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John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham

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and the Tutor of Pitcur arrived first and surrounded the house. While Kirkcaldy was talking to the porter, the castle watchman on the tower spotted Coldingham and the Master of Lindsay and their troops a mile off. He alerted the Earl, who hopped over a low wall at the back of the castle and found a
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was lodged, wearing masks. When they were not admitted they broke down the doors. There were complaints to the queen and she issued a reprimand. Bothwell and Lord John ignored this and the next day there was a face-off between their followers and the Hamiltons in the market place.
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that Stewart's deathbed wish was that she would become a Protestant. Mary declared without hesitation that this version of Coldingham's speech was a lie invented by the treasurer
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Marjorie or Margaret Stewart, who was also in the king's household at Stirling before August 1570. She married (1) William Sinclair of Underhoull,
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on 13 December 1561. Soon after this Lord John was involved in a disturbance in Edinburgh that started as a kind of masque in the town. He and the
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being similar in some respects to English. At this time, John Stewart was around nine years old, as an adult, he sometimes resided at Coldingham.
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on a visit to the French court. Stewart was in Paris in February 1551 and wrote to Mary of Guise. His letter concerns a property in France, the
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and the Marquis of Elbeuf went to the house of Cuthbert Ramsay where Alison Craik, a merchant's daughter and mistress of the
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wrote that Lord John was in the queen's favour in October 1561, for his "leaping and dancing", and would marry the
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as a townsman's wife with a bunch of keys, and in 1594 another event involving cross-dressing was staged at the
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In August 1548 Lord John Stewart and his half-brother Lord Robert sailed for France from Dumbarton with
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about a dispute amongst his tenants in Glasgow who were now threatened with legal action by
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involving Mary's uncle Francis, the Grand Prior, dressed as a gypsy with a baby, and the
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then welcomed the queen's men in and gave them a meal and showed them around the place.
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the English government sent a fleet of warships to Scotland, and subsequently, by the
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Sarah Carpenter, 'Masking and politics: the Alison Craik incident, Edinburgh 1561',
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Gilbert Goudie, 'Some Forgotten Incidents and Personages of Shetland',
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Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
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attended this entertainment. There had been a similar tournament at
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said the entertainments lasted four days. Their children included:
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Lord John's efforts to capture the Earl of Huntly ended in failure.
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when she returned to Scotland in August 1561. The English diplomat
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As a child, John Stewart was given the estates and incomes of
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and others performed in a tournament in December 1561 on the
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Christine Stewart, who was appointed to rock the cradle of
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He entertained Mary at Dunbar Castle on 30 December 1562.
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After the death of the Commendator, Jean Hepburn married
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He was a son of Elizabeth Carmichael (1514–1550) and
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Ancestors of John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham
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Sir John Carmichael, 3rd of Meadowflat 175:John Stewart's wedding was celebrated at 132:, to intervene in favour of his tenants. 25:Arms of John Stewart, Prior of Coldingham 1085:Emblems in Scotland: Motifs and Meanings 998:(Tuckwell: East Linton, 2002), pp. 82–3. 327: 274: 170: 20: 664:John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham 306:He died at Inverness in November 1563. 30:John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham 1272: 1172:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 392–3. 1146:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 657-8. 1133:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 582-3. 969:(Tuckwell: East Linton, 2002), p. 270. 700:12. John Carmichael, 2nd of Meadowflat 681: 677: 667: 559: 449: 445: 32:(1531–1563) was a Scottish landowner. 952:(London, 1897), p. 197: Joseph Bain, 832: 829: 819: 806: 796: 792: 788: 776: 773: 763: 751: 741: 737: 725: 722: 712: 699: 689: 685: 661: 651: 635: 625: 621: 609: 603: 593: 577: 567: 563: 547: 541: 531: 515: 505: 501: 489: 483: 473: 457: 453: 338:Patrick Hepburn, 3rd Earl of Bothwell 1184:, vol. 1, (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 590. 1159:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 674. 1079:(Edinburgh, 1863), p. lxxvii citing 296:horse before Pitcur could stop him. 128:. Stewart wanted Guise, who was now 1200:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 173. 1049:, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1855), p. 279. 1037:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1898), p. 563. 956:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1892), p. 618. 892: 807:14. 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Index


James V of Scotland
Cambusnethan
Coldingham Priory
Rodolfo Pio da Carpi
Prior of Coldingham
Dundrennan
Scots language
Mary, Queen of Scots
Lord James Prior of St Andrews
James Stewart, Commendator of Kelso and Melrose
Rough Wooing
Mary of Guise
Abbey of Flavigny en Auxois
Henry II of France
Coldingham
Robert, Lord Sempill
Renfrew
Regent of Scotland
Reformation Crisis
Treaty of Berwick
Protestants
siege of Leith
William Wynter
Dunbar
Isle of May

Crichton Castle
Mary, Queen of Scots
Dunbar Castle

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