David Stewart (1357 – c. 1386), Prince of Scotland, was a 14th-century Scottish

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. He was the eldest son of the second marriage of King Robert II with Euphemia de Ross. King Robert, on 26 March 1371, the day of his coronation, created him Earl of Strathearn, and on the following day his son David performed homage to his father as of Earl of Strathearn. On 19 June the same year he obtained a charter of the

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of Urquhart. He received the Castle of Braal in

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21 March 1375, and he was also given the title

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between that date and 28 December 1377, when he was styled "Earl Palatine of Strathearn and Caithness". He was involved in a major dispute with his older half-brother, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, who by 1385 had occupied his castle at Urquhart. It is uncertain, but it is highly likely that he died in March 1386, and no later than 1389. His wife appears to have been a daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk, and sister of

David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford (c. 1360 – 1407) was a Scottish peer who was created Earl of Crawford in 1398. Life Crawford was the son of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk and Katherine Stirling. Succeeding his father in 1381, he was kn ...

. They had a daughter, Euphemia, who succeeded to the earldom. His widow married secondly Sir William Graham of Montrose, by whom she was the mother of his eldest son and heir Alexander Graham, esq., of Kincardine, father of the first Lord Graham.William Graham was called 'her father' in Countess Euphemia's charter of 27 January 1401. John P. Ravilious, Sir William Graham and the Countess of Strathearn, The Scottish Genealogist (September 2011), Vol. LVIII, No. 3, pp. 112-116.

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* Paul, James Balfour, ''

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'', Vols. II & VIII, (Edinburgh, 1909) * Boardman, S. I., "Stewart, David, first earl of Strathearn and first earl of Caithness (b. in or after 1357?, d. 1386?)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 200
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* John P. Ravilious, Sir William Graham and the Countess of Strathearn, The Scottish Genealogist (September 2011), Vol. LVIII, No. 3, pp. 112–116. , - {{DEFAULTSORT:Strathearn, David Stewart, Earl Of 1357 births 1380s deaths Year of death uncertain 11

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Scottish princes

14th-century Scottish earls Sons of kings