STEWART, John 3rd Earl of Atholl ^{2 3}

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John married Grizel RATTRAY, daughter of Sir John RATTRAY younger and Margaret ABERCROMBY 'of Innerpeffray'.¹ (Grizel RATTRAY was born about 1508 and died after 1537 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"John (Stewart), third Earl of Atholl, born 6 October 1507, succeeded his father. He was famous for his great hospitality and his magnificent way of living, more like a sovereign prince than a subject. He died about November 1542, of sickness contracted while with the King's army, before the battle of Solway. He married, first, Grizel, daughter of Sir John Rattray of that Ilk ; secondly, Jean or Janet, daughter of John, sixth Lord Forbes. She was married to him less than six months before his death, and on that ground her service of terce was refused. She married, secondly, Alexander Hay of Dalgety ; and, thirdly,as his first wife, William Leslie of Balquhain. He left issue"

from Scots Peerage (vol 1) ¹

John next married Janet FORBES, daughter of John FORBES 6th Lord Forbes and Elizabeth BARLOW, in May 1542.² (Janet FORBES was born about 1527.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Janet, married, first, in 1542, to John Stewart, third Earl of Atholl ....."

from Scots Peerage (vol 4)




"On 7 November 1545, he (Alexander Hay 5th Laird of Delgaty) granted a Charter of Auchinschogill to Janet Forbes Countess of Atholl (Great Seal, No. 3193). Janet was the daughter of John 6th Lord Forbes (Scots Peerage, IV. 55) and had married in 1542, John 3rd Earl of Atholl, who died within six months, and after the death of Alexander Hay, her second husband, she married as his first wife, John Leslie of Balquhain, 9 January 1547/8 (Great Seal, 20 Feb. 1547/8; Records of the Family of Leslie, III. 46)."

from Transactions ^{2 3}