Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox
{{Short description|Scottish nobleman}}
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| name = Matthew Stewart
| title = 2nd Earl of Lennox
| noble family = Stewart of Darnley
| issue = 6, including John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox
| father = John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox
| mother = Margaret Montgomerie
| spouse = Margaret Lyle
Elizabeth Hamilton
| birth_date = {{c.}} 1460
| death_date = {{death date|1513|9|9|df=y}}
| death_cause = Died at the Battle of Flodden
}}
Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox ({{c.}} 1460{{snd}}9 September 1513) was a Scottish nobleman. He was the eldest son of John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox, and his wife Margaret Montgomerie, daughter of Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie. He was Lord Provost of Glasgow in 1497, and from 1509 to 1513. He died fighting at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.{{Cite book |last=Sadler |first=John |title=The Battle of Flodden 1513 |last2=Serdiville |first2=Rosie |publisher=History Press |year=2011 |isbn=9780752479132}}
Marriages and issue
He married firstly, on 13 June 1490, Margaret Lyle, daughter of Robert Lyle, 2nd Lord Lyle, Chief Justiciar of Scotland. He married secondly, on 9 April 1494, Elizabeth Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton, and Mary Stewart, Princess of Scotland, daughter of King James II of Scotland.{{Cite book |last=Jansen |first=Sharon L. |title=The monstrous regiment of women: female rulers in early modern Europe |date=2002 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-60211-3 |edition=1. |series=Queenship and Power |location=New York |pages=263}}{{Cite book |last=Ring |first=Morgan |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/982377715 |title=So high a blood: the story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor that time forgot |date=2017 |publisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-1-63286-605-9 |edition=First U.S. |location=New York |oclc=982377715}}
With his second wife, he had six children – Mungo Stewart, Agnes Stewart, John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox, Margaret Stewart, Elizabeth Stewart, and Catherine Stewart.
Ancestors
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|1= Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox
|2= John Stewart, 1st Earl of Lennox
|3= Margaret Montgomerie
|4= Sir Alan Stewart, 2nd Seigneur d'Aubigny
|5= Catherine Seton
|6= Alexander Montgomerie, 1st Lord Montgomerie
|7= Margaret Boyd
|8= Sir John Stewart, 1st Seigneur d'Aubigny
|9= Elizabeth of Lennox
|10= Sir William Seton of Seton
|11= Janet Dunbar
|12= John Montgomerie of Ardrossan
|13= Agnes MacDonald
|14= Thomas Boyd, 5th of Kilmarnock
|15= Isabel Boyd
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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).
References
External links
- [https://www.stewartsociety.org/history-of-the-stewarts.cfm?section=family-lines&subcatid=44&histid=366 Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox. The Stewart Society]
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Category:Deaths at the Battle of Flodden
Category:Court of James IV of Scotland
Category:Lord provosts of Glasgow
Category:15th-century Scottish peers
Category:16th-century Scottish peers
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