Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox ( 14609 September 1513) was a

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nobleman. He was the eldest son of

John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox (before 14308 July/11 September 1495) was a Scottish earl. He was known as Lord Darnley and later as the Earl of Lennox. Family Stewart was the son of Catherine Seton and Alan Stewart of Darnley, a direct des ...

, and his wife Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of

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. He was

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in 1497, and from 1509 to 1513. He died fighting at the

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in 1513.

Marriages and issue

He married firstly, on 13 June 1490, Margaret Lyle, daughter of

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, Chief Justiciar of Scotland. He married secondly, on 9 April 1494, Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of

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, and Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of King

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. With his second wife, he had six children – Mungo Stewart, Agnes Stewart,

John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox ( 1490 – 4 September 1526) was a prominent Scottish nobleman. He was the son of Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, and Ma ...

, Margaret Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Catherine Stewart.

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).

References

External links

Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox. The Stewart Society
* Stewart, Matthew, 2nd Earl

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