John Stewart of Minto
Sir John Stewart of Minto (1525-1583) was a former Provost of Glasgow.
He was the son of Robert Stewart of Minto, also a Provost of Glasgow, and Janet Murray. Their ancestral lands were at Minto in the Scottish borders.
He was Provost of Glasgow between 1543–1544, as well as between 1565–1573.
Stewart was knighted at Holyrood Palace by Mary, Queen of Scots on 8 February 1562 during the festivities at the wedding of the queen's half-brother Lord James Stewart and Agnes Keith.[1]
In May 1570, he held Glasgow Castle against the forces of the Hamilton family, who were supporters of the queen in exile.[2]
Minto wrote to the lawyer Patrick Vaus of Barnbarroch from the Place of Daildowe (Daldowie) on 21 February 1579 mentioning that he was confined to bed with a sore leg, and had hardly been in the garden for 17 weeks. Their legal business concerned an old loan and reversion of Galloway lands and Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray and her deceased husband and his secretary John Wood.[3]
He died in 1583.
Marriages and children[]
John Stewart first married Jonet Hepburn. His second wife was Margaret Stewart (1539-1577), daughter of James Stewart of Cardonald and Alice Keith. Their children included:
- Matthew Stewart, who married Jonet Stewart.[4]
- Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre, (d. 1617)
- Marion Stewart
- Janet Stewart (1548-1613), who married Archibald Stewart of Castlemilk
References[]
- ^ Thomas Thomson, Diurnal of Occurrents (Edinburgh, 1833), pp. 70-1
- ^ Diurnal of Occurrents (Edinburgh, 1833), p. 271.
- ^ Correspondence of Sir Patrick Waus of Banbarroch (Edinburgh, 1882), pp. 205
- ^ Gordon Donaldson, Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland, vol. 6 (Edinburgh, 1963), p. 378 no. 1996.
- Court of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Lord Provosts of Glasgow
- House of Stuart
- 1583 deaths
- 1525 births