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Janet Keith

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: before July 18, 1508
Innermeath, Argyll, Scotland, UK
Immediate Family:

Daughter of William Keith, 1st Earl Marischal and Mariota Erskine
Wife of John Leslie of Balmain and Thomas Stewart, 2nd Lord Innermeath
Mother of Mariota Stewart and Richard Stewart, 3rd Lord of Innermeath
Sister of William Keith, 2nd Earl Marischal; Robert Keith; Alexander Keith; John Keith and Mary Keith

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About Janet Keith

1. Lady Janet Keith, mar. (1) bef. 16 Jan 1477/8 John Leslie of Balmain (dvp. and sp. bef. 23 Jun 1481), 1st son and heir ap. of Sir Andrew Leslie, Master of Rothes (by his wife Lady Elizabeth Sinclair, dau. by his first wife of William [Sinclair], 1st Earl of Caithness), only son and heir ap. by his second wife of George [Leslie], 1st Earl of Rothes, and (2) bef. 23 Jun 1481 Thomas [Stewart], 2nd Lord Innermeath, and had issue by her second husband

Sources

  1. Historical records of the family of Leslie from 1067 to 1868-69. Collected from public records and authentic private sources. by Colonel Leslie, K. H., of Balquhain. Published 1869 by Edmonston and Douglas in Edinburgh . Vol 2, pp 31-32
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From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Lady Janet Keith:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p10927.htm#i109263

Lady Janet Keith [1]

  • F, #109263,
  • d. before 1504
  • Last Edited=27 Apr 2011

Lady Janet Keith was the daughter of William de Keith, 1st Earl Marischal and Marjorie Fraser.[1]

She married, firstly, John Leslie, Master of Rothes before 1481.[1]

She married, secondly, Thomas Stewart, 2nd Lord Innermeath, son of Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Innermeath and Margaret Lindsay, before 23 June 1481.[1]

She died before 1504.1

From before 1481, her married name became Leslie.[1]

From before 23 June 1481, her married name became Stewart.

Child of Lady Janet Keith and Thomas Stewart, 2nd Lord Innermeath

  • 1. Richard Stewart, 3rd Lord Innermeath+2 b. b 1504, d. 1532

Citations

  • 1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VIII, page 139. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
  • 2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VIII, page 140.
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Janet Keith's Timeline

1460
1460
Scotland (United Kingdom)
1484
1484
Innermeath, Scotland, UK
1500
1500
Innermeath, Perthshire, Scotland
1508
July 18, 1508
Age 48
Innermeath, Argyll, Scotland, UK
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