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- Walter Stewart was Lord of Brechin, Earl of Caithness, Earl of Atholl and Great Justiciary of Scotland. Walter was part of the jury who tried his nephew Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany,
Walter became involved to a lesser degree in a conspiracy headed by his grandson and heir Robert, Master of Atholl, and Sir Robert Graham for the assassination of the King and following the murder, committed at Perth on 20 February 1437, he was taken captive by the Earl of Angus. He was fastened to the same cross to which his grandson had been strapped and tortured, and had a paper crown placed upon his head with the words “traitor” three times inscribed. He repeatedly asserted his innocence even to the Papal Legate, Bishop of Urbino, but he did acknowledge that he had known of the plot and of his grandson’s involvement yet had done nothing to dissuade the perpetrators and accordingly he was found guilty of complicity and beheaded at Edinburgh, in April of 1437.
He m. firstly, by 19 October 1378, to Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir David de Barclay, Lord Brechin, in whose right he forcibly laid claim and possessed the lordship of Brechin, which, in his final words before execution, he acknowledged to be wrong and renounced them in favour of the rightful heir Sir Thomas Maule. He m. secondly, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Graham of Kincardine, (Dispensation 1 August 1404. She survived him and m. secondly, to Sir John Stewart, Sheriff of Bute, and had issue)
(MacGregor)
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Abt 1360 - 1437 (~ 77 years)
