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Personal data Margaret de Stirling 

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Household of Margaret de Stirling

She is married to Sir John Bethune.

They got married in the year 1435 at Balfour, Fife, Scotland, she was 16 years old.

They got married about 1435 at Scotland.

They got married in the year 1458 at Holkettle, Fife, Scotland, she was 39 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Lady Janet Bethune  1434-1494 
  2. Robert Bethune  1435-1502
  3. Isabel Bethune  1437-????
  4. John Bethune  1440-± 1508 

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    1. FamilySearch Family Tree
      Margaret de Bethune (born de Stirling)<br>Birth names: KatherineCatherineCatherina<br>Gender: Female<br>Birth: Jan 1 1419 - Lecropt, Perthshire, Scotland<br>Marriage: Circa 1435 - Scotland<br>Death: Jan 1 1526 - Balfour Castle, Fife, Scotland<br>Parents: Sir William Stirling 1st of Keir, ;Margaret Cunningham<br>Husband: John de Bethune IV<br>Children: John Bethune V of Balfour, Robert Bethune;, Isabel Bethune<br>Siblings: Janet Bruce (born Sterling), Catherine Stirling, Sir William Stirling 2nd of KeirMargaret Striveling, Sir John Stirling 3rd of Craigbernard<br>This person appears to have duplicated relatives. View it on FamilySearch to see the full information.<br>  Additional information:

      LifeSketch: JOHN BEATON OR BETHUNE (5TH LAIRD OF BALFOUR) was born about 1435 in Scotland, to John Bethune and Margaret Stirling. He married Margaret Boswell in 1458, and died before 9 May 1480.ethune, 4th of Balfour and Catherine Stirling. He married Marjory Boswell, daughter of David Boswell, 1st of Balmuto and Elizabeth Melville, in 1458.[1] He died before 9 May 1480, on which date David Boswell of Glassmount had a precept furth of chancery directing him to infeft John Beaton, 6th of Balfour, in half lands of Lochgelly as heir to his late father.[2]our. This name was first spelt Betun, then Beaton and Bethune, to the latter of which it was finally fixed, but in the contract of marriage dated 1458 it is plainly spelt Beaton. The Tocher was 300 merks, which was paid to David Boswell, 1460 and 1461, for which an acquittance and discharge duly signed are in existence with the contract of marriage.of Balfour in Favour of David Boswell of Balmuto, 26th May, 1461, which reads] thir my presentis grantis me contente fullely and halely be the handis of ane honorabill man Dauid Boswel of Balmuto my god-fader-in-law of the soume of twa hundretht merkis of usuale mone of Scotlande be resoun of matrimone tretit betuex me and Merjory Boswel the douchter of the said Dauid payit and assytht as in pairt of payment of the hale soume of thre hundretht merkis as hereis witnes the said Dauid’s obligatiun to me made tharupon Off the quhill forsutht twa hundretht merkis as in pairt and assytht the foresaid David Boswell his ayeris executouis and assignees I the foresaid John Betoun for me my ayeris executouris and assignees quhatsumeuer the foresaid twa hundretht merkis as in pairt of payment of the uqilk thing I haf set to my seile at Balfour the xxvi day of the monetht of May the zher of our Lorde a thousande four hundretht tre schor and ane. . [3] 1524ret, Grissel, Isobel, and Elizabeth Bethuns. [4]nerable father in Christ, the Bishop of St. Andrews or his vicar in spiritual affairs, Angelus, by the grace of God Bishop of Reate, wisheth salvation and sincere love in the Lord, on behalf of John Beaton, layman, and Marjory Boswell, of your diocese. A petition has been presented to us setting forth that they had formerly obtained certain letters in the sure and customary form of commission directed to you from the apostolic see containing that although they were related to each other in the fourth degree of consanguinity and fourth degree of affinity you might grant to them a dispensation freely to contract marriage with each other of need, and in this marriage so contracted lawfully to remain. But because they fear that these letters have been stolen and are invalid seeing that one of the parties is related in the third degree of consanguinity and the third degree of affinity and that mention was not made of this third degree in the said letters, petition is humbly made by the said spouses that provision might be made in respect hereof by the said see. We therefore recalling that Pope Clement the sixth of happy memory decreed that certain dispensations obtained and to be obtained in the like case from the said see were valid and sufficient and to have the full strength and authority of the apostolic see, although omission was made to mention the third and third degree of relationship foresaid, by the authority of the Pope, whose cure we primarily govern, remit to your circumspection that according to this apostolic declaration you declare the foresaid letters of commission to be valid and sufficient thereanent, as if therein mention had been made of the relationship of the third and third degrees aforesaid Given at St. Peter’s at Rome under the official seal of the primariate, the twenty-fifth day of August in the first year of the pontificate of Pope Pius the Second.ion from the Latin)sincere love in the Lord, on behalf of John Beaton, layman, and Marjory Boswell, spouses, of your diocese. Petition has been made to us setting forth that knowing themselves to be related to each other in the fourth degree of consanguinity and fourth degree of affinity, publicly and actually contracted marriage between themselves, per verba de presenti, and completed the same by cohabitation, but seeing they could not continue in this marriage, and that, if a perpetual divorce between them should be made, grave scandals would probably arise therefrom, therefore the said spouses have humbly craved that the benefit of absolution might be duly granted them hereanent by the papal see and the grace of dispensation also fitly provided. We therefore desiring to secure the salvation of the souls of the said spouses, and to obviate so far as we can with the help of God, this scandal by the authority of the Pope, whose cure we primarily govern and by his special command given to us hereupon by the oracle of the living voice, remit to your circumspection that if it be so, and they having been separated from each other for such time as shall seem good to you, you may absolve the said John and Marjory from the sentence of general excommunication incurred by them hereanent and from the sin of incest in the manner customary and incumbent upon the Church therein, appointing to each of them a salutary penance according to the nature of their offence and other things lawful, although the survivor of them may perpetually remain without hope of marriage, and thereafter you may grant dispensation to the said John and Marjory that, notwithstanding these impediments of consanguinity and affinity they may anew freely contract marriage between themselves and lawfully abide therein (provided that the said woman was not coerced by any one to this marriage), decerning any offspring begotten or to be begotten of this said marriage legitimate.ice of the primariate in the first year of the pontificate of Pope Pius the Second. Pro Veneriis, L. de Leys. [3]
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