STEWART, Joan or Joanna 'muta domina' ^{1 2}

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Joan married James DOUGLAS 3rd Earl of Angus, son of William DOUGLAS 2nd Earl of Angus and Margaret HAY, 18 October 1440(contract only, no marriage).¹ (James DOUGLAS 3rd Earl of Angus was born about 1416 and died before September 1446 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Joan, 'the dumb lady ' (contracted 18 October 1440 with a tocher of 3000 merks to James, third Earl of Angus, who died before September 1446)"

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹

Joan next married James DOUGLAS 4th of Dalkeith, 1st Earl of Morton, son of Sir James DOUGLAS 3rd of Dalkeith and Elizabeth GIFFARD, 1458(1459).^{1 2} (James DOUGLAS 4th of Dalkeith, 1st Earl of Morton was born about 1425 and died by 22 October 1493 ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"Joan, 'the dumb lady ' (contracted 18 October 1440 with a tocher of 3000 merks to James, third Earl of Angus, who died before September 1446) ; she was married 1458-9 to James Douglas of Dalkeith, first Earl of Morton."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"The first Earl of Morton married Joanna, third daughter of King James I. She had the misfortune to be deaf and dumb, and had been contracted on 18 October 1440 to marry James, third Earl of Angus, but he died before the marriage took place. She was sent to France in 1445, but returned in the spring of 1458, and the marriage took place before 15 May 1459, when a royal charter was granted to the Earl and his spouse Joanna, sister of King James II."

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ^{1 2}