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[[Category: House of Stewart]]
[[Category:Scotland, Notables]]
== Biography ==
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Joan Stewart was born about 1428, the third daughter of [[Stewart-419|James I ]], King of Scots and his queen-consort, [[Beaufort-20|Joan Beaufort]].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, p. 659 BRUS 12.iii. Joan Stewart Joan was born both deaf and mute.Burnett, George (ed). ''Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum'' (Exchequer Rolls of Scotland). Edinburgh: General Register House (1882), vol. 5 (1437-1454),[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d004665126&view=1up&seq=72 vol. 5, preface pp. lxviii-lxix].
On 18 October 1440 (at the age of tweve) she was contracted to marry [[Douglas-4057|James Douglas]], 3rd earl of Angus, but he died in 1446 before the marriage could take place.Weir, Alison. ''Britain's Royal Families.'' London: The Bodley Head (1989), p. 231. In 1445 she was sent to France, and after her sister Margaret's death she had been promised in marriage to her brother-in-law [[France-565|Louis, Dauphin of France later King Louis XI]], but her inability to speak was noted as a reason the marriage didn't take place. She returned to Scotland in 1457.
She married before 15 May 1459 [[Douglas-412|James Douglas]], 1st Earl of Morton, son of James Douglas, 2nd Lord of Dalkeith and Elizabeth Gifford.Paul, James Balfour. ''The Scots Peerage.'' Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), [https://archive.org/details/scotspeeragefoun06paul/page/356/mode/1up vol. 6, p.356]. They were granted a papal dispensation retroactively for their marriage on 7 January 1463/4 for being consanguineous in the second and third degrees. There were four children from this marriage:
*[[Douglas-408|Janet Douglas]]; m. [[Hepburn-21|Patrick Hepburn]], 1st earl of Bothwell; d. bef. 1490
*[[Douglas-7035|James Douglas]]; d. aft. 1480
*[[Douglas-3738|Elizabeth Douglas]]; d. aft. 1479*[[Douglas-1117|John Douglas]], 2nd earl of Morton; m. [[Crichton-216|Janet Crichton]]

Joan died on 22 June 1493, just four months before her husband.Cokayne, George Edward. ''The Complete Peerage; or, A history of the House of lords and all its members from the earliest times.'' London: The St. Catherine Press, Ltd. (1936), vol. 9, p. 287. She is buried at Dalkeith Church, Midlothian, Scotland.
== Research Notes ==
::'''Date of Death'''*Douglas Richardson states that Joan was living 16 Oct 1486 but died before 1490. Alison Weir concurs that Joan died sometime after 16 October 1486 but notes only that she was buried in Dalkeith Church and does not hazard a guess as to the date of her death. It is not certain what source Cokayne's information is based upon.
== Sources ==

See also:

* [[Wikipedia: Joan Stewart, Countess of Morton]]
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p10533.htm#i105328 The Peerage: Joan Stewart]

Birth	Abt 1428	Holyrood, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Death	22 Jun 1493	Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
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Father	James "King of Scotland, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick" Stewart (1394 - 1437)
Mother	Joan Beaufort (1404 - 1445)
Sibling	Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart (1432 - 1509)
Sibling	Annabella "Princess of Scotland" Stewart (1435 - 1509)
Sibling	James Stewart (1430 - 1460)
Sibling	Mary Stewart ( - 1465)
Sibling	Margaret Stewart (1424 - 1445)
Sibling	Isabella "Elizabeth, Isabel" Stewart (1426 - 1498)
Sibling	Eleanor Stewart (1429 - 1480)
Sibling	Alexander Stewart (1430 - )