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and

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. He married Lady Margaret Home, daughter of

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and Mary Dudley, on 18 October 1627 (contract). The couple had eight children: * James Stuart, Lord Doune, who married Katherine Tollemache. *

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, married after 1658 Emilia Balfour (? - January 1683) * Hon. Francis Stuart of Cullello,

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* Hon. Archibald Stuart of

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, Fife (? - February 1688),

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, married in 1669 Anna Henderson, daughter of Sir John Henderson, 5th of Fordell and wife Margaret Menteith, and had: **Charles Stuart (?–1732), married Jean Hamilton, daughter of Alexander Hamilton (ancestor of Barons Hamilton) and had issue:

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, Jean and Mary ** Margaret Stuart (? - October 1719), married firstly to

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, of Burray (?–1704), and had issue, and married secondly to David Leslie, 5th Lord Lindores (? - July 1719), without issue * Lady Margaret Stuart (? - January 1667), married in 1654 Sir

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(c. 1621 - 31 August 1674), and had issue * Lady Henrietta Stuart, married in 1662 Sir Hugh Campbell of Calder (or of Cawdor), whose daughter, Margaret married Hugh Rose, 15th of Kilravock and was the mother of Hugh Rose, 16th of Kilravock. Their other daughter was Anne (b. abt 1676), who married Murdoch MacLean, 13th of Lochbuie (Abt 1672–1727) in November 1705. This couple had a daughter, Margaret (b. abt 1708), who married Donald Campbell, of Airds (1704–1775) in 1729. They are the great-grandparents of

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(1807–1853). *Lady Anne Stuart (1644 - died young) * Lady Anne Stuart (1650–1719), married in 1666 David Ross of Balnagowen * Lady Mary Stuart (

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, 1628 - May 1668), married at

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, on 13 May 1650

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(

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, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 26 February 1628/9 - Cross of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, 30 June 1685), and had issue The Earl and Countess refurbished their house at

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, employing English artisans including painters, Edward Arthur and George Crawford. They installed a fountain with a bronze figure of Mercury. The Countess lived as a widow till 1683, she maintained Moray House in Edinburgh and its gardens, and planted woods at Donibristle. In 1677 and 1679 there were portraits of "Lord Doune" and

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in "Her Grace's Bed Chamber", possibly of this Lord Moray before 1638 as "Lord Doune" or his eldest son, James, also Lord Doune, who married Katherine Tollemache in December 1677. A portrait of Katherine, Lady Doune at Ham was the work of Lodewijk van der Helst.Alastair Laing, 'Fitting Rooms to Pictures', in Christopher Rowell, ''Ham House'' (Yale, 2013), pp. 408, 412, 422, 425 . Ham belonged to the earl's brother-in-law,

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, whose first wife was Lady Anne Home.

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