Elspeth (Stewart) Innes (1474 - 1564)

Born 1474 in Balveny, Fife, Scotland

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Died 1564 at about age 90 in Renfrewshire, Scotland

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She has apparent sisters named Elizabeth, and there has long been a question whether any of these are the same person. Verity explains that "We know from chronology that the Elizabeth who married John, 3rd Earl of Lennox, had to be a separate woman from the Elizabeth who married Robert Innes, and was living with him as late as 1539." "Boardman proposed combining the Elizabeth who married Alexander Robertson of Strowan (d. 1506), with the one who married the 3rd Earl of Lennox in 1512. At first glance, this would seem to work, but closer inspection proves it unlikely." "Chronology does, however, line up very nicely for the Elizabeth who married Robert Innes of Invermarkie Castle to have been the widow of Alexander Robertson of Strowan."

(Verity also disagrees with the Scots Peerage "Ninian Lord Ross was actually married to Lady Janet Stewart, the sister-in-law of Isabel (Stewart) countess of Lennox. His marriage to the dowager countess of Lennox is an error in the Scots Peerage article on Ross, which confused his marriage contract in 1523 to Elizabeth Ruthven countess of Erroll.")

Biography

Father Sir John Stewart, 1st Earl Atholl, Ambassador to England b. c 1440, d. 15 Sep 1512

Mother Eleanor Sinclair d. 21 Mar 1519

Elspeth Stewart^[1] married Robert Innes, 2nd Lord of Innermarkie, son of Walter Innes, 1st Lord of Innermarkie and Christian Gordon.^[2]

Family

• Robert Innes, 2nd Lord of Innermarkie d. c Oct 1551

Child

• Robert Innes, Master of Innermarkie d. b 10 Nov 1547

Sources

1. ↑ The Scots Peerage, Vol. I, edited by Sir James Balfour Paul, p. 442.
2. ↑ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 1938 ed., by Sir Bernard Burke, p., 1378

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