Sir Robert Stewart of Durrisdeer

" Robert of Durisdeer, married the heiress of Lorn, but resigned that Lordship to his brother JOHN, Lord of Lorn .
He was killed 1403, and was ancestor of the Stewarts of Brieryhill, Craigiehall, Craigtoun, Durisdeer, Easter Banchrie, Easter Kennet, Hershaw, Kinnaird, Kirkandris, Kirkhill, Lucheld, Newhall, Rosyth, Straebrock, Wester Cleish.
Arms: of Stewart of Cragye, Stewart, with fess chequy between three red otters´ heads couped (Lindsay).
Arms: of Stewart of Craigie, Craigiehall and Newhall, recorded 1672-77.-1 and 4. Gold, a fess chequy blue and silver, in chief three blue buckles. 2 and 3. Ermine on a black fess, three silver crescents (Craig or Craigie). CREST: A trunk of an old tree, sprouting a branch on the right side, acorned proper. MOTTO: "Resurgam" (Lindsay and Lyon Register). [Plate V., fig. 70]." [https://www.stewartsociety.org/history-of-the-stewarts.cfm?section=...]

Sir Robert Stewart of Shanbothy and Durisdeer

• Father Robert Stewart, d. 1386
• Mother Margaret, d. Yes, date unknown
• Family Janet MacDougall, d. Yes, date unknown Married Y

Alternate death date of 1409. Taken prisoner at Hamildon Hill in 1401.

Duncan Stewart states that the first of the Rosyth family was Robert, second son of Schanbothy, son of Pierston, son of Bonkyl, who got a charter from his brother, John Stewart of Innermeath, of an annual rent of £20 out ofthe barony of Durisdeer (confirmed 20th April 1385), and a resignation of the whole barony in favour on the 1st April 1388.

Hugh Wallace of Craigie, on 10th March 1397, quits all claim to the lands of Ingleston in the said barony.

In 1388 Robert Stewart accompanied the Black Douglas to Ireland, when Carlingford was taken and great booty made.

He was taken prisoner at Hamildon Hill in 1401, and

killed at Shrewsbury in 1409..

He had issue:

• 1. David, his successor.
• 2. William, who got a charter in 1431 from Archibald, earl of Douglas, of the Barony of Kirkandris in Eskdale.
• 3. Elizabeth, contracted, 1396, to Michael, son and heir of Sir Andrew Mercer of Aldie.
• 4. Isabel, married Robert Bruce of Clackmannan.
• 5. a daughter, married Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig.

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Robert, ancestor of the Stewarts of Rosyth. [Burke's Peerage]

Sir Robert Stewart of Shanbothy and Durisdeer, descendant of the first four High Stewards of Scotland and ancestor of the Stuart Kings. He was killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403.

References

• THE SCOTTISH ANTIQUARY, edited by Rev. A.W. Cornelius Hallen, M.A., 1891, Vol. V, p. 3.
• http://www.venitap.com/Genealogy/WebCards/ps36/ps36_380.htm
• https://electricscotland.com/history/northern/26TheScottishAntiquar... page 3
• “The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries.” Page 3.GoogleBooks
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id...
• http://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getper...

1. [S474] Colquoun_Cunningham.ged, Jamie Vans.
2. [S73] Burke's Landed Gentry of Great Britain 2001, Peter Beauclerk Dewar,, (2001.).
3. [S6] Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Stewart08 (Reliability: 3).
4. [S250] Mercers of Perth, Jim Mercer, Alan Glass and Malcolm Holt, (http://www.mercermillions.co.uk/), /mercers_of_perth/04_sir_michael_mercer.htm (Reliability: 3).

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p2032.htm#i20311