Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (62 page)

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Authors: Alison Weir

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Issue of marriage:

(i)	Murdoch
He was born in 1362 (?), and succeeded his father as Duke of Albany, Earl of Fife and Earl of Menteith on 3 September, 1420. He forfeited all his honours on 25 May, 1425, and was executed the same day on Castle Hill, Stirling. He was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, Stirling.
Murdoch had the following illegitimate issue :
1 Daughter (name not known) (?); she is said to have married Archibald Campbell ( d . by 1440), son of Marjorie Stewart (daughter of Robert, Duke of Albany by his second wife), but the evidence for her existence is unsatisfactory.
Murdoch married, between 17 February and 8 November, 1392 (although no record exists as to where):
Elizabeth
She was the daughter of Duncan, 8th Earl of Lennox, by Helen, daughter of Gillespic Campbell of Lochawe, and she was born in c .1370. She was styled Countess of Lennox in her own right from 12 May, 1437. She died between 7 October, 1456, and 4 May, 1458, at Inchmurrah Castle, Loch Lomond.
Issue of marriage:

(a)	Robert
He was known as the Master of Fife. He died between 1416 and July, 1421.
(b)	Walter
He rose to the rank of knight. He was executed on 24 May, 1425, on Castle Hill, Stirling, and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, Stirling.
Walter had the following illegitimate issue :
By a lady surnamed Campbell:
1 Andrew Stewart, Lord of Avandale ( d .1488) (?); he married a lady about whom no information exists.
2 Arthur.
By an unknown mother:
3 Mariott (?); she is said to have married Colin Campbell, Earl of Argyll (1406?–1475), but there is little evidence to support this.
By Janet, daughter of Sir Robert Erskine (Walter was granted a dispensation to marry her on 24 April, 1424, but there is no evidence to show that the marriage ever took place):
4 Walter of Morphie; he married and had issue.
Note: All Walter’s bastards were legitimated on 17 April, 1479.
(c)	Alexander
He rose to the rank of knight. He was executed on 25 May, 1425, on Castle Hill, Stirling, and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, Stirling.
(d)	James
He died before 18 May, 1451, in exile in Ireland.
James had the following illegitimate issue :
By an Irish lady surnamed MacDonald:
1 Andrew, Lord of Avandale (?).
2 Arthur.
3 Walter.
4 James Beg.
5 Matilda; she married William Edmonston of Duntreath.
6 Son (name not known).
7 Son (name not known).
(e)	Isabella
She married Sir Walter Buchanan, and had issue, although no details are recorded.

(ii)	Janet
She was contracted in marriage on 20 July, 1372, to David de Loen, but no evidence exists to show that the wedding ever took place. She probably died unmarried.
(iii)	Mary
She married Sir William Abernethy of Saltoun ( d. 1420), and had issue:
1 Son.
2 Son.
3 etc. Other children.
(iv)	Margaret
She married Sir John de Swinton of Swinton (killed in battle in 1402) in c .1392, and had issue, although no details are available. She perhaps married secondly Sir Robert Stewart, Lord of Lorne and Innermeath ( d .1449), but she may have been confused in the records with her sister Joan ( below). Details of the issue of this possible marriage are not recorded.
(v)	Joan
She married Robert Stewart, Lord of Lorne and Innermeath ( d .1449), after 27 September, 1397 (date of dispensation), and had issue:
1 John, Lord of Lorne (killed 1463).
2 Walter, 1st Lord Innermeath ( d . by 1488/9); he married Margaret Lindsay ( d . after 1481), and had issue.
3 Alan ( d.c. 1463).
4 David.
5 Robert.
6 Daughter (name not known); she is said to have married Robert, 8th Lord Erskine ( d . by 1452), but there is no evidence for this.
(vi)	Beatrice
She married James Douglas, Earl of Douglas and Avandale ( d .1443). She died in c .1424.
(vii)	Isabella
She married firstly Alexander Leslie, 9th Earl of Ross ( d .1402) ( see here , under Euphemia, Countess of Ross) before 1398, and had issue:
1 Euphemia, Countess of Ross ( d . after 1424); she became a nun at North Berwick, and renounced her inheritance.
Isabella married secondly Walter Haliburton of Dirleton between 1402 and 2 February, 1408, and had issue:
1 Walter ( d . by 1447); he married Marjorie ( see here , under Robert III), daughter of Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas, and had issue.
2 Christina; she married George Leslie, 1st Earl of Rothes (1417?–1490), and had issue.

Robert married secondly, after 4 May, 1380 (date of dispensation)
(although no evidence exists as to where):

Muriella

She was the daughter of Sir William Keith by Margaret, daughter of John Fraser. She died shortly before 1 June, 1449.

Issue of marriage:

(i)	John
He was born in 1381 (?), and succeeded his father as Earl of Buchan before 20 September, 1406. He was killed on 17 August, 1424, at the Battle of Verneuil, France.
John married, in November, 1413 (although no evidence exists as to where):
Elizabeth
She was the daughter of Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas and Duke of Touraine, by Margaret, daughter of Robert III. She married secondly Sir Thomas Stewart ( d . by 1435), and thirdly William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney ( d .1476/82), by whom she had issue:
1 William; he married Christina, daughter of George Leslie, Earl of Rothes, and had issue.
2 Katherine, Duchess of Albany ( see here , under James II).
Elizabeth died before 1451.
Issue of marriage:

(a)	Margaret
She married George Seton, 1st Lord Seton ( d. 1478), before 1436, and had issue:
1 John, Master of Seton ( d . by 1478); he married Christina ( d .1496), daughter of John, 1st Lord Lindsay of the Byres, and had issue.
2 Dougal (?).

(ii)	Andrew
He died before 1413.
(iii)	Robert
He is said to have been killed on 17 August, 1424, at the Battle of Verneuil, France, but this is impossible as he was recorded as alive in 1431.
(iv)	Marjorie
She married Duncan, 1st Lord Campbell of Lochawe ( d .1453), and had issue:
1 Archibald or Celestine ( d . by 1440); he married Elizabeth, daughter of John, 3rd Lord Somerville of Carwath. He is said to have married secondly a daughter of Murdoch, Duke of Albany ( above), but this is improbable.
Some sources name Marjorie as the mother of Colin, 1st Earl of Argyll (1431?–1493), and state that she died, possibly in childbed, before August, 1432. Colin was almost certainly the son of Lord Campbell by his second wife whom he married shortly after Marjorie’s death in c .1406.
(v)	Elizabeth
She married Sir Malcolm Fleming of Biggar and Cumbernauld (executed 1440) before 28 June, 1413, and had issue:
1 Malcolm ( d . after 1432).
2 Robert, Lord Fleming ( d .1491); he married firstly Janet, daughter of James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, and had issue. He married secondly Margaret, daughter of John Lindsay of Covington.
3 Margaret; she married Patrick, Master of Gray.

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