John
Fourth Lord Maxwell
formerly Maxwell
Born about in Caerlaverock, Dumfriesshire, Scotland
Ancestors 
Brother of
Robert Maxwell and Janet Maxwell
Husband of
Agnes Stewart
— married
about 1491 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Katherine (Maxwell) Glendonwyn, Mary (Maxwell) Johnstone, Robert (Maxwell) Fifth Lord Maxwell, Herbert Maxwell and Agnes (Maxwell) Charteris
Died
at about age 57
in Flodden Field, Branxton, Northumberland, England
Profile last modified
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| Preceded by John Maxwell |
4th Lord Maxwell 1485 - 1513 |
Succeeded by Robert Maxwell |
Biography
John (Maxwell) Fourth Lord Maxwell was killed in Action during the War of the League of Cambrai at the Battle of Flodden Field.
John (Maxwell) Fourth Lord Maxwell is a member of Clan Maxwell.
John Maxwell was the eldest son of John Master of Maxwell and Janet, daughter of George Crichton, Earl of Caithness who married about 1454. [1][2]
John married Agnes Stewart daughter of Alexander Stewart, 3rd of Garlies and his wife Elizabeth Douglas. They had five sons and four daughters:[3]
- Robert, successor of his father John.[3]
- Herbert, ancestor of the Maxwells of Clowdon in Kirkcudbright[3]
- John, Abbot of Dundrennan[3]
- Edward, [3]
- Henry, after the defeat by the English at Solway Moss he was taken prisoner and held at the Tower of London[3]
- Mary, married Sir John Johnstone of that ilk[3]
- Agnes, married Robert Charteris or Amisfield[3]
- Elizabeth, married Jardin of Applegirth[3]
- Katherine, married John Glendonyng of that ilk[3]
He was the 4th Lord Maxwell.[3]
Research Notes
George seems unlikely as a child as he is not in the The Book of Carlaverock and the connection to this specific John is unsourced.
Sources
- ↑ 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, 1909, Vol. VI, Archive.org, p. 477
- ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, London: William Pollard & Co, 1932, Ed. 2 Vol VIII, FamilySearch, p. 591
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 Fraser, Sir William N.. Book of Carlaverock: Memoirs of the Maxwells, Earls of Nithsdale, Lords of Maxwell & Herries, Edinburgh: private, 1873, Vol. I, Archive.org, pp. 157-72
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Categories: Battle of Flodden | Killed in Action, Scotland, War of the League of Cambrai | Clan Maxwell
alongside the more detailed bio from The Book of Carlaverock already linked
http://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p1365.htm#i41013
More research must be done before these two profiles are merged.