MORAY, John Lord of Bothwell, Sir ^{1 2 3}

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John married Margaret GRAHAM 10th Countess of Menteith, daughter of Sir John DE GRAHAM Earl of Menteith, jure uxoris and Mary STEWART 9th Countess of Menteith, November 1348(papal dispensation).^{1 2} (Margaret GRAHAM 10th Countess of Menteith was born by 1334 ^{1 2} and died by 1380 ¹.)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (Robert Stewart) married, first, Margaret, Countess of Menteith, only daughter of Sir John Graham and Mary, Countess of Menteith, widow of Sir John Moray, Lord of Bothwell ...."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




Sir John Moray, Lord of Bothwell, married, in 1348, by Papal dispensation (of date 21 November 1348), they being in the fourth degree of kindred, Margaret Graham, heiress of the earldom of Menteith, then only fourteen. In a charter granted by the widow of Sir William Rose of Kilravock, she mentions as her overlord John of Moray, Lord of Bothwell and of Avoch, and in a duplicate of the charter. Sir John is styled 'Earl of Menteith and Panetarius of Scotland'."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2)




"Margaret, Countess of Menteith, is chiefly distinguished for her matrimonial adventures, as very little is known regarding her, except in connection with her husbands." (pages 138 and 139)

"in November 1348 a dispensation was granted for her marriage with John Moray, Lord of Bothwell, and in this writ she is designed Margaret Graham, daughter of John Graham, Earl of Menteith. As a result of the marriage John Moray is said to have borne the title of Earl of Menteith, but the authority is not entirely satisfactory, and as he died in 1351, while his mother-inlaw was still Countess of Menteith in her own right, it seems strange that he should have been styled Earl.

from Scots Peerage (vol 6) ^{2 3}