Simon Fraser, 6th Lord Lovat (1570–1633) was a Scottish courtier and landowner. Simon Fraser was the son of Hugh Fraser, 5th

Lord Lovat Lord Lovat () is a title of the rank Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1458 for Hugh Fraser by summoning him to the Scottish Parliament as Lord Fraser of Lovat, although the holder is referred to simply as Lo ...

and Elizabeth Stewart daughter of

John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl (died 25 April 1579), called the Fair, was a Scottish nobleman and courtier. He was favoured by Mary, Queen of Scots, but later turned against her. Biography Stewart was the son of John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Ath ...

. He was born on 13 April 1570.

Biography

His first wife was Katherine Mackenzie daughter of Colin Mackenzie of Kintail. They married at

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in 1589. She died in 1593 in childbirth in the painted (

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: "brech" or "briadh") chamber at

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. In January 1595 the

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, Lovat, and Kenneth Mackenzie were kept prisoners in

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, in order to pacify "Highland matters". Lovat was in favour with the king in June 1595 and rode with him from Linlithgow Palace to

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. In April 1596 he married Jean Stewart, daughter of

James Stewart, 1st Lord Doune James Stewart, 1st Lord Doune (1529–1590) was a Scottish landowner. Career James Stewart was the son of Sir James Stewart of Beith (d. 1547), Constable of Doune Castle, who was the third son of Andrew Stewart, 1st Lord Avondale, and Margaret ...

and Margaret Campbell, who was a lady in waiting to

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. As a wedding gift

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gave her two expensive velvet gowns, one purple and one black with gold

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. Jean Stewart also had valuable rights over the possessions of several forfeited members of the Gordon family who had killed her brother

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in 1592. According to the 17th-century family historian, James Fraser, James VI had offered Lovat the pick of the ladies at court to marry. At first his choice Jean Stewart refused him saying, "Sir, he is not bonny." James VI and Anna of Denmark pointed out the compensatory value of his lands of Lovat and Beauly. James Fraser says the wedding was at

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followed by a sumptuous and extravagant "in-fare" at Beauly. He noted that after bearing six children Jean Stewart was overweight "turning gross and too fat" and had no more, which he said was characteristic of the Stewarts of Doune. Their homes included the Abbot's House at

, Beaufort, Bunchrive or

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, Dalcross Castle, and a lodging in

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. Jean Stewart was involved in the building projects, Dalcross is near her cousin's house at Castle Stewart. Timber for buildings at Bunchrive and Dalcross was brought from Dalcattaig woods, and freestone from Caucy quarry. James Fraser, who was the grandson of their master of household, used their household books and papers in his chronicle of the family, and claimed that for his hospitality Fraser was known as the "Common Cooke of the North". Fraser attended the parliament to forfeit the

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in 1600. In 1617 Fraser and Jean Stewart went to Edinburgh to meet the king, and Fraser sat again in parliament. He died at Bunchrew on 15 April 1633, and was buried, not according to family tradition at Beauly, but at Kirkhill. He was succeeded as

by his son

Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat (1591-1645) was a Scottish landowner. Hugh Fraser was the son of Simon Fraser, 6th Lord Lovat and Katherine Mackenzie, daughter of Colin Mackenzie of Kintail. He was known as the Master of Lovat until he succeeded hi ...

Family

The children of Lord Lovat and Katherine Mackenzie included: * Hugh Fraser, 7th Lord Lovat, who married his cousin Isobella Wemyss, daughter of

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of Wemyss and Mary Stewart * Elizabeth Fraser, who married Alexander Dunbar (d. 1622). Fraser and Jean Stewart had six children including: * Anna Fraser, named after the queen, was born in March 1597 and died in 1603. * Sir James Fraser of Inverallochy * Sir James Fraser of Brea, father of the Covenanter James Fraser of Brea * Margaret Fraser, who married (1) Robert Arbuthnott of

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in 1617, (2) John Haldane of Gleneagles in 1633. Her portrait was painted in 1666 and she wears mourning clothes with an heirloom diamond set jewel with three pendant pearls, which may have belonged to her mother. * Simon Fraser, knight Jean Stewart died at Bunchrew in 1622.William Mackay, ''Fraser Chronicles'' (Edinburgh, 1905), p. 225. Fraser married thirdly Katherine Rose of Moynes, widow of James Grant of Logie, daughter of William

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of Kilravock, in 1624.

References

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