Adam Stewart was the first illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland, with his mother being Lady Elizabeth Stewart, who was the daughter of Lady Eleanor Sinclair and Sir John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox and 1st Earl of Atholl. Lady Elizabeth Stewart subsequently married (1) William, Earl of Erroll; m2. John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1549.
Adam was the Prior of the Charterhouse - he was given this sinecure by his father King James V as a source of income; a common practice among the gentry, peerage and royalty of the time.
On May 11, 1559, the Perth Charterhouse and the other religious houses of Perth were attacked and destroyed by Protestant "reformers". One of the brothers was killed, four others fled abroad, while six monks chose to remain; two of those, then fled in to foreign Carthusian houses in 1567. Of the four who remained in 1567, one was Adam Stewart.
After the Reformation Adam Stewart married Janet Ruthven; they are commemorated on a memorial stone at Kirkwall Cathedral in Orkney, set up by their daughter Barbara Halcro (née Stewart), wife of Henry Halcro of that Ilk (ie. of Halcro) in the southernmost part of the Orkney mainland.
Adam was the Prior of the Charterhouse - he was given this sinecure by his father King James V as a source of income; a common practice among the gentry, peerage and royalty of the time.
On May 11, 1559, the Perth Charterhouse and the other religious houses of Perth were attacked and destroyed by Protestant "reformers". One of the brothers was killed, four others fled abroad, while six monks chose to remain; two of those, then fled in to foreign Carthusian houses in 1567. Of the four who remained in 1567, one was Adam Stewart.
After the Reformation Adam Stewart married Janet Ruthven; they are commemorated on a memorial stone at Kirkwall Cathedral in Orkney, set up by their daughter Barbara Halcro (née Stewart), wife of Henry Halcro of that Ilk (ie. of Halcro) in the southernmost part of the Orkney mainland.
Adam Stewart was the first illegitimate son of King James V of Scotland, with his mother being Lady Elizabeth Stewart, who was the daughter of Lady Eleanor Sinclair and Sir John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Lennox and 1st Earl of Atholl. Lady Elizabeth Stewart subsequently married (1) William, Earl of Erroll; m2. John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1549.
Adam was the Prior of the Charterhouse - he was given this sinecure by his father King James V as a source of income; a common practice among the gentry, peerage and royalty of the time.
On May 11, 1559, the Perth Charterhouse and the other religious houses of Perth were attacked and destroyed by Protestant "reformers". One of the brothers was killed, four others fled abroad, while six monks chose to remain; two of those, then fled in to foreign Carthusian houses in 1567. Of the four who remained in 1567, one was Adam Stewart.
After the Reformation Adam Stewart married Janet Ruthven; they are commemorated on a memorial stone at Kirkwall Cathedral in Orkney, set up by their daughter Barbara Halcro (née Stewart), wife of Henry Halcro of that Ilk (ie. of Halcro) in the southernmost part of the Orkney mainland.
Adam was the Prior of the Charterhouse - he was given this sinecure by his father King James V as a source of income; a common practice among the gentry, peerage and royalty of the time.
On May 11, 1559, the Perth Charterhouse and the other religious houses of Perth were attacked and destroyed by Protestant "reformers". One of the brothers was killed, four others fled abroad, while six monks chose to remain; two of those, then fled in to foreign Carthusian houses in 1567. Of the four who remained in 1567, one was Adam Stewart.
After the Reformation Adam Stewart married Janet Ruthven; they are commemorated on a memorial stone at Kirkwall Cathedral in Orkney, set up by their daughter Barbara Halcro (née Stewart), wife of Henry Halcro of that Ilk (ie. of Halcro) in the southernmost part of the Orkney mainland.
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