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Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl

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to destroy each other – and clear his own way to the throne, reviving the old charge of illegitimacy against his half-brother Robert III. Others aver that it was the imprisonment and subsequent death of his son David that turned him against the king.
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The depth of Stewart's loyalties to James is unclear. The chronicler Buchanan (1582) saw in his efforts to return James to Scotland and support him against Albany and his children a deep-laid plan for those two branches of the
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On the third and final day – he was disembowelled while alive, his entrails burnt before his face, and his heart was torn out and burnt. Finally, his corpse was beheaded and quartered, and the quarters displayed around the
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in a conspiracy against James I, which resulted in the assassination of the king on 20 February 1437. Robert Stewart unbarred the doors to the royal apartments, permitting assassins to enter the King's lodging at the
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On the second day – he was bound to a hurdle and dragged along the high street of Edinburgh (some claim he was also blinded and tortured with red-hot iron pincers on this day, but Buchanan speaks only of the
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On the first day – he was put in a cart with a crane, hoist up, dropped, and jerked violently to stretch his joints. He was then placed in a
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by a series of tortures remarkable and hideous even for that era. He was tortured over a period of three days.
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in 1427. He resigned Caithness to his son Alan in 1428 but regained it on Alan's death without issue in 1431.
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Stewart had little popular support for his cause, and the conspirators were swiftly apprehended. They were
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Stewart married first, sometime before 1378, Margaret Barclay, Lady of Brechin, by whom he had two sons:
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and "crowned with a diadem of burning iron" bearing the inscription "King of all Traitors".
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A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland
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Whatever the cause of Stewart's rage against the King, he joined with his grandson
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People executed by the Kingdom of Scotland by hanging, drawing and quartering
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Stewart was energetic in retrieving his nephew James I from the
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Tracts, Legal and Historical: with other Antiquarian Matters
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and an uncle of the above-mentioned James I of Scotland.
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Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Strathearn and Caithness
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Index


Robert II of Scotland
James I
Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
torture
Robert II of Scotland
Euphemia de Ross
Aodh, Earl of Ross
Robert III of Scotland
Euphemia
Earldom of Caithness
Earl of Atholl
Kingdom of England
half nephew
Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
Earl of Strathearn
Malise Graham
Earl of Menteith
House of Stewart
Robert Stewart, Master of Atholl
Sir Robert Graham
Dominican
Blackfriars
Perth
attainted
Edinburgh
pillory
McAndrew, Bruce A., p.180, Scotland's Historic Heraldry
George Crawfurd
p. 159, A General Description of the Shire of Renfrew (1818)

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