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- BIOGRAPHY
Joan was the wife of Alexander Stewart, 4th Lord High Steward of Scotland, with whom she had two sons and two daughters, all of whom would have progeny.
In more traditional genealogies Joan was claimed to have been a daughter of James, lord of Bute, one of the Gaelic minor rulers over that island. The claim appears to have been based on little more than the attempt to explain how the Stewart family came to possess lands in Bute and Arran. However, research has shown that these lands in Bute and Arran had already come to the Stewarts in earlier generations, and the Bute inheritance is not an explanation that helps trace Joan's ancestry. There is no contemporary evidence to show this Joan as being 'of Bute' or from that family. Instead, some conjectural research has recently proposed that she may have been of Comyn parentage.
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