Janet Stewart, Lady Ruthven ( – after 1564) was a Scottish noblewoman. She was a daughter of

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and Lady Janet Campbell, a daughter of

Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll Gillespie Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll ( – 9 September 1513) was a Scottish nobleman and politician who was killed at the Battle of Flodden. Biography Archibald was the eldest son of Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll and Isabel S ...

and Elizabeth Stewart. Janet Stewart married (1) Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland (died 1529), (2) Hugh Kennedy of Girvanmains (divorced), (3) in 1544,

Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven (c. 1495 – 1552) was Master of the Scottish Artillery and third, and last husband, of Margaret Tudor, eldest daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York. Ancient lineage He was a son of Andrew Stewa ...

(died 1552), and (4) in 1557,

Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven (c. 1520 – 13 June 1566) played an important part in the political intrigues of 16th century Scotland. He succeeded to the lordship in December 1552. The Ruthven lordship encompassed the offices of Provost and ...

. A Latin document drawn up at

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on 4 November 1544 calls her "Dame Jean or Jonete Stewart, Mistress of the earldom of Sutherland and Lady of lordship of Methven". On that day, John Murray, the bailie of her estates, produced a royal letter ordering the tenants of Sutherland to pay rent to her for her

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lands. The officer of the court at Dunrobin, Donald Skallag, read out the letters, and then Murquhard Murray explained in

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the legal penalties if the rents were not paid. In June 1545

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and

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granted Lord Methven and "Lady Jonet Stewart" some of the lands of Gorthy in

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. Around the year 1550,

Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (c. 148922 January 1557) was a Scottish nobleman active during the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots. He was the son of George, Master of Angus, who was killed at the Battle of Flodden, and succ ...

granted "Dame Jonet Stewart Lady Methven" and her son Henry Stewart, Lord Methven, rights over the marriage of a

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heiress Katherine Gorthy. In June 1564, she gave a present of textiles to

including, a cloth of estate of cloth of

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which was used to make mats to lay around the queen's bed, two more cloths of estate, and a tablecloth of cloth of gold.

Family

Her children included: *

John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Ep ...

* Gilbert Kennedy of Girvanmains, who married Margaret Kennedy in 1553 * Elizabeth Kennedy, who married Patrick Vans of Barnbarroch at Perth on 17 August 1561. * Helen Kennedy, who married

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of Cultmalindie, who was appointed Faud of

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and built

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Four children with Lord Methven, born before their marriage; * Dorothea Stewart, who married William Ruthven, Master of Ruthven at Perth on 17 August 1561. *

Henry Stewart, 2nd Lord Methven Lord Methven was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created on 17 July 1528 by King James V of Scotland for his stepfather Henry Stewart. The title became extinct on the death of the grantee's grandson in the 1580s. The title takes its na ...

(died 1572), who married Jean Ruthven, a daughter of Patrick Ruthven, 3rd Lord Ruthven and his first wife Janet Douglas, a daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. * Joan or Jonet Stewart, who married

Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll Colin Campbell, 6th Earl of Argyll (c. 1542– October 1584) was a Scottish nobleman and politician. He was appointed to the Lord Chancellorship of Scotland. Biography He was the eldest son of Archibald Campbell, 4th Earl of Argyll and his seco ...

. * Margaret Stewart, who married (1) Andrew Stewart, Master of Ochiltree, eldest son of

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, (2) Uchtred Macdowall of Garthland And : * Alexander Ruthven, who was a gentleman of the king's bedchamber in 1580.William Boyd, ''Calendar of State Papers Scotland: 1574-1581'', vol. 5 (Edinburgh, 1907), p. 531.

References

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16th-century Scottish women 16th-century Scottish people Daughters of Scottish earls