Lady Isabella Stewart

LADY ISABELLA STEWART

Countess of Douglas

Lady Isabella Stewart, here treated, is the daughter of Robert Stewart, seventh hereditary Steward of Scotland, afterwards Robert II, King of Scots. The Scots Peerage I: 16

First Marriage

Lady Isabella Stewart, here treated, was married first (by dispensation 24 September 1371) to James, Earl of Douglas.The Scots Peerage I: 16

Second Marriage

Lady Isabella Stewart, here treated, was married second to Sir John Edmonstone of that Ilk and Ednam. They are noticed as man and wife of 1 December 1389. NRS: GD237/7/1

Evidence from the National Records of Scotland

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1 December 1389: Charter under the Great Seal of Scotland by Robert II, King of Scots, to said JOHN [EDMONSTONE OF THAT ILK] and ISABEL [STEWART, COUNTESS OF DOUGLAS] of said lands of Ednahame. Witnesses to charter: Walter, archbishop of St Andrews, Matthew, bishop of Glasgow, John, earl of Carrick, the king's eldest son, steward of Scotland, Robert, earl of Fife and of Menteith, king's son, Archibald, earl of Douglas, James Douglas of Dalkeith, kt., the king's brother [in law], Thomas Erskyn, kt., and John Gray, clerk of rolls and register and keeper of the great seal. Notary: Nicholas of Bury, clerk, Glasgow diocese. Witnesses to sasine: Patrick, abbot of Kelso, William and Richard, his co-monks, William Mautaland and William Del, vicars, and John Fordoun, and many other holders of husbandlands and tenants of town of Edynhame. National Records of Scotland, Don of Newton and Edmondstone, reference GD237/7/1

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11 February 1389-90: Instrument reciting appointment under testimony of the great seal of Robert II, King of Scots, of William Mautaland, Thomas Turnbull and Adam Franche sheriffs specially assigned in cause to give sasine to JOHN EDMONDISTONE, kt., and ISABEL [STEWART], COUNTESS OF DOUGLAS, the king's daughter, [widow of James, 2nd earl of Douglas, and wife of said John,] in lands of Ednaham in sheriffdom of Roxburgh, formerly belonging to James, earl of Douglas, and said Isabel, his spouse, and to appoint to her a reasonable terce of all lands and rents belonging to her by decease of said James, earl of Douglas; National Records of Scotland, Don of Newton and Edmondstone, reference GD237/7/1

Genealogy

1. The Scots Peerage I: 16
2. Stirnet: Edmonstone 1

Biographical Summary by Medieval Lands

Lady Isabel Stewart (-[1410]). The Liber Pluscardensis records the marriage in 1371 of "Willelmus de Douglas…comes de Douglas…Jacobus de Douglas primogenitus eius" and "filiam…Roberti [regis]" to gain his father’s support for the king’s accession [1285]. m firstly (dispensation 23 Nov 1371) JAMES Douglas, son of WILLIAM Douglas Earl of Douglas & his wife Margaret Ctss of Mar (-[14] Aug 1388, bur Melrose). He succeeded his father in 1384 as Earl of Douglas. m secondly [1388/90] JOHN Edmonstone of Duntreath. Medieval Lands

Biographical Summary by Darryl Lundy's Peerage

Isabella Stewart was born between 1350 and 1355. She was the daughter of Robert II Stewart, King of Scotland and Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan.2 She married, firstly, James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas, son of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas and Margaret, Countess of Mar, after 24 September 1371.1 She married, secondly, Sir John Edmonston between 1388 and 1390.1 She died circa 1410.1 From after 24 September 1371, her married name became Douglas. After her marriage, Isabella Stewart was styled as Countess of Douglas in May 1384. From between 1388 and 1390, her married name became Edmonston.1 Citations [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 222. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family. [S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume I, page 16. Hereinafter cited as The Scots Peerage.