STEWART, William of Jedworth and Teviotdale, ancestor of the Earls of Galloway, Sir ^{1 2}

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  General Notes:

" ..... Matthew Stuart, Earl of Lennox (the descendant of Sir John), in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury, terms Sir Alexander Stewart of Garlies (the descendant of Sir William) his 'near kinsman,' while Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, and his son, King James VI, also acknowledged the Stewarts of Garlies as cadets of their own house of Lennox.......
Sir William Stewart, the first offshoot from the house of Darnley, was one of the most prominent Scotsmen of his own or any other day. He figures in the national records as soldier, statesman, administrator, and a loyal and faithful servant to King and country, from 1385 to 1402.....
He was one of the Scottish notables captured at Homildon Hill in 1402, and, though thus a prisoner of war, was barbarously put to death by Hotspur Percy to gratify a private grudge, and his mangled limbs were thereafter exposed on the gates of York and other English towns. His virtues are summed up by the writer of the Scotichronicon in the noble epitaph, 'Valens miles et inter sapientes primus.' "

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)



"Sir William Stewart .... was certainly a nephew of Sir John Turnbull of Minto, and if it can be shown that he was a brother of John, first Lord of Aubigny, this of course would help to prove who the latter's mother was. He was
ancestor of the family of Stewart of Garlies, now Earls of Galloway, and his affiliation becomes of importance on account of the claim of his descendants to the headship of the Stewarts on the extinction of the male line of the Earls of Lennox by the death of Henry, Cardinal York, 13 July 1807."

from Scots Peerage (vol 5) ^{1 2}

William married.

  Marriage Notes:

"The name of Sir William Stewart's wife has not been preserved, but after his death she married Sir Walter de Bickerton, and survived till 1420 at least, in which year
she drew her 'terce ' of Sir William's hereditary pensions."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4) ¹