Margaret Stewart (born c. 1455) explained

See also Margaret Stewart.

Margaret Stewart
House:	Stewart
Issue:	Margaret Crichton Sir James Crichton?
Father:	James II of Scotland
Mother:	Mary of Guelders
Birth Date:	c. 1455/1456
Death Date:	c. 1480/1500?

Margaret Stewart (born c. 1455/1456 – c. 1480/1500?) was the younger daughter of James II of Scotland and Mary of Guelders. Once engaged to the Lancastrian Prince of Wales, Margaret instead became the mistress of William Crichton, 3rd Lord Crichton (an enemy of her brother, James III), and the mother of his illegitimate daughter, Margaret Crichton, later Countess of Rothes, and possibly his son, Sir James Crichton, progenitor of the Viscounts of Frendraught.^[1] Margaret and Lord Crichton may have been married later, after the death of Crichton's wife.

Family

Margaret was born between 1453 and 1460,^[2]

Notes and References

1. Burke, 145–146.
2. The Peerage gives her birth between the years 1449 and 1463, but 1453 and 1460 is probably closer. 1453 is the year of her sister Mary's birth, and Margaret was younger than Mary; 1460 is the year of her father's death.