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WALTER Stewart
Sixth High Steward
Born 1292; succeeded as Steward 1309; died 1326
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Son of: JAMES, Fifth High Steward James Stewart, 5th High Steward Father of: (N0.10) King Robert II
Walter, 6th High Steward, married,
He is said to have m. firstly, Alice, daughter of Sir John Erskine of Erskine, by whom he had issue :
1. Jean Stewart, m. Hugh, 5th Earl of Ross
2. in 1315, Princess Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I, the Bruce. She died probably about a year or so after the birth of their son.
2) Robert Stewart, who eventually succeeded to the throne as Robert II, the first Stewart king of Scots, on the death of his half-uncle, David II, in 1371.
3) Isabel, sister of Sir John Graham of Abercorn,
3) Sir John Stewart of Ralston (Raliston, Railston) or Cunningham, who had 2 sons who both died without issue. His arms were: or, a fess chequy, azure and argent, in chief a lion passant gules, armed and tongued azure.
4) Sir Andrew Stewart, who is styled brother to Sir John Stewart of Ralston when both had payments of liferents from the royal exchequer in 1410.5 He had d. by 1413.
5) Egidia Stewart, who was married three times. She married 1stly, Sir James Lindsay of Crawford; 2ndly, after October 1357, Sir Hugh of Eglinton; 3rdly (contract October 1378), Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith.
Walter´s arms are found on a seal attached to a charter dated c.1314-18: A fess chequy, as head of the house of Stewart.
