Individual Details
Elizabeth Stewart
(Aft 1460 - )
[[Category:Edward_III_5th_Gen_Descendants]]
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== Biography ==
'''Father''' Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl Atholl, Ambassador to England b. c 1440, d. 15 Sep 1512
'''Mother''' Margaret 'Fair Maid of Galloway' DouglasThe Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 99. d. bt 22 Jan 1473 - 19 Apr 1475
Elizabeth Stewart was born after 1460. She married Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray, Sheriff of Forfar, Justice of Scotland, son of Patrick Gray, Master of Gray and Annabella Forbes, before 1483.
'''Family'''
* Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray, Sheriff of Forfar, Justice of Scotland d. Feb 1514
'''Children '''The Scots Peerage, Vol. IV, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p.277- 278
* Isobel 'the Younger' Gray
* Margaret Gray
* Janet Gray d. Oct 1539
* Andrew Gray d. b 13 Apr 1541
* Edward Gray d. a 5 Oct 1521
* Marjory Gray
* Elizabeth Gray
* Gilbert Gray d. 1541
==Doubts==
Brad Verity has registered the following on the Medieval Genealogy forum:http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2014-05/1400225322:She is called the first daughter of the 2nd wife by DP; the 2nd daughter of the 1st wife by BEP, listed as the 6th daughter in SP Atholl (1904), called the third daughter by the 1st wife in SP Gray (1907), and the 6th daughter of the 1st wife by CP 6 (1926), sub Gray.
:I've not yet located a single primary document to verify this daughter's first name and marriage to Lord Gray. Considering that she was one of only four of the 1st Earl's daughters to marry peers, this is rather odd. Andrew, 2nd Lord Gray, had a complicated marital history. SP Gray says his parents were married "before 1445", and that he married Elizabeth Stewart "before 1483", but doesn't cite a source for either date:https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/276/mode/2up
:The ODNB bio of the 2nd Lord Gray by Michael A. Penman simply follows SP when it comes to his wives and children, and doesn't estimate a birthdate for him, except to say he was probably a minor when he succeeded his grandfather in January 1470, which would make him born after 1450. He could not have been born too much later, as a marriage for him with a daughter of the Earl of Erroll was contracted in May 1457. SP Gray says Andrew the 2nd Lord had three children with his first wife Janet Keith, but provides no hint as to when that marriage occurred.
:Other than each being involved in the rebellion against James III in 1482, there is nothing in the ODNB bios of the 1st Earl of Atholl and the 2nd Lord Gray to link them together politically, and Gray's ODNB bio has no particulars at all as to his activities in the 1470s. A document of October 1474 does however connect Atholl and Gray. The three named witnesses to the marriage contract Atholl made with the Earl of Huntly (see link to it below) are "Jamys Erle of Buchan & lorde Ouchterhous owr deirast brother Androw lorde Gray Silvester of Retray".
:As Andrew Gray could have been born at any point between 1445 and 1457, it's possible he had married Atholl's daughter by October 1474 when he witnessed the marriage contract. Sadly neither of Gray's first two wives appear in the Registers of the Great Seal or Privy Seal of Scotland. Primary documents are needed to verify the first names and identification of Gray's first two spouses - it's odd that no marriage contract or settlement for either spouse exists.
''':At this point, Gray's marriage to a daughter of the 1st Earl of Atholl needs to be considered unsupported outside of secondary pedigrees.'''
In this time period Scottish courtiers were openly in defiance of the Church teachings on marriage. There was a blurred line between a mistress and a spouse who was recognized by their peers but not the courts or Church. It is odd, but it is plausible he was "married" w/o any contract or settlement.
== Sources ==
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== Biography ==
'''Father''' Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl Atholl, Ambassador to England b. c 1440, d. 15 Sep 1512
'''Mother''' Margaret 'Fair Maid of Galloway' DouglasThe Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. VI, p. 99. d. bt 22 Jan 1473 - 19 Apr 1475
Elizabeth Stewart was born after 1460. She married Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray, Sheriff of Forfar, Justice of Scotland, son of Patrick Gray, Master of Gray and Annabella Forbes, before 1483.
'''Family'''
* Andrew Gray, 2nd Lord Gray, Sheriff of Forfar, Justice of Scotland d. Feb 1514
'''Children '''The Scots Peerage, Vol. IV, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p.277- 278
* Isobel 'the Younger' Gray
* Margaret Gray
* Janet Gray d. Oct 1539
* Andrew Gray d. b 13 Apr 1541
* Edward Gray d. a 5 Oct 1521
* Marjory Gray
* Elizabeth Gray
* Gilbert Gray d. 1541
==Doubts==
Brad Verity has registered the following on the Medieval Genealogy forum:http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2014-05/1400225322:She is called the first daughter of the 2nd wife by DP; the 2nd daughter of the 1st wife by BEP, listed as the 6th daughter in SP Atholl (1904), called the third daughter by the 1st wife in SP Gray (1907), and the 6th daughter of the 1st wife by CP 6 (1926), sub Gray.
:I've not yet located a single primary document to verify this daughter's first name and marriage to Lord Gray. Considering that she was one of only four of the 1st Earl's daughters to marry peers, this is rather odd. Andrew, 2nd Lord Gray, had a complicated marital history. SP Gray says his parents were married "before 1445", and that he married Elizabeth Stewart "before 1483", but doesn't cite a source for either date:https://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun04pauluoft#page/276/mode/2up
:The ODNB bio of the 2nd Lord Gray by Michael A. Penman simply follows SP when it comes to his wives and children, and doesn't estimate a birthdate for him, except to say he was probably a minor when he succeeded his grandfather in January 1470, which would make him born after 1450. He could not have been born too much later, as a marriage for him with a daughter of the Earl of Erroll was contracted in May 1457. SP Gray says Andrew the 2nd Lord had three children with his first wife Janet Keith, but provides no hint as to when that marriage occurred.
:Other than each being involved in the rebellion against James III in 1482, there is nothing in the ODNB bios of the 1st Earl of Atholl and the 2nd Lord Gray to link them together politically, and Gray's ODNB bio has no particulars at all as to his activities in the 1470s. A document of October 1474 does however connect Atholl and Gray. The three named witnesses to the marriage contract Atholl made with the Earl of Huntly (see link to it below) are "Jamys Erle of Buchan & lorde Ouchterhous owr deirast brother Androw lorde Gray Silvester of Retray".
:As Andrew Gray could have been born at any point between 1445 and 1457, it's possible he had married Atholl's daughter by October 1474 when he witnessed the marriage contract. Sadly neither of Gray's first two wives appear in the Registers of the Great Seal or Privy Seal of Scotland. Primary documents are needed to verify the first names and identification of Gray's first two spouses - it's odd that no marriage contract or settlement for either spouse exists.
''':At this point, Gray's marriage to a daughter of the 1st Earl of Atholl needs to be considered unsupported outside of secondary pedigrees.'''
In this time period Scottish courtiers were openly in defiance of the Church teachings on marriage. There was a blurred line between a mistress and a spouse who was recognized by their peers but not the courts or Church. It is odd, but it is plausible he was "married" w/o any contract or settlement.
== Sources ==
Events
| Birth | Aft 1460 | Scotland | |||
| Death | Scotland | ||||
| Reference No | 1353889 | ||||
| Reference No | 1377245 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Sir John "of Balveny, 1st Earl of Atholl" Stewart (1440 - 1512) |
| Mother | Margaret Christian Douglas (1430 - 1475) |
| Sibling | Jean Stewart Countess of Huntly (1461 - 1510) |
| Sibling | Katherine Stewart (1473 - 1515) |