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John ("the Fair") Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl
d. 25 April 1579
Family life
John ("the Fair") Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl, and Margaret ("the witch") Fleming, Countess of Atholl, entered into a marriage contract circa 1 April 1557.1
Children with Margaret ("the witch") Fleming, Countess of Atholl (b. 1532, d. 1586)
| Daughter | Grizel Stewart, wife of David Lindsay, 11th Earl Crawford |
| Daughter | Mary Stewart, wife of Francis Hay 9th Earl Erroll |
| Son | John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl (b. 1563, d. September 1595) |
| Daughter | Lady Jean Stewart (b. circa 1580) |
Property2,1,1
John ("the Fair") Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl, possessed had a charter of confirmation of the king for he and his wife Margaret Fleming for their purchase from Robert bishop of Dunkeld the ecclesiastical lands of the church of Fotergill including Westir Drumcharre and Arddaisyocht on 5 January 1567 at Perthshire in Westir Drumcharre and Arddaisyocht.3
Death
Citations
- [S111] Joseph Robertson, Editor, Inventaires de la Royne Descosse Douairiere de France: Catalogues of the Jewels, Dresses, Furniture, Books and Paintings (Edinburgh: The Bannatyne Club, 1863), p li, note 2; online image, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/inventairesdela00robegoog/page/n8/mode/2up?q=fleming : viewed 12 May 2025.
- [S17] Francis J Grant (Ed), Charter Chest of the Earldom of Wigtown: 1214-1681 (Edinburgh: James Skinner & Company for the Scottish Record Society, 1910), Charter 108.
- [S43] Scotland Court of Exchequer, editor, Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum: The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1912), vol iv, ch 1805, p 456; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101038096846&seq=7&q1=flemyng : accessed 13 April 2025.
- [S2] Various contributors, "Wikipaedia," database, Commons, Wikipaedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/: online 11 November 2023), Margaret Fleming, Countess of Atholl at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Fleming,_Countess_of_Atholl.
- [S44] Scotland Court of Exchequer, Rotuli scaccarii regum Scotorum: The Exchequer rolls of Scotland (Edinburgh: General Register House, 1878), vol 20, p 553-4; online image, Internet Archive, archive.org (https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir01scot/page/n9/mode/2up : accessed.
| Last Edited | 13 April 2025 |