James Stewart of Killbride

JAMES STEWART OF KILBRIDE

James Stewart, here treated is the bastard son of III, King of Scots. The name of his mother is not known, The Scots Peerage I: 18 but she may have been the first of the king's mistresses. If this is correct then he did not have the same mother as Sir John Stewart, of Blackhall & Ardgowan Medieval Lands: Stewart Kings His father the king gave him the barony and regality of Kilbride in Lanarkshire. RMS,1306-1424, lost charters numbers 1775 and 29

Marriage

James Stewart of Kilbride married a lady named Isabel Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 383

Children

1. George Stewart of Kilbride

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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19 April 1390 X 4 April 1406 [Reign of Robert III, King of Scots]: Carta Jacobi Senescalli de regalitate baronie de Kylbryd. To James Stewart son naturall to the king, of the lands of Kilbryde, with ane taille. Lanerk. Registrum Magni Sigilli Regum Scotorum. The Register of the Great Seal of Scotland, A.D. 1606-1424. NEW EDITION, to which are added indexes and the remains of the lost charter rolls. Edited by John Maitland Thomson, LL.D. (H. M. General Register House, Edinburgh, 1912), Appendix 2, lost charters numbered 1775 (Index A) and 29 (Index B)

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29 October 1398: Bond of relief by King Robert III in favour of Thomas de E[r]skyne [Erskine], Kt, John de Montgomery, John Sympill [Semple], James Stewart of Kylbryde [Kilbride], Humphrey de Culqhuone [Colquhoun], Malcolm de Galbrathe [Galbraith], John de Parco [Park] and James de Spot [Spott], undertaking to indemnify them in respect of their caution (fideiussione) for him in agreement between him and Mr Walter de Danyelston [Denniston] respecting delivery of King's castle of Dunbrettan [Dumbarton] and of said Walter's other goods and his nephew Patrick de Danyelston. National Records of Scotland, Papers of the Erskine Family, Earls of Mar and Kellie, reference GD124/1/422

Evidence from the Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock

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15 May 1390: Charter by John of Maxwell, Lord of Pollok, to his son Robert of Maxwell, of the land of Jackstoun, to be held by him of James Stewart, lord superior of the lands of Jacktoun. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 135

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25 January 1394: Charter by James Steward, Lord of Kylbride, to Robert of Maxwele, son of Sir John of Maxwele, Lord of Nether Pollok, of the lands of Jactoun. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 135-6

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21 October 1400: Confirmation by James Stewart, Lord of Kilbryde, of the gift by Sir John of Maxwel, Lord of Nethir Pollok, to his son Robert, of the lands of Caldorwude. Be it knawyn til all men be thir present letters, me Jamis Stewart, Lorde of Kilbryd, til haffe ratifyte and confermyte, and be thir present my letters ratifys and confermys, for me and myn ayris, the gyft at Schyr Jon of Maxwel, Lorde of Nethir Pollok, haffis geuyn to his luuyd sone, Robert of Maxwel, my cosyn, his ayris and his assignes, of tke landis of Caldorwude wythtin the pertenans, lyand in my sayd baronry of Kilbryde, wythtin the scheraffdom of Cliddisdall, wytht all comodites and esmentis to the sayd landis, wytht the pertenans pertenand, on the manir, furme and effecte, as it proportis in the charter thar of to the sayd Robert made be the forsayd Schyr Jon his fader ; sauand to me my eruys aught and custum thar of. In the wetnes of the qwilk thing, in the absens of my auwyn seale, I procuryde the seale of a nobil and wurthy man, Thomas Bode, Lorde of Kilmernow, to thir presentis letters to be pute to, at Dunbretane, the xxi day of the muneth of October, the zer of our Lord a thousand and four hunir. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 138-9

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4 May 1401: Charter by John Maxwell, Knight, Lord of Pollok, to Robert Maxwell, his son, of the lands of Calderwood, in the barony of Kilbride, and shire of Lanark : To be held of the Lord of Kilbride and his heirs, for payment of six silver pennies yearly, at Whitsunday, in the parish church of Kilbride, in name of blench farm, if asked only, for wards, marriages, reliefs, suits of court, and all other services or demands for the said lands. Pollok, 4th May 1401. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 382

