Marriage and Issue
Janet Stewart married Malcolm Fleming, 3rd Lord Fleming, despite being related within a forbidden degree of affinity. They had eight children:
- Johanna (born 1525)
- Janet (born 1527), who was first married to John Livingston, the eldest son of Alexander, 5th Lord Livingston (as well as a brother of Mary Livingston, one of Queen Mary's "Four Marys")
- John (born 1529), 5th Lord Fleming (an ancestor of Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States)
- Bridget (born 1530)
- James (born 1534), 4th Lord Fleming (his only daughter and heiress, Jean (1554-1609), would marry John Maitland, the younger brother of William Maitland—his sister Mary's husband; his grandson by Jean was John Maitland, 1st Earl of Lauderdale)
- Agnes (born 1535), who married William, 6th Lord Livingston
- Margaret (born 1536), who married Robert Graham, Master of Montrose, by whom she had a son, John, 3rd Earl of Montrose; then was remarried to Thomas Erskine, Master of Mar (younger brother of the 17th Earl of Mar), but had no issue; and thirdly, married John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl and Lord High Chancellor of Scotland, by whom she had a son (also John Stewart, 5th Earl of Atholl) and three daughters. Margaret Fleming was said to be a witch possessing the power to cast spells.
- Mary (born 1543), who married William Maitland of Lethington
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