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Margaret Bonkyl
- Preferred Name: Margaret Bonkyl[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Alternate Name: Stewart
- Alternate Name: Margaret de Bonkyl
- Gender: F
- Death: 3 OCT 1304 in Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.75 LONG: E2.5
- Death: 3 OCT 1304 in Bonkyl Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.75 LONG: E2.5 with note: Standard
- Birth: 1249 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.7833 LONG: E3.9
- Burial: OCT 1304 in Berwickshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.75 LONG: E2.5
- FSID: 936R-HBT
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Alexander de Bonkyll, Sir and Margaret de Bonkyl
Wife of John Stewart of Bonkyll and Garlies and David de Brechin (Comyn)
Mother of Egidia Stewart; Sir Alexander Stewart of Bonkyll; Sir Alan Stewart of Dreghorn, Kt.; Sir Walter Stewart of Dalswinton; Elizabeth Stewart and 6 others
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Margaret de Bonkyl (b. ca 1249 - d. 1305); Daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander de Bonkyl (d. 1300) and unknown mother; Margaret married, firstly, (ca 1288) Sir John Stewart (ca 1245 – 22 July 1298), second son [2]of Alexander Stewart 4th High Steward of Scotland and unknown mother; they had 7 children: Sir Alexander (d. 1309) – succeeded his mother (1305) in the barony of Bonkyl; had 2 children John Stewart (created 1st Earl of Angus 1329; died 1331) and Isabel who married the Earl of Mar ; Sir Alan (died 19 July 1333), ancestor of Earls of Lennox and James VI; Sir Walter, ancestor of Earls of Galloway; Sir James (died 19 July 1333), ancestor of Stewart Lords of Lorne, Earls of Atholl and Earls of Buchan; Sir John (died 19 July 1333); Isabella m. Thomas Randolph 1st Earl of Moray (d 1332); Sir Robert; Sir Hugh.
Margaret “heir of Bonkyl and widow of Sir John Stewart” married, secondly (1299), Sir David de Brechin (b. bef 1278 – executed 1320); they had one daughter: Margaret de Brechin (b. ca 1300, and married (1315) Sir David de Barclay who “received Brechin’s lands from Robert I”). Margaret de Bonkyl died 1305 and Sir David married as his second wife Margery Ramsay.
Sources: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3306 http://archive.org/stream/sessionbookbunk00clubgoog#page/n29/mode/2up http://www.archive.org/stream/calendarofdocume02grea#page/410/mode/2up
Notes ◦Heiress
Sources
1.[S265] Colquoun_Cunningham.ged, Jamie Vans
2.[S288] Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1906, McKerlie, (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1906)
3.[S301] History of the Lands and their Owners in Galloway, Vols III, IV and V, P. H. McKerlie, (James Bell, Kirkcudbright)
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Margaret de Bonkyl (b. ca 1249 - d. 1305); Daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander de Bonkyl (d. 1300) and unknown mother.
Margaret married, firstly, (ca 1288): Sir John Stewart (ca 1245 – 22 July 1298), second son [2]of Alexander Stewart 4th High Steward of Scotland and unknown mother; they had 7 children, including:
Sir Alexander (d. 1309) – succeeded his mother (1305) in the barony of Bonkyl; had 2 children John Stewart (created 1st Earl of Angus 1329; died 1331) and Isabel who married the Earl of Mar; Sir Alan (died 19 July 1333), ancestor of Earls of Lennox and James VI; Sir Walter, ancestor of Earls of Galloway; Sir James (died 19 July 1333), ancestor of Stewart Lords of Lorne, Earls of Atholl and Earls of Buchan; Sir John (died 19 July 1333); Isabella m. Thomas Randolph 1st Earl of Moray (d 1332); Sir Robert; Sir Hugh.
