Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox (14609 September 1513), was a prominent Scottish nobleman. Stewart was the son of

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, and Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of

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. He died fighting in the

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. He married firstly, on 13 June 1490,

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, daughter of

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, Chief Justiciar of Scotland. On 9 April 1494, he married Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of

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, and

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, daughter of King

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. Stewart and Elizabeth Hamilton had six children: Mungo Stewart, Agnes Stewart,

John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox (4 September 1526, Linlithgow, West Lothian) was a prominent Scottish magnate. He was the son of Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton and ...

, Margaret Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Catherine Stewart. He was

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in 1497, and from 1509 to 1513.

Ancestors

Sources

*G. E. Cokayne et al., eds. ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''. Reprint ed. (Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000). Stewart, Matthew, 2nd Earl

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