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STIRLING, Lukas
(About 1475-1452)
STIRLING, William 1st of Keir, Sir
(About 1420-1471)
CUNNINGHAM, Margaret
(About 1425-)
STIRLING, William 2nd of Keir, Sir
(About 1444-After 1503)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. FLEMING, Euphemia

2. CRICHTON, Margaret

STIRLING, William 2nd of Keir, Sir 2

  • Born: About 1444
  • Marriage (1): FLEMING, Euphemia by October 1466 1
  • Marriage (2): CRICHTON, Margaret about May 1481 (charter) 1
  • Died: After 23 November 1503 3

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William married Euphemia FLEMING, daughter of Robert FLEMING of Biggar and Cumbernauld, 1st Lord Fleming and Janet DOUGLAS, by October 1466.1 (Euphemia FLEMING was born about 1445.)


  Marriage Notes:

"He (Sir William Stirling, 2nd of Keir) m. firstly by October of 1466, to Euphemia, daughter of Robert 1st Lord Fleming"

from The Red Book of Scotland

Note:

The Stirlings of Keir attributes, mistakenly, three, rather than two, wives to Sir William Stirling, 1st of Keir, the second of whom, named 'Eufame', is said to have married that first Sir William in 1466. 1 3

William next married Margaret CRICHTON, daughter of Sir James CRICHTON 1st of Ruthven, Provost of Edinburgh and Unknown, about May 1481 (charter).1 (Margaret CRICHTON was born about 1453 and died after 5 June 1509 1.)


  Marriage Notes:

"...he (Sir William Stirling, 2nd of Keir) m. secondly, in around May 1481, to Margaret, daughter of Sir James Crichton, 1st of Ruthven, when he granted her a charter for the lands of Stouy and Lubnaig in the barony of Keir, (she survived him and m. secondly by 5th June 1509, to John 1st Lord Sempill)"

from The Red Book of Scotland 1

Sources


1 Gordon MacGregor, The Red Book of Scotland, Vol. 9 Stirling of Keir.

2 e-books, The Scots Peerage ed. Sir James Balfour Paul vol. 8 (1911).

3 e-books, The Stirlings of Keir and their family papers by William Fraser (1858).

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