Princess Egidia STUART, Of Scottland

1368 - 1388  (20 years)

• Name	Egidia STUART
  Prefix	Princess
  Suffix	Of Scottland
  Birth	1368	Dundonald Castle, Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland   [1]
  Gender	Female
  FamilySearch ID	LTG9-2SR
  TitleOfNobility	Scotland   [1]
  	Princess
  Name	Egidia STEWART  [1]
  Name	Nithsdale Jill Egidia STEWART  [1]
  _UID	1E2D39059AF047599D2494546183D4DDF1E3
  Death	1388	Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland   [1]
  Burial	1388	Ayr, Strathclyde, Scotland,   [1]
  Person ID	I25780	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2023

  
  

  Father	King Robert II Of SCOTLAND,   b. 2 Mar 1316, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland d. 19 Apr 1390, Dundonald Castle, Kyle, Ayrshire, Scotland (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Euphemia De ROSS,   b. Abt 1334, Scotland d. Abt 1387 (Age ~ 53 years)
  Marriage	2 May 1355
  Family ID	F217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sir William DOUGLAS,   b. Abt 1356, Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. 1392, Pomorskie, Poland (Age ~ 36 years)
  Marriage	1387	Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
  Children	1. Egidia (Jill) DOUGLAS,   b. Abt 1375, Nithsdale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland d. Abt 1438, Orkney Islands, Orkney, Scotland (Age ~ 63 years)   2. Sir William DOUGLAS, Knight, 2nd Lord of Nithsdale,   b. 1388   d. 1419 (Age 31 years)
  Family ID	F11646	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2023

  
  

• Notes

  Egidia is a daughter of Robert II Stewart and Euphemia Ross.[1] She was known for her great beauty, which was so renown that the King of France was said to have offered for her hand and sent an artist to Scotland to paint her likeness. Egidia, however, fell in love with one of the most famous knights in Scotland at that time, Sir William Douglas of Nithsdale, the illegitimate son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd earl of Douglas, by an unknown mistress, and in 1387 she married him.[1][2][3][4] On their marriage, an annuity of £300 was granted to "Douglas, and the king's daughter, Egidia" and the first of these payments appears in the Exchequer Rolls of 1388.[2] There were two children from this marriage:[5] William Douglas, Knt. of Nithsdale[1][5] Giles Douglas; m(1) c.1407 Henry Sinclair, earl of Orkney;[1][5] m(2) aft. 29 Apr 1418 Alexander Stewart;[1] she succeeded her brother in the territory of Nithsdale[1] Sir William Douglas was assassinated (probably) in 1392.[1][2] The date of Egid

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 2 Jan 2023), entry for Egidia STUART, person ID LTG9-2SR. (Reliability: 3).