Kerr, Freeman, Crowder, Patrick and related families:Information about William Stewart, Of Dalswinton And Garlies
Sir William Stewart, Of Dalswinton And Garlies (b. Aft. Oct 1396, d. Aft. 1478)
Notes for William Stewart, Of Dalswinton And Garlies:
Sir William Stewart was ancestor to the Earl of Galloway.He was a favorite knight of King James II and was knighted by King James III about 1443.Sir William was a member of parliament as a feudal baron in 1467. After much opposition from other relatives of Sir John Turnbull,William obtained, in 1429, possession of the lands of Minto in right of his grandfather Sir William Stewart, Knight Banneret.From a charter of the lands of Glasserton in possession of descendants of the Earl of Galloway, it appears that Sir William was alive on 31 October 1479.He was married more than once.His last wife was Euphame Graham, supposedly of the Menteith family.She survived him as late as 1493 when she shows up in the records of parliament as purser in a civil cause against Sir Alexander Stewart of Garlies, knight.
Children of William Stewart, Of Dalswinton And Garlies are:
- +Thomas Stewart, Laird Of Minto, b. Aft. 1420, d. 1500, Scotland1769, 1770.