James Stewart, Chamberlain of Bute

JAMES STEWART, sheriff of Bute, who inherited his estate, and heretable constabulary of Rothsay-castle, 20th of May 1539. (Ancestor of the present day Marquis of Bute.0

He was afterwards made chamberlain of Bute, keeper of the king's forest there, and got also the lands of Kirktown, in Cumra: All which were confirmed by charters under the great seal,*Jacobo vicecom. de Bute. &c.

He married, 1st, lady Mary Campbell, daughter of Archibald earl of Argyle, by whom he had no issue.

He married, 2dly, Marian, daughter of John Fairly of that ilk, relict of Thomas Boyd of Linn, brother of Robert lord Boyd, by whom he had two sons.

He held the office of Sheriff of Bute.1 He held the office of Hereditary Captain and Keeper of Rothesay Castle.1 He was also known as Sir James Stewart of Ardvorlica.2 He was invested as a Knight in 1561.

notes

From page 289 of The Scots Peerage, Vol ll:

Ninian Stewart married first a lady named Campbell ; 8 secondly, on or before 10 August 1506, Jonet Dunlop ; 9 and thirdly, on or before 15 October 1516, Elizabeth Blair, 10 who was alive on 30 July 1529, 11 daughter of John Blair of that Ilk. 12 Ninian Stewart had eight sons : 1. JAMES, who succeeded him. ...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Bute

The Marquesses of Bute come from a family that descended from John Stewart (born 1360), Sheriff of Bute, a natural son of Robert II of Scotland and his mistress Moira Leitch, married to Janet Sympil and in 1407 to Elizabeth Graham. This John Stewart was granted the lands of Bute, Arran and Cumbrae by his father. He was known as the 'Black Stewart' because of his dark complexion; his brother John Stewart of Dundonald was known as the 'Red Stewart'. The grant of lands was confirmed in 1400 by a charter of Robert III.[1][2]

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2013-09/...

2b1: JOHN STEWART of Ascog, probably born around 1547. If Janet Cunniburgh were a late wife of William Stewart, this may explain the flurry of land transactions between 1541 and 1548. John Stewart is listed in the Stewart Clan Magazine as being of Kilcattan in 1568. He married MARION FAIRLIE, daughter of David Fairlie and Catherine Crawford. The date of this marriage has been estimated from 1552 to 1584, the later date being when he purchased Nether Ascog and conveniently 21 years before the marriage of his son John to Gilles Kelso. However, Gilles Kelso was a second wife and John (2b1a1) was from an earlier marriage (reasons given below). Thus the marriage between John and Marion Fairlie was probably in the late 1560s or 1570s.

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