Jonet Stewart

JONET STEWART

The Scots Peerage II: 288

Biographical Summary by The Scots Peerage

Jonet [Stewart, daughter of James Stewart, Sheriff of Bute] married, firstly, Archibald Campbell of Skipness, who died in 1537, second son of Archibald, second Earl of Argyle, and had issue (see vol. i. p. 336). The marriage was dissolved by divorce, and she married, secondly, before 1529, Ninian Bannatyne of Kames, by which marriage she had issue daughters Elizabeth and Katherine, both alive in 1529, and Christian, alive in 1559. After the marriage had subsisted for more than twenty-five years, Ninian, on 6 March 1554, obtained divorce from his wife in the court of the Dean of Bute and Arran, judge, by papal appointment in matrimonial causes, on the score that her first husband was within the degree of third cousin to him, and that the marriage had not been solemnised in the face of the Church. Bannatyne then married, before the year was well out, Margaret Macowall, his own cousin, already doubly related to him by blood in the second, third, and fourth degrees, and on 18 December 1556 obtained a papal dispensation from the impediment of their relationship. The Scots Peerage II: 288