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Egidia Stewart
(1355 - Aft 1388)
== Biography ==Egidia was the daughter of Robert II , Kings of Scotland. She married [[Douglas-388|William Douglas of Nithsdale]].''Wikipedia'', (http:www.wikipedia.com: accessed 12 July 2015), "William Douglas of Nithsdale," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Douglas_of_Nithsdale. She was known as the Fair Maid of Nithsdale.
== Sources ==
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[[Category:Scotland, Arbroath Profiles Needs Review]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, John Graham Family Worklist]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Stewart Family Worklist]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Ross Family Worklist]]
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== Biography ==
Egidia is a daughter of [[Stewart-1001|Robert II Stewart]] and [[Ross-649|Euphemia Ross]].Douglas Richardson. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 5 vols, ed, Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author 2013), vol. 1, pp. 640-641 BRUS 10.iii. Giles Stewart. She was known for her great beauty, which was so reknown that the King of France was said to have offered for her hand and sent an artist to Scotland to paint her likeness. Egidia, however, fell in love with one of the most famous knights in Scotland at that time, [[Douglas-388|Sir William Douglas]] of Nithsdale, the illegitimate son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd earl of Douglas, by an unknown mistress, and in 1387 she married him.Burnett, George. ''Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum'' (The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House (1880), vol. 4, appendix to preface, [https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir04grea/page/n167/mode/1up pp. clxiv-clxv].Paul, Sir James Balfour. ''The Scots Peerage.'' Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), [https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun01paul/page/16/mode/1up vol. 1, p. 16].Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. ''Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625.'' Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1899), [https://archive.org/stream/scottishkingsre00dunbuoft#page/169/mode/1up p. 169]. On their marriage, an annuity of £300 was granted to "Douglas, and the king's daughter, Egidia" and the first of these payments appears in the ''Exchequer Rolls'' of 1388.
There were two children from this marriage:Weir, Alison. ''Britain's Royal Families.'' London: The Bodley Head (1989), pp. 225-226.
*William Douglas, Knt. of Nithsdale*Giles Douglas; m(1) c.1407 Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney; m(2) aft. 29 Apr 1418 Alexander Stewart; she succeeded her brother in the territory of Nithsdale
Sir William Douglas was assassinated (probably) in 1392. The date of Egidia's death is not known.
==Research Note==[[Douglas-394|Isobel Douglas]] has been attached to this profile as a daughter of Egidia Stewart and WIlliam Douglas. However, there do not appear to be any reliable sources to back this up, and Isobel's profile lists her birthdate as c.1424. This is about 32 years after William Douglas's death. Accordingly, Isobel Douglas is being removed from this family.
== Sources ==
== Sources ==
-- MERGED NOTE ------------
[[Category:Scotland, Arbroath Profiles Needs Review]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, John Graham Family Worklist]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Stewart Family Worklist]]
[[Category:Declaration of Arbroath, Ross Family Worklist]]
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== Biography ==
Egidia is a daughter of [[Stewart-1001|Robert II Stewart]] and [[Ross-649|Euphemia Ross]].Douglas Richardson. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 5 vols, ed, Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author 2013), vol. 1, pp. 640-641 BRUS 10.iii. Giles Stewart. She was known for her great beauty, which was so reknown that the King of France was said to have offered for her hand and sent an artist to Scotland to paint her likeness. Egidia, however, fell in love with one of the most famous knights in Scotland at that time, [[Douglas-388|Sir William Douglas]] of Nithsdale, the illegitimate son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd earl of Douglas, by an unknown mistress, and in 1387 she married him.Burnett, George. ''Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum'' (The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House (1880), vol. 4, appendix to preface, [https://archive.org/details/rotuliscaccariir04grea/page/n167/mode/1up pp. clxiv-clxv].Paul, Sir James Balfour. ''The Scots Peerage.'' Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), [https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun01paul/page/16/mode/1up vol. 1, p. 16].Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. ''Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625.'' Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1899), [https://archive.org/stream/scottishkingsre00dunbuoft#page/169/mode/1up p. 169]. On their marriage, an annuity of £300 was granted to "Douglas, and the king's daughter, Egidia" and the first of these payments appears in the ''Exchequer Rolls'' of 1388.
There were two children from this marriage:Weir, Alison. ''Britain's Royal Families.'' London: The Bodley Head (1989), pp. 225-226.
*William Douglas, Knt. of Nithsdale*Giles Douglas; m(1) c.1407 Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney; m(2) aft. 29 Apr 1418 Alexander Stewart; she succeeded her brother in the territory of Nithsdale
Sir William Douglas was assassinated (probably) in 1392. The date of Egidia's death is not known.
==Research Note==[[Douglas-394|Isobel Douglas]] has been attached to this profile as a daughter of Egidia Stewart and WIlliam Douglas. However, there do not appear to be any reliable sources to back this up, and Isobel's profile lists her birthdate as c.1424. This is about 32 years after William Douglas's death. Accordingly, Isobel Douglas is being removed from this family.
== Sources ==
Events
| Birth | 1355 | Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland | |||
| Death | Aft 1388 | Scotland | |||
| Death | 1407 | Scotland | |||
| Marriage | Sir William Douglas | ||||
| Reference No | 880960 | ||||
| Reference No | 901438 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 | ||||
| Birth | Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland |
Families
| Spouse | Sir William Douglas (1370 - 1392) |
| Child | Egidia Douglas (1391 - 1438) |
| Child | Sir William "2nd Lord of Nithsdale" Douglas (1388 - 1419) |
| Father | Robert Stewart II (1316 - 1390) |
| Mother | Euphemia "Leslie" Ross (1320 - 1387) |
| Sibling | Earl David Stewart (1357 - 1389) |
| Sibling | Prince Walter Stewart (1360 - 1437) |
| Sibling | Princess Isabell Stewart (1360 - 1410) |
| Sibling | Egidia Stewart (1360 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Jean, Kathrina" Stewart (1362 - 1446) |
| Sibling | Catherine Stewart (1384 - 1480) |