Agnes Stewart, daughter of James "Hearty" Stewart and Margaret Murray. Born ± 1493 at Traquair, Peebles, Scotland, died Feb 1557, approximately 64 years Agnes; mistress of James IV; married 1st 1511 Adam Hepburn, 2nd Earl of Bothwell (killed Flodden 1513); married 2nd c1513 3rd Lord Home; married 3rd 4th Lord Maxwell; married 4th Cuthbert Ramsay and died Feb 1557. [Burke's Peerage, p. 1989] Married/ Related to: Alexander Home, son of Alexander Home and Nichole Ker. Born ± 1493 at Dunglass, East Lothian, Scotland, died Oct 8, 1516, approximately 23 years, cause of death: executed for treason Alexander Home, 3rd Lord Home; Great Chamberlain of Scotland 1507; together with Huntly led the van of the Scottish army at the disastrous defeat by the English of Flodden Field 1513; later supported the pro-English party against the Regent Albany, who had him tried for treason and executed 8 Oct 1516, his titles being forfeited. [Burke's Peerage] Child: |
2nd marriage/ relation Agnes Stewart, daughter of James "Hearty" Stewart and Margaret Murray. Married/ Related to: James Stewart, son of James Stewart and Margaret Oldenburg. Born Mar 17, 1473 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, died Sep 9, 1513 at battle of Flodden, against the England, Flendon, Scotland, 40 years, 1st married/ related to: Agnes Stewart, 2nd marriage to: Margaret Tudor At the age of fifteen the boy was captured by his father's's enemies and forced to follow them at the battle of Sauchieburn. As a result he was pursued by remorse for the rest of his life, feeling an association of guilt for his father's murder. As a king he was a consolidator of internal peace and patron of learning. He earned his praise of the scholar Erasmus and under his influence the Scottish arts flourished: example, in the poetry of William Dunbar and Robert Henryson. He took up the cause of Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, and sheltered him for a while. He had a beautiful mistress, Margaret Drummond, who died mysteriously and suddenly just before his marriage in 1503 to Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII. It was through a descendant of this match that the crowns of England and Scotland were united exactly a century later. Child: 1. Janet StewartBorn ± 1500 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, died between 1560 and 1563, 62 or 63 years |