John Stewart was born around 1594. John was the second son of Francis Stewart and Margaret Douglas. He was the last Commendator of Coldingham Priory and 1st secular feudal Baron of Coldingham.
On 16 June 1622 he transferred the barony to his elder brother, Francis. John was still living in April 1636, and apparently into the 1650s, when he is mentioned by Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet in The Staggering State of the Scottish Statesman, but he seems to have been dead by 1656, when a grandson named Francis was described as his heir when the barony of Coldingham was acquired by the Home of Renton family.
In 1619 in Berwickshire, Scotland, John Stewart married Margaret Home. They had a daughter Margaret who married Sir John Home, Lord Renton. John Stewart of Coldingham is also identified as the father of Francis Stewart of Coldingham, "grandson of the Earl of Bothwell", who became a trooper in the Scottish Life Guards after the Restoration, gained a captain's commission in the Scots Greys, and commanded the left wing at the Battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679, and died around 1683. There seems little evidence to confirm this identification, however, and it is possible that this was the cavalryman son of the titular 6th Earl, who is called "Francis" by Scott of Scotstarvet.
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