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Personal data Elizabeth Mure 

Source 1
  • She was born in the year 1320 in Rowallan,Kilmarnock,Ayrshire,Scotland.
  • Alternative: She was born in the year 1320 in Rowallan Castle, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.
  • She died May 1355 in Dundonald Castle, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland, she was 35 years old.
  • Alternative: She died in the year 1355 in Paisley Chaple,Paisley,Renfrewshire,Scotland, she was 35 years old.
  • A child of Adam Mure and Joanna Danzielstour

Household of Elizabeth Mure

She is married to Robert II Stewart.

They got married on November 22, 1347 at Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland, she was 27 years old.Source 2

They got married on May 2, 1355, she was 35 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Robert III Stewart  1337-1406 
  2. Robert Stewart  1340-1420 
  3. Margaret Stewart  1342-1410 
  5. Jean Stewart  1350-1404 


Notes about Elizabeth Mure

Elizabeth Mure was mistress and then wife of Robert, High Steward of Scotland, and Guardian of Scotland (1338–1341 and from October 1346), who later became King Robert II of Scotland.

Elizabeth Mure was said to be born at Rowallan Castle. Her parents were Sir Adam Mure of Rowallan, Ayrshire and Janet Mure of Pokellie.

She initially became the Steward's mistress. He married her in 1336 but the marriage was criticised as uncanonical, so he remarried her in 1349 following a papal dispensation dated at Avignon 22 November 1347.

She died before her husband inherited the crown at the age of 55 in 1371, and he later remarried (Papal Dispensation dated 2 May 1355).

On 27 March 1371, "The Lord John (who later took the title of King Robert III, changing his name because of what he saw as John de Baliol's unpatriotic desecration of the name John), Earl of Carrick and Steward of Scotland, first-born son of King Robert II" was declared heir to the Crown by Parliament in Scone Abbey.

They had at least ten children, with some accounts saying as many as thirteen. Doubts about the validity of her marriage led to family disputes over her children's right to the crown.

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  2. Millennium File, Heritage Consulting / Ancestry.com

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