Walter Stewart, of Lennox, Master of Fife (1394-1425)
1394--1425-05-24 (man)
Född cirka 1394 i Lennox, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Död genom halshuggning 1425 på Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Walter Stewart, Master of Fife was born between 1394 and 1410. He was the son of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany and Isabel of Lennox, Countess of Lennox. He married, firstly, unknown daughter Campbell, daughter of Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell and Lady Marjorie Stewart, in a unlawfully, presumably for want of a papal dispensation for consanguinity marriage. He and Lady Eupheme Graham were engaged on 5 September 1415 but the marriage did not take place. He married, secondly, Lady Janet Erskine, daughter of Sir Robert Erskine of that Ilk, 1st Lord Erskine and Lady Elizabeth Lindsay, on 24 April 1421, by Papal dispensation, although it is doubtful that this marriage was ever consummated. He died on 24 May 1425 at Castle Hill, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, beheaded, along with his father. He was buried at Church of the Black Friars, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland.
He was invested as a Knight. He held the office of Keeper of Dunbarton Castle. In 1424 he was arrested and imprisoned on Bass Rock. | |
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