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Données personnelles Duncan [Faslane] of Lennox 8th Earl of Lennox 

• Noms alternatifs: Duncan de Faslane Earl of Lennox, Duncan Stewart 8th Earl of Lennox
• Il est né environ 1345 dans Balloch Castle, Loch Lomond, Dunbartonshire, Scotland.Les sources 4, 5
• Professions:
• avant le 1385 Sir Knight.
• en l'an 1385 8th Earl of Lennox.Les sources 3, 6
• (Alt. Birth) environ 1337: Lennox, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.Source 6
• (Alt. Birth) en l'an 1345: Lennox, East Dunbartonshire, Scotland.Source 3
• (Alt. Birth) environ 1345: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.Source 7
• (Alt. Death) le 25 mai 1425: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.Source 7
• (Alt. Death) le 3 juin 1425: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
• Il est décédé le 25 mai 1425 dans Stirling Castle, Stirling, Stirling, Scotland.Les sources 5, 8

  Beheaded at Stirling Castle

  Oorzaak: Beheaded

• Il est enterré dans Friar's Preachers, Glasgow, Scotland.Les sources 5, 7
• Un enfant de Walter de Faslane et Margaret Countess of Lennox
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 4 décembre 2022.

Famille de Duncan [Faslane] of Lennox 8th Earl of Lennox

Il est marié avec Helena Campbell.

Ils se sont mariés avant le 30 mars 1373.Les sources 5, 9

Enfant(s):

1. Fiona Stewart  ± 1360-???? 
2. Elizabeth Lennox  1358-1429 
3. Mary of Lennox  ± 1374-???? 
4. Isabella 9th Countess of Lennox  ± 1375-± 1458 
5. Elizabeth of Lennox  ± 1384-1429
6. Margaret [Faslane] Co-heiress of Lennox  ± 1378-> 1451 

Notes par Duncan [Faslane] of Lennox 8th Earl of Lennox

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((A)) Sir Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox (b c1345, d 25.05.1425) m. Helena Campbell (d before 1447, dau of Sir Archibald Campbell of Lochow)

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[Jim Weber.ged]

Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox (beheaded 1425).
[Burke's Peerage]

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Lennox, previous creations: The Earldom descended to Maldouen's grandson (Malcolm, 4th Earl), then to the latter's son (another Malcolm, 5th Earl) and grandson (Donald, 6th Earl).  In about 1364, however, the 6th Earl's daughter Margaret inherited the title as Countess of Lennox in her own right.  She married Walter de Fasselane (modern Faslane), who seems to have been recognized as Earl of Lennox in right of his wife since in about 1385 the two of them made the dignity over to their eldest son Duncan.  This son, the 8th Earl, who had not legitimate sons, got a regrant of the title from Robert III extending the line of descent to his daughter and her husband, though why this was thought necessary, given that the Earldom had already descended in just such a manner only a generation previously, is uncertain.  One can only assume that the view of Earldoms in Scotland was changing about this time.

Isabel, the daughter of Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox, accordingly became Countess of Lennox, in her own right, but her husaband Murdoch, 2nd Duke of Albany and first cousin of James I, was involved in a plot against the King and executed along with his father-in-law, the 8th Earl of Lennox.
[Burke's Peerage, p. 2402]

Built Lennox Castle.

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EARLDOM of LENNOX (VIII)

DUNCAN, EARL OF LENNOX [SCT], son and heir, by reason of his parents' resignation.  He, who was born about 1345, was in 1385 confirmed by the King in the earldom.  Having no lawful issue male, he resigned it for a new grant thereof, 8 Nov. 1392, to him and the heirs male of his body, whom failing, to his daughter Isabel and her husband, Murdoch Stewart, and the survivor of them, and the heirs of their bodies.

