page_title: Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany
section_title: Marriage and family
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany / Marriage and family
caption_attribution_description: English: John Stewart, Earl of Buchan. Engraving taken from a portrait in the Chateau de Chambord
context_page_description: Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany was a member of the Scottish royal family who served as regent to three different Scottish monarchs. A ruthless politician, Albany was widely regarded as having caused the murder of his nephew, the Duke of Rothesay, and brother to the future King James I of Scotland. James was held in captivity in England for eighteen years, during which time Albany served as regent in Scotland, king in all but name. He died in 1420 and was succeeded by his son, Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, who was executed for treason when James returned to Scotland in 1425, almost causing the complete ruin of the Albany Stewarts.
context_section_description: Albany married twice. Firstly, in 1361, he married Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith, (1334–1380) a wealthy divorcee who took him as her fourth husband. His sister-in-law's claim to the Earldoms of Menteith and Fife allowed him to assume those titles after marriage. The couple had eight children, seven daughters and a son:
  Lady Janet Stewart (married Sir David de Moubray)
  Lady Mary Stewart (married Sir William Abernathy, 6th of Saltoun)
  Lady Margaret Stewart (married to Sir John Swinton, 14th of that Ilk)
  Lady Joan Stewart (married Sir Robert Stewart, 1st Lord of Lorne and had descendants)
  Lady Beatrice Stewart (married Sir James Douglas of Balveny)
  Lady Isobel Stewart (married to Alexander Leslie, 7th Earl of Ross and later to Walter de Haliburton, 1st Lord Haliburton of Dirleton and had descendants)
  Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany (1362–1425) (Married Joan Douglas and later to Isabel, Countess of Lennox).
  Lady Margery (married Sir Duncan Campbell, 1st Lord Campbell and had descendants)
  Margaret died in 1380 and Albany subsequently married Muriella Keith, with whom he had three children:
  John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan (1381–1424); he fought in France against the English during the Hundred Years War, serving with distinction, but was killed at the Battle of Verneuil on 17 August 1424.
  Robert Stewart, Earl of Ross, died without issue
  Lady Elizabeth Stewart (married to Malcolm Fleming, ancestor of Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming)
caption: Stewart's son, John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Buchan, in a late-18th-century engraving. Buchan was killed at the Battle of Verneuil in 1424.
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