Margaret “heir of Bonkyl and widow of Sir John Stewart” married, secondly (1299), Sir David de Brechin (b. bef 1278 – executed 1320), they had one daughter: Margaret de Brechin (b. ca 1300, and married (1315) Sir David de Barclay who “received Brechin’s lands from Robert I”). Margaret de Bonkyl died 1305 and Sir David married as his second wife Margery Ramsay.
Sources ==http://www.thepeerage.com/p516.htm#i5160
↑ Source: #S125 Record for James Stewart ↑ Source: #S125 Record for James Stewart
Source: S125 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R1 Repository: R1 Name: www.ancestry.com
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bonkyl-3
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#AlanStewartDreghorndied1333A as of 12/9/2018
MARGARET Bonkyl, daughter and heiress of ALEXANDER Bonkyl of that Ilk & his wife ---.
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=== PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE, VOL 6, LDS GENEA ===
PEDIGREE RESOURCE FILE, VOL 6, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== BIOGRAPHY: Margaret, daughter and heires ===
BIOGRAPHY: Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander Bonkyl of thatIlk. [Burke's Peerage] Source: Title: The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis,additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999 Page: 108b-5
=== From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
=== Ancestral File Number: H129-S5 ===
Ancestral File Number: H129-S5
=== Margaret was the daughter and heiress of ===
Margaret was the daughter and heiress of Sir Alexander de Bonkyl in Berwick- shire, a family of rank and possesed grat estates in the border countries both of Scotland and England. Ref: The Story of the Stewarts, The Stewart Society, 1901, 1993, pp. 68-69.
=== Source: Medieval Families Unit
(as of ===
Source: Medieval Families Unit
(as of January 1995), 50 E North Temple St, Salt Lake City UT 84150
Submission Search: 570414-100499093110
CD-ROM: Pedigree Resource File - Compact Disc #6
=== Countess of Angus ===
Countess of Angus
=== Natural relationship to Stewart, Alexand ===
Natural relationship to Stewart, Alexander Natural relationship to Unknown Father
Preferred Parents:
Father: Alexander de Bonkyl, b. 1237 in Boncle, Berwick, Scotland d. 22 JUL 1298 in Berwickshire, Scotland
Mother: Margaret Menteith, b. 1226 in Cambusnethan, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 1304 in Scotland, United Kingdom
Family 1: John Stewart -Lord of Bonkyll and Garlies, b. 1246 in Bonkyl Castle, Berwickshire, Scotland d. 22 JUL 1298 in Battle of Falkirk - Stirlingshire, Scotland
- Isabella Stewart of Bonkyl, b. 1279 in Berwickshire, Scotland d. 15 JUL 1351 in Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, First Earl of Moray
- James Stewart of Pierston, b. 1282 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland d. 19 JUL 1333 in Battle of Halidon Hill - Berwick on Tweed, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
- Alexander Stewart Lord of Bonkyll, b. 1271 in Dreghorn, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 1319 in Bonkyl, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Elizabeth Stewart, b. 1275 in Scotland d. 16 JUL 1351 in Kincardineshire, Scotland
- Walter Stewart of Garlies and Dalswinton, b. 1275 in Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, Schotland d. 1340 in Dalswinton, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Family 2: David de Brechin, d. AFT 4 AUG 1320 in Scotland
- m. ABT 1299 in Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Margaret Brechin, b. 1303 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland d. 26 MAR 1351 in Brechin, Forfarshire, Scotland
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Bonkyl Lady Stewart -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
- Title: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography A. A. M. Duncan, ‘Brechin, Sir David (b. before 1278, d. 1320)’, first published 2004, 892 words
Publication: Name: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3306;
- Title: Millennium File
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.ca/collections/7249/records/10283131;
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: https://search.ancestry.ca/collections/9289/records/6762624;
- Title: Findagrave
Author: Margaretha De Bonkyl De Brechin 3 Aug 1304
Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/234487621/margaretha-de_brechin;
- Title: Ancestry Family Trees
Author: Ancestry Family Tree
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Bonkyl Lady Stewart -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222795
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