Andrew Stewart (nobleman)

Andrew Stewart (* after 1296; † between June 19, 1306 and July 16, 1309) was a Scottish nobleman.

Andrew Stuart came from the Scottish Stewart family . He was the eldest son of the Scottish magnate James Stewart and his Egidia (also Gelis ) de Burgh , who had married after 1296.

While still a minor, Andrew may have been knighted by Robert Bruce when he was crowned King of Scots in late March 1306. Bruce openly rebelled against English rule in Scotland. Andrew was in the care of Bishop William Lamberton of St Andrews in 1306 , who, like Andrew's father, supported the Bruce rebellion. When the English governor Aymer de Valence advanced against the rebels, Lamberton sent young Andrew hostage as a token of his goodwill to Valence. Andrew was then returned to Lamberton. While his father James Stewart submitted to the English King Edward I in October 1306 , Lamberton, to the annoyance of the English King, gave Andrew to Robert Bruce. Andrew stayed in the entourage of Bruce during the summer, who was on the run after losing to Valence at the Battle of Methven on June 19, 1306. The escape was full of privation, as Bruce was pursued by both his English and Scottish opponents. In the autumn of 1306 Andrew was demonstrably still with Bruce when he fled to Roe on Lough Foyle , a Stewart property in Ulster , Northern Ireland . His further fate is unknown, he definitely died before his father, who died on July 16, 1309. As a result, his younger brother Walter became his father's heir.

Web links

Andrew Stewart, on thepeerage.com , accessed September 3, 2019.

Individual evidence

↑ Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 98.
^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 215.
^ Geoffrey Barrow, Ann Royan: James Fifth Stewart of Scotland, 1260 (?) - 1309 . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland , John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-113-4 , p. 180.
^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 239.

personal data
SURNAME	Stewart, Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Scottish nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH	after 1296
DATE OF DEATH	between June 19, 1306 and July 16, 1309

[1] Michael Penman: Robert the Bruce. King of the Scots . Yale University Press, New Haven 2014, ISBN 978-0-300-14872-5 , p. 98.

[2] Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 215.

[3] Geoffrey Barrow, Ann Royan: James Fifth Stewart of Scotland, 1260 (?) - 1309 . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the Nobility of Medieval Scotland , John Donald Publishers, Edinburgh 1985, ISBN 0-85976-113-4 , p. 180.

[4] Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 239.