Margaret Stewart -Countess of Carrick

• Preferred Name: Margaret Stewart -Countess of Carrick^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]}
  
• Alternate Name: Margaret Stewart
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: 1255
  
• Death: 1255 in New Galloway, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N5.0667 LONG: E4.15
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Carrick
  
• FSID: LZLG-N3J
  
• Birth: 1206 in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.6 LONG: E4.6667
  
• Alt.+Death: 27 OCT 1255 in Castle Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.2 LONG: E4.6667
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Margaret Stewart was a daughter of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland, and his wife Bethóc, daughter of Gille Críst, Earl of Angus. Margaret was one of 5 daughters and 5 sons born to her parents, her siblings were: Alexander, Robert, John, Walter, William, Beatrix, Christian, Eupheme, and Sybella.
  
  Margaret married Níall, Mormaer (Earl) of Carrick, together they are known to have had 4 daughters, but no sons.
  Only the name of their oldest daughter, Marjorie (Margaret), is known.
  
  Margaret's husband Niall was also the Chieftan of his clan. On 12 September 1255, having no male heirs, Niall granted the chiefship of the clan to his nephew Roland and his heirs.
  
  Niall died in 1256 and as the oldest daughter, Marjorie succeeded him as 3rd Countess of Carrick, she was still just a child at the time.
  
  Margaret and Niall's daughter Marjorie married 2 times descendants of her 1st marriage to Adam of Kilconquhar became the Randolph Earls of Moray.
  
  2nd Marjorie married Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale. Their oldest son become King Robert I of Scotland. Their oldest daughter Isabel married Eric II of Norway and became Queen of Norway. Another son Edward became High King of Ireland for a time.
  
  Through her grandchildren Margaret Stewart was ancestress of several royal houses, through King Robert I she was also ancestress of the Stewart kings of Scotland.
  
  Although someone has noted that Margaret Stewart died on 12 March 1255, the source of this information is not noted.
  
  It is not known when Margaret died.
  
  Memorial
  Margaret Stewart1
  F, #107849, b. circa 1206
  Last Edited=20 Jan 2011
  Margaret Stewart was born circa 1206. She was the daughter of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland and Beatrix of Angus.2,3
  
  Memorial
  Margaret Stewart1
  F, #107849, b. circa 1206
  Last Edited=20 Jan 2011
  Margaret Stewart was born circa 1206. She was the daughter of Walter Stewart, 3rd High Steward of Scotland and Beatrix of Angus.2,3
  
  === !Her name was Isabel or Margaret, her pa ===
  !Her name was Isabel or Margaret, her parents not surely identified in Line 121-C, p. 109 of the Seventh Edition of Weis. In The Book of Bruce,Ancestors and Descendants of King Robert of Scotland, by Lyman Horace Weeks, pub. 1907 by the American Society of New York, on p.264, it says: The founder of the House of Carrioc-Fergus was the Lord of Galloway who m. Elizabeth, the dau. of Henry I. She died in 1161. They had two sons, Gilbert and Uchtred (who was murdered). Gilbert died 1185/6. He was the father of Neil Carrick, Regent of Scotland and guardian of Alexander II, King of Scotland. He married Margaret, dau. of Walter, Steward of Scotland. His daughter, Marjory (Carrick) de Kilconcath married Robert Bruce (8th) and became the Countess of Carrick. This alliance, repeated several generations later when Marjory Bruce, dau. of King Robert Bruce m. Walter, head of the House of Stewart of Scotland.

• m. 1234 in Ayrshire, Scotland

1. Roland de Carrick, b. 1226 in Carrick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland     d. 1275 in Scotland
2. Marjorie MacNiall - Countess of Carrick, b. 11 APR 1254 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland     d. 27 OCT 1292 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland

1. Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
   Author: Source number: 962.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: ARC
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=7836&h=207986&indiv=try;
   
2. Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=9289&h=6754007&indiv=try;
   
3. Title: SULPICE . The Chronicle of Saint-Maxence
   Page: British Isles - Scotland, Kings, p. 125: MARGARET Stewart . The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage has not yet been identified. m NEIL Earl of Carrick, son of DUNCAN Earl of Carrick & his wife --- (-1256).
   
4. Title: Biographical information from Wikitree
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stewart-993;
   
5. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Stewart - Unknown: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
   Author: "Genealogical Research of Kirk Larson", Larson, Kirk, Personal Research Works including Bethune & Hohenlohe Descendants, 1981-2001, Kirk Larson, Private Library, Kirk Larson, 23512 Belmar Dr., Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 U.S.A., Kirk Larson, 23512 Belmar Dr.~~Laguna Niguel~~CA~~92677~~U.S.A., (253) 390-9307 (fax)
   Note: Unknown: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom death: birth: about 1200; Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2007360094
   
6. Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
   Author: Source number: 962.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: ARC
   Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/7836/records/207986;
   
7. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Stewart - Unknown: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
   Author: "Héraldique européenne", Arnaud Bunel , Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility (http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org, Arnaud Bunel, 1998) , Internet, Arnaud Bunel, France, Arnaud Bunel, France
   Note: Unknown: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom "Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective Bearing or entitled to bear heraldicarms. The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the languagewas that those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) used to put their crest or achieveme
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2007360096
   
8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Stewart - Unknown: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
   Author: "Heraldry Coat of Arms", Elliott, J. M., 12 Feb 2001, Kirk Larson, 23512 Belmar Dr., Laguna Niguel, CA 92677 U.S.A., Kirk Larson, 23512 Belmar Dr.~~Laguna Niguel~~CA~~92677~~U.S.A., (253) 390-9307 (fax)
   Note: Unknown: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Copyright © 1997-98-99 J.M. Elliott & On-Line-Publishing. All rights reserved. "Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective Bearing or entitled to bear heraldicarms. The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the languagewas that those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) used to put their crest or achieveme
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2007360102
   
9. Title: wikitree
   Publication: Name: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stewart-993;
   
10. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Stewart -
    Author: Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom; GE Cokayne, Sutton Publishing Ltd, Page number: III:55
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741118
    
11. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Stewart -
    Author: Ancestral Roots of Certain Americian Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr, Page number: 121c-29
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741115
    
12. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Stewart -
    Author: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Ed {1999}, Page number: 41-4
    Note: Source Media Type: Book
    Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741136
    
13. Title: UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975
    Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=1610&h=1319994&indiv=try;
    Note: SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT IF SOMEONE HAD COPIED THE ORIGINAL PROBATE RECORDS HERE SO EVERYONE COULD SEE THEM, WITHOUT THAT WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY SAY OR EVEN WHO THEY ARE FOR. ARE THEY FOR MARGARET STEWART OR HER HUSBANE NIALL? WHAT WAS THE PROBATE DATE? WHAT WAS THE DEATH DATE?
    Page: SURE WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT IF SOMEONE HAD COPIED THE ORIGINAL PROBATE RECORDS HERE SO EVERYONE COULD SEE THEM, WITHOUT THAT WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY SAY OR EVEN WHO THEY ARE FOR. ARE THEY FOR MARGARET STEWART OR HER HUSBANE NIALL? WHAT WAS THE PROBATE DATE? WHAT WAS THE DEATH DATE?