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Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Strathearn and Caithness (died 26 March 1437) was a Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert II of Scotland. Stewart was an enthusiastic advocate of the ransom and return to Scotland of the future king in exile, James I, in 1424. In 1425 he served as a member of the jury of 21 which tried and executed his nephew ...
Methven Castle and Collegiate Church. Professor Richard Oram. In the third week of February 1437, ‘that old serpent and ancient of evil days’, Walter Stewart, earl of Atholl, James’s last surviving uncle, was probably deep in council with his fellow conspirators in his castle at Methven, just 10km west of Perth.
Walter. Earl. of. Athol. Scottish (Lanarkshire) and English: originally an occupational name for an administrative official of an estate, from Middle English stiward, Old English stigweard, stīweard, a compound of stig ‘house (hold)’ + weard ‘guardian’. In the Anglo-Saxon period this title was used of an officer controlling the ...
Brief Life History of John. When Sir John Stewart 4th Earl of Atholl was born in July 1526, in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland, his father, John Stewart 3rd Earl of Atholl, was 18 and his mother, Lady Grizel Rattray, Countess of Argyll, was 14. He married Elizabeth Gordon of Huntly on 26 May 1547, in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Stewarts of Atholl are directly descended from one of the most notorious Stewarts of the fourteenth century Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, more commonly known as 'The Wolf of Badenoch'. Alexander is most widely known for leading the raid which led to the burning of Elgin Cathedral in 1391. Later he built his stronghold the Castle of Garth ...
Fiona Stewart of Atholl was born in 1347, in The Lennox, Dunbartonshire, Scotland as the daughter of Walter Stewart Earl of Athol, brother of King Robert II. She married Ranald Reginald Macdonald 1st of Clanranald And Glengarry before 1386, in Scotland. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters.
