Margaret Murray

• Preferred Name: Margaret Murray^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Alternate Name: Margaret of Moravia
  
• Alternate Name: 1340 Robert Stewart
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: 12 MAY 1380 in Inchmahome Priory, Inchmahome, Stirlingshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.1761 LONG: E4.2978 with note: same person
  
• Alt.+Burial: 4 MAY 1380 in Inchmahome Priory, Inchmahome, Stirlingshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.1761 LONG: E4.2978 with note: same person Inchmahome Priory, Aberfoyle, Stirling, Scotland
  
• Birth: 1334 in Doune, Perthshire, Scotland at LATI: N6.2 LONG: E4.0833
  
• Death: 4 MAY 1380 in Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.5667 LONG: E4.5833 with note: same person
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of MenteithABT 1360 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Graham,_Countess_of_Menteith
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Mar
  
• Death+date+showed: with note: Description: Death date showed as 4 May 1380 but this is before either child was married.
  
• Occupation: Countess of Monteith in Scotland with note: removed titles that were never hers
  
• Heiress+of+the+Earldom+of+Menteith: with note: Heraldry and pedigrees of the Morays of Bothwell/ Murrays -multiple generations page 4
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Countess of Angus
  
• FSID: M81W-4BC
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith (c. 1334-1380) was a Scottish noblewoman. She held the title Countess of Menteith in her own right, having inherited the title c. 1360 from her mother, Mary, Countess of Menteith, who was married to Sir John Graham. Graham was styled Earl of Menteith during his marriage with Mary, whom he predeceased. The Menteith region was situated partially in southwest Perthshire and partly in Stirlingshire.
  
  «b»Marriages and Children«/b»
  Margaret Graham was married four times, two of her marriages occurring before the age of twenty. She married firstly Sir John Moray, Lord of Bothwell, (son of Sir Andrew Moray and Lady Christina Bruce). Because she and Moray were related within the forbidden degree of kinship, a papal dispensation was sought and received in 1348. Lady Margaret took her husband's surname and was known as Margaret of Moravia. Sir John died, probably in late 1351. The couple had no children.
  
  Margaret married secondly Thomas, 9th Earl of Mar, and once again a papal dispensation was needed due to kinship. However, charging that Margaret was unable to have children, Earl Thomas divorced her after four years, and she returned to live with her mother.
  
  Around 1360, she married thirdly Sir John Drummond of Concraig, a marriage intended to relieve a long-standing feud between their respective clans. Once again Margaret took the surname of her husband. As before, the degree of kinship required a papal dispensation, but since their son John had been born before the couple sought the dispensation, they were required to do penance. Sir John died quite soon after the dispensation was granted, probably before the year was out.
  
  Margaret's fourth marriage was to Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany, a son of King Robert II of Scotland and Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan. Sources disagree on both the number of Duke Robert's children and their respective mothers, leaving a definitive statement regarding Margaret's children by Robert unresolved. The Scots Peerage acknowledges her to be the mother of only Murdoch, 2nd Duke of Albany (1362-1425) Cracroft's Peerage records her as the mother of six children, one son and five daughters:
  
  1.) Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, who married Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Lennox.
  
  2.) Mary (d. 1420), who married Sir William Abernethy of Saltoun.
  
  3.) Margaret (d. 1402), who married Sir John Swinton of Swinton.
  
  4.) Joan, who married her third cousin, Robert Stewart, 1st Lord of Lorne.
  
  5.) Beatrice (d. 1424), who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas and 1st Earl of Avonmore.
  
  Isabella, who married firstly Alexander Leslie, 9th Earl of Ross, before 1398, and secondly Walter de Haliburton, 1st Lord Haliburton of Dirleton between 1402 and 1408.
  
  «b»The Scots Peerage names a seventh child:«/b»
  1.) Janet, who was contracted to wed David de Leon in 1372
  
  «b»Titles«/b»
  Margaret Graham became Countess of Menteith upon the death of her mother, the previous Countess, who had held the title before her marriage to Sir John Graham, who predeceased her. Margaret held the title in her own right, but upon her marriage to Robert Stewart, her husband was called Duke of Albany and Earl of Monteith. The title Earl of Menteith passed to Margaret's son, Murdoch, 2nd Duke of Albany, when Robert Stewart died in 1420.
  
  The wife of an earl uses the title countess. Therefore, when married to Thomas, Earl of Mar, Margaret was called Countess of Mar.
  
  Margaret was called Countess of Fife during her marriage with Robert Stewart, who received the title via an agreement between himself and Isabella, the wife of his deceased brother Walter. Margaret did not hold this title in her own right. However, since her husband was a member of the royal family, the title Countess of Fife made her "the senior Countess in the realm."
  
  Margaret was never styled Duchess of Albany because she died before her husband received the title Duke of Albany in 1398.
  
  «b»Death and Burial«/b»
  Margaret Graham died between 20 July 1372 and 4 May 1380, and was at buried Inchmahome Priory, Perthshire, Scotland.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20LATER.htm#MargaretGrahamMenteithdied1372 as of 12/7/2018
  
  MARGARET Graham (-[21 Jul 1372/4 May 1380]). Ctss of Menteith. John of Ford
  
  === Relationship to N. G. Utting note ===
  Seventeenth Great Grandmother :
  Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Grandmother
  
  === Countess of Menteith ===
  Countess of Menteith
  
  inherited earldom about 1360
  
  Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith (1334–1380) was a Scottish noblewoman.
  She married four times, becoming Countess of Menteith and, in 1361, Duchess of Albany.
  Her fourth and last husband was Sir Robert Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany,
  who would go on to be Regent of Scotland from 1406 until his death
  in 1420. Her son Murdoch Stewart would become the second Duke
  of Albany, but was executed for treason by King James I of Scotland in 1425.
  
  === My 17th ===
  Great Grandmother

• m. 9 SEP 1360 in Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland

1. Murdoch Stewart 2nd Duke of Albany, b. 9 DEC 1362 in Falkland, Fife, Scotland     d. 24 MAY 1425 in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland
2. Marjorie or Marcellina Stewart, b. 7 APR 1375 in Inverkip, Renfrewshire, Scotland     d. 1421 in Scotland
3. Mary Stewart, b. 1363 in Falkland, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom     d. 1420 in Scotland, United Kingdom

1. Title: Margaret Stewart in the UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current
   Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53406394/margaret-stewart?_gl=1*zkeysk*_ga*MTgwOTMxNTkzNS4xNjgzMjQ3MDM1*_ga_4QT8FMEX30*NmU2NmNhNTMtMWJhZC00YmQxLWI0ZDQtMDRhYjM1ODlmYWJiLjEuMS4xNjgzMjQ3MjA4LjIuMC4w;
   Note: Name: Margaret Stewart Gender: Female Birth Date: 1334 Birth Place: Doune, Stirling, Scotland Death Date: 4 May 1380 Death Place: Scotland Cemetery: Inchmahome Priory Burial or Cremation Place: Aberfoyle, Stirling, Scotland Has Bio?: Y Spouse: Robert Duke of Albany Stewart Children: Marjory Marceline Campbell Murdoch Stewart URL: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53406394/margaret-stewart
   
2. Title: Margaret Graham Stewart, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKT-D3G8 : 9 May 2023), Margaret Graham Stewart, ; Burial, Aberfoyle, , Stirling, Scotland, Inchmahome Priory; citing record ID 53406394, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVKT-D3G8;
   
3. Title: Wikipedia
   Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Graham,_Countess_of_Menteith