Lady Margaret Douglas

Margaret Stewart was a daughter of Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox.[1] Balfour Paul does not provide a date of birth but suggests she was an child of the second marriage, as shown here. However she was contracted to marry in 1507 and married in 1508 or early 1509. Even if 16 when she married she must have been born c. 1492 and before his marriage to Elizabeth Hamilton in 1495. Thus she was likely a daughter to his first marriage to Margaret Lyle and Sir James Balfour Paul inaccurate.

She was contracted to marry William Cunningham, Master of Glencairn, son of Cuthbert, Earl of Glencairn, and a dispensation obtained for their marriage 15 December 1507.[2]

This marriage did not take place, and she was married, but apparently without the sanction of the Church, before 12 March 1509 to John Fleming, 2nd Lord Fleming.

In 1509, John Fleming, son to Fleming of Boghall, was denounced for rape on her.[3] She was thereafter divorced from her husband by the Archbishop of Glasgow, a common practice in cases of rape. A papal dispensation for their re-marriage granted on 17 December 1509, they being in the fourth degree of consanguinity and of affinity.

This marriage was dissolved on the grounds that one James Lindsay, cousin-german to Lord Fleming, had known her before marriage, this before 26 October 1515, at which date she is styled in a charter "olim reputata sponsa" (once reputable spouse).[4]

She was married again, before 1 May 1528, to Alexander Douglas of Mains.[5]

There is no notice in Balfour Paul of any children to her marriages.

John Fleming mar. (3 & 4, or 4 & 5) bef. 13 Feb 1508/9 (div. c. 1509; remar. after 17 Dec 1509; div. bef. 25 Oct 1515; mar. (2) bef. 1 May 1528 Alexander Douglas of Mains) Lady Margaret Stewart, 1st dau. of Matthew [Stewart], 2nd or 11th Earl of Lennox, by his second wife Elizabeth Hamilton, only dau. of James [Hamilton], 1st Lord Hamilton, by his second wife the Princess Mary, former wife of Thomas [Boyd], 1st Earl of Arran, and 1st dau. of James II, King of Scotland

(Possibly) the children of John Fleming and Margaret Stewart (Stirnet):

• 1. James Fleming of Henderland (b. 1502 / 1510 - d after 4 Apr 1532). Died unmarried.
• 2. (daughter) Fleming. Married? James Tweedie, of Drummelzier. (This marriage may have been contracted but never confirmed. Perhaps as a way of defusing the fued between the families.)
• 3. (daughter)’ Fleming. (b Abt 1508 - d 1580). Married Laird Patrick "of Falahill" Murray

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The Scottish Nation: Fleming

[John, second Lord Fleming] … married, secondly, Lady Margaret Stewart, eldest daughter of Matthew second earl of Lennox. She got a charter from her husband of the lands of Biggar and Thankertoun March 12, 1508-9. They were soon after divorced, and she resigned the lands in his favour October 26, 1516, and was then designed ‘olim reputatae spousae dicti Johannis.’ She afterwards married Alexander Douglas of Mains. In 1508 he had been denounced rebel at the king’s horn, and fined in the penalty of five hundred merks for not entering John Fleming of Boghall, for whom he had become surety or bail, for trial, charged with art and part of the rape or ravishment of the said Lady Margaret Stewart.

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From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Margaret Stuart:

http://thepeerage.com/p525.htm#i5241

Margaret Stuart

• F, #5241
• Last Edited=9 May 2008
• Consanguinity Index=0.03%

Margaret Stuart married Alexander Douglas, 6th of Mains.[1]

She married, firstly, Lord John Fleming before 13 February 1509.[1]

She was the daughter of Matthew Stuart, 2nd Earl of Lennox and Hon. Elizabeth Hamilton.

• Her married name became Douglas.[1]
• Her married name became Fleming.

Citations

• 1. [S22] Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 512. Hereinafter cited as Burkes Extinct Peerage

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