Margaret de Stafford
Margaret Stafford( born c. 1364; died 9 June 1396) was the daughter of Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford, and Philippa de Beauchamp.
She was the first wife of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and the grandmother of the 2nd Earl.
Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss
Margaret Wemyss, 3rd Countess of Wemyss and Countess of Cromarty( 1 January 165911 March 1705) was a Scottish peer.
Margaret was the daughter of David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss and Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes.
She succeeded to the family title in 1679, as the only child to outlive her father.
On 28 March 1672, Margaret married her cousin, Sir James Weymss of Caskieberry( later created Lord Burntisland for life) and they had three surviving children:
After Lord Burntisland died in 1682, the countess married Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat( later created Earl of Cromartie).
Francis Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss
Francis Wemyss Charteris Douglas, 8th Earl of Wemyss, 4th Earl of March( 15 April 177228 June 1853), known as the Earl of March from 1810 to 1826 and as the Earl of Wemyss and March from 1826 to 1853, was a Scottish peer.
David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss
David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss (6 September 1610July 1679) was an army officer.
He was the only son of John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss and Jean Gray (d. 1640), daughter of Lord Gray.
As Lord Elcho, a title he held between 1633 and 1649, he commanded a regiment of Fife infantry in the Scottish army which reached Newcastle upon Tyne in August 1640.
On 1 September 1644, at the head of about 6000 men, he was routed by Montrose at Tippermuir, and in August 1645, as supernumerary commander to Lieutenant-General William Baillie, again suffered defeat by Montrose's forces at Kilsyth.
He married three times:
He died in 1679 at Wemyss Castle in Fife, whose estate he had done much to develop.
The estates and titles passed to his daughter Margaret, countess of Wemyss.
Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar
Archibald Douglas, 1st Earl of Forfar, 2nd Earl of Ormonde( 3 May 1653 – 11 November 1712) was a Scottish peer.
He was the second son and youngest child of Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus and 1st Earl of Ormond, by his second wife, Jean Wemyss, the daughter of David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss and the Hon. Anna Balfour of Burleigh.
He was also the younger half- brother of James Douglas, 2nd Marquess of Douglas and the younger brother of Lady Margaret Douglas, wife of Alexander Seton, 1st Viscount of Kingston.
He was made the Earl of Forfar and Lord of Wandell and Hartside on 2 October 1661 at the age of eight.
He married Robina Lockhart( b.1662 -d.1741), daughter of Sir William Lockhart of Lee and Robina Sewster, on 19 August 1679 at Lincoln's Inn Chapel, London, England.
His only son, Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar, was born in 1692.
He was a Privy Counsellor to both King William III and Queen Anne from 1689 until his death in 1712.
He served as Commissioner of the Privy Seal from 1689 – 1690 and Commissioner for the Treasury from 1704- 1705.
In 1700, he moved the family residence from Bothwell Castle to his new mansion, Bothwell House, which was dubbed" New Bothwell Castle".
He voted for the Act of Union in 1707, having allegedly received £ 100 in payment from the English.
He died on 11 November 1712 and was buried in Bothwell Church, Scotland.
David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss
David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss( 29 April 167815 March 1720) was a Scottish peer and Member of Parliament who served as Lord High Admiral of Scotland from 1706 – 1714.
James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss
James Wemyss, 5th Earl of Wemyss( 30 August 169921 March 1756) was the son of David Wemyss, 4th Earl of Wemyss.
On 17 September 1720, he married Janet Charteris, heiress of the great Colonel Francis Charteris, and they had four children:
In 1730, he was key to securing the release his father- in- law from Newgate Prison after he was sentenced to hang for the capital felony of rape.
His second son, Francis, the seventh Earl, legally changed his name to Charteris, his mother's maiden name, on his inheritance of Colonel Charteris's estates and fortune built upon gambling.
George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland
George Gordon, 15th Earl of Sutherland (2 November 1633 – 4 March 1703) was a Scottish nobleman.
He was the eldest surviving son of John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland, and his first wife Lady Jean Drummond, daughter of James Drummond, the 1st Earl of Perth.
On 11 Aug 1659 he married Lady Jean Wemyss, daughter of David Wemyss, 2nd Earl of Wemyss, and his first wife Anna Balfour.
His only son was John Gordon, 16th Earl of Sutherland.
He also had one daughter Anna who married Robert 2nd Viscount of Arbuthnott.
He is buried in Holyrood Abbey.
His ornate monument by James Smith stands on the north wall.
John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss
John Wemyss, 1st Earl of Wemyss (1586–1649) was a Scottish politician.
Knighted in 1618, in 1625 Wemyss was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1625, with a charter to the barony of New Wemyss in that province of Canada.
In 1628 he was raised to the Peerage of Scotland as Lord Wemyss of Elcho, and in 1633 he was further honoured when he was made Lord Elcho and Methel and Earl of Wemyss, also in the Peerage of Scotland.
He was Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, a Privy Councillor and one of the Committee of the Estates.
Wemyss later supported the Parliament of Scotland against Charles I in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and died in 1649.
He married Jane Gray (daughter of Patrick Gray and his second wife, Mary Stewart, daughter of Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, the King's uncle) and was succeeded by his only son, David, the second Earl.
David Wemyss (died 1332)
Sir David Wemyss of Wemyss( d. 1332) was a 13th- 14th century Scottish noble.
David was the son of Michael Wemyss of Wemyss.
He performed fealty to King Edward I of England at Berwick upon Tweed in 1298, was a supporter of King Robert I of Scotland and signed the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320.
David died in 1332.

Question: Who is the paternal grandmother of David Wemyss, 2Nd Earl Of Wemyss?
Answer: Mary Stewart