STEWART, James Black Knight of Lorn, Sir 1
- Born: About 1383
- Marriage (1): DE BEAUFORT, Joan 21 September 1439(papal dispensation) 1
- Died: After 1451 1
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James married Joan DE BEAUFORT, daughter of John DE BEAUFORT 1st Earl of Somerset and Margaret HOLLAND, 21 September 1439(papal dispensation).1 (Joan DE BEAUFORT was born about 1397, died on 15 July 1445 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland 1 and was buried on 24 November 1445 in Charterhouse, Perth, Scotland 1.)
Marriage Notes:
"Sir James Stewart, the Black Knight of Lorn, younger son of Sir John Stewart of Lorn and Innermeath. Being a handsome, graceful young man, he was selected by Joanna, dowager of King James I., as her second husband, and their nuptials took place in 1439. The Queen and he being within the third and third and fourth and fourth and the third and fourth degrees of consanguinity and affinity, they received a dispensation as James Stewart and Johanna 'Berrford,' in the diocese of St. Andrews, to ratify the marriage, from Pope Eugenius IV. 21 September 1439, but with the condition that whichever spouse survived should remain unmarried. The marriage was very unpopular."
from Scots Peerage (vol 1) 1
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