Walter of Faslane Earl of Lennox

• Preferred Name: Walter of Faslane Earl of Lennox^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Alternate Name: Walter de Fassalane 7th Earl of Levanax
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 7th Earl of Levanax
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Lennox
  
• FSID: GZND-Z96
  
• Death: 19 AUG 1388 in Scotland with note: No UK yet
  
• Birth: 1320 in Scotland with note: No UK yet
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  The Life Summary of Walter 7th Earl Of Lavenax
  Walter 7th Earl Of Lavenax De Fassalane was born about 1320, in Scotland, United Kingdom as the son of Aulay Faslane Lennox and Unknown. He had at least 19 sons with Margaret Countess of Lennox.
  
  Baltar mac Amlaimh, also called Walter of Faslane, was the de facto Mormaer of Lennox through his wife Margaret between 1365 and 1385.
  
  He was the great grandson of Amlaibh, the grandson of Mormaer Ailín II through the male line. He was the chief of a kin-group tracing its origins to the settlement which followed the death of Ailín II, where the ten brothers of Mormaer Maol Domhnaich were compensated with lands.
  
  Baltar and his kin achieved the Mormaerdom because he was allowed to marry the daughter of Mormaer Domhnall, Margaret. When Domhnall died in 1365, Margaret succeeded with Baltar as de facto ruler. It had been Domhnall's intention that the marriage would eventually allow the succession of a grandson, but it seems that Baltar was intended to rule in his turn. Indeed, Baltar and Margaret had a son, Donnchad, who was probably a young man by the time Baltar and Margaret succeeded. We do not know how relations deteriorated, but it seems that Donnchadh got impatient.
  
  In the summer of 1384, King Robert II issued two charters formally conferring the Mormaerdom on Baltar. However, a year later he and his wife Margaret resigned the Mormaerdom over to their eldest son Donnchadh. Brown attributes this change as a policy change of the monarchy triggered by the increased influence of John of Carrick, the future king Robert III.
  
  However, in 1388, Baltar and Margaret were handed custody of the Mormaerdom for the remainder of their lives, with Donnchadh retaining the title. Donnchadh was confined to a stronghold in Loch Lomond, Inchmurrin castle.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20LATER.htm#ElizabethLennoxdied1429 as of 12/9/2018
  
  WALTER de Fasselane (-after 19 Aug 1388). His parentage is confirmed by the charter
  
  === Margaret, Countess of Lennox, succeeded, ===
  Margaret, Countess of Lennox, succeeded, though she nowhere appears on record under that title, but is only referred to as the wife of her husband, Walter of Faslane, styled Lord of Lennox. The are said so have married about 1344, but not improbably their union was later. He was, as already stated, a direct descendant of Aulay, Allan or Alwin, the fifth son of Alwin, second Earl of Lennox, and was the nearest heir-male of the earldom. Nothwithstanding this, however, he is only once styled Earl of Lennox, apparently shortly after Earl Donald's death, and is thereafter ususaly described as Lord of Lennox or Lord of the earldom of Lennox. He is named in record, apparently for the first time, in a charter of 1351, when a grant of lands which had been given to his father was continued to him, with the office of Forester of the woods of Lennox and the office called 'Toosachiroschip,' or heritable bailiary of the earldom. Later, 1360-64, he had other lands bestowed upon him by Earl Donald, and he appears very frequently as a witness to charters by that Earl.
  
  After his succession to Earl Donald the Lord of Lennox took part in public affairs, and was present in the Parliament of Scone when King Robert II was crowned on 16 March 1370-71, and he swore fealty on the following day. In August of 1373 he granted at his castle of Balloch a charter of the lands of Auchmarr to Walter, Laird of Buchanan. In 1384 he had a special charter from King Robert II renewing to him a privilege conferred by King Robert Bruce upon Earl Malcolm, of holding the weaponshawings of the whole earldom, including the King's own lands there and all other lands, whether held of the King in chief or of others. The King granted that neither the Earls of Lennox, nor any men abiding in the earldom, should appear before the King's sheriffs on their proving that the weaponshawing had taken place within the earldom. The King also granted the lands of Auchondonane and others in pure alms and regality, for rendering six merks sterling yearly to a chaplain praying for the King and his predecessors before Holyrood altar in the parish churhc of Dumbarton. The same King granted Walter, Lord of the earldom of Lennox, for himself and his heirs, should forever enjoy all the liberties within the earldom which he or his ancestors, Earls of Lennox, had justly used in the time of the granter or his predecessors, King of Scotland. It was also declared that any man arrested in the earldom by the King's sheriffs for any action which might be determined in the Earl's courts, should be delivered to be tried by the Earl's officers. In 1385 Walter and Margaret, his wife, resigned the whole of the earldom and lordship of Lennox within the sheriffdoms of Stirling and Dumbarton in the hands of King Robert II at Stirling in favour of their son, Sir Duncan of Lennox, Knight, who received a charter of the same on 8 May 1385, followed by a similar resignation and regrant on 19 August 1388, when their liferent rights were specially reserved. They were apparently both dead before 17 February 1391-92, when the marriage of their granddaughter was arranged. [The Scots Peerage V:337-338]
  
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  === (1319) ===
  (1319)

1. Duncan de Lennox - 8th Earl of Lennox, b. 1345 in Balloch Castle, Dunbartonshire, Scotland     d. 24 MAY 1425 in Beheaded - Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire, Scotland

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Walter Stewart of Faslane -
   Author: The Scots Peerage; Sir James Balfour Paul {1904-1914, 2000 rev} with Addenda et Corrigenda {2000}, Page number: V:330, 337-338
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2. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Walter Fasselane -
   Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: VII:592, 587b
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3. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Walter of Foslane - Individual or family possessions: male
   Note: Individual or family possessions: male Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Walter of Foslane
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4. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Walter Stewart of Faslane -
   Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry memb, Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com, Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
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5. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9289&h=30501741&indiv=try;
   
6. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Walter Fasselane -
   Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 2402
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7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Walter Fasselane - birth-name: Walter Duncan Stewart
   Note: birth-name: Walter Duncan Stewart
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8. Title: The Lennox. Vol. 1. Memoirs
   Author: National Library of Scotland.
   Publication: Name: http://www.nls.uk;
   Note: Information records. The Lennox Families.