexander's wife is unknown. The date of his birth is not certainly known and some sources have placed it, on no good evidence, as early as 1243. This is now thought to be unlikely. Firstly, James's father is known to have planned a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint James of Compostella in 1252 or after, so that James would probably have been born after this. Secondly, James's Christian name was an unusual one, uncommon in Scotland in the 13th century and not a traditional name in the Stewart family where Walter and Alan were favoured. It is therefore quite possible that he was not Alexander's eldest son, but rather the eldest surviving son. For these reasons, and also the fact of his son and successor Walter Stewart being described as a "beardless lad" around 1314 in John Barbour's The Brus, it is proposed that James was born around 1260.
   
   In 1286 James was chosen as one of the six Guardians of Scotland. He subsequently submitted to King Edward I of England on 9 July 1297, and was one of the auditors for the competitor, Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale. However, during the Wars of Scottish Independence he joined Sir William Wallace. After Wallace's defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298, he gave his support[citation needed] to Robert Bruce, later King Robert I of Scotland, grandson of the competitor.
   James, 5th High Steward, was either married to Cecilia, daughter of Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar & March, or Gilles {Aegidia} de Burgh, daughter of Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster. By one of these ladies he had issue:
   
   Walter, 6th High Steward (1293-1326) who married King Robert I's daughter, Marjorie Bruce.
   Sir John, killed 14 October 1318 at the battle of Dundalk.
   Sir Andrew, "younger son"
   Sir James Stewart of Durisdeer, Tutor to his nephew, the future King Robert II of Scotland, in 1327.
   Egidia Stewart, who married Sir Alexander de Menzies, of Durisdeer.
   
   In 1302, with six other ambassadors including John Comyn, Earl of Buchan, he was sent to solicit the aid of the French king against Edward, to whom he was once again compelled to swear fealty at Lanercost on 23 October 1306. To render his oath if possible secure, it was taken upon the two crosses of Scotland most esteemed for their sanctity, on the consecrated host, the holy gospels, and certain relics of saints. He also agreed to submit to instant excommunication if he should break his allegiance to Edward. Convinced that his faith was to his country in spite of all, he once again took up the Scottish patriotic cause and died in the service of The Bruce in 1309.
   
   Family Members
   Parents
   Alexander Stewart 1214-1283
   Jean MacRory Stewart 1210-1267
   
   Spouse
   Egidia Giles De Burgh Stewart 1263-1327
   
   Siblings
   John Stewart 1246-1298
   Elizabeth Stewart Douglas 1250-1287
   
   Children
   Walter Stewart 1293-1326
   

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