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MARGARET Menteth
Countess of Menteith (S.)
MARGARET, COUNTESS OF MENTETH (S.), married four times (See ROBERT, Duke of Albany ).
Margaret Graham was married four times, two of her marriages were before she was 20. She married first to Sir John Moray, Lord of Bothwell, (son of Sir Andrew Moray and Lady Christina Bruce). Because she and Moray were related within the forbidden degree of kinship, a papal dispensation was sought and received in 1348. Lady Margaret took her husband´s surname and was known as Margaret of Moravia. Sir John died, probably in late 1351. The couple had no children.
Margaret married secondly Thomas, 9th Earl of Mar, and once again a papal dispensation was needed due to kinship. However, charging that Margaret was unable to have children, Earl Thomas divorced her after four years, and she returned to live with her mother
Around 1360, she married Sir John Drummond of Concraig Once again Margaret took the surname of her husband. As before, the degree of kinship required a papal dispensation, but since their son John had been born before the couple sought the dispensation, they were required to do penance. Sir John died quite soon after the dispensation was granted, probably before the year was out.
Margaret’s fourth marriage was to Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany , a son of King Robert II of Scotland and Elizabeth Mure of Rowallan. Sources disagree on both the number of Duke Robert’s children and their respective mothers.
It is probable that these are their children - Murdoch certainly is
Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany, who married Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Lennox.
Mary (d. 1420), who married Sir William Abernethy of Saltoun.
Margaret (d. 1402), who married Sir John Swinton of Swinton.
Joan, who married her third cousin, Robert Stewart, 1st Lord of Lorne.
Beatrice (d. 1424), who married James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas and 1st Earl of Avonmore.
Isabella, who married firstly Alexander Leslie, 9th Earl of Ross, before 1398, and secondly Walter de Haliburton, 1st Lord Haliburton of Dirleton between 1402 and 1408.
