Individual Details
Jean Stewart
(Abt 1481 - 1550)
[[Category:Edward_III_5th_Gen_Descendants]]
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==Biography==
Brad Verity has posted a detailed examination of evidence for the daughters of the first Earl of Atholl, and this profile is one of those daughters. As a descendant of English and Scottish royalty it is interesting to get their story right.http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2014-05/1400615297
According to Verity, Jean's first name is uncertain, apparently first recorded centuries after she lived.
Also, the name of her husband is often wrongly given, and there was no Robert Gordon of Pitlurg. Gordon pedigrees make it clear her husband was named John. (The correct John Gordon is for example on the Genealogics website, citing Burkes, but with Robert Gordon and Jean Stewart as his parents.http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00253619&tree=LEO)
Verity describes the evidence:
:The first, earlier, source is a manuscript pedigree from about the year 1644, which states, "His son John Gordon second Laird of Pitlurge married the Earl of Athols daughter Stuart, with whom he begat a son John Gordon third Laird of Pittlurg":
https://archive.org/stream/houseofgordon01bulluoft#page/n111/mode/2up
:The other source, a 1894 book 'The Thanage of Fermartyn' by Rev. William Temple, states "He [John Gordon, who in 1539 received a grant of the lands of Pitlurge] married Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of the first Earl of Athole of that family, by his second wife, Lady Eleanor St. Clair...Lady Jean predeceased her husband, having borne him two sons...John Gordon married secondly, Margaret Drummond, of the family of Stobhall, without issue...He died in 1546, and was succeeded by his eldest son":
https://archive.org/stream/thanageoffermart00temp#page/310/mode/2up :No documentation by Rev. Temple is offered as evidence for any of the above. The marriage settlement of John Gordon, son and heir of John Gordon of Pitlurg and his Stewart of Atholl wife, to Janet Ogilvy, is dated 7 December 1543:
https://archive.org/stream/registrummagnisi03scot#page/694/mode/2up
:John Gordon of Pitlurg was dead by 8 July 1546, when his son and heir John Gordon confirmed the dower lands of his stepmother Margaret Drummond:
https://archive.org/stream/registrummagnisi03scot#page/766/mode/2up
:It's interesting that the 1644 manuscript doesn't name John Gordon's Stewart of Atholl wife. It's not until DP in 1813 that we get a name for her, 'Jean'. There's a reason to think that Jean, however, was not this daughter's first name. We know the 1st Earl of Atholl had a daughter by that name by his first wife Margaret Douglas. That Jean/Janet became the countess of Huntly. It would appear he also had a daughter by the name Jean with his second wife Eleanor Sinclair, that was a separate lady from this wife of John Gordon.
==Sources==
===Acknowledgements===*This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.
* WikiTree profile Stewart-3235 created through the import of FAMILY 6162011.GED on Jun 20, 2011 by [[Stephenson-407 | Michael Stephenson]]. See the [http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Stewart-3235 Changes page] for the details of edits by Michael and others.
}
==Biography==
Brad Verity has posted a detailed examination of evidence for the daughters of the first Earl of Atholl, and this profile is one of those daughters. As a descendant of English and Scottish royalty it is interesting to get their story right.http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2014-05/1400615297
According to Verity, Jean's first name is uncertain, apparently first recorded centuries after she lived.
Also, the name of her husband is often wrongly given, and there was no Robert Gordon of Pitlurg. Gordon pedigrees make it clear her husband was named John. (The correct John Gordon is for example on the Genealogics website, citing Burkes, but with Robert Gordon and Jean Stewart as his parents.http://www.genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00253619&tree=LEO)
Verity describes the evidence:
:The first, earlier, source is a manuscript pedigree from about the year 1644, which states, "His son John Gordon second Laird of Pitlurge married the Earl of Athols daughter Stuart, with whom he begat a son John Gordon third Laird of Pittlurg":
https://archive.org/stream/houseofgordon01bulluoft#page/n111/mode/2up
:The other source, a 1894 book 'The Thanage of Fermartyn' by Rev. William Temple, states "He [John Gordon, who in 1539 received a grant of the lands of Pitlurge] married Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of the first Earl of Athole of that family, by his second wife, Lady Eleanor St. Clair...Lady Jean predeceased her husband, having borne him two sons...John Gordon married secondly, Margaret Drummond, of the family of Stobhall, without issue...He died in 1546, and was succeeded by his eldest son":
https://archive.org/stream/thanageoffermart00temp#page/310/mode/2up :No documentation by Rev. Temple is offered as evidence for any of the above. The marriage settlement of John Gordon, son and heir of John Gordon of Pitlurg and his Stewart of Atholl wife, to Janet Ogilvy, is dated 7 December 1543:
https://archive.org/stream/registrummagnisi03scot#page/694/mode/2up
:John Gordon of Pitlurg was dead by 8 July 1546, when his son and heir John Gordon confirmed the dower lands of his stepmother Margaret Drummond:
https://archive.org/stream/registrummagnisi03scot#page/766/mode/2up
:It's interesting that the 1644 manuscript doesn't name John Gordon's Stewart of Atholl wife. It's not until DP in 1813 that we get a name for her, 'Jean'. There's a reason to think that Jean, however, was not this daughter's first name. We know the 1st Earl of Atholl had a daughter by that name by his first wife Margaret Douglas. That Jean/Janet became the countess of Huntly. It would appear he also had a daughter by the name Jean with his second wife Eleanor Sinclair, that was a separate lady from this wife of John Gordon.
==Sources==
===Acknowledgements===*This person was created through the import of Beaman Family Tree.ged on 31 March 2011. The following data was included in the gedcom. You may wish to edit it for readability.
* WikiTree profile Stewart-3235 created through the import of FAMILY 6162011.GED on Jun 20, 2011 by [[Stephenson-407 | Michael Stephenson]]. See the [http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Stewart-3235 Changes page] for the details of edits by Michael and others.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1481 | Fife, Scotland | |||
| Death | 1550 | ||||
| Alt name | Stuart | ||||
| Reference No | 1352310 | ||||
| Reference No | 1375666 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Sir John "of Balveny, 1st Earl of Atholl" Stewart (1440 - 1512) |
| Mother | Eleanor 'of Orkney' "Elinor Sinclair" Sinclair Countess of Athol (1457 - 1518) |
| Sibling | John "2nd Earl of Atholl" Stewart (1475 - 1521) |
| Sibling | Christian Stewart (1473 - 1538) |
| Sibling | Elspeth Stewart (1474 - 1564) |
| Sibling | Isabel "Margaret" Stewart (1475 - 1490) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Stewart (1476 - ) |
| Sibling | Jean Stewart (1479 - 1522) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth "Isabel" Stewart (1480 - ) |
| Sibling | Andrew Stewart (1485 - 1542) |
| Sibling | Lady Margaret Stewart (1487 - 1524) |
| Sibling | Mariote "Marjory" Stewart (1490 - 1529) |