John (Stewart) Stewart Master of Buchan is a member of Clan Stewart.
John Stewart was born about 1520 at Buchan, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, the eldest son of John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Buchan John Stewart (c1498-c1551) and Lady Margaret Scrymgeour of Dudhope (daughter of James Scrymgeour, Constable of Dundee).[1]
He was styled as Master of Buchan and retained this title until 1519.[2]
He married, firstly, Lady Mary Stewart, daughter of James Stewart (1st Earl of Moray) and his wife Lady Elizabeth Campbell. He and Lady Mary Stewart were divorced on 12 September 1546. [3].[1]
Master John Stewart of Buchan married secondly to Lady Margaret Ogilvy (c1527-c1550, daughter of Walter Ogilvy of Boyne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) and they had a daughter Christian or Christina (b: 1547/48; d: 20 Sep 1580, later Countess of Buchan). [3].[1]
John Stewart, Master of Buchan, was killed at the Battle of Pinkie on the 10th of September 1547 at Musselburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.[1]
His brother, James Stewart, succeeded him as Master of Buchan in 1547. [3]
Facts
Name: John , Master of Buchan Stewart.
Given Name: John , Master of Buchan.
Surname: Stewart.
A Given name was found in addition to a first name in the NAME tag.
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.3 The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom : extant, extinct, or dormant p379 Buchan
↑ 3.03.13.2 Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931, "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; free download at Internet Archive 2020; vol. II, p269 Stewart, Master of Buchan
Balfour Paul, James (1904). The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh : D. Douglas. p. 268. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
Lodge, Edmund (1838). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage: With Sketches of the Family Histories of the Nobility. Saunders and Otley. p. 67. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Basil Stewart :
AncestryDNA Paternal Lineage (discontinued) 47 markers, haplogroup R1b, Ancestry member BasilStewart, MitoYDNA ID A10718[compare]