John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox (4 September 1526, Linlithgow, West Lothian) was a prominent Scottish

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. He was the son of

Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox (14609 September 1513), was a prominent Scottish nobleman. Stewart was the son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox, and Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie. He died ...

and Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of

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and Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of King

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. The Earl of Lennox led an army to Linlithgow with the intention of liberating the young King

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from the pro-English Douglases. He was defeated by a smaller force led by

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, at the

Battle of Linlithgow Bridge The Battle of Linlithgow Bridge is a battle that took place on 4 September 1526 in the village of Linlithgow Bridge, outside the Scottish town of Linlithgow. It was fought between a force of 10,000 men led by the Earl of Lennox and a force of 2, ...

. He survived the battle and was taken captive, only to be subsequently murdered by

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. Lennox was succeeded by his son, Matthew Stewart, the father of

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, and the grandfather of King

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Family and issue

On 19 January 1511, he married Lady Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of

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and Lady Eleanor Sinclair, daughter of William Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Orkney.Sir James Balfour Paul, ''

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'', Volume I (''Stewart, Earl of Atholl'') and Volume VII (''Ross of Halkhead'') They had issue: *

Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (21 September 1516 – 4 September 1571) was a leader of the Catholic nobility in Scotland. He was the paternal grandfather of King James VI of Scotland and I of England. He owned Temple Newsam in Yorkshire, ...

* Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox and March (1522–1586) * John Stewart, 6th Lord of Aubigny (died c.1567), father of Esme Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox * Lady Helen (or Eleanor) Stewart, who married: firstly to William Hay, 6th Earl of Erroll; secondly to John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland. * Lady Elizabeth Stewart, who married Ninian Ross. She was the mistress of King James V, and the mother of Adam Stewart, Prior of

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Ancestors

Sources

G. E. Cokayne et al., eds. ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant''. Reprint ed. (Gloucester, UK: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000). Richard D Oram in his article on John Stewart 3rd Earl of Lennox in the new Ox. DNB writes that he married Elizabeth Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl on 19 January 1511. Stewart, John, 3rd Earl

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1526 deaths Year of birth uncertain 16th-century Scottish peers {{Scotland-earl-stub