Joan (Janet) Princess of Scotland
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    Jone was born in 1428 at Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. She married on before May 15, 1459 into the Douglas family with which her brother the king was feuding. She died after June 22. 1493 somewhere in Scotland. I do not know where she died or where she is buried.

Siblings

    1)Margaret Stewart (1425-1445): Married Louis XI, King of France.

    2)Alexander Stewart (1430- infancy)

    3)James II (1430-1460): James became King of Scots. Born at Holyrood, Edinburgh on October 16, 1430, he succeeded to the throne on his father's murder, but was not of age to direct his own policy until the time ( July 3, 1449) of his marriage to Mary of Gueldres, the niece of Duke Phillip of Burgundy. Until then, the country was ruled by those who could gain control of the young king; most prominent amoung these where the two families of Crichton (See Crichton on this chart)and Livingstone (See Livingstones on this chart), whose rivalry caused much disorder.
        Territorially the most powerful family in the kingdom were the Black Douglases (See Douglas on this chart) who held much of southern Scotland. During the disorders of the king's minority, William, 6th Earl of Douglas, had been executed for alleged treason in 1440; but his estates had not been forfeited and the power of the family quickly revived. When James himself took up his father's task of strengthening the authority of the crown, he attacked William, 8th Earl of Douglas, in 1450, but there was a temporary reconciliation. There were, however, renewed disputes, and in 1452 the earl was murdered by James himself, dispite having been granted safe-conduct. The survivors if the family were for a time in rebellion; and after another temporary reconciliation, James, the 9th Earl of Douglas was expelled in 1455 and all his lands were annexed by the crown. The king also annexed in the same year the earldom of Moray which had come by marriage into the hands of Archibald, a brother of the 8th earl of Douglas. This deprived Archibald's wife, Elizabeth Dunbar, and her5 subsequent husbands of the earldom. The Douglases were a grave threat to the power of the crown, but James was high-handed in dealing with them. His son was James III, king of Scots.

    4)Sir James Stewart (Jr.) (????-1498 )

    5)John Stewart


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