Murdoch Stewart

Murdoch married.

  Marriage Notes:

Walter Stewart, Duke of Atholl, who is, by blood, just a step from th e throne. The step away is James I baby son. It was Atholl who enco uraged James to strike down the Fife House, feeling their vengance wou ld remove James I. It was he, it is said, who planned the Kings murde r.

Atholl was near the throne; so Queen Joan crowned him, after James' de ath, with a paper crown.