David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn

David Stewart
Earl of Strathearn and Caithness
Born 1357
Died c. 1386 (aged 2829)
Issue Euphemia Stewart, Countess of Strathearn
House House of Stuart
Father Robert II of Scotland
Mother Euphemia de Ross

David Stewart (1357 c. 1386), Prince of Scotland, was a 14th-century Scottish magnate. He was the eldest son of the second marriage of King Robert II of Scotland with Euphemia de Ross. King Robert, on 26 March 1371, the day of his coronation, is styled Earl of Strathearn,[1] and on the following day his son David does homage to him under the title of Earl of Strathearn.[2]

On June 19 of the same year, he obtained a charter of the barony of Urquhart.[3] He received the Castle of Braal in Caithness 21 March 1375,[4] and he was also given the title Earl of Caithness between that date and 28 December 1377, when he was styled "Earl Palatine of Strathearn and Caithness".[5]

He was involved in a major dispute with his older half-brother, Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan, who by 1385 had occupied his castle at Urquhart. It is uncertain, but it is highly likely that he died in March 1386,[6] and no later than 1389. His wife appears to have been a daughter of Sir Alexander Lindsay of Glenesk, and sister of David Lindsay, 1st Earl of Crawford. They had a daughter, Euphemia, who succeeded to the earldom. His widow married secondly Sir William Graham of Montrose, by whom she was the mother of his eldest son and heir Alexander Graham, esq., of Kincardine, father of the first Lord Graham.[7]

Notes

  1. The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2015), A1371/1. Date accessed: 9 August 2015
  2. The Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1707, K.M. Brown et al eds (St Andrews, 2007-2015), A1371/2. Date accessed: 9 August 2015.
  3. Exch. Rolls, iv. pp. cxvi, clix; Reg. Mag. Sig., fol. ed., 122.
  4. 137.
  5. Reg. Mag. Sig., fol. ed., 150.
  6. Boardman, "Stewart, David".
  7. William Graham was called 'her father' in Countess Euphemia's charter of 27 January 1401. John P. Ravilious, Sir William Graham and the Countess of Strathearn, The Scottish Genealogist (September 2011), Vol. LVIII, No. 3, pp. 112-116.

References

This article incorporates text from The Scots Peerage (1904-1914), a publication now in the public domain.

Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by
Robert Stewart
Earl of Strathearn
1371–1386
Succeeded by
Euphemia Stewart
Vacant Earl of Caithness
1375 x 1377–1386
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