General Notes

6th High Steward of Scotland.
High Steward of Scotland
Commander at Bannockburn, 1314.
Regent of Scotland.
Buried at Paisley, Scotland.

Walter Stewart, 6th Great Steward of Scotland; born 1292; Regent of Scotland during Robert I (The Bruce)'s absence in Ireland 1316, defended Berwick against an English army, made a raid with Douglas that nearly kidnapped Edward II from Yorkshire 1322; married 1st 1315 Marjorie, Lady of Scotland (died 1316), daughter of Robert I (The Bruce), and had issue; married 2nd Isabel, daughter of Sir John Graham of Abercorn, and died 9 April 1327. [Burke's Peerage]

Walter Stewart, b. 1292, d. 9 Apr 1326; m. (1) Marjory Bruce, by whom Robert I, King of Scots; m. (2) Isabel Graham, sister of Sir John Graham of Abercorn. [Magna Charta Sureties]

Note: I think MCS means Robert II, King of Scots as their child, of course she was daughter of Robert I.

Walter Stewart, b. 1292, d. 9 Apr 1327 (buried at Paisley, Scotland), High Steward of Scotland, son of James Stewart (d. 16 July 1309) and Egidia de Burgh. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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Walter, sixth High Stewart of Scotland, was born in 1292. In conjuction with Sir James Douglas he commanded one of the divisions of the Scottish army at Bannockburn in 1314, and in the following year received from King Robert I he had of his daughter the Lady Marjorie, in marriage. He took part in all the principal episodes in the War of Independence against Edward II, notable in the defence of Berwick agains a great English army, and acted as Regent of Scotland during King Robert's absence in Ireland. He died on 9 April 1326 at the early age of thirty-three. According to Douglas he married, as his first wife, Alice, daughter of Sir John Erskine, by whom he had a daughter Jean, married to Hugh, Earl of Ross, but there is no proof of this, and Hugh, Earl of Ross, married a sister of King Robert Bruce.

The Stewart's first wife, so far as recorded, was the Lady Marjorie Bruce, by whom he had an only child.

He married, secondly, Isabel, sister of Sir John Graham of Abercorn, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. [Scots Peerage I:14]
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Walter Stewart (1293-1326), the eldest son, so succeeded his father as high steward, distinguished himself under Bruce in the English wars. At the battle of Bannockburn in 1314, though then, according to Barbour 'but a beardless hyne,' he, with Sir James Douglas, commanded the left wing. In the following year Robert Bruce gave his his daughter Marjory in marriage, along with the barony of Bathgate, Linlithgowshire, and other lands; and in 1316, during the absence of Bruce in Ireland, he was, with Sir James Douglas, entrusted with the government of the kingdom. On the capture of Berwick from the English, Bruce entrusted the defence of the town and castle to Stewart, who, after repelling all the efforts of Edward to take them by assault, until the defeat of the English at Mitton, eventually compelled Edward to raise the siege. He signed the letter to the pope on 6 April 1320 asserting the independence of Scotland. In 1322 he was engaged with Douglas and Randolph in the attempt to surprise Edward at Byland Abbey near Malton, Yorkshire, and after the escape of Edward pursued him with five hundred horse to the gates of York. He died on 9 April 1326, and was buried at Paisley. By his wife, Marjory Bruce, who died in 1316, he had a son Robert, who succeeded to the Scottish throne as Robert II. After her death he married Isabel, daughter of Sir John Graham of Abercorn, by whom he had two sons, Sir John of Ralston and Sir Andrew. He is also stated to have married as his first wife Alice, daughter of Sir John Erskine, and to have had by her and only child Jean, first wife of Hugh, earl of Ross; but this must be regarded as doubtful. [Dictionary of National Biography XVIII:1182]