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7 April 1416: Indenture between James Stewart, Lord of Kilbride, and Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood, for the marriage of George Stewart, son and heir of the former, and Marion Maxwell, daughter of the latter, by his first marriage ; whereby the said James binds himself to infeft George and Marion, and their heirs in his barony of Kilbride ; under entail, failing the heirs of the said parties, to the eldest of the said James's sons who should happen to be heir, and a daughter of the said Robert, who should enter in the said barony as heirs of the said George and Marion, and be married in like manner ; and failing the sons of the said James, to his eldest daughter, and a son of the said Robert, they to enter as heirs in the said barony by virtue of the said entail ; and so on, while the said James and Robert have sons and daughters. And the said Robert binds himself to pay to the said James £10 Scots yearly, during his life, for Philpshill, for his part of Boysfield and Over Calderwood, and all the mail of all the lands falling in ward in the said barony, and all the reliefs and half escheats of courts thereof happening to be paid to the said James ; and he binds himself likewise to pay the half of the said mails and reliefs, etc., to Isabel, wife of the said James, during her life, after her husband's death ; and to use his endeavours to recover the lordship of Elamton, and in the event of succeeding, to cause the said James and Isabel to be jointly infeft in the franktenement thereof, and the children (George and Marion, etc.), in fee. And failing the recovery of the said lands by Robert, the said children being espoused, he binds himself to pay to the said James and his heirs, for the said marriage, £100 at Whitsunday and Martinmas following the completion thereof. Sealed interchangeably at Lanark, 7th April 1416. Memoirs of the Maxwells of Pollock I: 383

Genealogy

1. The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom. Edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, Lord Lyon King of Arms. Volume I (David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1904), 576 pp. including Errata. For the Kings of Scotland see pp. 1-36
2. Medieval Lands: Stewart Kings

Biographical Summary

James Stewart of Killbride. Birth: 1360 - Kilbride, Argyll, Scotland. Death: 1400 Parents: Robert lll, King of Scots; unknown woman.

Biographical Summary

King Robert III had one illegitimate child by Mistress (1): JAMES Stuart of Killbride, born before 1360

Biographical Summary by Darryl Lundy's Peerage

James Stewart of Kilbride was born illegitimately. (2) He is the son of Robert III Stewart, King of Scotland. (2)

Evidence from Origines Parochiales Scotiae

From Origines Parochiales Scotiae: Diocese of Glasgow By William Anderson, Joseph Robertson, James Brodie Brichan, John McNab. Page 101.

Roger de Valoins, a younger brother of that ancient Norman family who came into Scotland in the end of Malcolm IV.'s reign, received the manor of Kilbride from William the Lion. He probably bnilt a castle there in which he resided. His daughter and heiress, Isabella, married David Comyn. About the year 1250, Isabella de Valoins lady of Kilbride, gave for the weal of her own soul and for the soul of David Comyn her husband, deceased, to the church of Glasgow, the forest of Dalkarn, to be made up to £15 of lands of the fief of Kirkepatrik.3 When the Comyns forfeited their possessions in the war of independence, Robert I. gave the barony of Kilbride to Walter Stewart,4 and it was soon divided amongst other families. Sir Hugh de Eglintoun had a charter of Allertoun, in the barony of Kilbride, in 1371.5 John Sympill had a grant from John Earl of Carrick, afterwards Robert III., of the park of Clounqwarn, Knocglas, Clonskeach, Clayanyss, Torranys, and Ardachryg, in the barony of Kylbryd.6 In 1384, Robert II. confirmed a gift he had made before ascending the throne to John de Lyndesay of Dunrod, of the mains lands called the domain of the barony of Kilbride, together with Kogerton, Halfkyttoksyde, Thornton, Bogton, Halfthrepland, Carnduff, Facfyld in Browsterland, within the said barony, but excepting Philphill, which was contained in his original charter.7

Amongst the missing charters of Robert III. was one " to James Stewart, son naturall to the King, of the lands of Kilbride (Lanerk) with ane taillie."8

Note

A natural son, said to be ancestor of the Stewarts of Shawtown. Never married.