He married (disp. to recontract marriage 30 March 1373) Ellen, widow of John, 1st son (by 1st wife) of John, 7th LORD OF THE ISLES, and daughter of Gillespie (or Archibald or Celestin) CAMPBELL, probably by Isabel, daughter of Sir John LAMONT of that ilk.  She was living 1434.  He was involved in the fate of the family of his son-in-law, and executed for high treason on the mound of Stirling Castle, 25 May 1425, and buried in the church of the Friars Preachers.
[Complete Peerage VII:592-3, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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A knight by 8 May 1385 when he obtained the earldom on the resignation of his parents, although "an octogegenarian" and apparently blameless, he shared in the downfall of his son-in-law, Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, the Regent, and was beheaded along with him and two grandsons. EARLDOM OF LENNOX [SCT]

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[Isiaha Lee.ged]

Sir Duncan, eight Earl Of Lennox, is said to have been born in 1345, as in one MS of Bower's Fordun he is, in 1425, described as 'octogenarius.'  Little is recorded of him, the first notice of him being the dispensation for his marriage, granted on 30 March 1373, to be afterwards referred to.  The next referrence to him appears to be in 1385, by which time he had received the honour of knighthood, and in that year, as already stated, his parent resigned the earldom and lordship of Lennox in his favour.  King Robert II regranted them to be held to Duncan and his heirs of the King and his heirs for the usual services. ; After this he appears as Earl Of Lennox, and as such received from the same King in 1387 a grant of the weaponshawings of the earldom as formerly bestowed on his father. ; Another resignation in his favour and regrant to him and his heirs were made on 19 August 1388, while his father and mother were still alive.

The Earl was apparently in full possession of his earldom on 17 February 1391-92, when he entered into a contract of marriage between his eldest daughter Isabel and Sir Murdach Stewart, eldest son of Robert, Earl Of Fife, and Menteith.  In terms of the provisions in this contract the Earl resigned his earldom in the hands of King Robert III, who, on 9 November 1392, regranted the same (1) to Earl Duncan and the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten or to be begotten; whm failing to (2) Murdach Stewart and Isabella, daughter of the Earl, the longer liver of them and the heirs between them lawfully to be begotten; whom failing, to (3) the lawful and nearest heirs of Earl Duncan whomsoever.  It is said that he renewed this entail in 1411, to the same series of heirs, but the corroborating evidence has not been found.

This Earl seems to have taken little or no part in public affairs. His name occurs in no public record, though he was the granter of some charters dated between 1393 and 1398.  On 6 March 1400-1, Robert, Earl Of Fife and Menteith, granted to him and to the heirs of the above entail the office of 'Coronator' of the whole earldom of Lennox, an office which had belonged to the Laird of Drummond.

The only public act recorded of Earl Duncan is his meeting King James I at Durham on his return to Scotland from captivity in England.  King James was crowned at Scone on 21 May 1424, when Earl Duncan's son-in-law, Murdach, now Duke Of Albany, placed him on the throne. Little more than a year later, King James wreaked vengeance on the house of Albany, and Earl Duncan, aged as he is said to have been, and blameless so far as record states, was also arrested, and was beheaded at Stirling with his son-in-law and grandsons, on 25 May 1425.  No motive for the fate of Earl Duncan has been stated by historians, and his death forms one of the unsolved mysteries of the past, all the more so as his estates were not forfeited, while those of Albany were annexed to the Crown.  Earl Duncan married, sometime before 30 March 1373, Ellen or Helen Campbell, daughter of Archibald or Gillespie Campbell of Lochaw.  She was widow of 'John of the Isles,' apparently the eldest son of John, first Lord Of The Isles, by his first marriage with Amie, daughter of Ruari of Bute.  John of the Isles died about 1369, leaving a son Angus, who died a youth.  Between 1369 and 1373 his widow married Duncan.  Her first marriage is referred to in a dispensation for which they applied on the ground that although they knew that John of the Isles, Helen's first husband, and Duncan were related in the third and fourth degrees of affinity, yet to pacify serious feuds and prevent murder and bloodshed among their kinsmen and friends, they had contracted marriage 'per verba De futuro,' and had issue, thus incurring the penalty of excommunication from which they petition to be relieved, and their marriage sanctioned.  Earl Duncan's wife survived him, and was alive in 1434, but died before 1447.
[The Scots Peerage V:339-341]

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