Margaret (Stewart) Knox (abt. 1547 - abt. 1612)

Born about 1547 in Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of John Knox — married 26 Mar 1564 (to about 1572) in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland

Wife of Andrew Ker — married 8 Jan 1574 in Ochiltree, Ayrshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died about 1612 at about age 65 in Scotland

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Biography

MARGARET STEWART was born circa 1547, the daughter of Andrew Stewart, 2nd Lord Ochiltree and Agnes Cunningham.^[1][2] She was a distant relative of the queen (Mary Tudor).

In March 1564, aged 17, Margaret married the protestant reformer, John Knox^[1][3] without Royal Assent.

John Knox died in 1572, and a year later, by a contract dated 8 January 1573/4, Margaret married Sir Andrew Ker of Faldonside.^[1]

Margaret died around 1612.^[2]

Margaret had three children with John Knox:^[4]

1. Martha Knox
2. Margaret Knox
3. Elizabeth Knox

NOTES:

In Rev. Charles Rogers' 1879 book concerning (and romanticizing) John Knox^[5] we read the following about this MARGARET STEWART:

"Having remained a widower upwards of three years, Knox, in March 1563-4 espoused Margaret Stewart second daughter of Andrew, third Lord Ochiltree. His wife inherited royal blood: she was descended from Robert II through his second son, Robert, Duke of Albany. Her father, known as "the good Lord Ochiltree," was the Reformer's deeply-attached friend and one of the earliest and most zealous promoters of the Reformed doctrines."

and

"John Knox, as has been related, married, secondly, Margaret Stewart in March 1563-4. Married at sixteen, Mrs. Knox became a widow at the age of twenty-four. By the General Assembly [of the Church in Scotland] of March 1572-3, she was, at the suggestion of the Regent [the Earl of] Morton, allowed for the year succeeding his death, the Reformer's "pension" of 500 merks. In 1574 she married Andrew Ker of Faldonsyde, Roxburghshire. A zealous promoter of the Reformation, Ker joined his cousin Lord Ruthven in the [wider] conspiracy against Riccio By a charter of alienation, confirmed 8th April 1574, and renewed 21st March, 1585-6, he granted as a provision to his wife, Margaret Stewart, in her widowhood, the liferent of a third of the lands in Haddingtonshire which he had inherited from his mother, Margaret Halyburton, one of the co-heiresses of the 6th Lord Halyburton of Dirleton."^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} The Scots Peerage; Balfour Paul; Vol 6; page 514
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Knox, John (c. 1514–1572); Jane E. A. Dawson in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/15781; accessed 21 Jul 2020
3. ↑ The Works of John Knox; Woodrow Society; Edinburgh; 1846; page xx
4. ↑ Wikipedia: John Knox
5. ↑ Rogers, C. , Genealogical Memoirs of John Knox and of the Family of Knox, Grampian Club, Edinburgh.
6. ↑ Rogers, 1879

• Percy, Lord Eustace, John Knox, London, 1937, p.398.
• Parry, M., editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 6th edition, Edinburgh, 1997/reprinted 2000, p.1054.

See also:

• History of Nathaniel Evans of Cat Fish Creek and his descendants: Author: Ancestry.com: Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005.Original data - Evans, James Daniel,. History of Nathaniel Evans of Cat Fish Creek and his descendants. Williamsburg, Va.?: unknown, 1905.Original data: Evans, James Daniel,. History of Na: Imprint information from NUC pre-1956 imprints.|||Includes bibliographical references and index.

• https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Knox

Acknowledgements

• Profile Stewart-1660 was created through the import of Dickinson Family Tree.ged on 31 Mar 2011
• WikiTree profile Stewart-2653 created through the import of FAMILY_2011-05-26.ged on May 26, 2011 by Jacky Gamble.