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ANDREW STEWART SECOND LORD AVANDALE
Was grand-nephew of first Lord, being son of Alexander,son of Walter Stewart of Morphie, the brother of the first Lord Avandale. It has been alleged that this Walter
Stewart was, unlike Lord Avandale, a legitimate son of Sir Walter Stewart, son of the Regent Murdoch of Abany, by a marriage with Janet, daughter of Sir Thomas
Erskine, for which he had a dispensation from pope Martin V, 27 may 1421. If however, he was legitimate, it is difficult to explain why he received whit his brothers
letters of legitimation on 17 april 1479, and also how his descendants claims to the throne as sole male descendants of King Robert II were disregarded completely on
the death of King James V. Andrew was a minor at his father´s death, and had sasine of the Barony of Avandale 8 october 1498.
He and his wife received a charter of confirmation of the Barony of Morphie fresale 4 february 1499-1500, and he is there styled Lord Avandale, so that the title must
have been conferred upon him before that date. He was Lord of the Bedchamber to King James IV, and sat as Lord in parliament in 1503 and 1505. He was killed at
Flodden 9 sep. 1513, having married before 4 feb. 1499-1500, Margaret daughter of John second Lord Kennedy, by whom he had issue :-
1. ANDREW, his successor.
2. HENRY created Lord Methven after his marriage with the Queen-Dowager, Margaret Tudor. (see title Methven). He supported the Earl of Arran against Angust
in 1524. He owed his advancement, however to the favour of the Queen-Dowager Margaret Tudor, widow of King James IV who became attracted by him about
1526, when he held the office of Master Carver to the King her son. The Queen was then in the midst of her quarrel with the Earl of Angus, her second husband,
and was soon completely governed by Henry Stewart, who favoured the English alliance. She appointed him treasurer, Lord Chancellor, and keeper of the seals, and
he ´ordered everything.´
The Queen obtained a divorce from Angus, at Rome 11 march 1527-28, and shortly after 23 march 1527-28, at which date the news had not arrived, but before 2 april
1528, married Henry Stewart. He was imprisoned for a short time, but on the fall of the power of Angus was received into the favour of the King, and retained it until
his death. He was created Lord Methven 17 july 1528, the King giving in conjunct fee to his mother and to Henry Stewart her husband, brother of Andrew Lord
Avandale, the lands of Methven and Balquhidder, erected into a Barony to be called the Lordship of Methven.
He received the grant of many other lands also. On account of his marriage he assumed (and bore on his seal 1539) for one of his supporters a dragon (the badge of
his wife´s father, King Henry VII of England), and for crest, a queen crowned, standing erect, holding a naked sword reversed with her right, and leaning on a wheel
with her left. He was later made `Maisterof the Ordinaunce and Sherif of Linlithcu by inheritance.` The Queen later, in 1537, obtained a dissolution of her marriage
with him also on the ground that he was within the fourth and fourth degress of consanguinity to the Earl of Angus, her second husband, and wished to marry again
but her son James V prevented this scandal, and she died at Methven 18 oct. 1541.
He received a final grant of he Lordship of Methven 10 oct. 1551 to himself, Janet Stewart Mistress of Sutherland, and their son, and died shortly after. He was, it is
stated, married early in life to `Lady Leslie ´by whom he had a son. His first proved marriage, however, was to the Queen-Dowager. On her death he married the mother
of his four children, Janet Stewart who as his wife, received with him, june 1545, the third part of the lands of Nether-Gorthie. She was daughter of John second Earl
of Atholl, and widow, first of Alexander Master of Sutherland and secondly of Sir Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains. She survived him, liferenting the Lordship of
Methven and married, fourtly (contract 9 april 1557), Patrick Lord Ruthven. This is her last proved marriage, but it is alleged that she was married, fifthly to James
Gray, son of Gilbert Gray of Foulis.
3. JAMES STEWART of Beith, ancestor of the Lords Doune. Obtained on the 14 july 1528 a grant of the captaincy of the Castle of Doune from King James V, then
inminority whose gentleman of the bedchamber he was. Three days later his brother Henry Stewart, who had married the Queen-Mother, was created Lord Methven.
He had a charter 14 july 1529 of Traquair, sold to him by Queen Margaret.
In 1538 he witnessed a charter as ´Senescallus de Menteith´and on 1 june 1543 had a charter of a grant of 27 april of that year of the lands of Beath by Richard Abbot
of St. Colm, ´insuce de ymonia,´ which proceeded ´pro ingentibus pecuniarum summis sibi persolutis ad reparationem monasterii sui per veteres suos Anglie imimicos
nuper combusti, ´in favour of himself and his wife.
He was killed at Dunblane on whit sunday 1547 by Edmonstone of Duntreath and his brothers, to whose family the office of Stewart of Menteith had formerly
belonged. He married Margaret Lindsay, daughter of John third Lord Lindsay of the Byres, and widow of Richard third Lord Innermeath.
4. ALEXANDER frater germ anus of Andrew Lord Ochiltree 27 june 1541.
5. WILLIAM brother german of Henry, Lord Methven 18 july 1548. He married Isobel Ker.
6. BARBARA married first before 1535 to Sir James Sinclair of Sanday, Governor of Kirkwal : secondly in 1541 to Roderick Macleod of Lewes. As ´Lady Barbara
Stewart`she acguired the Island of Burray in Orkney from Bishop Adam Bothwell, paying yearly´ 62 li. 6 s. 8 d. 24 cunningis and 24 maiss of Stra.
7. AGNES married, as his second wife, to Jon Boswell of Aucinleck.
8. ANNE married to Bartholohew Crawfurd of Carse.
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