Early Life
John Stewart was an elder son of
Sir William Stewart and
Isabel Oliver (daughter of
Sir Richard Oliver).
Family Life
John married
Marion Stewart, the only child of
Sir Walter Stewart of Dalswinton in a marriage contracted dated 17
th October 1396.
From
The Scot's Peerage2:
Sir John Stewart... first appears in a marriage-contract entered into between his father and Sir Walter Stewart of Dalswinton 4 on 17 October 1396, for the marriage of the said John to Marion Stewart, daughter and sole heir of Sir Walter. They were then both plainly minors, as they were not parties to the contract. He appears to have attained majority by 1402, in which year he accompanied his father to Homildon Hill, and was made prisoner with him there. In a list of the Scots prisoners among the Luttrell MS he is styled
'Messire Johan Steward le filz de Messire William Steward de Foresta.'
Little more is known of Sir John Stewart, first of Garlies and Dalswinton (in this line), to which he succeeded through his wife, the heiress of these lands. His paternal lands were overrun by the English after Homildon Hill, and as his father-in-law survived for some time thereafter, some genealogists identify him in the interval with the John Stewart of Castlemilk who figures in the Chamberlain Rolls from 1406 to 1412. He was one of the pioneers from Scotland who, denied an outlet of the kind at home, carried their arms into France to assist the old ally of Scotland against the mutual 'auld enemye of Englande.' He must have perished early in the campaign, as Marion Stewart resigned her lands of Oarnsalloch 'in sua viduitate' in favour of Sir Herbert Maxwell 28 October 1420. She was subsequently married, about 1422, to Sir John Forrester of
Corstorphine. She was buried in Corstorphine Kirk, where her tomb may still be seen bearing the arms of her two husbands.
Death
Burke's Peerage1:
[John was] captured with his f[amily] at
Homildon Hill [14 Sept. 1402] but escaped, joined the Scots Army sent to assist the Dauphin of France and was k[illed] fighting against the English 1419/20.
[1] Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th Edition, London; Galloway (p1511)
[2] The Scots Peerage, by Sir James Balfour Paul, Volume 4, Edinburgh (1907), p149-150
1380 - Abt 1420 (~ 42 years)