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STEWART, James Black Knight of Lorn, Sir
(About 1383-After 1451)
DE BEAUFORT, Joan
(About 1397-1445)
OGILVY, Alexander of Auchterhouse, Sir
(About 1416-)
STEWART, James 'Hearty', Earl of Buchan (3rd creation) and Lord Auchterhouse, Sir
(About 1440-1499)
OGILVY, Margaret
(About 1443-)
STEWART, Alexander 2nd Earl of Buchan (3rd creation)
(About 1462-1505)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. OGILVY, Isabella
2. RUTHVEN, Margaret

STEWART, Alexander 2nd Earl of Buchan (3rd creation) 1 2

  • Born: About 1462
  • Marriage (1): OGILVY, Isabella 10 January 1490(1491)(dispensation) 21 January 1490(1491)(charter) 1 2
  • Marriage (2): RUTHVEN, Margaret by 6 February 1499(1500)(charter) 1 3
  • Died: 1505 1

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Alexander married Isabella OGILVY, daughter of James OGILVY Lord Ogilvy of Airlie and Elizabeth KENNEDY, 10 January 1490(1491)(dispensation) 21 January 1490(1491)(charter).1 2 (Isabella OGILVY was born about 1470 and died by 1499 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"Isabella (Ogilvy), married (dispensation following on a bull of Pope Innocent VIII. as within the fourth degree of consanguinity, dated at Dunkeld, 10 January 1490) to Alexander, son and apparent heir of Sir James Stewart, Lord of Buchan and Auchterhouse."

from Scots Peerage (vol 1)




"On 21 January 1490-91 he (Alexander Stewart) got from his father a charter to himself and his wife, Isobel Ogilvy, of the lands of the barony of Ketthis and others ......By his first wife, Isobel Ogilvy, who was alive in 1491, but dead before his accession to the earldom, he seems to have had no family."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1 2

Alexander next married Margaret RUTHVEN, daughter of Sir William RUTHVEN Lord Ruthven and Isabel LEVINGTON 'of Saltcoats', by 6 February 1499(1500)(charter).1 3 (Margaret RUTHVEN was born about 1478 and died in 1548 1 3.)


  Marriage Notes:

"1. Hon Margaret Ruthven (d. 1548), mar. (1) bef. 1499 as his second wife Alexander [Stewart], 2nd Earl of Buchan, (2) bef. 21 Jun 1508 Sir John Erskine, Yr. of Dun (d. 9 Sep 1513), (3) bef. 23 Dec 1518 James Stewart of Ryland (d. bef. 11 Mar 1524/5), and (4) (annulled 1534) William Wood of Bonnyton, and had issue by her first husband ..."

from cracroftpeerage website




"On 21 January 1490-91 he (Alexander Stewart) got from his father a charter to himself and his wife, Isobel Ogilvy, of the lands of the barony of Ketthis and others ; and on 6 February 1499-1500, another of the same lands to himself and his second wife, Margaret Ruthven.......... His second wife survived him, and was married, secondly, before 21 June 1508, to Sir John Erskine, younger of Dun, who fell at Flodden ; thirdly, to James Stewart of Ryland, before 23 December 1518 ; and fourthly, to William Wood of Bonyton."

from Scots Peerage (vol 2) 1 3

Sources


1 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 2 (1905).

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 1 (1904).

3 Internet Site, http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/ruthven1488.htm.

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