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William (Edmonstone) Edmonstone of Culloden and Ist of Duntreath (abt. 1395 - abt. 1460)

Born about in Culloden, Drummossie Moor, Scotlandmap
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Husband of — married 1425 in Scotlandmap
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Died about at about age 65 in Strathblane, Stirlingshire, Scotlandmap [uncertain]
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William (Edmonstone) Edmonstone of Culloden and Ist of Duntreath was an inhabitant of Medieval Scotland.
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William (Edmonstone) Edmonstone of Culloden and Ist of Duntreath is a member of Edmonstone Clan.

William was the son of Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Isabella Euphame Stewart de Brus (1348-1410)

He married, as her fourth husband, Lady Mary "Majority" Stewart, the second daughter of Robert III Stewart, King of Scotland in 1425.[1][2] They had issue:

  1. William[1]
  2. Elizabeth[1]

He died about 1460 when his son succeeded him. [1][3]

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013) 1: 646
  2. Paul, James Balfour, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom,( Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904), 1: 18 Internet Archive.
  3. Edmonstone, Sir Archibald, Genealogical Account of the Family of Edmonstone of Duntreath (Edinburgh: Private, 1875), 29-32, Internet Archive.

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Sir William Edmonstone of Culloden, 1st of Duntreath. d. 1460. m. 1425 the Lady Mary, 2nd dau. of King Robert III by Annabella, dau. of Sir John Drummond of Stobhall. She had been married previously to, 1stly, The Earl of Angus. 2ndly Sir James Kennedy, ancestor of the Marquess of Ailsa, by whom she had a son James, who became Bishop of St Andrews and one of the most powerful men in Scotland in the reign of James II. 3rdly Sir William Graham of Kincardine (ancestor of Dukes of Montrose). By her he had 1 son William and 1 dau., Mary, who married Humphrey Cunningham of Glengarnock.

Sir William first acquired the lands of Duntreath in 1434, or slightly earlier, when they were granted to his wife and himself by James I. He died in 1460 & was succeeded by his son. Source- http://www.edmo.

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