James Stewart, 5th Lord Innermeath (died 1586) was a Scottish peer, courtier and landowner. He was the son of John Stewart, 4th

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and Elizabeth Beaton, daughter of David Betoun of Creich. She was a former mistress of

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. His younger brother was the court poet John Stewart of Baldynneis. His maternal half-sister was Jean Stewart, Countess of Argyll. He became Lord Innermeath on the death of his father in 1579. Innermeath in

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is now called Invermay. He claimed in July 1582 that his family had held the right to the Colonelship of the Sherrifdom of Perth for generations, but Patrick Lord Drummond had challenged this right and stole away his court documents at the Market Cross of

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. He died on the 14 February 1586.

Marriage and family

He married Helen Ogilvy, daughter of James, 4th Lord Ogilvy of Airlie. Their children included: *

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, who married (1) Margaret Lindsay, daughter of

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and Katherine Campbell, (2) Marie Ruthven, the widow of John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl, and daughter of

William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie, 4th Lord of Ruthven (c. 1541May 1584) was a Scottish peer known for devising the Raid of Ruthven. Life and career William Ruthven was born in 1541 in Ruthven Castle, in Perthshire, Scotland, the son of Patr ...

and Dorothea Stewart. * Robert Stewart, who was a servant of the murdered

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, and in 1592 tried to assassinate the

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in revenge. He disguised himself in Highlandman's clothes for an attempt made in Perth. Annie I. Cameron, ''Calendar State Papers Scotland: 1593-1595'', vol. 11 (Edinburgh, 1936), p. 74. * Katherine Stewart, who married William Ruthven of Ballindean, and was the mother of Patrick Ruthven, 1st Earl of Forth

References

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