SP Addition: ____ Stewart, wife of Sir Henry de Wardlaw

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SP Addition: ____ Stewart, wife of Sir Henry de Wardlaw

Legg inn av Gjest » 10 feb 2007 20:00:19

Saturday, 10 February, 2007


Hello All,

The account in Scots Peerage says of the 2nd marriage and issue
of Walter the Stewart (d. 1326),

' He married, secondly, Isabel, sisterof Sir John Graham of
Abercorn, by whom he had two sons and a daughter: -
2. Sir John of Railston or Cunningham, who died at a great
age, leaving: -
(1) Sir Walter,...
(2) Sir John....
(3) Marjory, married, first, to Sir Alexander Lindsay...
(4) Egidia, married to Sir Patrick Graham....
(5) Margaret, married to Sir John Hay....
3. Sir Andrew, of whose descendants, if any, there is no
record.
4. Egidia, who was thrice married; first, to Sir James
Lindsay of Crawford; second, after October 1357, to
Sir Hugh of Eglinton; and third (contract October
1378), to Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith . ' [1]

There was almost certainly at least one other daughter. Mima S. T.
Robertson stated in part concerning the Sir Henry de Wardlaw, father of
Walter Wardlaw, bishop of Glasgow (d. ca. 1387), '... Sir Henry Wardlaw
of Torrie was sufficiently liked and trusted by the Bruce to be given in
marriage the daughter of Walter, the High Steward of Scotland ...' [2].
I have found no direct evidence of this marriage, although I have
noted that other secondary sources of varying reliability state that
Sir Henry had married a niece of Walter the Stewart [3].

An interesting item of indirect evidence does in fact support the
statement by Robertson. There is a dispensation dated 28 August 1395
for the marriage of Elizabeth Dunbar, daughter of George Dunbar, Earl
of March (d. ca. 1420) to David, later Duke of Rothesay:

' Reg. Aven 280, 323v
To the bishops of St. Andrews and Brechin. Mandate to
dispense David, earl of Carrick, first born of Robert, king of
Scotland, to marry the noblewoman Elizabeth, daughter of the
nobleman George, earl of March, who although being related in
the 3rd degree of consanguinity and in full knowledge of this
fact had contracted marriage per verba de futuro, since if this
marriage were not to come about grave scandal and dissension
would arise.
Avignon, 5 Kal. Sept., anno 1.
SRO, Vat. Trans., iv, no. 65 ' [4]



The chronology certainly supports the relationship as stated by Ms.
Robertson. The issue of Walter the Stewart and Isabel de Graham would
have been born between 1317 at the earliest (his first wife Marjory
dying in early 1316/17), and no later than 1326. If the alleged wife
of Sir Henry de Wardlaw had in fact been granted in marriage to him by
King Robert _the_ Bruce, that would have occurred no later than 1329,
so we would then imagine an earlier date (1317 or soon thereafter) for
the lady's birth. She may well have had issue as early as say 1332/3.
Christiana de Wardlaw, wife of George Dunbar the elder, would likely
have been born say : her oldest identifiable issue (George Dunbar,
successor to his father ca. 1420) was likely born in the mid-1360's,
as he is found 'in command of the garrison of Cockburnspath' in
1385 [5]. A possible birth range for Christiana of say 1335-1350,
and likely say 1340-1350 (assuming she was younger than her husband)
provides a reasonable span of time.

The chronology does not work very well with the solution of
Christiana Wardlaw being a great-niece of Walter the Stewart.
Further, the relationship as stipulated in the dispensation (3rd
degree of kinship, which could be in fact 3rd and 4th degree given
the language) would rule out both Elizabeth Dunbar and David, Duke
of Rothesay being great-great grandchildren of James the Stewart,
father of Walter. As we know that David was such a greag-great
grandchild, we know Elizabeth could not have been. The following
then appears to be the correct relationship between David and his
wife:


1) Marjory Bruce = Walter the Stewart = 2) Isabel
__________I d. 1326 I de Graham
I I_______
I I
Robert II Sir Henry de = NN
K of Scots Wardlaw I
I I
I I
Robert III George Dunbar = Christiana
K of Scots E of March I Wardlaw
I_________ _________I
I I
David = Elizabeth
D of Rothesay Dunbar


There clearly was no issue (known, or at least surviving) of the
short union of David and Elizabeth. However, her brothers George
Dunbar and Sir David have extant issue. The Wardlaw and extended
Stewart and Graham connections indicated should add at least
modestly to the known ancestry of those descendants, including many
list members, Prince William, and others.

Cheers,

John *




NOTES

[1] SP I:14-15, sub _The Kings of Scotland_ .


[2] Mima S. T. Robertson, Old Dunfermline (Edinburgh: P. Harris,
1979), p. 69.


[3] William Anderson, The Scottish Nation, or the Surnames; Families,
Literature, Honours, and Biographical History of the People of
Scotland (Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1863), III:605, states
in part:

' Sir Henry Wardlaw, knight, living in the beginning of the 14th
century, married a niece of Walter, lord-high-stewart of Scotland,
and, with two daughters, had two sons, Sir Andrew, his successor,
and Walter, Cardinal Wardlaw, bishop of Glasgow from 1367 to 1387,
and ambassador to England in 1368, and to France in 1374.....
The elder son, Sir Andrew Wardlaw of Torry, knight, had two sons,
Sir William, his successor, and Henry, bishop of St. Andrews and
founder of the university thereof,.... '

This alleged relationship is also to be found in a Wardlaw
pedigree as given in publications of Burke's Peerage.


[4] Francis McGurk, ed., Calendar of Papal Letters to Scotland of
Benedict XIII of Avignon, 1394-1419 (Edinburgh: T. and A.
Constable, Ltd., 1976, Pub. of the Scottish History Society),
p. 45. This marriage and dispensation is discussed elsewhere,
without allusion to the degree of consanguinity. For example,
Stephen I Boardman, in The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and
Robert III, 1371-1406 [East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1996
(The Stewart Dynasty in Scotland Series, Vol. I)], states in part,

' The political and ecclesiastical assault on the validity of
the Dunbar marriage in late 1396 explains the plea for
absolution delivered by David and Elizabeth to Benedict XIII in
the winter of 1396-7. On 10 March 1397 Benedict issued a
dispensation to Gilbert Greenlaw, bishop of Aberdeen, the abbot
of Kelso, and the dean of Dunbar, narrating that David and
Elizabeth had applied for absolution, and granting that they
should be allowed to marry after a suitable period of
separation. ' [p. 203]



* John P. Ravilious






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