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Margaret, Countess of Mar, 10th holder of the Earldom and 2nd Lady Garioch, married 1stly the Earl of Douglas, and 2ndly Sir John Swinton of Swinton. Margaret died before December 1393 and was succeeded by her daughter Isabel by her marriage to the Earl of Douglas. Isabel, Countess of Mar, 11th holder of the Earldom, married 1stly Sir Malcolm ...
John Erskine, 23rd and 6th Earl of Mar and 1st Duke of Mar KT (1675 – May 1732), was a prominent Scottish nobleman and a key figure in the Jacobite movement. He held the title of the 23rd Earl of Mar from the earldom's first creation and was the sixth earl in its seventh creation (of 1565). [1] Erskine, often remembered for his political ...
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (c. 1531 – 23 January 1570) was a member of the House of Stewart as the illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland. At times a supporter of his half-sister Mary, Queen of Scots , he was the regent of Scotland for his half-nephew, the infant King James VI , from 1567 until his assassination in 1570.
Erskine inherited the earldom of Mar in 1572 upon the death of his father, John, 1st (and 18th) Earl of Mar, who had become regent for the five-year-old James VI in 1571. Mar grew up with James at Stirling Castle, and in 1578 he made himself James’s guardian. When his influence over the young king was challenged by Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of ...
When John Stewart Earl of Mar was born in 1456, in Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, James II Stewart King of Scotland, was 26 and his mother, Maria van Gueldres, was 25. He died on 18 July 1479, in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland, at the age of 23, and was buried in Craigmiller Castle, Midlothian, Scotland.
When John Stewart 2nd Earl Of Atholl Earl Of Mar was born on 19 April 1475, in Fife, Scotland, his father, Sir John Stewart 1st Earl of Atholl, was 34 and his mother, Lady Eleanor Sinclair of Caithness - Countess of Atholl, was 18. He married Janet Campbell on 20 June 1489, in Fife, Scotland. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 13 ...
father John Erskine, 1st and 18th Earl of Mar. John Erskine, 2nd earl of Mar (born c. 1558—died Dec. 14, 1634, Stirling, Stirling, Scot.) was a Scottish politician and friend of King James VI; he helped James govern Scotland both before and after James ascended the English throne (as James I) in 1603. Erskine inherited the earldom of Mar in ...
