Fifth Earl of Menteith (de jure uxoris) 
Fifth Earl of Menteith (de jure was born in Dundonald, Ayshire, Scotland. Fifth Earl of Menteith (de jure's father was Walter I Stewart and his mother was Beatrix Douglas. His paternal grandparents were Alan le Steward and Margaret de Galloway; his maternal grandparents were Gilchrist Douglas De Angus and Marjory of Huntingdon. He had two brothers and four sisters, named Alexander, John, Eupheme, Elizabeth, Margaret and Daughter. He died before April 28th, 1296 in Inchmoh Island, Loch Rusky, Stirling, Scotland. He was buried in Inchmahome Priory, Menteith.General Notes
Walter Stewart, Earl of Menteith, so invested in right of his wife c 1260; called Ballach or Bailloch ("Freckled"); allegedly also accompanied St Louis 1248; Sheriff of Ayrshire 1264 and Dunbartonshire 1289; married Mary, Countess of Menteith in her own right, younger daughter and coheir of Maurice, 3rd Earl of Menteith, and died by 28 April 1296 (Burke's Peerage)
Recognized as Earl of Menteith before 19 Jan 1261-62.
'Walterus Senescallus, comes de Menthet' renewed and confirmed a grant of the church of Kilcolmanel in Kintyre to the Abbey of Paisley on that date (Red Book of Menteith II:216, citing Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, p 121)
Fought at the Battle of Largs, 1263
Witness to the marriage contract of Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway, dated Roxburgh, 25 July 1281 (Cowan p. 94)
'Walterus Senescallus comes de Menethe', together with his sons Alexander and John, entered into a bond with Robert de Brus and others at Turnberry, 20 Sept 1286 (Red Book of Menteith II:219-220)
Supporter of Bruce the Competitor for the Scots crown, 1291 (Barrow, p 388)
'Walter, Earl of Menteith', one of the auditors for the claim of Bruce at Berwick, 2 June 1292 (Crawfurd, p 20)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1046 in Dol, Ille-et-Vilaine, St. Malo, Bretagne, France d.> 1101
- b.~ 1075 in Hesdin d.~ 1114 in Oswestry Castle, Shropshire, England
- b.~ 1050 in Dol, Normandie, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1106 in Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1177 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1038 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France d.> 1091 in England
- b.~ 1081 in Shropshire, England d.BET 1126 AND 1149
- b.~ 1040 in Normandy, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1129 in Paisley Abbey, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1204 in Scotland
- b.~ 1085 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1106 AND 1111 in Molle, Durham, England d.> 1186
- b.BET 1160 AND 1175 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d.1241 in Dundonald, Ayshire, Scotland
- b.BET 1090 AND 1096 in Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.12 May 1166 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.BET 1130 AND 1140 in Carrick, Argyllshire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandy
- b.~Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-la-Forat, Normandy, France
- b.BET 1031 AND 1032 in Flanders d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.BET 1095 AND 1104 in Talby, Yorkshire, England d.BET 1132 AND 1194 in Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland
- b.~ 1068 in England d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1218 AND 1219 in Dundonald, Ayshire, Scotland d.<28 Apr 1296 in Inchmoh Island, Loch Rusky, Stirling, Scotland
- b.BET 1055 AND 1078 in Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland d.< 1129
- b.1099 in Angus, Forfarshire, Scotland d.> 1115
- b.BET 1118 AND 1123 in Forfar, Angusshire, Scotland d.~ 1187 in Angus, Forfarshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1100 in Mearns, Kincardineshire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1143 AND 1154 in Forfar, Angusshire, Scotland d.BET 1207 AND 1211
- b.BET 1062 AND 1073 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.22 Aug 1138 in The Battle of the Standard
- b.BET 1090 AND 1095 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.22 Aug 1138 in Battle of the Standard
- b.BET 1074 AND 1082 d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1110 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland d.< 1179
- b.~ 1094 d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1174 AND 1184 in Forfar, Angushire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.BET 1038 AND 1045 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.~ 1085 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.~ 1152 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1058 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1130 in Caithness-shire, Scotland d.1206 in Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.1118 in Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland d.1154
- b.BET 1155 AND 1157 in Caithness-shire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
- b.1118 in Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland d.1154
- b.~ 1140 in Methil, Fifeshire, Scotland d.UNKNOWN
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Children
Alexander De Menteith
Alexander was born about 1260 in Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland. He died in Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland.
Source/Citation
Ancestry/Eileen McKinnon-Suggs
Ancestry/Eileen McKinnon-Suggs
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