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WALTER STEWART, EARL OF MENTETH (S.), third son of WALTER , Third High
Steward. He was known as "Bailloch" or "the_freckled."
Married Mary, si ster of Isabella, Countess of Menteith.
He had the title adjudged to him 1258, and was confirmed in it 1285.
Died about 1295 leaving two sons
a) Alexander ALEXANDER , 2nd Earl of Menteth.
b) Sir John JOHN , Sir John.
Arms: His Seal shows fess chequy, with label five points in chief
(Laing). [Plate VI., fig. 84.] These Arms are also on his monument in the
Priory of Inchmahome, La ke of Menteith.
Birth: ABT. 1218 3
Death: BET. 1292 - 28 APR 1296 4 5
O ccupation: 1263 Sheriff of Ayr 6
Occupation: 1271 Sheriff of Dunbarton 6
Ance stral File #: H126-N2
Military Service: 1248 is said to have accompanied St Lo uis on CrusaDe 7
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Text: is said to have accompanied St Louis on CrusaDe 1248
Alexander lost the title to Menteith under Edward I but after
Bannockburn, Murdach, the eighth Earl (Younger son of Alexander), who
enjoyed the reunited title after the death of his brother Alan, the
seventh Earl.
The male line of the Stewart Earls failed in the fourth generation, when
Lady Mary, the daughter and heir ess of Alan, carried the earldom by
marriage to Sir John Graham, a gallant wa rrior, who did not long enjoy
it, being cruelly put to death by the English a fter the battle of Durham.
Sir Robert Stewart, after the death of the Countess Mary, was created
Earl of Menteith, afterwards Earl of Fife and Duke of Alba ny, and became
Regent of Scotland. Their son, Murdach Earl of Menteith and se cond Duke
of Albany, succeeded his father as Regent of Scotland; and the sad fate
of himself and his family at the hands of King James the First is matter
of history. The earldom of Menteith was then forfeited to the crown.
Walter Stewar t was the first Earl of Menteith of his name. He was the
father of
Alexander , Earl of Menteith, who was dispossessed of the earldom by
the English; and it was for a time divided between Sir John Hastings,
the competitor for the Crow n of Scotland, and his brother, Sir Edmund
Hastings, who married Lady Isabella Comyn. The successful
termination of the War of Independence at the battle of Bannockburn
restored the earldom to the Stewarts, and it was reunited under t he
younger son of Alexander, Murdach, the eighth Earl, who enjoyed the
title after the death of his brother Alan, the seventh Earl.
The male line of the St ewart Earls failed in the fourth generation, when
Lady Mary, the daughter and heiress of Alan, carried the earldom by
marriage to Sir John Graham, a gallant warrior, who did not long enjoy
it, being cruelly put to death by the English after the battle of Durham.
Their daughter and heiress, Lady Margaret Graham, married in
succession four husbands, Sir John Moray Lord of Bothwell, Thomas
thirteenth Earl of Mar, Sir John Drummond of Concraig, and Sir
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